{"id":551,"date":"2013-11-09T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T05:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/?p=551"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:24:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:24:33","slug":"vickers-rufus-william-b-1866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/vickers-rufus-william-b-1866\/","title":{"rendered":"VICKERS, Rufus William (b. 1866)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Murfreesboro<\/p>\n<p><strong>VICKERS, Rufus William<\/strong>, druggist; born Huntingdon, Tenn., March 17, 1866; son of\u00a0<strong>Rufus Washington and Martha D. (Hicks) VICKERS<\/strong>; educated in a country printing office; early business, printer; father\u2019s occupation, contractor; married\u00a0<strong>Lizzie WOOD<\/strong>, April 12, 1892; member K. of P. and I. O. O. F.; Secretary County Republican Club; member Board of Trustees Soule Female College; eleven years Secretary and one year President State Druggists\u2019 Association; one of the framers of the Tennessee pharmacy law; Associate Editor, Drugman, Proprietor Vickers Drug &amp; Book Company, owner of three nice residences and a good farm; member Board of Stewards of the Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<i>Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Murfreesboro VICKERS, Rufus William, druggist; born Huntingdon, Tenn., March 17, 1866; son of\u00a0Rufus Washington and Martha D. (Hicks) VICKERS; educated in a country printing office; early business, printer; father\u2019s occupation, contractor; married\u00a0Lizzie WOOD, April 12, 1892; member K. of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/vickers-rufus-william-b-1866\/\"><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],"tags":[221,220,222],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","tag-hicks","tag-vickers","tag-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}