{"id":11493,"date":"2013-11-25T07:59:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:55","slug":"powell-james-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/powell-james-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"POWELL, James Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Big Spring<\/p>\n<p><strong>POWELL, James Arthur,<\/strong> farmer; born Meigs Co., Tenn., Dec. 23, 1870; Scotch-Irish and Dutch descent; son of <strong>Robert C. and Mary (Cowan) POWELL<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation merchant and farmer; paternal grandfather <strong>Scott POWELL<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Mary (Womack) POWELL<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Joseph COWAN<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Susan (Chattin) COWAN<\/strong>; educated Hiwassee College, in Monroe Co.; early business occupation merchant; married <strong>Olivia MARTIN<\/strong> Nov. 24 1894; Democrat; is Chairman of the County Board of Education of Meigs Co.; is engaged in farming and stock trading; member of Baptist church.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Big Spring POWELL, James Arthur, farmer; born Meigs Co., Tenn., Dec. 23, 1870; Scotch-Irish and Dutch descent; son of Robert C. and Mary (Cowan) POWELL; father&#8217;s occupation merchant and farmer; paternal grandfather Scott POWELL, paternal grandmother Mary (Womack) POWELL, maternal grandfather Joseph COWAN, maternal grandmother Susan (Chattin) COWAN; educated Hiwassee College, in Monroe Co.; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[753,663,85,4062,102,4419],"tags":[3736,696,513,353,429],"class_list":{"0":"post-11493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiwassee-college","7":"category-sullivan","8":"category-surname-p","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-wilson","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-chattin","13":"tag-cowan","14":"tag-martin","15":"tag-powell","16":"tag-womack","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493","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=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12892,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions\/12892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}