City: Chattanooga<\/p>\n
HILL, Jesse Thomas<\/strong>, consulting mining engineer; born Nashville, Tenn., March 18, 1850; son Robert Thomas and Katherine T. (Stout) HILL<\/strong>; paternal grandfather Thomas HILL<\/strong>, paternal grandmother Sallie (Wood) HILL<\/strong>; maternal grandfather Samuel Van Dyke STOUT<\/strong>; maternal grandmother Catherine Wilkins (Tannehill) STOUT<\/strong>; English and Dutch descent; educated public schools Nashville; studied law under private tutor; acquired knowledge of engineering by practice and private study; married Alice Brice WOODWARD<\/strong>, March 14, 1878; member Masons, Knights Templar, Shriner, affiliated Chattanooga; Mountain City Club, Chattanooga; Sons of American Revolution; National Geographic Society; American Institute of Mining Engineers; Assistant Deputy Clerk and Master of Chancery Court 1871; Mayor of Chattanooga 1878-79; Justice of the Peace 1894-1900; Manager of Tennessee State Coal Mines from date of opening, 1895, for four years; membership first local militia company organized in Chattanooga, of which he was Secretary and Treasurer; assisted in the organization of the following original organizations and corporations: Citico Furnace Company, the Etna Coal Company, the Soddy Coal Iron & Railway Company, the Chattanooga Stove Company, the Alpine Coal Company. The Chattanooga Library Association; admitted to bar 1876; member St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Chattanooga HILL, Jesse Thomas, consulting mining engineer; born Nashville, Tenn., March 18, 1850; son Robert Thomas and Katherine T. (Stout) HILL; paternal grandfather Thomas HILL, paternal grandmother Sallie (Wood) HILL; maternal grandfather Samuel Van Dyke STOUT; maternal grandmother Catherine Wilkins (Tannehill) STOUT; English and Dutch descent; educated public schools Nashville; studied law under private […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[162,151,77,4419],"tags":[4369,222,734,394,735],"class_list":{"0":"post-1020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-hamilton","8":"category-surname-h","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-hill","11":"tag-stout","12":"tag-tannehill","13":"tag-wood","14":"tag-woodward","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15430,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/15430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}