City: Oliver Springs<\/p>\n
JONES, Clem J.<\/b>, attorney at law; born Spartanburg, S. C., Dec. 18, 1874; son of Milnor and Mary (Watkins) JONES<\/b>; paternal grandfather Dr. Clement F. JONES<\/b>, paternal grandmother Elizabeth (Chambers) JONES<\/b> (daughter of U. S. Senator E. F. CHAMBERS<\/b>, Md.), maternal grandfather James WATKINS<\/b>, maternal grandmother Mary (Calvert) WATKINS<\/b>; Welsh and Scotch descent; educated Oregon Agricultural College, Corvalis \/sic\/<\/i>, Oregon, A.T. U., Harriman, Tenn.; graduated in law dept. A. T. U. in 1897; married Lillian TRIPLETT<\/b> Jan. 25, 1900; member Royal Arch Masons, Harriman Chapter, Tri-Co. Lodge K of P. Tenn. Society Sons of the Revolution; was chairman Congressional Committee 2nd<\/sup> District Tenn. from 1904-1906; Mayor Oliver Springs (3 terms), 1906-1911; County Judge Anderson Co., one term, 1907-08, by appointment of Gov. Patterson; Presidential Elector Democratic ticket 1908; served as Ord. Sergt. 1st<\/sup> Tenn. Vols. War with Spain; served in Philippines during insurrection; at beginning of Spanish war raised a company and joined 3rd<\/sup> Tenn. as 1st<\/sup> Lieut., but withdrew to go to Philippines with 1st<\/sup> Tenn. Vols.; director and attorney for Oliver Springs Pkg. Co.; local attorney for So. Ry. Co., L. & N. R. R. Co., H. R. & E. R. R. Co. and attorney for several large coal mines in Morgan and Anderson Cos.; member Episcopal church.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Oliver Springs JONES, Clem J., attorney at law; born Spartanburg, S. C., Dec. 18, 1874; son of Milnor and Mary (Watkins) JONES; paternal grandfather Dr. Clement F. JONES, paternal grandmother Elizabeth (Chambers) JONES (daughter of U. S. Senator E. F. CHAMBERS, Md.), maternal grandfather James WATKINS, maternal grandmother Mary (Calvert) WATKINS; Welsh and Scotch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[13,477,79,4062,4419],"tags":[485,694,263,3588,836],"class_list":{"0":"post-10980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anderson","7":"category-roane","8":"category-surname-j","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-calvert","12":"tag-chambers","13":"tag-jones","14":"tag-triplett","15":"tag-watkins","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13649,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions\/13649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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