{"id":309,"date":"2012-06-25T02:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T07:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=309"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:57:38","slug":"templeton-william-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/templeton-william-w\/","title":{"rendered":"TEMPLETON, William W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Atoka &#8212; <strong>TEMPLETON, William W<\/strong>., banker; born Shelbyville, Tenn., Aug. 31, 1869; English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Benton B. and Martha E. \u00a0(Farris) TEMPLETON<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>O. and Elizabeth (Bell) TEMPLETON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>S.K. and Katie K. (Smith) FARISS<\/strong>; was reared on a farm in Bedford Co., Tenn.; educated Winchester Normal, Winchester, Tenn., and early in life began teaching, in which profession he remained for 16 years, viz.: Principal Scivally Academy (Tenn.) four years, Bethany High school, Bryson, Tenn., two years, Tabernacle High school, Covington, Tenn., four years, and president LaCenter College (Ky.) two years, then became vice-president of the Enterprise Co., Covington, Tenn., which position he held for two years; cashier of Planters&#8217; Bank, Atoka, Tenn., since 1907; married <strong>Callie GORE<\/strong> July 4, 1895; Odd Fellow; Democrat; member of the Methodist church.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atoka &#8212; TEMPLETON, William W., banker; born Shelbyville, Tenn., Aug. 31, 1869; English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of Benton B. and Martha E. \u00a0(Farris) TEMPLETON; paternal grandparents O. and Elizabeth (Bell) TEMPLETON, maternal grandparents S.K. and Katie K. (Smith) FARISS; was reared on a farm in Bedford Co., Tenn.; educated Winchester Normal, Winchester, Tenn., and [&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":[14,266,254,265,4412,267,260,132,4419],"tags":[146,269,270,4356,268],"class_list":{"0":"post-309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bedford","7":"category-bethany-high-school","8":"category-greene","9":"category-scivally-academy","10":"category-surname-t","11":"category-tabernacle-high-school","12":"category-tipton","13":"category-winchester-normal-school","14":"category-x_featured-image-no","15":"tag-adkins","16":"tag-bell","17":"tag-gore","18":"tag-smith","19":"tag-templeton","20":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15219,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/15219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}