{"id":1171,"date":"2024-09-29T20:55:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2024-09-29T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:55:46","slug":"william-bilbo-mitchell-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/william-bilbo-mitchell-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"William Bilbo Mitchell Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1123\" class=\"post-1123 post type-post status-publish format-standard category-hamilton category-marion category-surname-m category-x_featured-image-no tag-griffith tag-hall tag-mitchell czr-hentry\">\n<div class=\"post-entry tc-content-inner\">\n<section class=\"post-content entry-content \">\n<div class=\"czr-wp-the-content\">\n<p><strong>MITCHELL, William Bilbo<\/strong>; born Jasper, Tenn., July 11, 1850; son&nbsp;<strong>Pleasant Andes and Margaret Robertson (Griffith) MITCHELL<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, mnufacturer&nbsp;<em>\/sic\/<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;and farmer; English descent; paternal grandfather&nbsp;<strong>John MITCHELL<\/strong>, paternal grandmother&nbsp;<strong>Sarah Andes MITCHELL<\/strong>, maternal grandfather&nbsp;<strong>William Standifer GRIFFITH<\/strong>, maternal grandmother&nbsp;<strong>Rhoda Robertson GRIFFITH<\/strong>; educated country schools and Emory &amp; Henry College, Va.; married&nbsp;<strong>Minta HALL<\/strong>&nbsp;in 1886; was commissioner and mayor Lookout Mt., Tenn., for 8 or 10 years; early business occupation, merchant; was president of Third National Bank, Chattanooga, from 1891 to 1903; was a well known writer on financial questions during that period; has since written much on economic and political questions; author of \u201cDollars Or What\u201d on the money question, of which 150,000 copies were sold; large property interests in both Chattanooga and Knoxville, Tenn.; now retired from active business.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"post-footer clearfix\">\n<div class=\"row entry-meta justify-content-between align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"post-tags col-xs-12 col-sm-auto col-sm\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MITCHELL, William Bilbo; born Jasper, Tenn., July 11, 1850; son&nbsp;Pleasant Andes and Margaret Robertson (Griffith) MITCHELL; father\u2019s occupation, mnufacturer&nbsp;\/sic\/&nbsp;&nbsp;and farmer; English descent; paternal grandfather&nbsp;John MITCHELL, paternal grandmother&nbsp;Sarah Andes MITCHELL, maternal grandfather&nbsp;William Standifer GRIFFITH, maternal grandmother&nbsp;Rhoda Robertson GRIFFITH; educated country schools and Emory &amp; Henry College, Va.; married&nbsp;Minta HALL&nbsp;in 1886; was commissioner and mayor Lookout Mt., Tenn., for 8 or 10 years; early business occupation, merchant; was president of Third National Bank, Chattanooga, from 1891 to 1903; was a well known&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/william-bilbo-mitchell-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":"","_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-1171","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\/1171","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=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}