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ROBERTS, William Alexander<\/strong>, lawyer; born Erwin, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1874; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James C. and Sallie (Love) ROBERTS<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, wagon maker and Justice of the Peace; paternal grandparents Daniel and Mary B. (Hayes) ROBERTS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents William and Nancy A. (Hartsell) LOVE<\/strong>; educated public schools and Milligan College, Milligan, Tenn., and Carson & Newman College, Jefferson City, Tenn.; in early life was a farmer and clerk, and later entered the mercantile business and remained in same until he entered the legal profession; Republican; Trustee of Unicoi Co. four years; Deputy Circuit Clerk of Unicoi Co. two and a half years; married Lizzie E. WOODWARD<\/strong> July 11, 1896; member A. F. & A. M. No. 491, Erwin Chapter No. 161, I. O. O. F. No. 199, Encampment O. E. S. No. 37 and M. W. of A.; member of Baptist church; president of Unicoi Telephone Co., and director in Bank of Erwin; interested in Real Estate and Insurance, in addition to the practice of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Erwin ROBERTS, William Alexander, lawyer; born Erwin, Tenn., Dec. 14, 1874; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James C. and Sallie (Love) ROBERTS; father\u2019s occupation, wagon maker and Justice of the Peace; paternal grandparents Daniel and Mary B. (Hayes) ROBERTS, maternal grandparents William and Nancy A. (Hartsell) LOVE; educated public schools and Milligan College, Milligan, Tenn., […]<\/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":[337,664,87,814,4419],"tags":[1304,274,1303,241,735],"class_list":{"0":"post-2540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carson-newman-college","7":"category-milligan-college","8":"category-surname-r","9":"category-unicoi","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-hartsell","12":"tag-hayes","13":"tag-love","14":"tag-roberts","15":"tag-woodward","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15852,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/15852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}