{"id":10569,"date":"2014-01-17T12:19:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10569"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:56","slug":"yancey-richard-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/yancey-richard-h\/","title":{"rendered":"YANCEY, Richard H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>YANCEY, Richard H.<\/b>, editor; born Fayette County, Tenn., November, 1855; son of <b>Edwin T. and Mary (Anderson) YANCEY<\/b>; Welsh descent, family came to Virginia in 1642; educated at LaGrange Academy and Cumberland University; graduated in law at Lebanon Law School; engaged in newspaper work at 23 years of age; became Editor of Somerville (Tenn.) Falcon and served in that capacity from 1881-83; was Editor of Clarksville (Tenn.) Chronicle, 1883-87; Birmingham (Ala.) Herald and Age-Herald 1887-1891, since which time he has been Associate Editor of the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, with exception of 1897-98 when he did editorial work for the Nashville American; married <b>Irene WILLIAMS<\/b>, of Bolivar, Tenn., Feb. 17, 1881; member Press Club, Nashville; Democrat; member Episcopal Church.<\/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 YANCEY, Richard H., editor; born Fayette County, Tenn., November, 1855; son of Edwin T. and Mary (Anderson) YANCEY; Welsh descent, family came to Virginia in 1642; educated at LaGrange Academy and Cumberland University; graduated in law at Lebanon Law School; engaged in newspaper work at 23 years of age; became Editor of Somerville [&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":[31,162,798,600,4416,4062,4419],"tags":[4318,3496],"class_list":{"0":"post-10569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-fayette","9":"category-montgomery","10":"category-surname-y","11":"category-whoswho","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-anderson","14":"tag-yancey","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569","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=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13126,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions\/13126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}