{"id":1271,"date":"2012-09-02T09:58:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T14:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:40:35","slug":"keesee-john-wm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/keesee-john-wm\/","title":{"rendered":"KEESEE, John Wm."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Clarksville<\/p>\n<p><strong>KEESEE, John Wm.<\/strong>,. merchant; born Montgomery Co., Tenn., Dec. 27, 1853; French descent; son of <strong>George Samuel and Mary (Bourne) KEESEE<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandfather <strong>John KEESEE<\/strong>, paternal grandmother was a <strong>Miss CHAPMAN<\/strong> prior to her marriage; maternal grandfather <strong>William BOURNE<\/strong>; maternal grandmother was a <strong>Miss CARR<\/strong> prior to her marriage; educated in the local schools of Montgomery Co., Tenn., and Southwestern Presbyterian University; in early life was a clerk in Lafayette Flouring Mills, Clarksville, Tenn.; married <strong>Eva Gertrude SIMPSON<\/strong> of Eufaula, Ala., Oct. 2, 1877; member K. of P., Royal Arcanum; became interested in Leaf Tobacco business in 1872; and in 1873-4; did a commission Tobacco business under firm name of Keesee &amp; Northington; etnered <em>[sic]<\/em> the grocery business in April 1875 in which business he is now engaged; firm is known as Keesee &amp; Brandon; member of M. E. church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Clarksville KEESEE, John Wm.,. merchant; born Montgomery Co., Tenn., Dec. 27, 1853; French descent; son of George Samuel and Mary (Bourne) KEESEE; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandfather John KEESEE, paternal grandmother was a Miss CHAPMAN prior to her marriage; maternal grandfather William BOURNE; maternal grandmother was a Miss CARR prior to her marriage; educated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600,717,80,4419],"tags":[925,927,926,924,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-1271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-montgomery","7":"category-southwestern-presbyterian-university","8":"category-surname-k","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bourne","11":"tag-carr","12":"tag-chapman","13":"tag-keesee","14":"tag-simpson","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","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=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15523,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/15523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}