{"id":11091,"date":"2014-06-11T00:24:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T05:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11091"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:48:05","slug":"bowen-alfred-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/bowen-alfred-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"BOWEN, Alfred Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Rogersville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>BOWEN, Alfred Thomas<\/strong>, lawyer; born Hancock Co., Tenn., March 12, 1866; son of <strong>Jason Y. and Ruth A. (Lea) BOWEN<\/strong>; paternal grandfather <strong>Jesse BOWEN<\/strong>; maternal(sp) grandmother <strong>Sallie (Durham) BOWEN<\/strong>; maternal grandfather <strong>Archer LEA<\/strong>; maternal grandmother<strong> ____ (Hendrix) LEA<\/strong>; English descent; father&#8217;s occupation farmer; educated Sneedville, McKinney High School; married <strong>Amanda J. BAKER<\/strong> June 6, 1884; member I.O.O.F.K. of H., A.U.O.W., W.O.W., Consul M.W.A., and Rep. to State Camp in 1908; early business teaching and merchandising; served as J.P. years 1890-2; Alderman and City Attorney Rogersville four years former special Circuit Judge and special Chancellor; candidate for circuit judge; Republican 1910, but finally declined nomination on account of split in party, but was elected chairman of executive committee; Secretary and Treasurer Rogersville Electric Co., Secretary and\u00a0 General Counsel of Rogersville Ice Co.; Rogersville Telephone and Telegraph Co.; Attorney for International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union of North America which is now expending $100,000.00 in improving Hale Springs, a famous summer resort in Hawkins Co.; member Missionary Baptist church, (Deacon).<\/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: Rogersville BOWEN, Alfred Thomas, lawyer; born Hancock Co., Tenn., March 12, 1866; son of Jason Y. and Ruth A. (Lea) BOWEN; paternal grandfather Jesse BOWEN; maternal(sp) grandmother Sallie (Durham) BOWEN; maternal grandfather Archer LEA; maternal grandmother ____ (Hendrix) LEA; English descent; father&#8217;s occupation farmer; educated Sneedville, McKinney High School; married Amanda J. BAKER June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"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":[802,4405,4062,4419],"tags":[252,952,66,1693,388],"class_list":{"0":"post-11091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hawkins","7":"category-surname-b","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-baker","11":"tag-bowen","12":"tag-durham","13":"tag-hendrix","14":"tag-lea","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13773,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11091\/revisions\/13773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}