{"id":10756,"date":"2014-02-07T21:47:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T03:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10756"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:16","slug":"wolfe-john-bunyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wolfe-john-bunyan\/","title":{"rendered":"WOLFE, John Bunyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Piney Flats<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>WOLFE, John Bunyan<\/strong>, furniture manufacturer; born near Piney Flats, Tenn., Oct 18, 1857; German descent; son of <strong>F.M. and Winifred (Shell) WOLFE<\/strong>; father, farmer; paternal grandparents <strong>John and Priscilla (Webb) WOLFE<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Andrew and Winifred (Boyd) SHELL<\/strong>; received education in the district schools; married <strong>Nora E. HUGHES<\/strong>, October 28, 1886; began life as a farmer boy, working on farm until 18 years of age; later was cabinet maker, his first shop being an open shed, with old planes and saws for tools; he found ready sale for his goods and was soon able to build and equip a small shop; saved part of his income each year and added to his business, and has at present a factory equipped with modern machinery, doing a large business; is president Wolfe Bros. &amp; Co., and interested in several business enterprises in his community; Mason, having filled every office in Blue Lodge; member M.E. Church, South.<\/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: Piney Flats WOLFE, John Bunyan, furniture manufacturer; born near Piney Flats, Tenn., Oct 18, 1857; German descent; son of F.M. and Winifred (Shell) WOLFE; father, farmer; paternal grandparents John and Priscilla (Webb) WOLFE, maternal grandparents Andrew and Winifred (Boyd) SHELL; received education in the district schools; married Nora E. HUGHES, October 28, 1886; began [&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":[663,4415,4062,4419],"tags":[425,1650,2166,308,2701],"class_list":{"0":"post-10756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sullivan","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-boyd","11":"tag-hughes","12":"tag-shell","13":"tag-webb","14":"tag-wolfe","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756","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=10756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13556,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10756\/revisions\/13556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}