{"id":31,"date":"2011-10-17T01:07:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T06:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=31"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:34:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:34:44","slug":"giddens-robert-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/giddens-robert-m\/","title":{"rendered":"GIDDENS, Robert M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>GIDDENS, Robert M.<\/strong> &#8212; minister of the Gospel; born Trimble Co., Ky., Feb 23, 1845; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Abner J. and Mary A. (Bain) GIDDENS<\/strong>; educated at Bible College, Lexington, Ky., and graduated from same June, 1872; later took a post graduate course in languages and history in Ghent College, Ghent, Ky.; honorary degree of M.A. conferred upon him by Christian University, Canton, Mo., in 1888; in early life engaged in teaching and farming; is a member of Christian church (Disciples of Christ); was converted at the age of 20 and planned and organized the Tennessee Christian Missionary Society;\u00a0Prohibition\u00a0Democrat.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIDDENS, Robert M. &#8212; minister of the Gospel; born Trimble Co., Ky., Feb 23, 1845; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Abner J. and Mary A. (Bain) GIDDENS; educated at Bible College, Lexington, Ky., and graduated from same June, 1872; later took a post graduate course in languages and history in Ghent College, Ghent, Ky.; honorary degree [&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":[29,4411,4062,4419],"tags":[41,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-31","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crockett","7":"category-surname-g","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bain","11":"tag-giddens","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13956,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/13956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}