{"id":10007,"date":"2014-01-13T12:06:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10007"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:46:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:46:18","slug":"mcneilly-robert-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/mcneilly-robert-h\/","title":{"rendered":"McNEILLY, Robert H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>McNEILLY, Robert H., <\/b>civil engineer; born near Danville, Ky., September 30, 1879; Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of <b>James H<\/b>. and <b>Mary Russell (Weatherford) McNEILLY<\/b>; father, Presbyterian minister; paternal grandparents <b>Robert<\/b> and <b>Margaret (Larkins) McNEILLY<\/b>, maternal grandparents <b>Hardin<\/b> and <b>Matilda (Lee) WEATHERFORD<\/b>; great grandfather, <b>John LARKINS<\/b>, was an original settler of Tennessee, and received grant of land from State of North Carolina for services in the Revolutionary war; graduated Vanderbilt University B.E., 1902; in early life was a civil engineer with Tennessee Central Railway later with the Jaspampa Bajo Nitrate Property Chili, S. A.; was student at Vanderbilt 1896-1902; mechanical draftsman United States Ordnance Department, Washington, 1902-04; did private engineering, 1904-05; Assistant Professor Civil Engineering University Mississippi, 1905-06; Superintendent Construction of United States War Department at Columbus, O., 1906-07; has been instructor in drawing in surveying Vanderbilt University since 1907; has been connected with engineering work for Muscle Shoals Hydro-Electric Power Company and is engineer in charge of new construction Volunteer State Phosphate Company; married <b>Marian Brown STOCKELL<\/b>, June 4, 1904; Democrat; member of Presbyterian Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville McNEILLY, Robert H., civil engineer; born near Danville, Ky., September 30, 1879; Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of James H. and Mary Russell (Weatherford) McNEILLY; father, Presbyterian minister; paternal grandparents Robert and Margaret (Larkins) McNEILLY, maternal grandparents Hardin and Matilda (Lee) WEATHERFORD; great grandfather, John LARKINS, was an original settler of Tennessee, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,82,7,4062,4419],"tags":[3370,295,3368,3371,3369],"class_list":{"0":"post-10007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-m","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-larkins","12":"tag-lee","13":"tag-mcneilly","14":"tag-stockell","15":"tag-weatherford","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10007\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}