{"id":1164,"date":"2024-09-29T20:52:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2024-09-29T20:52:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:52:38","slug":"egbert-w-holcombe-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/egbert-w-holcombe-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Egbert W. Holcombe Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOLCOMBE, Egbert W.<\/strong>, merchant; born Bainbridge, N. Y., April 6, 1847; English descent; son of&nbsp;<strong>Edwin and Priscilla (Lyon) HOLCOMBE<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, carpenter; educated at Oswego, N. Y.; boyhood days spent in Michigan during pioneer days; at North Platte, Neb., when that town was a frontier post and William F. CODY was a U. S. scout; in early life he taught school; married&nbsp;<strong>Mary J. CAHILL<\/strong>, March 29, 1877; member I. O. O. F.; Republican; former postmaster under&nbsp;<b>U. S. GRANT<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>Benjamin HARRISON<\/b>; member of Episcopal church; engaged in the general merchandise business at Monteagle, Tenn., since 1882; also owns real estate and is Vice Pres. of the First National bank, Tracy City, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLCOMBE, Egbert W., merchant; born Bainbridge, N. Y., April 6, 1847; English descent; son of&nbsp;Edwin and Priscilla (Lyon) HOLCOMBE; father\u2019s occupation, carpenter; educated at Oswego, N. Y.; boyhood days spent in Michigan during pioneer days; at North Platte, Neb., when that town was a frontier post and William F. CODY was a U. S. scout; in early life he taught school; married&nbsp;Mary J. CAHILL, March 29, 1877; member I. O. O. F.; Republican; former postmaster under&nbsp;U. S. GRANT&nbsp;and&nbsp;Benjamin HARRISON; member&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/egbert-w-holcombe-biography\/\"> 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-1164","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\/1164","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=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}