{"id":11242,"date":"2014-06-25T22:43:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T03:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11242"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:43","slug":"pierce-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/pierce-will\/","title":{"rendered":"PIERCE, Will."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Rogersville<\/p>\n<p><strong>PIERCE, Will<\/strong>., general insurance; born Rogersville, Tenn., March 1, 1879; French and Scotch-Irish decent; son of <strong>John M. and Helen L. (Caldwell) PIERCE<\/strong>; father, retired druggist; paternal grandparents<strong> Ezra Smith and Mary Eleanor (Sneed) PIERCE<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, <strong>Abel Pearson and Margaret (Dick) CALDWELL<\/strong>; educated at McMinn Academy; entered retail drug business in 1895 and engaged in same until 1911, when he became interested in general insurance; member of Knights of Pythias; Republican; elected Mayor of Rogersville, Feb. 12, 1904, for term of two years, again elected in 1910, which position he now holds; member of Presbyterian church.<\/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>City: Rogersville PIERCE, Will., general insurance; born Rogersville, Tenn., March 1, 1879; French and Scotch-Irish decent; son of John M. and Helen L. (Caldwell) PIERCE; father, retired druggist; paternal grandparents Ezra Smith and Mary Eleanor (Sneed) PIERCE, maternal grandparents, Abel Pearson and Margaret (Dick) CALDWELL; educated at McMinn Academy; entered retail drug business in 1895 [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[802,2913,4062,4419],"tags":[681,4218,448,2093],"class_list":["post-11242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hawkins","category-mcminn-academy","category-whoswho","category-x_featured-image-no","tag-caldwell","tag-dick","tag-pierce","tag-sneed","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242","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=11242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14006,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11242\/revisions\/14006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}