{"id":11389,"date":"2015-11-23T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11389"},"modified":"2023-06-17T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T14:19:52","slug":"willingham-john-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/willingham-john-t\/","title":{"rendered":"WILLINGHAM, John T."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>WILLINGHAM, John T.<\/strong>, president and general manager Memphis Coffin Co.; born in Barnwell District, S.C., Aug. 30, 1861; when he was about four years old his parents moved to Columbus, Ga., where he was reared and educated; he began his business career when he was eighteen years of age, when he became associated with his father in operating a sash and door factory in Columbus, Ga.; later the business was removed to Chattanooga, Tenn.; in 1895 he moved to Memphis and started the Memphis Coffin Company, of which he was elected president; member of Chickasaw Club, Knights of Pythias, and B.P.O.E., and member of Central Baptist church, Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/em>.<\/span> Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis WILLINGHAM, John T., president and general manager Memphis Coffin Co.; born in Barnwell District, S.C., Aug. 30, 1861; when he was about four years old his parents moved to Columbus, Ga., where he was reared and educated; he began his business career when he was eighteen years of age, when he became associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15363,"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":[151,261,4415,4062,4418],"tags":[3713],"class_list":{"0":"post-11389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hamilton","8":"category-shelby","9":"category-surname-w","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-yes","12":"tag-willingham","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14441,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions\/14441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}