{"id":10561,"date":"2014-03-08T14:40:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:15","slug":"witherspoon-john-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/witherspoon-john-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"WITHERSPOON, John Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>WITHERSPOON, John Alexander<\/b>, physician; born Columbia, Tenn., September 13, 1864; Scotch descent; son of <b>John M. and Mary T. (Hanks) WITHERSPOON<\/b>; father was lawyer and farmer; graduated 1887 from Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; married <b>Cornelia DIXON<\/b>, November 8, 1888; is a Mason, Knight Templar, K. of P. and member of Hermitage Club, Nashville; was appointed by the Secretary of State to deliver address of acceptance of George Washington statue in Buda-Pest, Hungary, August 27, 1909; was Professor of Medicine in University of Tennessee from 1889 to 1894, and has been teacher of medicine in Vanderbilt University for the past 16 years; he is President of the American Medical College Association, member of the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association, also President of the Mississippi Valley Medical Society in 1909; Democrat; Deacon in First Presbyterian Church, Nashville.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<i>\u00a0Who\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: Nashville WITHERSPOON, John Alexander, physician; born Columbia, Tenn., September 13, 1864; Scotch descent; son of John M. and Mary T. (Hanks) WITHERSPOON; father was lawyer and farmer; graduated 1887 from Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; married Cornelia DIXON, November 8, 1888; is a Mason, Knight Templar, K. of P. and member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[162,180,4415,418,7,4062,4419],"tags":[1834,3489,1251],"class_list":{"0":"post-10561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-maury","8":"category-surname-w","9":"category-university-of-tennessee","10":"category-vanderbilt-university","11":"category-whoswho","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-dixon","14":"tag-hanks","15":"tag-witherspoon","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","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=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13592,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions\/13592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}