{"id":14094,"date":"2023-06-11T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T23:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=14094"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:19:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:19:39","slug":"younkin-marcus-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/younkin-marcus-w\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUNKIN, Marcus W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Paris<\/p>\n<p><strong>YOUNKIN, Marcus W.<\/strong>, Superintendent Paris City Water and Light Plant; born Chariton, Iowa, Oct. 3, 1874; son of <strong>Charles and Nancy (NEWCOMER) YOUNKIN<\/strong>; German descent; father&#8217;s occupation, merchant; graduated Chariton institutes of learning; married <strong>Azelea ADAMS <\/strong>Dec. 24, 1895; for seven years past secretary of Board of Public Works of Paris; after leaving school was superintendent of lighting and water plant at the following places; Chariton, Eldora, Jefferson, Grundy Center, Iowa Falls and Grant Junction, Iowa; moved to Paris in 1903 at solicitation of city officials and was made Superintendent of Paris City Water and Light Plant; rebuilt Paris plant and water plants in other parts of country; member Board of Directors First Methodist church of Paris.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<i>\u00a0Who\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: Paris YOUNKIN, Marcus W., Superintendent Paris City Water and Light Plant; born Chariton, Iowa, Oct. 3, 1874; son of Charles and Nancy (NEWCOMER) YOUNKIN; German descent; father&#8217;s occupation, merchant; graduated Chariton institutes of learning; married Azelea ADAMS Dec. 24, 1895; for seven years past secretary of Board of Public Works of Paris; after leaving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15363,"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":[363,4416,4062,4418],"tags":[272,2146,4259],"class_list":{"0":"post-14094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-henry","8":"category-surname-y","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-yes","11":"tag-adams","12":"tag-newcomer","13":"tag-youkin","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15362,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions\/15362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}