{"id":10009,"date":"2014-01-13T12:06:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T18:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10009"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:43:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:43:18","slug":"maddin-percy-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/maddin-percy-down\/","title":{"rendered":"MADDIN, Percy Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><\/b><b>MADDIN, Percy Down, <\/b>lawyer; born Waco, Tex., October 27, 1860; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <b>Dr. John Wesley<\/b> and <b>Mahala Annie (Downs) MADDIN; <\/b>father was a physician and surgeon; paternal grandparents <b>Rev. Thomas<\/b> and <b>Sarah (Moore) MADDIN, <\/b>maternal grandparents <b>William Wood<\/b> and <b>Henrietta (Sparks) DOWNS;<\/b> educated in the public schools of Nashville, Tenn.; graduated Nashville public schools 1878; Vanderbilt University, B.S. 1881, LL.B. 1882; began his career as lawyer; married <b>Mary Belle KEITH, <\/b>1890; she was the daughter of <b>Samuel J.<\/b> and <b>Elizabeth B. KEITH<\/b>; attorney for the Fourth National Bank of Nashville and of Louisville &amp; Nashville Railway Company for past fifteen years; Vice-President Tennessee State Bar Association 1909-10; President 1910-11; member American Bar Association; several years member of its council for Tennessee; Director Fourth National Bank for seventeen years; Director of Nashville &amp; Decatur Railroad; Professor of Law in Vanderbilt University since 1900; member of K. of P., Masons, Hermitage Club and Nashville Golf and Country Club, Phi Delta Theta fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa of Vanderbilt University; President McKendree M. E. Church, South, Corporation, and Chairman of its Board of Stewards; also President of Galloway Memorial Hospital.<\/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 MADDIN, Percy Down, lawyer; born Waco, Tex., October 27, 1860; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Dr. John Wesley and Mahala Annie (Downs) MADDIN; father was a physician and surgeon; paternal grandparents Rev. Thomas and Sarah (Moore) MADDIN, maternal grandparents William Wood and Henrietta (Sparks) DOWNS; educated in the public schools of Nashville, Tenn.; graduated [&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":[770,704,3373,4344,1535],"class_list":{"0":"post-10009","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-downs","12":"tag-keith","13":"tag-maddin","14":"tag-moore","15":"tag-sparks","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009","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=10009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13102,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions\/13102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}