In the same year, much of the eastern portion of the county was removed from its jurisdiction and incorporated with territory taken from Sumner County to form Robertson County.

In 1856, the citizens of Hernando County chose to rename the town, their new County Seat, Brooksville in honor of South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks, who in the same year beat fierce abolitionist Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the Senate chambers, winning the Congressman great renown in the South.

The trail began at Young County, Texas and passed along the Pecos River, Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and Colorado before ending in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

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Sumner County is a county located in the U. S. state of Tennessee.

Sumner County is part of the Nashville-Davidson – Mufreesboro – Franklin Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Sumner County is in the Greater Nashville metropolitan area.

Signs indicating the Tennessee State and Sumner County borders

Age pyramid Sumner County

Schools in the county are governed by the Sumner County Board of Education.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Sumner County, Tennessee

* Official website of Sumner County, Tennessee

* Sumner County, Tennessee Cemetery Historical Preservation Project 2007

* Sumner County, Tennessee Genealogists Companion

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Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

" But ," as Sumner shrewdly said, " the President himself is his own worst counsellor, as he is his own worst defender.

* 1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.

The character of David Sumner, taunted and humiliated by the town locals, is eventually cornered within his home where he loses control and kills several of the men during the violent conclusion.

* July 14 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.

Sumner is unable to return to duty for 3 years while he recovers ; Brooks becomes a hero across the South.

CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, its parent.

The second is the Maine State Building, designed by Charles Sumner Frost, which was purchased by the Ricker family of Poland Spring, Maine.

* 1926 — James Sumner showed that the urease enzyme is a protein.

( The figure commonly given, 87 ° 47 ', is based upon Bartlett's slight miscomputation of the distance of a single Sumner line from the pole.

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE ( born 2 October 1951 ), known by his stage name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, activist, actor and philanthropist.

The title is a wordplay on his surname, Sumner, and The Summoner's Tale, one of The Canterbury Tales.

Joe Sumner is a member of the band Fiction Plane.

The county is named after American Revolutionary War figure Jethro Sumner.

The county is divided into thirty-seven townships: Antelope, Athol, Belle Plaine, Belmont, Benton, Beotia, Buffalo, Capitola, Clifton, Conde, Cornwall, Crandon, Exline, Frankfort, Garfield, Great Bend, Groveland, Harmony, Harrison, Jefferson, Lake, La Prairie, Lincoln, Lodi, Mellette, Northville, Olean, Prairie Center, Redfield, Richfield, Spring, Sumner, Tetonka, Three Rivers, Tulare, Turton, Union.

The county is divided into eighteen townships: Bruce, Center Grove, Clay, Deep River, Fentress, Friendship, Gilmer, Greene, High Point, Jamestown, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Morehead, Oak Ridge, Rock Creek, Sumner, and Washington.

The county is one of ten in Mississippi with two county seats, Charleston and Sumner.

J. B. Sumner moved to this section in 1872 and founded what is now Sumner.

Sumner County ( standard abbreviation: SU ) is a county located in the U. S. state of Kansas.