{"id":11,"date":"2011-10-17T00:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T05:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:30:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:30:13","slug":"fort-charles-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/fort-charles-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"FORT, Charles Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FORT, Charles Henry<\/strong>, \u00a0farmer; born Robertson Co., Tenn., Nov. 14, 1860; French Huguenot descent; son of <strong>Josiah W. and Eliza P. (Dancy) FORT<\/strong>; father a farmer and minister of the Gospel; paternal grandparents <strong>Joel B. and Nancy (Metcalfe) FORT<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>William and Nancy (Deggs) DANCEY<\/strong>; educated at Vanderbilt University, graduating therefrom with the degree of B.S. June 1880; married <strong>Jennie PATTON<\/strong> Nov. 7, 1906; member of Baptist church; F. and A.M. Knights of Pythias, I.O.O.F.; Democrat; formerly Justice of the Peace, in which office he still continues to serve; organized the Dark Tobacco Planters Protective Association, and seved as its first president; instituted an investigation upon which the United States government predicated a suit against the Tobacco Trust; stock breeder and farmer, making a specialty of purebred Jersey cattle and Duroc Jersey hogs.<\/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>FORT, Charles Henry, \u00a0farmer; born Robertson Co., Tenn., Nov. 14, 1860; French Huguenot descent; son of Josiah W. and Eliza P. (Dancy) FORT; father a farmer and minister of the Gospel; paternal grandparents Joel B. and Nancy (Metcalfe) FORT, maternal grandparents William and Nancy (Deggs) DANCEY; educated at Vanderbilt University, graduating therefrom with the degree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4410,7,4062,4419],"tags":[9,12,8,10,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-11","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-robertson","7":"category-surname-f","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-dancy","12":"tag-deggs","13":"tag-fort","14":"tag-metcalfe","15":"tag-patton","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13960,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/13960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}