{"id":10863,"date":"2014-03-18T03:51:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T08:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10863"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:05","slug":"wilson-alphonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wilson-alphonso\/","title":{"rendered":"WILSON, Alphonso"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Obion<\/p>\n<p><strong>WILSON, Alphonso<\/strong>, real estate and fire insurance; born Obion Co., Tenn., Feb. 27, 1859; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>William M. and Nancy Ann (CARUTHERS) WILSON<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, merchant and real estate dealer; paternal grandparents <strong>William and Rebecca (WILSON) WILSON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Matthew and Fanny (CHILDS) CARUTHERS<\/strong>; educated in the common schools of Obion Co., Tenn., and Eastman\u2019s Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., graduated from latter in 1880; worked in lumber business in early life; at present he is interested in real estate in city of Obion and vicinity; married <strong>Inez WILSON<\/strong>, Nov. 30, 1895; member I. O. O. F. and K. of P.; elected Mayor of Obion, 1907, re-elected, 1909 for term of two years; justice of the peace; member of Christian 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: Obion WILSON, Alphonso, real estate and fire insurance; born Obion Co., Tenn., Feb. 27, 1859; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William M. and Nancy Ann (CARUTHERS) WILSON; father\u2019s occupation, merchant and real estate dealer; paternal grandparents William and Rebecca (WILSON) WILSON, maternal grandparents Matthew and Fanny (CHILDS) CARUTHERS; educated in the common schools of Obion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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":[809,4415,4062,4419],"tags":[752,3552,4341],"class_list":{"0":"post-10863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-obion","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-caruthers","11":"tag-childs","12":"tag-wilson","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13627,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10863\/revisions\/13627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}