{"id":11484,"date":"2014-01-22T20:49:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T02:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11484"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:26:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:26:55","slug":"dowdy-james-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/dowdy-james-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"DOWDY, James Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Big Sandy<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWDY, James Franklin<\/strong>, merchant and farmer; born near Big Sandy Oct. 13, 1858; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James Wiley and Henrietta (Bachus) DOWDY; father&#8217;s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents <strong>John and Mary (Upton) DOWDY<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>John and Jane (Vaughn) BACHUS<\/strong>; received common school education; began his business career as farmer and later entered the mercantile business; now engaged in the mercantile and livery business, besides having farming interests; married <strong>Lula COOPER<\/strong> Dec. 16, 1886; member F. &amp; A. M., (Chapter), I. O. O. F., and K. of P.; Republican; delagate to National Republican Convention Chicago, 1908; member Presbyterian church and Superintendent Sunday School at Big Sandy, Tenn.; former Secretary of Y. M. C. A., Big Sandy; President Christian Endeavor Society.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Big Sandy DOWDY, James Franklin, merchant and farmer; born near Big Sandy Oct. 13, 1858; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James Wiley and Henrietta (Bachus) DOWDY; father&#8217;s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents John and Mary (Upton) DOWDY; maternal grandparents John and Jane (Vaughn) BACHUS; received common school education; began his business career as farmer and later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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":[15,4408,4062,4419],"tags":[3732,437,3730,3733,650],"class_list":{"0":"post-11484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-benton","7":"category-surname-d","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bachus","11":"tag-cooper","12":"tag-dowdy","13":"tag-upton","14":"tag-vaughn","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13256,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11484\/revisions\/13256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}