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THRUSTON, Gates Phillips<\/b>, retired lawyer; born Dayton, O., June 11, 1835; English, Scotch, French and Dutch descent; son of Robert A. and Marianna L. (Phillips) THRUSTON<\/b>; father was a lawyer; paternal grandparents, Judge Buckner and Jeannette (January) THRUSTON<\/b>, maternal grandparents, Horatio G. and Elizabeth (Houston) PHILLIPS<\/b>; educated Miami University (Ohio), and Cincinnati Law School; graduated Miami University, A.B. degree, 1855; Cincinnati Law School, LL.B., 1859; L. H. D. was conferred upon him by Miami University, 1903; entered the practice of law in early life; served as Captain First Ohio U. S. Vol. Infantry; promoted to Major, Assistant Adjutant-General, Lieutenant-Colonel and Chief of Staff of 20th<\/sup> Army Corps; Brevet Colonel and Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. V.; Breveted for Shiloh, Stones River and Chickamauga; married, first Ida HAMILTON<\/b>, second Fannie DORMAN<\/b>; Vice-President Tenn. Historical Society; President Society Army of the Cumberland; member Municipal Humane Commission, Commissioner of Watkins Institute, Nashville, Chairman of same; Trustee of Hermitage Association; honorary member various historical societies; member Tenn. State River Commission.<\/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: Nashville THRUSTON, Gates Phillips, retired lawyer; born Dayton, O., June 11, 1835; English, Scotch, French and Dutch descent; son of Robert A. and Marianna L. (Phillips) THRUSTON; father was a lawyer; paternal grandparents, Judge Buckner and Jeannette (January) THRUSTON, maternal grandparents, Horatio G. and Elizabeth (Houston) PHILLIPS; educated Miami University (Ohio), and Cincinnati Law […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[162,4412,4062,4419],"tags":[3461,4350,4390,1733,851,3460],"class_list":{"0":"post-10514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-t","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-dorman","11":"tag-hamilton","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-january","14":"tag-phillips","15":"tag-thruston","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","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=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12865,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions\/12865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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