{"id":10037,"date":"2014-01-17T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10037"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:47:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:47:41","slug":"morris-robert-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/morris-robert-lewis\/","title":{"rendered":"MORRIS, Robert Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville<\/p>\n<p><b>MORRIS, Robert Lewis, <\/b>lawyer; born (near) Nashville, Tenn., April 9, 1847; son <b>Henry B. <\/b>and <b>Sarah (Willis) MORRIS; <\/b>English-French-Welsh descent; educated High School, Nashville, and Cumberland University; married <b>Lucy Napier HUDSON<\/b> June 20, 1872; member Masons; entered Confederate Army April, 1864;, age 17; First Lieutenant in command Co. F, 21st Tennessee Cavalry; surrendered at Gainsville May 11, 1865; with Forrest; admitted to bar 1870; special writer Nashville Sun and other papers; associated with Jere Baxter in promotion of Tennessee Central; past attorney for Tennessee Central Railroad Company; member Episcopal Church; was candidate for Chancellor, 1878, before Democratic convention, had majority and was\u00a0 defeated by two-thirds rule.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville MORRIS, Robert Lewis, lawyer; born (near) Nashville, Tenn., April 9, 1847; son Henry B. and Sarah (Willis) MORRIS; English-French-Welsh descent; educated High School, Nashville, and Cumberland University; married Lucy Napier HUDSON June 20, 1872; member Masons; entered Confederate Army April, 1864;, age 17; First Lieutenant in command Co. F, 21st Tennessee Cavalry; surrendered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[31,162,82,4062,4419],"tags":[985,465,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-10037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-surname-m","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-hudson","12":"tag-morris","13":"tag-willis","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037","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=10037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13219,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions\/13219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}