{"id":2027,"date":"2012-09-10T17:52:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T22:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:53:21","slug":"shields-will-mitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/shields-will-mitt\/","title":{"rendered":"SHIELDS, Will Mitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Town: Columbia<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHIELDS, Will Mitt<\/strong>, cashier freight office of L. &amp; N. R. R. Co.; born at Lynnville, Tenn., May 8, 1859; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>James Montgomery and Eliza Frances (Moore) SHIELDS<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer, merchant and justice of the peace; paternal grandparents <strong>Leander M. and Elizabeth (King) SHIELDS<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>John and Elizabeth (Hill) MOORE<\/strong>; educated at Lynville, (Tenn.) Academy; began his business career as Railroad Clerk, later became Cashier L. &amp; N., R. R.; Democrat; member of the Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town: Columbia SHIELDS, Will Mitt, cashier freight office of L. &amp; N. R. R. Co.; born at Lynnville, Tenn., May 8, 1859; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James Montgomery and Eliza Frances (Moore) SHIELDS; father\u2019s occupation farmer, merchant and justice of the peace; paternal grandparents Leander M. and Elizabeth (King) SHIELDS; maternal grandparents John and Elizabeth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[205,180,88,4419],"tags":[4369,382,4344,1021],"class_list":{"0":"post-2027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giles","7":"category-maury","8":"category-surname-s","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-hill","11":"tag-king","12":"tag-moore","13":"tag-shields","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15915,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/15915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}