{"id":10318,"date":"2014-01-09T22:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T04:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:48:02","slug":"myers-henry-c-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/myers-henry-c-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MYERS, Henry C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Memphis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><!--\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n{mso-style-parent:\"\";\nmargin:0in;\nmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\nmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\nfont-size:12.0pt;\nfont-family:Times;}\n@page Section1\n{size:8.5in 11.0in;\nmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;\nmso-header-margin:.5in;\nmso-footer-margin:.5in;\nmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n{page:Section1;}\n--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times;\"><b>MYERS, Henry C<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times;\">., life insurance solicitor; born Wadesboro, N. C., Oct. 17, 1847; German and Irish descent; son of <b>Absalom and Adeline (ROGGAN) MYERS<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times;\">; father\u2019s occupation, merchant and planter; educated in public schools at Byhalia, Miss., and University of Miss., Oxford, Miss.; began his business career as a farmer, later served as deputy circuit clerk of Marshall Co., Miss., 1867-1875, with the exception of one year when removed by military authority; sheriff of Marshall Co., Miss., 1876-1878; Secretary of State of Miss., 1878-1886; served as private during latter part of civil war in 2d Missouri, C. S. A., cavalry; at present he is Assistant Quartermaster-General on the staff of <b>Gen. George W. GORDON<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times;\">, Commander-in Chief of U. C. V. Assn.; married <b>Minnie WALTER<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Times;\">, May 10, 1873; interested in cotton planting in Miss. and life insurance and banking in Memphis, Tenn.; National Democrat; member Calvary Episcopal church.<\/span><\/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<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis MYERS, Henry C., life insurance solicitor; born Wadesboro, N. C., Oct. 17, 1847; German and Irish descent; son of Absalom and Adeline (ROGGAN) MYERS; father\u2019s occupation, merchant and planter; educated in public schools at Byhalia, Miss., and University of Miss., Oxford, Miss.; began his business career as a farmer, later served as deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,82,4062,4419],"tags":[1469,3442,1435],"class_list":{"0":"post-10318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-m","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-gordon","11":"tag-roggan","12":"tag-walter","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13030,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions\/13030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}