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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

       Nathan D. Bachman, county clerk and farmer, was born at Kingsport,
    December 26, 1844, the son of Enoch K. and Cornelia E. (Powell)
    Bachman, the former born in this county in 1813, the son of Nathan, a
    Pennsylvanian, who with his father was among the first pioneers of this
    county. The father was a prominent farmer and merchant at Kingsport and
    also served as magistrate, and was a member of the Presbyterian Church.
    He died in July, 1881. The mother was born in Fairfax County, Va., in
    1818, and was the daughter of William Powell, who died when his
    daughter was a child, leaving her with an uncle near Kingsport. She
    died July 25, 1877, a devoted Christian. Our subject, the second of
    eight children, attended school at Blountville, and then after a time
    became clerk at Bristol. He enlisted April 1, 1861, in Company K, Third
    Confederate Tennessee Infantry, the first company raised in this
    county. Our subject was then sixteen years old. He served until the
    surrender, but in 1862 was transferred to the Sixty-third Regiment,
    Company E, in which he became sergeant-major. After assisting his
    father, he began about 1868 for himself, and in February of that year
    married Nannie J., a daughter of Dr. Jonathan Davis, and born in
    Blountville in 1848. They have four boys and four girls. After an
    unsuccessful candidacy for county clerk in 1882, he was successful in
    1886, over the same opponent of the former election and with a handsome
    majority. It should be stated that the great-grandfather, Nathan , came
    from Pennsylvania, and was one of the first three who brought wagons
    across the mountains. He owned part of the site of Philadelphia. His
    son, Jonathan, was kidnapped by the Indians and retained for some time.
    The Bachman family are, and have been, for the most part, engaged in
    the pursuit of agriculture, and with a fair degree of success. Of this
    family four brothers are Presbyterian ministers, and have made high
    reputations as such.


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