{"id":309,"date":"2013-07-09T23:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T03:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/?p=309"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:24:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:24:34","slug":"mcelroy-robert-chester-b-1883","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/mcelroy-robert-chester-b-1883\/","title":{"rendered":"McELROY, Robert Chester (b. 1883)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie<\/p>\n<p><strong>McELROY, Robert Chester<\/strong>, educator, minister of the gospel; born Henry Co., Tenn., Nov. 16, 1883; Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0<strong>Robert and Martha J. (Petty) McELROY<\/strong>; educated in local schools of Henry Co., Tenn., and Hall-Moody Institute, Martin, Tenn.; married\u00a0<strong>Katherine HUDDLESTON<\/strong>\u00a0Jan. 18, 1906; Democrat; member of lower house Gen. Assembly of Tenn. 1904-1907; was temporary speaker of the House, joint author of Pendleton bill; youngest member of legislature in history of the State of Tenn.; editor of \u201cParisian,\u201d Paris, Tenn., from 1903 to 1906; ordained as minister of the Baptist church 1906; became associated with Baptist Banner as co-editor; resigned to take charge of Baptist church at McKenzie, Tenn., in 1909; elected Superintendent of City Schools of McKenzie same year; editor and publisher of Doctrinal Foundations, a Baptist monthly magazine.<\/p>\n<div>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.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: McKenzie McELROY, Robert Chester, educator, minister of the gospel; born Henry Co., Tenn., Nov. 16, 1883; Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0Robert and Martha J. (Petty) McELROY; educated in local schools of Henry Co., Tenn., and Hall-Moody Institute, Martin, Tenn.; married\u00a0Katherine <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/mcelroy-robert-chester-b-1883\/\"><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":[134,132,133],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-mckenzie","tag-huddleston","tag-mcelroy","tag-petty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}