{"id":11747,"date":"2013-11-24T23:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T05:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11747"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:50:04","slug":"patton-robert-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/patton-robert-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"PATTON, Robert Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITY: South Pittsburg<\/p>\n<p><strong>PATTON, Robert Alexander,<\/strong> promoter and capitalist; born Sweederie Cove, Marion Co., Tenn., April 10, 1848; Irish and Scotch descent; son of <strong>Robert and Elizabeth (Raulston) PATTON<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farming, teaching school and public official of Marion Co., Tenn., educated in the public schools of Marion Co., Tenn.; was the pioneer settler of South Pittsburg, Tenn., and began life without means, entered farming, and later became railroad contractor; he is now a promoter of coal mines and owns vast mineral lands, and real estate; married <strong>Pommie C. WHITE,<\/strong> March 25, 1869; member of Masonic Lodge, K. of P., and the Heptosophs; Republican; former postmaster at South Pittsburg, Tenn., March 1898 to July 1, 1906; member of Primitive 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: South Pittsburg PATTON, Robert Alexander, promoter and capitalist; born Sweederie Cove, Marion Co., Tenn., April 10, 1848; Irish and Scotch descent; son of Robert and Elizabeth (Raulston) PATTON; father\u2019s occupation farming, teaching school and public official of Marion Co., Tenn., educated in the public schools of Marion Co., Tenn.; was the pioneer settler of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[674,85,4062,4419],"tags":[11,2119,4347],"class_list":{"0":"post-11747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marion","7":"category-surname-p","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-patton","11":"tag-raulston","12":"tag-white","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12897,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11747\/revisions\/12897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}