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TAYLOR, Thomas John<\/strong>, fire insurance business; born Haywood Co., Tenn., May 20, 1847; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Thomas and S. Jane (Mooring) TAYLOR<\/strong>; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Thomas and Susan Maria (Coburne) TAYLOR<\/strong>, maternal grandparents J.J. and Margaret (Staten) MOORING<\/strong>; received common school education; early business occupation, general merchandise; married twice, H.M. WALKER<\/strong>, Jan. 8, 1868, second, Helen R. CLAIBORNE<\/strong>, Nov. 28, 1883; member of Masonic Lodges and Business Men’s Club; Democrat; trustee Shelby Co. Tenn., 1904-1908; volunteered Jan. 8, 1863, Forrest Cavalry, Co. “F,” 12th regiment, afterwards consolidated Forrest battalion under D.C. Kelly; wounded twice during service in war; captured and recaptured Athens, Ala.; member of Miss. Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, South; sheriff of Tipton Co., Tenn., from 1884-1888; was in the mercantile business as manager until he moved to Memphis in 1889, and was then made cashier and bookkeeper cotton and grocery house; now in fire insurance business.<\/p>\n Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis TAYLOR, Thomas John, fire insurance business; born Haywood Co., Tenn., May 20, 1847; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Thomas and S. Jane (Mooring) TAYLOR; father’s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Thomas and Susan Maria (Coburne) TAYLOR, maternal grandparents J.J. and Margaret (Staten) MOORING; received common school education; early business occupation, general merchandise; married twice, H.M. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[59,261,4412,260,4062,4419],"tags":[4329,3385,3384,3386,150,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-10056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-haywood","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-t","9":"category-tipton","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-claiborne","13":"tag-coburne","14":"tag-mooring","15":"tag-staten","16":"tag-taylor","17":"tag-walker","18":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12880,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions\/12880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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