{"id":2778,"date":"2012-11-01T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:42:38","slug":"lewis-sidney-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/lewis-sidney-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"LEWIS, Sidney Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dover<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEWIS, Sidney Clinton,\u00a0 <\/strong>lawyer; born Stewart Co., Tenn., Aug. 16, 1868; Welsh-Irish descent; son of <strong>Isaac Newton <\/strong>and <strong>Mary (Settle) LEWIS <\/strong>and<strong> Rachel (Atkins) LEWIS, <\/strong>maternal grandparents, <strong>Pendleton<\/strong> and <strong>Mary (Hooks) SETTLE<\/strong>; educated local schools of Stewart Co., Tenn.; began life as a country school teacher and farmer; studied law and admitted to the bar in 1886; appointed Clerk and Master of Stewart Co., Tenn., Sept. 1886, which office was held 14 years; formerly was a member of the firm of Lewis and Brandon, lawyers, for 15 years; President of Dover Bank &amp; Trust Co.; married <strong>Minnie MEADOWS<\/strong> Oct. 3, 1900; member M. E. Church, South; F. O. A. M., K. P.; Democrat; member of State Executive Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Dover LEWIS, Sidney Clinton,\u00a0 lawyer; born Stewart Co., Tenn., Aug. 16, 1868; Welsh-Irish descent; son of Isaac Newton and Mary (Settle) LEWIS and Rachel (Atkins) LEWIS, maternal grandparents, Pendleton and Mary (Hooks) SETTLE; educated local schools of Stewart Co., Tenn.; began life as a country school teacher and farmer; studied law and admitted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,81,4419],"tags":[1428,285,4394,1429,1427],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-stewart","category-surname-l","category-x_featured-image-no","tag-atkins","tag-hooks","tag-lewis","tag-meadows","tag-settle","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9600,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/9600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}