{"id":1168,"date":"2016-02-12T21:36:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T03:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:11","slug":"f-e-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/f-e-cunningham\/","title":{"rendered":"CUNNINGHAM, F.E."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>F.E. CUNNINGHAM<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, proprietor of the Tullahoma Distillery, and a prominent citizen of Tullahoma, was born in Bedford County, Tenn., September 15, 1852, and is the son of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>M.T. CUNNINGHAM<\/strong>, a native of Pennsylvania. The father died in 1874. Our subject was reared in Bedford County,and educated in the town schools. At fourteen years of age he entered the store at Flat Creek as clerk, remaining there until four years later he was appointed United States revenue store-keeper, in which he was engaged about four years. In 1876 he purchased and conducted a distillery in Coffee County, but in 1882 came into his present establishment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our subject is a member of the K. of H. Lodge, and a Republican in politics. He was married September 3, 1884, to <strong>Bell<\/strong>, daughter of <strong>Elijah COUCH<\/strong> of Bedford County. They have two children: <strong>Mamie<\/strong> and <strong>Vester<\/strong>. His wife is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.<\/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>F.E. CUNNINGHAM, proprietor of the Tullahoma Distillery, and a prominent citizen of Tullahoma, was born in Bedford County, Tenn., September 15, 1852, and is the son of\u00a0M.T. CUNNINGHAM, a native of Pennsylvania. The father died in 1874. Our subject was reared in Bedford County,and educated in the town schools. At fourteen years of age he &#8230; <a title=\"CUNNINGHAM, F.E.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/f-e-cunningham\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about CUNNINGHAM, F.E.\">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":[3988,3987,3985,3986,3989,3990],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","category-coffee","tag-couch-bell","tag-couch-elijah","tag-cunningham-f-e","tag-cunningham-m-t","tag-cunningham-mamie","tag-cunningham-vester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","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=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}