{"id":2040,"date":"2012-09-09T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T22:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:59:04","slug":"towler-william-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/towler-william-j\/","title":{"rendered":"TOWLER, William J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Town: Columbia<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOWLER, William J.<\/strong>, attorney at law; born Columbia, Tenn., November 13, 1874; son of <strong>Joseph and Minnie (Galloway) TOWLER<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>J. M. and Catherine (Voorheis) TOWLER<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>William and Amanda (Johnson) GALLOWAY<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, druggist; educated Washington and Lee University and Cumberland University; graduated LL.B. degree Cumberland University June 5, 1897; married <strong>Lena McKENNON<\/strong>, November 25, 1905; member Elks, K. of P., M. W. A.; City Attorney of Columbia, Tenn., from 1899 to 1903; Chairman of Democratic Committee 1900-1902; early business career insurance business; member Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town: Columbia TOWLER, William J., attorney at law; born Columbia, Tenn., November 13, 1874; son of Joseph and Minnie (Galloway) TOWLER; paternal grandparents J. M. and Catherine (Voorheis) TOWLER, maternal grandparents William and Amanda (Johnson) GALLOWAY; father\u2019s occupation, druggist; educated Washington and Lee University and Cumberland University; graduated LL.B. degree Cumberland University June 5, 1897; [&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":[31,180,4412,4419],"tags":[1027,4360,1029,1026,1028],"class_list":{"0":"post-2040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-maury","8":"category-surname-t","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-galloway","11":"tag-johnson","12":"tag-mckennon","13":"tag-towler","14":"tag-voorheis","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","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=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15248,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/15248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}