Albigence Waldo Putnam
# 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
