{"id":10930,"date":"2014-06-08T00:02:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T05:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:51:17","slug":"rankin-leland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/rankin-leland\/","title":{"rendered":"RANKIN, Leland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City:\u00a0 Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>RANKIN, Leland, <\/b>underwriter, bonds and casualty; born Nashville, Tenn., January 16, 1867; son <b>David P. <\/b>and <b>Leonora Jane (Daniel) RANKIN; <\/b>Scotch-Irish descent; educated Webb\u2019s School, Bell Buckle, Tenn.; early business occupation, newspaper reporter, editor, manager; married <b>Anne PORTERFIELD<\/b> September 15, 1893; member Hermitage Club, Country Club; First Lieutenant N. G. S. T. five years; First Lieutenant and Ordnance Officer First Virginia Regiment five years; member Christ church (Episcopal), Nashville; President and Manager Nashville American 1895-1900; President and Manager Richmond (Va.) Dispatch 1900-03; Publisher Richmond (Va.) News-Leader 1903-09; Business Manager Nashville American 1909-10; now Manager U. S. Fidelity and Guaranty Company for Middle Tennessee.<\/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:\u00a0 Nashville RANKIN, Leland, underwriter, bonds and casualty; born Nashville, Tenn., January 16, 1867; son David P. and Leonora Jane (Daniel) RANKIN; Scotch-Irish descent; educated Webb\u2019s School, Bell Buckle, Tenn.; early business occupation, newspaper reporter, editor, manager; married Anne PORTERFIELD September 15, 1893; member Hermitage Club, Country Club; First Lieutenant N. G. S. T. five [&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":[162,87,98,4062,4419],"tags":[535,3568,959],"class_list":{"0":"post-10930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-r","8":"category-webbs-school","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-daniel","12":"tag-porterfield","13":"tag-rankin","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930","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=10930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13724,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10930\/revisions\/13724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}