{"id":12132,"date":"2013-12-05T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T03:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12132"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:28:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:28:31","slug":"dunn-samuel-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/dunn-samuel-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"DUNN, Samuel Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Townsend<\/p>\n<p><b>DUNN, Samuel Houston<\/b>, lawyer; born Tuckaluchee Cove, Dec. 17, 1876; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <b>William H. and Dorothy C. (Snider) DUNN<\/b>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents <b>Greene and Rachel (Henry) DUNN<\/b>, maternal grandparents <b>George and Susannah (Handley) SNIDER<\/b>; educated at Porter Academy; began career as a teacher; admitted to bar in 1902; was a candidate for representative of Blount Co., Tenn., in 1910 on Democratic ticket, the county having a Republican majority of 1500, he made a gain of 900 votes and was defeated by 600; interested in mercantile business, real estate and lumbering; married <b>Mary Alice BIRD<\/b>, June 7, 1905; member I. O. O. F.; member of M. E. Church, South.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Townsend DUNN, Samuel Houston, lawyer; born Tuckaluchee Cove, Dec. 17, 1876; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William H. and Dorothy C. (Snider) DUNN; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents Greene and Rachel (Henry) DUNN, maternal grandparents George and Susannah (Handley) SNIDER; educated at Porter Academy; began career as a teacher; admitted to bar in 1902; was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[17,2954,4408,4062,4419],"tags":[976,2313,3930,4372,3025],"class_list":{"0":"post-12132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blount","7":"category-porter-academy","8":"category-surname-d","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-bird","12":"tag-dunn","13":"tag-handley","14":"tag-henry","15":"tag-snider","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132","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=12132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12841,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12132\/revisions\/12841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}