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He served as the fourth mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 1814 to 1817. He owned land in mid-town Nashville, on parts of modern-day Centennial Park, Vanderbilt University, and adjacent West End Park.Table of ContentsEarly life[edit]Personal life, death and legacy[edit]Further reading[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Early life[edit]Elliston was born in 1779 in Culpeper, Virginia.[1][2] He moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he was trained as a silversmith by Samuel Ayers from 1795 to 1798,[2] when he moved to Nashville, Tennessee.[3]Elliston began his career as a silversmith in Nashville in 1798.[1] He was the owner of a store on the corner of Union Street and 2nd Avenue in modern-day Downtown Nashville, which he ran with his nephew, also called John Elliston.[1] The store burnt down in March 1814, but he opened a new one shortly after.[1] He designed cutlery for President Andrew Jackson, which later became part of the collection of The Hermitage.[1] He also designed jewelry with silver and gold.[1]In 1811, Elliston purchased 208 acres for $11,435.75 in mid-town, from “what is now 20th Avenue to a line covering part of Centennial Park, and from a line well within the Vanderbilt campus today to Charlotte Avenue.”[1] He subsequently purchased 350 acres “along what is now Murphey Road, including the Acklen Park [West End Park] area.”[1] It ran across West End Avenue, which had not yet been built.[3] Elliston built a small house, and he named it Burlington “after the Elliston homestead in Kentucky.”[4] The house stood on modern-day Elliston Place.[5][6]Elliston as a city alderman from 1806 to 1814.[1] He served as the fourth mayor of Nashville from 1814 to 1817.[2] He also served on the committee for the construction of the Tennessee State Capitol,[3] and he was a co-founder of the Nashville Female Academy and the McKendree Methodist Church.[1][2]Personal life, death and legacy[edit]Elliston married Louisa Mullen on August 20, 1800. They had two sons, William and Joseph, and three daughters, Jane, Harriet and Adeline.[7] She predeceased him in 1816,[8] and Elliston married Elizabeth Odom,[7] widow of Charles Elliott and Rev. Learner Blackman. They resided on Sixth Avenue in Downtown Nashville, where the Tennessee Performing Arts Center was later built.[1] His son-in-law, Alexander Little Page Green, was a Methodist minister.[1]Elliston died on November 10, 1856 in Nashville.[2][8] His funeral was conducted by John Berry McFerrin at the McKendree United Methodist Church.[8] He was first buried in the Nashville City Cemetery and later in the Mount Olivet Cemetery.[2]Elliston’s son William R. Elliston married Elizabeth Boddie, a granddaughter of his stepmother,[7] inherited the Burlington plantation, and served as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Elliston’s portrait, done by Washington Bogart Cooper, is in the Nashville Public Library.[2]Further reading[edit]Caldwell, Benjamin Hubbard (1988). Tennessee Silversmiths. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts. ISBN\u00a09780945578017. OCLC\u00a0837245410.References[edit]^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Davis, Louise (August 14, 1983). “Early Silversmiths Left Marks on City. Names of Elliston, Calhoun Figure Big in Nashville History”. The Tennessean. pp.\u00a093\u201394. Retrieved April 14, 2018 \u2013 via Newspapers.com.^ a b c d e f g “Elliston, Joseph Thorp (1779-1856)”. Tennessee Portrait Project. National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Tennessee. Retrieved April 5, 2018.^ a b c “Staid Elliston Place May Lose Identity”. The Tennessean. March 29, 1958. pp.\u00a01, 5. Retrieved April 5, 2018 \u2013 via Newspapers.com.^ Thompson, E. D. (March 2, 2016). “The Elliston Family still serves Our Area”. The News. Retrieved April 4, 2018.^ Whitsitt Edwards, Amelia (1999). Nashville Interiors, 1866 to 1922. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. pp.\u00a027\u201332. ISBN\u00a09780738502205. OCLC\u00a044274945.^ Cason, Albert (June 25, 1981). “Mansion Purchased, Opening Way to Luxury Homes”. The Tennessean. pp.\u00a01, 5. Retrieved April 4, 2018 \u2013 via Newspapers.com.^ a b c Thomas, Jane H. (1897). Old Days in Nashville, Tenn. Reminiscences. Nashville, Tennessee: Publishing House Methodist Episcopal Church, South. pp.\u00a027\u201328. ISBN\u00a09781784784720. OCLC\u00a01011667441 \u2013 via Internet Archive.^ a b c “Mayors of Nashville. Not Buried at City Cemetery: Joseph Thorpe Elliston. Term 1813-1817. 4th Mayor” (PDF). Nashville City Cemetery. 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