{"id":10794,"date":"2014-03-30T20:29:33","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T01:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10794"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:03","slug":"atkins-caswell-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/atkins-caswell-a\/","title":{"rendered":"ATKINS, Caswell A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Powder Springs<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATKINS, Caswell A<\/strong>., physician; born Powder Springs, Tenn., May 31, 1852; Scotch-Irish descent; son <strong>Lewis and Elizabeth Jane (Adkins) ATKINS<\/strong>; paternal grandparents, <strong>Lewis and Elizabeth (Monroe) ATKINS<\/strong>; maternal grandparents, <strong>Stephen and Millie (Rector) ADKINS<\/strong>; educated in the country schools and Carson &amp; Newman College; graduated from University of Tenn., M.D., April, 1899; married <strong>Laura ACUFF<\/strong>, July 24, 1873; taught school for five years; engaged in the mercantile business, 1880-81; drug business 1882-83; during which time he read medicine; took first course in medicine at Univ. of Tenn., 1885-86; later studied in Univ. of Louisville, Ky., 1896-97; was a member U.S. pension examining board of surgeons, Nov. 2, 1901 to June 8, 1908; president Grainger Co. S.S. Convention, 1909-11; Mason S.W. and Odd Fellow; Republican; member Missionary Baptist church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Powder Springs ATKINS, Caswell A., physician; born Powder Springs, Tenn., May 31, 1852; Scotch-Irish descent; son Lewis and Elizabeth Jane (Adkins) ATKINS; paternal grandparents, Lewis and Elizabeth (Monroe) ATKINS; maternal grandparents, Stephen and Millie (Rector) ADKINS; educated in the country schools and Carson &amp; Newman College; graduated from University of Tenn., M.D., April, 1899; [&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":[799,4406,4062,4419],"tags":[4116,146,1428,4374,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-10794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-grainger","7":"category-surname-a","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-acuff","11":"tag-adkins","12":"tag-atkins","13":"tag-monroe","14":"tag-rector","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794","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=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13670,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions\/13670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}