{"id":1637,"date":"2012-10-29T23:26:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T04:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:47:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:47:52","slug":"moscrip-robert-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/moscrip-robert-john\/","title":{"rendered":"MOSCRIP, Robert John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Cookeville<\/p>\n<p><strong>MOSCRIP, Robert John<\/strong>, civil engineer; born Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 4, 1844; Scotch descent; son of <strong>Robert and Eliza (Fairfield) MOSCRIP<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, merchant; paternal grandfather, <strong>Robert MOSCRIP<\/strong>; paternal grandmother, <strong>Agnes (Jeffries) MOSCRIP<\/strong>; maternal grandfather, <strong>William FAIRFIELD<\/strong>; maternal grandmother was a <strong>Miss HAM<\/strong> prior to her marriage; educated in Ontario private schools; graduated private school Bellevue, Neb.; married <strong>Emma SLEIGHTEM<\/strong> Feb., 1874; began business career as civil engineer with Union Pacific 1865-1871, with Canadian Southern 1871-2, division engineer Texas Pacific 1873-4, division engineer U. P. &amp; O. S. L. 1875-1881; as local engineer built Utah Northern, Franklin, Idaho to Butte, Montana, 1882-5; division engineer Missouri Pacific 1887-1901, chief engineer Nashville &amp; Knoxville Railroad 1901-5, civil engineer in charge of the opening up of coal mines on Cumberland mountain for the Crawford Coal and Iron Co. and Fentress Coal &amp; Coke Co.; Republican; member of Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Cookeville MOSCRIP, Robert John, civil engineer; born Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 4, 1844; Scotch descent; son of Robert and Eliza (Fairfield) MOSCRIP; father\u2019s occupation, merchant; paternal grandfather, Robert MOSCRIP; paternal grandmother, Agnes (Jeffries) MOSCRIP; maternal grandfather, William FAIRFIELD; maternal grandmother was a Miss HAM prior to her marriage; educated in Ontario private schools; graduated [&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":[110,82,4419],"tags":[1369,1370,943,1368,1371],"class_list":{"0":"post-1637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-putnam","7":"category-surname-m","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-fairfield","10":"tag-ham","11":"tag-jeffries","12":"tag-moscrip","13":"tag-sleightem","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","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=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15697,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/15697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}