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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH John M. Bass 1804 - January 19, born the son of Peter and Anna Bass Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky
1826 - Appointed trustee of the University of Nashville by Philip Lindsley
1829 - Married Malvina Grundy, daughter of Felix Grundy
1831-1832 - Served as alderman of Nashville
1833 - Elected mayor of Nashville
1837 - President of the Union Bank of Tennessee during panic of that year
1844-1848 - Chairman of commission for building the Tennessee State Capitol Succeeded by Samuel D. Morgan
1850 - Appointed trustee of the University of Nashville when Lindsley resigned
1851 - Removed from the University of Nashville Board of Trustees when his business took him to New Orleans
1854 - Executor of Harry R. W. Hill's estate
1856 - Member of the Board of Trustees, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
1860 - Owned Nashville property worth $540,000.00, plus plantations in Arkansas and Louisiana
1866 - Filed suit to annual Collins D. Elliott contract with the Nashville Female Academy in order to sell property
1867 - Returned from New Orleans Again appointed trustee of the Univerity of Nashville
1868 - Authorized to act as president of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company in absence of Cole the president who had gone to Washington, D. C., to negotiate settlement with the United States government