{"id":933,"date":"2015-09-21T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T01:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/?p=933"},"modified":"2017-06-10T07:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T12:53:41","slug":"j-c-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/j-c-read\/","title":{"rendered":"READ, J.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>J. C. READ<\/strong> was born February 3, 1859, in this State.\u00a0 He is the son of<strong> G. W. and Eliza (Brooks) Read<\/strong>.\u00a0 (For further particulars of parents see sketch of G. W. Read.)\u00a0 Our subject was reared on the farm and assisted his father until he was twenty-two years of age.\u00a0 In 1882 and 1883 he was sight seeing, traveling over Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky.\u00a0 Upon returning home he engaged in agricultural pursuits and this he continued until 1885 at which time he engaged in the merchandising business at Center Grove, in partnership with his brother, <strong>W. L. Read<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>December 18, 1881, our subject wedded <strong>Callie J. Bullock<\/strong>, of this county, and to them were born three children:\u00a0 <strong>Richard L., Robert A. and George W.<\/strong>\u00a0 Mr. Read is an energetic and active young business man, and has the power and determination to make his mark in the world.\u00a0 Politically he is a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Transcribed by Kathryn Hopkins<\/p>\n<p>Goodspeed Publishing Co.\u00a0<i>History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present: Together with an Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford &amp; Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminescences [Sic], Observations, Etc., Etc<\/i>. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J. C. READ was born February 3, 1859, in this State.\u00a0 He is the son of G. W. and Eliza (Brooks) Read.\u00a0 (For further particulars of parents see sketch of G. W. Read.)\u00a0 Our subject was reared on the farm and assisted his father until he was twenty-two years of age.\u00a0 In 1882 and 1883 &#8230; <a title=\"READ, J.C.\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/j-c-read\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about READ, J.C.\">Read more<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3079,3080,3078,3062,3077,3081,3082],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedford","tag-brooks-eliza","tag-bullock-callie-j","tag-read-g-w","tag-read-george-w","tag-read-j-c","tag-read-richard-l","tag-read-robert-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/goodspeeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}