{"id":10671,"date":"2015-04-28T21:57:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T02:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10671"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:45:46","slug":"mccorkle-john-edwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/mccorkle-john-edwin\/","title":{"rendered":"McCORKLE, John Edwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\">City: Newbern<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>McCORKLE, John Edwin<\/strong>, farmer, surveyor, and banker; born in Dyer Co., Tenn., May 17, 1839; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Edwin A. and Jane Maxwell (Thomas) McCORKLE<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation farming; paternal grandparents <strong>Robert and Margaret (Morrison) McCORKLE<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, <strong>William and Elizabeth (Purviance) THOMAS<\/strong>; graduated at Bluff Springs, Tenn., A.M. degree in 1859; in early life was a teacher and farmer; married twice, first <strong>Tennie SCOTT<\/strong>, Jan. 14, 1868, second <strong>Mary COTTON,<\/strong> Sept. 1, 1880; member of Masonic lodge; Democrat; former magistrate 20 years, state senator two terms; notary public; served as lieutenant in C.S.A., and resigned on account of ill health; member of Christian church and elder in same; engaged in farming and banking.<\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Source:\u00a0<em>Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/em>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Newbern McCORKLE, John Edwin, farmer, surveyor, and banker; born in Dyer Co., Tenn., May 17, 1839; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Edwin A. and Jane Maxwell (Thomas) McCORKLE; father&#8217;s occupation farming; paternal grandparents Robert and Margaret (Morrison) McCORKLE, maternal grandparents, William and Elizabeth (Purviance) THOMAS; graduated at Bluff Springs, Tenn., A.M. degree in 1859; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"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":[649,4309,4419],"tags":[483,1655,969,3512,4396,419],"class_list":{"0":"post-10671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dyer","7":"category-goodspeed-bios","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-cotton","10":"tag-mccorkle","11":"tag-morrison","12":"tag-purviance","13":"tag-scott","14":"tag-thomas","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14450,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10671\/revisions\/14450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}