{"id":10926,"date":"2014-06-07T23:49:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T04:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10926"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:44","slug":"polk-james-knox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/polk-james-knox\/","title":{"rendered":"POLK, James Knox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City:\u00a0 Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>POLK, James Knox; <\/b>fire insurance; born Bolivar, Tenn., January 26, 1859; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <b>Marshall T.<\/b> and <b>Evalina M. (Bills) POLK<\/b>; paternal grandparents <b>Marshall T. <\/b>and<b> Laura (Wilson) POLK<\/b>, maternal grandparents <b>John H. <\/b>and <b>Prudence (McNeal) BILLS;\u00a0 <\/b>educated East Tennessee University, now University of Tennessee; in early life was in mercantile business; married <b>Mary Frances HIBBLER<\/b>, January 27, 1880; Knights Templar, 32d degree Scottish Rite and Shriner, Elk; Democrat; Captain First Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Spanish-American war in Philippines; member of Episcopal church<\/span>.<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Nashville POLK, James Knox; fire insurance; born Bolivar, Tenn., January 26, 1859; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Marshall T. and Evalina M. (Bills) POLK; paternal grandparents Marshall T. and Laura (Wilson) POLK, maternal grandparents John H. and Prudence (McNeal) BILLS;\u00a0 educated East Tennessee University, now University of Tennessee; in early life was in mercantile business; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[162,1225,387,85,418,4062,4419],"tags":[2734,3565,3564,4363,4341],"class_list":{"0":"post-10926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-east-tennessee-university","8":"category-hardeman","9":"category-surname-p","10":"category-university-of-tennessee","11":"category-whoswho","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-bills","14":"tag-hibbler","15":"tag-mcneal","16":"tag-polk","17":"tag-wilson","18":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10926"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13716,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10926\/revisions\/13716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}