{"id":2725,"date":"2012-10-30T23:32:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T04:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:24:52","slug":"cowan-william-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/cowan-william-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"COWAN, William Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Fayetteville<\/p>\n<p><strong>COWAN, William Guy<\/strong>, hardware merchant; born Shelbyville, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1872; son of <strong>Oliver and Sallie (Bryson) COWAN<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, hardware merchant, retired; educated at Dickson Academy, Shelbyville, Tenn.; married <strong>Myra MCGUIRE<\/strong> Nov. 20, 1901; member Knights of Pythias; Democrat; formerly served in State Militia for two years; quit school and worked in store at the age of fifteen; became a traveling salesman, hardware, in 1894; traveled for a Nashville firm until 1897; when he associated himself with Simmons Hardware Co., of St. Louis; in 1908 resigned from the employ of Simmons Hardware Co., to become president and take charge of the retail business of Cohen, Hobbs &amp; Sloan Co., Incorporated, Fayetteville, Tenn.; is director in 1<sup>st<\/sup> Nat. Bank, Fayetteville, Tenn.; is also director in Elks\u2019 Cotton Mill of Fayetteville, also interested in other local enterprises; Elder in Southern Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Fayetteville COWAN, William Guy, hardware merchant; born Shelbyville, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1872; son of Oliver and Sallie (Bryson) COWAN; father\u2019s occupation, hardware merchant, retired; educated at Dickson Academy, Shelbyville, Tenn.; married Myra MCGUIRE Nov. 20, 1901; member Knights of Pythias; Democrat; formerly served in State Militia for two years; quit school and worked in [&hellip;]<\/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":[14,162,329,4407,4419],"tags":[1393,696,1394],"class_list":{"0":"post-2725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bedford","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-lincoln","9":"category-surname-c","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-bryson","12":"tag-cowan","13":"tag-mcguire","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","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=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14923,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/14923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}