Hon. Robert W. Haynes, attorney at law of Jackson, Tenn., was horn in Washington County, Tenn., August 21, 1840, son of Landon C. and Eleanor M. (Powell) Haynes, both natives of Tennessee. See sketch elsewhere of father.] Robert, subject of this sketch, was reared to man-hood in his native county, attending Emory and Henry College, Virginia, three years. He then entered the university of North Carolina, from which institution he graduated after a two years' course (in 1862). In the meantime, upon the breaking out of the war, he entered the Confederate service in 1861, serving under Maj. Glover, until failing health compelled him to leave the service, and he then returned to school and graduated. After his graduation he re-entered service, and assisted in raising a company for Col. Fain's regiment, but served as aide on the staff of Col. James E. Rains, Eleventh Tennessee, commanding brigade of Stevenson's division, Gen. Kirby Smith's corps, serving thus in Bragg's Kentucky campaign. He then served as adjutant of the Sixty-second North Carolina Infantry, until 1863, when he accepted the position of aide to Brig.-Gen. Alfred E. Jackson, serving thus with the rank of first lieutenant until the surrender, being brevetted near the close to major, and appointed assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Maj.-Gen. John C. Vaughan, having been virtually raised in a law office.

Mr. Haynes, after the war, perfected his knowledge of his profession, and in April, 1867, commenced the practice of law at Memphis with his father, and continued thus successfully until 1870, when he removed to Jackson, where he has since practiced. January 12, 1863, he was married, in Knoxville, Tenn., to Miss Drusie Powell, of Virginia. They have five children: Nellie, Landon C. (a girl), Robert P., Walter L. and Drusie Taylor. Mr. Haynes is and always has been an unswerving Democrat in political views. He represented Madison County in the State Legislature, serving two terms successively in the sessions of 1883 and 1885. He is a Knight Templar Mason, and is a member of the K. of P., K. of H., and K. of G. R., being one of the founders of the latter order, and Past Supreme Commander and Secretary of same. Himself and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in which he has been an official for eighteen years, and for many years represented the district conference, being at present secretary of same. He has served for the past four years as lay delegate in the Memphis Annual Conference, and as secretary of the board of missions of the conference. He was elected at the Paducah Conference, in December, 1885, one of the alternate delegates to the general conference of the church. He is also president of the West Tennessee Sunday-school Convention, and is one of the present delegates to the International Sunday-school Convention, which will meet in Chicago in May, 1887.

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