{"id":10306,"date":"2014-01-06T22:47:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T04:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10306"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:59:05","slug":"towner-richard-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/towner-richard-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"TOWNER, Richard Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Memphis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>TOWNER, Richard Paul<\/strong>, merchant; born Memphis, Tenn., December 11, 1872; son <strong>H.N. and Ida B. (Dare) TOWNER<\/strong>; Scotch-English descent; educated Memphis Public Schools, Christian Brothers&#8217; College; married <strong>Edna HELBIG<\/strong> June 17, 1906; member Masons, 32 degree; Knights Templar, Shriners, Elks, Royal Arcanum and Hoo Hoos; junior partner in firm Towner &amp; Co., Memphis, Wholesale Rubber Goods and Supplies, established 1879; has been with said firm during whole business career; Secretary and Treasurer of the corporation of Towner &amp; Co.; Democrat.<\/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: Memphis TOWNER, Richard Paul, merchant; born Memphis, Tenn., December 11, 1872; son H.N. and Ida B. (Dare) TOWNER; Scotch-English descent; educated Memphis Public Schools, Christian Brothers&#8217; College; married Edna HELBIG June 17, 1906; member Masons, 32 degree; Knights Templar, Shriners, Elks, Royal Arcanum and Hoo Hoos; junior partner in firm Towner &amp; Co., Memphis, [&hellip;]<\/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":[2688,261,4412,4062,4419],"tags":[3437,3438,3435],"class_list":{"0":"post-10306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-christian-brothers-college","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-t","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-dare","12":"tag-helbig","13":"tag-towner","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306","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=10306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13024,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10306\/revisions\/13024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}