title: Albigence Waldo Putnam
text: # Albigence Waldo Putnam
  
  Albigence Waldo Putnam (born in Marietta, Ohio, 11 March 1799; died in Nashville, Tennessee, 20 January 1869) was a United States lawyer and historian.
  
  ## Biography
  
  He studied law, practised in Mississippi, and in 1836 settled in Nashville, Tennessee, and was president of the Tennessee Historical Society, to whose publications he was a contributor. In addition to articles in periodicals, he wrote:
  
  * History of Middle Tennessee (Nashville, 1859)
  * Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson (1859)
  * “Life of Gen. John Sevier,” in Wheeler's History of North Carolina
  