{"id":12763,"date":"2014-06-29T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T14:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:56","slug":"young-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/young-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUNG, Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITY: Watertown<\/p>\n<p><b>YOUNG, Alexander<\/b>, real estate dealer and trader; born Watertown, Tenn., Feb 22, 1844; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <b>Dake <\/b>and<b> Sarah Reader (Young) YOUNG<\/b>; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents, <b>David <\/b>and<b> Lydia (Leader) YOUNG<\/b>, maternal grandparents, <b>James <\/b>and<b> Elizabeth (Phillips) YOUNG<\/b>; educated at Farmers\u2019 Academy, Round Lick, Tenn.; served four years in Confederate army, was sergeant one year and Capt. until close of war, wounded three times but kept up with his command all of the time; began career as a farmer and stock dealer; at present he is director in Bank of Watertown, Tennessee, director in Tenn. Life Ins. Co., vice-president of the Mid-Continent Life Ins. Co., Oklahoma; married Jan. 3 1866; Democrat; 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 YOUNG, Alexander, real estate dealer and trader; born Watertown, Tenn., Feb 22, 1844; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Dake and Sarah Reader (Young) YOUNG; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents, David and Lydia (Leader) YOUNG, maternal grandparents, James and Elizabeth (Phillips) YOUNG; educated at Farmers\u2019 Academy, Round Lick, Tenn.; served four years in Confederate army, [&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":[4416,4062,102,4419],"tags":[4228,851,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-12763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-y","7":"category-whoswho","8":"category-wilson","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-leader","11":"tag-phillips","12":"tag-young","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763","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=12763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14040,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions\/14040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}