He served as the president of the Davidson Academy from 1786 to 1806, and Cumberland College from 1806 to 1809, two precursors to the University of Nashville.
Thomas Brown Craighead was born in Augusta County, Virginia, a son of the Rev.
[4] Craighead was ostracized by the Presbyterian Church and barred from preaching from 1811 until his death due to his belief in free will at the expense of original sin.
His son, John Brown Craighead, was the owner of a large plantation where the Richland-West End Historic District now stands;[5] he married Jane Erwin Dickerson, who had been widowed after her husband was killed in a duel with future President Andrew Jackson in 1806.
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