Jay Guy Cisco (April 25, 1844 - April 24, 1922) was an American Confederate veteran, journalist, diplomat and businessman. He was the owner of a bookstore and the editor of the Forked Deer Blade newspaper in Jackson, Tennessee. He was a U.S. consul to Mexico, and an agent for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Jay Guy Cisco | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 25, 1844 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | April 24, 1922 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, diplomat, businessman |
| Spouse | Mildred George Pursley |
| Children | 4 sons, 2 daughters |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  Confederate States of America (1861–1865) |
| Service | Confederate States Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1865 |
Early life
editCisco was born on April 25, 1844, in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he served in the Confederate States Army.[1] He subsequently traveled to Europe.[2]
Career
editCisco moved to Jackson, Tennessee, where he was the owner of a bookstore known as Cisco's Bookstore.[1][2] He became the editor of the Forked Deer Blade in Jackson in 1883.[1][2] He was a proponent of prohibition.[3]
Cisco was appointed as a consul to Mexico by President Grover Cleveland in 1888.[1] He was an agent for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from 1897 to 1922.[1]
Personal life and death
editCisco married Mildred George Pursley;[3] they had four sons and two daughters.[1] They resided at 912 Boscobel Street in Nashville.[1]
Cisco died on April 24, 1922, in Nashville.[1]
Works
edit- Cisco, Jay Guy (1909). Historic Sumner County, Tennessee, with Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage and Douglass Families and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner Families. Nashville, Tennessee: Folk-Keelin Printing Company. OCLC 5692694972.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Prayers Held for Jay G. Cisco. Funeral for Confederate Veteran and Newspaperman in Jackson". The Tennessean. April 25, 1922. p. 2. Retrieved March 31, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "CISCO, JAY GUY, PAPERS, 1894-1921". Tennessee Secretary of State. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
- ^ a b Lester, Dee Gee (December 25, 2009). "Jay Guy Cisco". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press. Retrieved March 31, 2018.
