{"id":11763,"date":"2013-11-24T23:39:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T05:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11763"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:46:32","slug":"meredith-dan-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/meredith-dan-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"MEREDITH, Dan Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Sparta<\/p>\n<p><strong>MEREDITH, Dan Martin<\/strong>, lawyer, born Sparta, Tenn., Oct. 19, 1872; Scotch Irish descent; son of <strong>W. H. and Fannie (Brown) MEREDITH<\/strong>; father carpenter; paternal grandfather <strong>Martin MEREDITH<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>Thomas and Margaret (Weaver) BROWN<\/strong>; graduated from University of Tenn., B. L. degree June 1895; won medal for oratory in 1894 and debate in 1895; began career as a teacher; admitted to bar in 1900; married <strong>Mamie OFFICER<\/strong> Dec. 14, 1898; member Masonic Lodge; mayor of Sparta, Tenn., 1908; member of Legislature 1899-1901; engaged in the practice of law and is a large property owner; member of Methodist 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: Sparta MEREDITH, Dan Martin, lawyer, born Sparta, Tenn., Oct. 19, 1872; Scotch Irish descent; son of W. H. and Fannie (Brown) MEREDITH; father carpenter; paternal grandfather Martin MEREDITH; maternal grandparents Thomas and Margaret (Weaver) BROWN; graduated from University of Tenn., B. L. degree June 1895; won medal for oratory in 1894 and debate in [&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":[82,418,134,4062,4419],"tags":[208,2395,2585,484],"class_list":{"0":"post-11763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-m","7":"category-university-of-tennessee","8":"category-white","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-brown","12":"tag-meredith","13":"tag-officer","14":"tag-weaver","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763","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=11763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12907,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11763\/revisions\/12907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}