City: Spencer<\/p>\n
HASTON, Ernest N.<\/strong>, Lawyer and public official; born Cummingsville, Tenn., March 26, 1877; Irish descent; son of George W. and Sarah (Shockley) HASTON<\/strong>; father farmer and stockman; paternal grandparents Isaac and Elizabeth (Sparkman) HASTON<\/strong>; maternal grandparents Phillip and Elizabeth (Rhodes) SHOCKLEY<\/strong>; graduated from Burritt College, B. A., May 22, 1899; was a farmer boy and school teacher in early life; admitted to bar at Spencer, Tenn., July 1902 and has been engaged in practice of his profession since; married Vollie Kathleen SPARKMAN<\/strong>, July 20, 1904; member W. O. W., M. W. A., and a Master Mason; former superintendent of public instruction for Van Buren C., Tenn., two terms; elected in August election 1906 as clerk of the County Court of Van Buren Co., Tenn., to serve four years, elected second term Aug. 1910; delegate from Third Congressional district of Tenn. To the last National Democratic convention at Denver, Col,; member of Church of Christ; chairman of the executive Committee of Van Buren Bank in which he is a director and stockholder; editor Spencer Times.<\/p>\n Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Spencer HASTON, Ernest N., Lawyer and public official; born Cummingsville, Tenn., March 26, 1877; Irish descent; son of George W. and Sarah (Shockley) HASTON; father farmer and stockman; paternal grandparents Isaac and Elizabeth (Sparkman) HASTON; maternal grandparents Phillip and Elizabeth (Rhodes) SHOCKLEY; graduated from Burritt College, B. A., May 22, 1899; was a farmer […]<\/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":[136,77,816,4062,4419],"tags":[3791,1547,3792,186],"class_list":{"0":"post-11781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-burritt-college","7":"category-surname-h","8":"category-van-buren","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-haston","12":"tag-rhodes","13":"tag-shockley","14":"tag-sparkman","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","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=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12915,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions\/12915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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