{"id":10984,"date":"2013-12-03T14:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:51:37","slug":"richards-john-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/richards-john-r\/","title":{"rendered":"RICHARDS, John R."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Oliver Springs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>RICHARDS, John R.<\/b>, coal operator and merchant; born Danville, Pa., Oct. 15, 1857; son of <b>Joseph and Ann (Thomas) RICHARDS<\/b>; paternal grandfather <b>John RICHARDS<\/b>, paternal grandmother <b>Ann (Evans) RICHARDS<\/b>, maternal grandfather <b>David W. THOMAS<\/b>, maternal grandmother <b>Ann (Williams) THOMAS<\/b> Welsh descent; fathers\u2019 <i>\/sic\/<\/i> occupation, rolling mill superintendent; later coal operator; educated Knoxville, Tenn., city schools and one year at University of Tenn.; early business, timekeeper and assistant superintendent of rolling mill, Portland, Me.; married <b>Hannah DAVIS<\/b> Aug. 16, 1879; member Masonic Lodge; former postmaster at Oliver Springs, Tenn., under the Harrison administration; Alderman of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> ward, Oliver Springs, and serving his fourth year as City Treasurer; secretary of Oliver Coal Co. and one of four brothers owning the Oliver Springs property which comprises some 2,500 acres coal, iron and clay, with the well known mineral springs; member and Elder of Presbyterian church.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who\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: Oliver Springs RICHARDS, John R., coal operator and merchant; born Danville, Pa., Oct. 15, 1857; son of Joseph and Ann (Thomas) RICHARDS; paternal grandfather John RICHARDS, paternal grandmother Ann (Evans) RICHARDS, maternal grandfather David W. THOMAS, maternal grandmother Ann (Williams) THOMAS Welsh descent; fathers\u2019 \/sic\/ occupation, rolling mill superintendent; later coal operator; educated Knoxville, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[477,87,418,4062,4419],"tags":[318,655,39,419,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-10984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-roane","7":"category-surname-r","8":"category-university-of-tennessee","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-davis","12":"tag-evans","13":"tag-richards","14":"tag-thomas","15":"tag-williams","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984","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=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12842,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions\/12842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}