{"id":1629,"date":"2012-10-29T23:28:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T04:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:35:22","slug":"gregory-thomas-j-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/gregory-thomas-j-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GREGORY, Thomas J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Cookeville<\/p>\n<p><strong>GREGORY, Thomas J.<\/strong>, manufacturer, born Jackson Co, Tenn., Jan. 5, 1851; Scotch descent; son of <strong>William T. and Sabrina (McDuffie) GREGORY<\/strong>; fathers\u2019 <em>\/sic\/<\/em> occupation, merchant; educated in the Public Schools of Tenn.; in early life he was a merchant; married twice, first <strong>Leatha A. WRIGHT<\/strong>, second, <strong>Lizzie E. BROWN<\/strong>; Democrat; in 1874 he was elected County Court Clerk, and held that office consecutively for sixteen years; 1890 was elected to the State Legislature representing Macon and Clay Counties, then moved to Cookeville, Tenn., where he now resides; former Postmaster; served two terms as Alderman of Cookeville, Tenn.; now engaged in mercantile business, and the manufacture of handles; member of Church of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Cookeville GREGORY, Thomas J., manufacturer, born Jackson Co, Tenn., Jan. 5, 1851; Scotch descent; son of William T. and Sabrina (McDuffie) GREGORY; fathers\u2019 \/sic\/ occupation, merchant; educated in the Public Schools of Tenn.; in early life he was a merchant; married twice, first Leatha A. WRIGHT, second, Lizzie E. BROWN; Democrat; in 1874 he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[26,804,808,110,4411,4419],"tags":[208,764,1217,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-1629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-clay","7":"category-jackson","8":"category-macon","9":"category-putnam","10":"category-surname-g","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-brown","13":"tag-gregory","14":"tag-mcduffie","15":"tag-wright","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15173,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/15173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}