{"id":1174,"date":"2024-09-29T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2024-09-29T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T20:57:16","slug":"robert-alexander-patton-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/robert-alexander-patton-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Alexander Patton Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PATTON, Robert Alexander,<\/strong>&nbsp;promoter and capitalist; born Sweederie Cove, Marion Co., Tenn., April 10, 1848; Irish and Scotch descent; son of&nbsp;<strong>Robert and Elizabeth (Raulston) PATTON<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farming, teaching school and public official of Marion Co., Tenn., educated in the public schools of Marion Co., Tenn.; was the pioneer settler of South Pittsburg, Tenn., and began life without means, entered farming, and later became railroad contractor; he is now a promoter of coal mines and owns vast mineral lands, and real estate; married&nbsp;<strong>Pommie C. WHITE,<\/strong>&nbsp;March 25, 1869; member of Masonic Lodge, K. of P., and the Heptosophs; Republican; former postmaster at South Pittsburg, Tenn., March 1898 to July 1, 1906; member of Primitive Baptist church<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PATTON, Robert Alexander,&nbsp;promoter and capitalist; born Sweederie Cove, Marion Co., Tenn., April 10, 1848; Irish and Scotch descent; son of&nbsp;Robert and Elizabeth (Raulston) PATTON; father\u2019s occupation farming, teaching school and public official of Marion Co., Tenn., educated in the public schools of Marion Co., Tenn.; was the pioneer settler of South Pittsburg, Tenn., and began life without means, entered farming, and later became railroad contractor; he is now a promoter of coal mines and owns vast mineral lands, and real&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/2024\/09\/29\/robert-alexander-patton-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-1174","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\/1174","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=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/marion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}