{"id":1144,"date":"2024-09-29T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2024-09-29T20:50:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:50:02","slug":"john-m-gerren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/john-m-gerren\/","title":{"rendered":"John M. Gerren Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>GERREN, John M.<\/b>, teacher, editor; born Jasper, Tenn., June 6, 1880; son of&nbsp;<b>W. L. and Mollie Elizabeth (DeFriece) GERREN<\/b>; father, farmer; educated at Normal University, Chattanooga, and Athens School of University of Chattanooga, and left school one year before graduating; early business occupation, farmer, telegraph operator, clerk in Chattanooga (Tenn.) postoffice, teacher in Whitwell, Tenn., six years, assistant principal Shook School, Tracy City, 1908-1909-1910-1911, editor, \u201cMrs. Grundy,\u201d 1909; has been owner and editor of \u201cThe Mountain Herald,\u201d Tracy City, Tenn., since March, 1910; member Knights of Pythias and M. E. church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GERREN, John M., teacher, editor; born Jasper, Tenn., June 6, 1880; son of&nbsp;W. L. and Mollie Elizabeth (DeFriece) GERREN; father, farmer; educated at Normal University, Chattanooga, and Athens School of University of Chattanooga, and left school one year before graduating; early business occupation, farmer, telegraph operator, clerk in Chattanooga (Tenn.) postoffice, teacher in Whitwell, Tenn., six years, assistant principal Shook School, Tracy City, 1908-1909-1910-1911, editor, \u201cMrs. Grundy,\u201d 1909; has been owner and editor of \u201cThe Mountain Herald,\u201d Tracy City, Tenn.,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/john-m-gerren\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surname-family-history-website"],"modified_by":"Bettye Seaton Liberty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}