{"id":182,"date":"2012-02-12T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=182"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:36:26","slug":"harper-samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/harper-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"HARPER, Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ashland City &#8212;\u00a0<strong>HARPER, Sam&#8217;l<\/strong>., County Court Clerk; born Cheatham Co., Tenn., June 29, 1865; son <strong>C. A. and Louisa (McCormack) HARPER<\/strong>; paternal grandfather <strong>John H. HARPER<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Elizabeth H. (Williams) HARPER<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Joseph MCCORMACK<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Susan (Darr) MCCORMACK;<\/strong> Irish, German, English, and Welsh descent; educated common schools of Cheatham Co.; married <strong>Mary J. SADLER<\/strong> Nov. 12, 1885; member of Masonic Lodge No. 604, I. O. O. F. 301, K. of P. 220; elected sheriff of Cheatham Co. Aug., 1902; appointed Fire Marshal May, 1908; elected County Court Clerk Aug., 1910; active in breaking up night riding in Cheatham, Robertson and Montgomery counties while Fire Marshal; during term as sheriff arrested 108 men at one time; probably the largest arrest ever made by one sheriff in the State; Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashland City &#8212;\u00a0HARPER, Sam&#8217;l., County Court Clerk; born Cheatham Co., Tenn., June 29, 1865; son C. A. and Louisa (McCormack) HARPER; paternal grandfather John H. HARPER, paternal grandmother Elizabeth H. (Williams) HARPER, maternal grandfather Joseph MCCORMACK, maternal grandmother Susan (Darr) MCCORMACK; Irish, German, English, and Welsh descent; educated common schools of Cheatham Co.; married Mary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[23,77,4419],"tags":[171,169,170,172,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cheatham","7":"category-surname-h","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-darr","10":"tag-harper","11":"tag-mccormack","12":"tag-sadler","13":"tag-williams","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15398,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/15398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}