{"id":229,"date":"2012-04-14T02:15:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=229"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:47:51","slug":"bolton-david-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/bolton-david-alexander\/","title":{"rendered":"BOLTON, David Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athens &#8212; <strong>BOLTON, David Alexander,<\/strong> Professor of Mathematics in the University of Chattanooga, in the Athens school; born Washington Co., Tenn., near Washington College, Jan. 1, 1847; German, Scotch, Irish descent; son of <strong>Joseph and Saraphina (Willett) BOLTON;<\/strong> his father was a farmer; paternal grandfather <strong>David BOLTON<\/strong>, paternal grandmother <strong>Mary (Byerley) BOLTON<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Joseph WILLETT<\/strong>, maternal grandmother <strong>Susan (Stout) WILLETT<\/strong>; educated Laurel Hill Academy, Washington Co., Tenn., and East Tennessee Wesleyan University, Athens, Tenn.; graduated East Tennessee Wesleyan University with degree of A.B. June 19, 1872, the degree of A.M. was later conferred; began life on the farm in Washington Co., Tenn.; in Oct. 1862, went to Indiana, and enlisted in the Federal army in 1864; participated in the Battle of Nashville; was private in the Twenty-Fifth Indiana Battery or Light Artillery, U.S.A. \u00a0July 1864-5; \u00a0member of the Methodist church; married <strong>Ann Elizabeth HORNSBY<\/strong> June 19, 1872; has been Professor of Mathematics in University of Chattanooga for 38 years &#8211; the university was first known as East Tennessee Wesleyan, then Grant University, and the University of Chattanooga, the present name, with department; The Athens School, of Athens, Tenn.; served from 1889-92 in Chattanooga, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens &#8212; BOLTON, David Alexander, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Chattanooga, in the Athens school; born Washington Co., Tenn., near Washington College, Jan. 1, 1847; German, Scotch, Irish descent; son of Joseph and Saraphina (Willett) BOLTON; his father was a farmer; paternal grandfather David BOLTON, paternal grandmother Mary (Byerley) BOLTON, maternal grandfather Joseph [&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":[218,212,217,211,4405,228,216,4419],"tags":[219,221,223,222,220],"class_list":{"0":"post-229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-east-tennessee-wesleyan-university","7":"category-grant-university","8":"category-laurel-hill-academy","9":"category-mcminn","10":"category-surname-b","11":"category-university-of-chattanooga","12":"category-washington","13":"category-x_featured-image-no","14":"tag-bolton","15":"tag-byerley","16":"tag-hornsby","17":"tag-stout","18":"tag-willett","19":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","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=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14705,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/14705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}