{"id":293,"date":"2013-07-27T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T03:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/?p=293"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:24:34","slug":"finney-newton-jefferson-b-1846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/finney-newton-jefferson-b-1846\/","title":{"rendered":"FINNEY, Newton Jefferson (b. 1846)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">City: McKenzie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>FINNEY, Newton Jefferson<\/strong>, educator; born Mt. Juliet, Tenn., Nov. 6, 1846; Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0<strong>William and Eliza Jane (Cloyd) FINNEY<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents\u00a0<strong>William and Margaret (Jefferson) FINNEY<\/strong>; maternal grandparents\u00a0<strong>Newton and Elizabeth (Williamson) CLOYD<\/strong>; educated at Mt. Juliet (Tenn.) High School and Cumberland University; graduated from latter with B.A. degree, 1868; M.A. 1870; in early life worked on farm in summer and attended school in winter; after graduation he began teaching; married\u00a0<strong>Ruth Louisa SMITH<\/strong>, Dec. 19, 1872; member Royal Arch Masons; Democrat; was for several years president of Cumberland Female College, McMinnville, Tenn.; now president of the Bethel College, McKenzie, Tenn., the Theological School of the Cumberland Presbyterian church; member of Cumberland Presbyterian church and ruling elder in same.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Who&#8217;s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><\/a>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie FINNEY, Newton Jefferson, educator; born Mt. Juliet, Tenn., Nov. 6, 1846; Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0William and Eliza Jane (Cloyd) FINNEY; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents\u00a0William and Margaret (Jefferson) FINNEY; maternal grandparents\u00a0Newton and Elizabeth (Williamson) CLOYD; educated at Mt. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/finney-newton-jefferson-b-1846\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,78],"tags":[100,99,101,28,102],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-mckenzie","tag-cloyd","tag-finney","tag-jefferson","tag-smith","tag-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}