{"id":1597,"date":"2012-09-23T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T19:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:39:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:39:53","slug":"jackson-john-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/jackson-john-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"JACKSON, John Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Columbia<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JACKSON, John Washington<\/strong>, Postmaster; born at Lewisburg, Tenn., June 10, 1862; Irish-German descent; son of <strong>W. A. <\/strong>and <strong>Margaret (Phifer) JACKSON<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, merchant; paternal grandparents <strong>J. J. <\/strong>and<strong> Mattie (Evans) JACKSON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Jona<\/strong> and <strong>Jennie (McGregor) PHIFER<\/strong>; \u00a0educated Lassea Academy and finished the High School Course in 1887; in early life was a carpenter; married <strong>Ida HAYES<\/strong>, May 15, 1887; member B. P. O. F., No. 686; Republican; delegate to Republican National convention at Philadelphia, Pa., and served several years as State Committeeman of Republican State Committee; was Sergeant at Arms during the famous Brownlow-Evans fight at state convention at Capitol; raised money to build Tenn. Orphan Home; former Assistant Postmaster, now Postmaster at Columbia, Tenn.; member Christian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Columbia JACKSON, John Washington, Postmaster; born at Lewisburg, Tenn., June 10, 1862; Irish-German descent; son of W. A. and Margaret (Phifer) JACKSON; father\u2019s occupation, merchant; paternal grandparents J. J. and Mattie (Evans) JACKSON, maternal grandparents Jona and Jennie (McGregor) PHIFER; \u00a0educated Lassea Academy and finished the High School Course in 1887; in early life [&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":[1479,613,180,79,4419],"tags":[655,274,4391,1481,1480],"class_list":{"0":"post-1597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lassea-academy","7":"category-marshall","8":"category-maury","9":"category-surname-j","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-evans","12":"tag-hayes","13":"tag-jackson","14":"tag-mcgregor","15":"tag-phifer","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15486,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/15486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}