{"id":11275,"date":"2014-06-26T22:46:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11275"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:59:27","slug":"van-vleet-peter-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/van-vleet-peter-p\/","title":{"rendered":"VAN VLEET, Peter P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>VAN VLEET, Peter P.<\/strong>, wholesale druggist; born Tecumseh, Mich., Nov. 17, 1849; Dutch-English descent; son of <strong>Ralph S. and Henrietta (Lockwood) VAN VLEET<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>Peter P. and Martha (Swartout) VAN VLEET<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Cornelius LOCKWOOD<\/strong>; educated Kalamazoo (Mich.) College; in early life he was in the retail drug business at Kalamazoo, Mich., three years; moved to Memphis, Tenn., in 1871, and was drug clerk fourteen years; established firm of Van Vleet Drug Co., 1885, firm changed to Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co. in 1900, and he is president of same; director in Bank of Commerce &amp; Trust Co., Memphis, Tenn.; married <strong>Ramelle McKAY<\/strong>, April 24, 1884; member of Business Men&#8217;s Club, Tennessee Club, Chickasaw Club, Waponocca Club, Merchants Exchange, Credit Men&#8217;s Assn., and Bear River Duck Club.<\/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: Memphis VAN VLEET, Peter P., wholesale druggist; born Tecumseh, Mich., Nov. 17, 1849; Dutch-English descent; son of Ralph S. and Henrietta (Lockwood) VAN VLEET; paternal grandparents Peter P. and Martha (Swartout) VAN VLEET, maternal grandfather Cornelius LOCKWOOD; educated Kalamazoo (Mich.) College; in early life he was in the retail drug business at Kalamazoo, Mich., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[261,4414,4062,4419],"tags":[2833,32,3688,3687],"class_list":{"0":"post-11275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-v","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-lockwood","11":"tag-mckay","12":"tag-swartout","13":"tag-van-vleet","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14009,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions\/14009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}