{"id":1575,"date":"2012-09-17T22:01:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T03:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:28:54","slug":"edgerton-john-emmett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/edgerton-john-emmett\/","title":{"rendered":"EDGERTON, John Emmett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Columbia<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDGERTON, John Emmett<\/strong>, educator; born near Kenly, N. C., Oct. 2, 1879; English descent; son of \u00a0<strong>Gabriel<\/strong> and <strong>Harriet (Copeland) EDGERTON<\/strong>; educated public schools of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., graduating from latter B.A., 1902, and M. A., 1903; married <strong>Harriet Figuers\u00a0<\/strong> Dec. 15, 1909; member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity and is a Master Mason; Democrat (Independent); is Honarary Colonel by enactment of Tennessee Legislature, making Columbia Military Academy a post of the national guards; was Captain of the Vanderbilt football team 1901; was also president of Literary Society, editor of the College Annual, president Y. M. C. A. and B. U. at Vanderbilt 1902; formerlytaught school at Lebanon and Memphis; is co-principal of Columbia, Tenn., Military Academy; member of Methodist Episcopal church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Columbia EDGERTON, John Emmett, educator; born near Kenly, N. C., Oct. 2, 1879; English descent; son of \u00a0Gabriel and Harriet (Copeland) EDGERTON; educated public schools of North Carolina and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., graduating from latter B.A., 1902, and M. A., 1903; married Harriet Figuers\u00a0 Dec. 15, 1909; member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[180,4409,7,4419],"tags":[795,1273,1274],"class_list":{"0":"post-1575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-maury","7":"category-surname-e","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-copeland","11":"tag-edgerton","12":"tag-figuers","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15028,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/15028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}