{"id":3620,"date":"2012-10-25T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:51:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:51:17","slug":"rankin-thomas-samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/rankin-thomas-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"RANKIN, Thomas Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Greeneville<\/p>\n<p><strong>RANKIN, Thomas Samuel<\/strong>, educator; born near Greeneville, Tenn., July 15, 1858; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Robert and Margaret (McGaughey) RANKIN<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer, tanner; paternal grandparents <strong>Thomas and Elvira (Blackburn) RANKIN<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>John and Hannah (Robinson) MCGAUGHEY<\/strong>; educated in the public schools and at Greeneville and Tusculum College; degrees conferred B. S., 1885, A. B., 1887, A. M., 1888; in early life engaged in farming; married <strong>Mary COILE<\/strong> May 5, 1888; now holds chair of Latin in Washington &amp; Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tenn., which he has held since 1885; Elder in Presbyterian Church, Greeneville Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Greeneville RANKIN, Thomas Samuel, educator; born near Greeneville, Tenn., July 15, 1858; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Robert and Margaret (McGaughey) RANKIN; father\u2019s occupation farmer, tanner; paternal grandparents Thomas and Elvira (Blackburn) RANKIN; maternal grandparents John and Hannah (Robinson) MCGAUGHEY; educated in the public schools and at Greeneville and Tusculum College; degrees conferred B. S., [&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":[254,87,1810,4419],"tags":[1235,1789,1788,959,494],"class_list":{"0":"post-3620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-greene","7":"category-surname-r","8":"category-tusculum-college","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-blackburn","11":"tag-coile","12":"tag-mcgaughey","13":"tag-rankin","14":"tag-robinson","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620","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=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15831,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/15831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}