City:\u00a0 Dyersburg<\/p>\n
ATKINS, James Wiley,<\/strong> county official; born Dyer Co., Tenn., Feb. 22, 1873; English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of James A.<\/strong> and Lavenia Ruth (Tipton) ATKINS<\/strong>; paternal grandparents, James M.<\/strong> and Emiline (Ballard) ATKINS<\/strong>; maternal grandparents Wiley B.<\/strong> and Ruth B. (Allen) TIPTON<\/strong>; educated local schools Dyersburg, Tenn., graduated from high school June 1890; began life as a bookkeeper, later became Deputy Clerk of the County Court and was afterward appointed Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court of Dyer Co., Tenn., which position he now fills; member Cumberland Presbyterian church, B. P. O. E., being Past Exalted Ruler, member of Forked Deer Club; Democrat; many times Secretary of the Co. Committee; former chairman of Senatorial Committee, also Chairman of Congressional Committee; was member of the National Guard of the State of Tenn., for three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Dyersburg ATKINS, James Wiley, county official; born Dyer Co., Tenn., Feb. 22, 1873; English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of James A. and Lavenia Ruth (Tipton) ATKINS; paternal grandparents, James M. and Emiline (Ballard) ATKINS; maternal grandparents Wiley B. and Ruth B. (Allen) TIPTON; educated local schools Dyersburg, Tenn., graduated from high school June 1890; […]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[649,4406,4419],"tags":[160,1428,1992,701],"class_list":{"0":"post-2964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dyer","7":"category-surname-a","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-allen","10":"tag-atkins","11":"tag-ballard","12":"tag-tipton-2","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","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=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14825,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/14825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}