{"id":1639,"date":"2012-10-29T23:26:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T04:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:51:05","slug":"proffitt-robert-edward-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/proffitt-robert-edward-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"PROFFITT, Robert Edward Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Cookeville<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFFITT, Robert Edward Lee<\/strong>, farmer, teacher and merchant; born Putnam Co., Tenn., June 4, 1864; Dutch and Irish descent; son of <strong>James and Lucinda (Slagle) PROFFITT<\/strong>; received common school education; was left an orphan at an early age, and thrown upon own resource at age of 10; labored on a farm to pay for his education; began teaching in 1886; taught seven years; entered the mercantile business in 1893 and continued in same until 1902; married <strong>Anna GOODWIN<\/strong> Sept. 30, 1894; member M. W. of A.; elected Circuit Court Clerk, Putnam, Co., in 1902; defeated in 1906; again elected in 1910; former Postmaster at Goffton, Tenn., 1896-1900; Democrat; member of the Christian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Cookeville PROFFITT, Robert Edward Lee, farmer, teacher and merchant; born Putnam Co., Tenn., June 4, 1864; Dutch and Irish descent; son of James and Lucinda (Slagle) PROFFITT; received common school education; was left an orphan at an early age, and thrown upon own resource at age of 10; labored on a farm to pay [&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":[110,85,4419],"tags":[1367,1365,1366],"class_list":{"0":"post-1639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-putnam","7":"category-surname-p","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-goodwin","10":"tag-proffitt","11":"tag-slagle","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","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=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15821,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/15821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}