{"id":10576,"date":"2014-01-10T22:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T04:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10576"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:55:57","slug":"smith-john-powell-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/smith-john-powell-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, John Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: National Soldiers Home<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>SMITH, John Powell<\/b>, lawyer, Governor Mountain Branch National Home for D. V. S.; born at Mountain City, Tenn., March 30, 1846; Scotch-Irish and English-French descent; son of <b>Alexander Doran and Mary Ann (Powell) SMITH<\/b>; father\u2019s occupation lawyer; paternal grandparents <b>Caleb and Elizabeth (Doran) SMITH<\/b>, maternal grandparents <b>John and Nancy (Steele) POWELL<\/b>; educated in common schools and private school of <b>Rev. James KEYES<\/b>, Johnson Co., Tenn.; married twice, first <b>Mary CRAIG<\/b>, Feb. 7, 1867, second <b>Florence B. ALEXANDER<\/b>, Jan. 1, 1895; master Mason; Republican; assistant U. S. Atty. E. District Tenn. Dec. 1, 1880, to July 1, 1885; Chancellor 1<sup>st<\/sup> Division Tenn. Sept. 1, 1886 to Sept. 1, 1902; served as private corporal, sergeant and second lieutenant, Co. \u201cB,\u201d 4<sup>th<\/sup> regiment Tenn. Vol. Infy. Jun 3, 1863 to Aug. 2, 1865; in early life he practiced law; since April 15, 1903 he has been Governor Mountain ranch, National Home for disabled volunteer soldiers; elder of Second Presbyterian church, Jonesboro, Tenn.<\/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: National Soldiers Home SMITH, John Powell, lawyer, Governor Mountain Branch National Home for D. V. S.; born at Mountain City, Tenn., March 30, 1846; Scotch-Irish and English-French descent; son of Alexander Doran and Mary Ann (Powell) SMITH; father\u2019s occupation lawyer; paternal grandparents Caleb and Elizabeth (Doran) SMITH, maternal grandparents John and Nancy (Steele) POWELL; [&hellip;]<\/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":[215,88,216,4062,4419],"tags":[185,641,3499,1558,353,4356,710],"class_list":{"0":"post-10576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johnson","7":"category-surname-s","8":"category-washington","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-alexander","12":"tag-craig","13":"tag-doran","14":"tag-keyes","15":"tag-powell","16":"tag-smith","17":"tag-steele","18":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576","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=10576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13031,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10576\/revisions\/13031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}