{"id":12607,"date":"2014-06-24T22:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T03:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12607"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:03:20","slug":"clark-rufus-anthony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/clark-rufus-anthony\/","title":{"rendered":"CLARK, Rufus Anthony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Winchester<\/p>\n<p><b>CLARK, Rufus Anthony<\/b>, teacher; born Coffee County, Tenn., November 20, 1846; son of <b>James A. and Amelia (Wilkinson) CLARK<\/b>; Scotch-Irish descent; father\u2019s occupation, farming; educated Beech Grove, Tenn.; married <b>Ellen HENDERSON<\/b>, June 26, 1879; worked on farm until twenty years of age; taught school five months at Wartrace, Tenn.; two years at Alto, Tenn.; began at Carrick Academy at Winchester, January 1, 1872, with eight pupils; changed Carrick Academy to Winchester Normal College 1878; continued the Winchester Normal College until 1909, resigning the Presidency June 1, 1909, after forty years\u2019 continued teaching; highest enrollment of pupils, 457; member Baptist Church; present occupation, farming.<\/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: Winchester CLARK, Rufus Anthony, teacher; born Coffee County, Tenn., November 20, 1846; son of James A. and Amelia (Wilkinson) CLARK; Scotch-Irish descent; father\u2019s occupation, farming; educated Beech Grove, Tenn.; married Ellen HENDERSON, June 26, 1879; worked on farm until twenty years of age; taught school five months at Wartrace, Tenn.; two years at Alto, [&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":[14,28,161,4407,4062,132,4419],"tags":[202,4376,639],"class_list":{"0":"post-12607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bedford","7":"category-coffee","8":"category-franklin","9":"category-surname-c","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-winchester-normal-school","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-clark","14":"tag-henderson","15":"tag-wilkinson","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607","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=12607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13996,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607\/revisions\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}