{"id":1148,"date":"2015-11-24T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:11","slug":"carter-george-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/carter-george-n\/","title":{"rendered":"CARTER, George N."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>George N. CARTER<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, jeweler, dealer in watches and silverware, and a leading young citizen of Tullahoma, Tenn., was born in Tuscumbia, Ala., in 1859, and is the son of <strong>James CARTER<\/strong>, a native of Virginia. His father immigrated when quite small with his parents to Bedford County, Tenn., where, in 1830, our subject\u2019s grandfather, grandmother, and five children were burned to death in their residence, the house having been set on fire from a stove. Reared in the town of his birth, he attended the public schools. In 1878 he succeeded his father in the jewelry business at Tuscumbia, continuing until 1881, when his health failed him, and he traveled for two years in the photograph business. In 1883 he entered the jewelry store of <strong>John W. ROOTH,<\/strong> at Shelbyville, Tenn., remaining with him until January 2, 1883, when he came to Tullahoma, and opened his present establishment. Our subject is a member of the National Jewelers\u2019 League, and also of the Christian Church. In politics he is a Democrat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Pub. Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of the Counties of White, Warren, Coffee, DeKalb, and Cannon, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Nashville: Goodspeed Pub. Co, 1887.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George N. CARTER, jeweler, dealer in watches and silverware, and a leading young citizen of Tullahoma, Tenn., was born in Tuscumbia, Ala., in 1859, and is the son of James CARTER, a native of Virginia. His father immigrated when quite small with his parents to Bedford County, Tenn., where, in 1830, our subject\u2019s grandfather, grandmother, &#8230; <a title=\"CARTER, George N.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/carter-george-n\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CARTER, George N.\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1787],"tags":[3924,3925,3926],"class_list":["post-1148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-coffee","tag-carter-george-n","tag-carter-james","tag-rooth-john-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}