{"id":12761,"date":"2014-06-29T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T14:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12761"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:55:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:55:57","slug":"smith-john-robert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/smith-john-robert\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, John Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITY: Watertown<\/p>\n<p><b>SMITH, John Robert<\/b>, lawyer; born Statesville, Tenn., May 24, 1861; Irish and Dutch descent; son of <b>R. T. <\/b>and<b> Amanda (Doss) SMITH<\/b>; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, <b>John Y. <\/b>and<b> Leona (Shanks) SMITH<\/b>, maternal grandparents, <b>John P.<\/b> and <b>Lucretia (Threat) DOSS<\/b>; graduated from Cumberland University, June 1889; was a farmer in early life, and has been engaged in the practice of law nineteen years; local attorney for Tenn. Central R. R. Co., vice-president Bank of Watertown, and director in Lebanon and Sparta Turnpike Co,; married <b>Sue LOUIS<\/b>, Dec. 29, 1892; Democrat; member of State Legislature 1891-92; member of Missionary Baptist church.<\/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: Watertown SMITH, John Robert, lawyer; born Statesville, Tenn., May 24, 1861; Irish and Dutch descent; son of R. T. and Amanda (Doss) SMITH; father\u2019s occupation, farmer; paternal grandparents, John Y. and Leona (Shanks) SMITH, maternal grandparents, John P. and Lucretia (Threat) DOSS; graduated from Cumberland University, June 1889; was a farmer in early life, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[31,4062,102,4419],"tags":[1388,3540,3404,4356,4227],"class_list":{"0":"post-12761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-whoswho","8":"category-wilson","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-doss","11":"tag-louis","12":"tag-shanks","13":"tag-smith","14":"tag-threat","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761","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=12761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14037,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12761\/revisions\/14037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}