{"id":3196,"date":"2022-01-10T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:00:46","slug":"glass-hiram-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/glass-hiram-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Glass, Hiram D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hiram D. Glass<\/strong>, a prominent dry goods and grocery merchant of Ripley, Tenn.,<br \/>\nis a son of Hon. P. T. and Sarah C. (Partee) Glass, and was born on September<br \/>\n12, 1849, in Ripley, where he was raised and received his first education,<br \/>\nfinishing his literary studies at the University of Mississippi, and in 1868<br \/>\ngraduating from the commercial college at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and after<br \/>\nacting as salesman and bookkeeper in several large houses, in 1873 he became<br \/>\nthe junior member in the firm of P. T. Glass &amp; Son, and after several changes<br \/>\nthe firm assumed the present style of H. D. Glass &amp; Co. In 1872 he married<br \/>\nJennie H. Palmer, who was born October 3, 1851, and four sons and three<br \/>\ndaughters have brightened this union. Mr. Glass is an enthusiastic Democrat,<br \/>\nand with his wife belongs to the Missionary Baptist Church. For fourteen<br \/>\nyears he has been one of the enterprising business men of Ripley. He carries<br \/>\na splendid stock in two large rooms &#8212; one filled with dry goods, the other<br \/>\nwith groceries, and has a branch store in Hansford, besides dealing in cotton<br \/>\nvery extensively. In addition to his careful business training he has a<br \/>\nnatural capacity for commercial pursuits, and is a correct, successful<br \/>\nbusiness man.<\/p>\n<p><em>Goodspeed&#8217;s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiram D. Glass, a prominent dry goods and grocery merchant of Ripley, Tenn., is a son of Hon. P. T. and Sarah C. (Partee) Glass, and was born on September 12, 1849, in Ripley, where he was raised and received <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/glass-hiram-d\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","tag-glass"],"modified_by":"Jim Daniel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3201,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}