{"id":12108,"date":"2014-06-17T00:37:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12108"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:26:14","slug":"donaldson-laughlan-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/donaldson-laughlan-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"DONALDSON, Laughlan, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Tiptonville<\/p>\n<p><b>DONALDSON, Laughlan, Sr.<\/b>, lawyer and banker (retired); born Hickman, Fulton Co., Ky., Jan. 4, 1844; Scotch-Welsh descent; son of <b>Willington and Elizabeth (Merriwether) DONALDSON<\/b>; father, farmer; paternal grandparents <b>Lauchlan and Sophia (Gilbert) DONALDSON<\/b>, maternal grandparents <b>Richard T. and Elizabeth (Rivers) MERRIWETHER<\/b>; educated in private schools of Obion Co., Tenn., and attended Wesleyan University of Florence, Ala., April, 1862; enlisted as private in Co. A, 12<sup>th<\/sup> Ky. Cavalry, C. S. A., later promoted to Lieut. Co. K, 12<sup>th<\/sup> Ky. Cavalry, Lyon\u2019s Brigade, and Buford\u2019s division of Forrest Cavalry three years; fought in three day\u2019s battle at Okolona and West Point, Miss., and battle at Paducah, Ky., Brice\u2019s X Roads, Miss., wounded at latter; also fought at Athens, Ala., Sulphur Trestle, Ala., Pulaski, Tenn., and others; captured at Verona, Miss., 1864, and imprisoned at Johnson\u2019s Island to end of war; married <b>Mary NALL<\/b>, Dec. 23, 1873; Democrat (regular); former Mayor of Tiptonville four years immediately after organization of that town, and was one of the commissioners appointed to organized <i>\/sic\/<\/i> Lake Co., Tenn., 1870, also to fix boundary between Lake and Obion counties 1899; Justice of the Peace of Lake Co., Tenn.; vice-president Farmers\u2019 &amp; Merchants\u2019 Bank, Tiptonville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Tiptonville DONALDSON, Laughlan, Sr., lawyer and banker (retired); born Hickman, Fulton Co., Ky., Jan. 4, 1844; Scotch-Welsh descent; son of Willington and Elizabeth (Merriwether) DONALDSON; father, farmer; paternal grandparents Lauchlan and Sophia (Gilbert) DONALDSON, maternal grandparents Richard T. and Elizabeth (Rivers) MERRIWETHER; educated in private schools of Obion Co., Tenn., and attended Wesleyan University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[806,809,4408,4062,4419],"tags":[533,53,3913,3914,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-12108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lake","7":"category-obion","8":"category-surname-d","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-donaldson","12":"tag-gilbert","13":"tag-merriwether","14":"tag-nall","15":"tag-rivers","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13898,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12108\/revisions\/13898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}