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KOFFMAN, J. H., <\/strong>farmer; born McNairy Co., Tenn., Aug. 22, 1855; German descent; son of James C.<\/strong> and Abigail Hawkins (Atkins) KOFFMAN<\/strong>; educated at the Central Normal School and I. O. O. F. College of Humboldt, Tenn.; early occupation, school teacher in the public schools Gibson Co., Tenn.; later was engaged in newspaper business and about 1882 purchased the West Tennessee Argus of Humboldt, Tenn., of which he was editor; in 1893 he established the Tennessee Populist, he later edited the Gibson Co. Journal, published at Trenton, Tenn.; has been a newspaper writer and contributed to many newspapers and periodicals; was twice candidate for State Senator, but not elected; has been Justice of Peace twenty-four years; is chairman of State Executive Committee of the Farmers\u2019 Educational and Co-operative Union of America and is Chairman of State Legislative Committee, etc.; married first Emma B. PHELAN <\/strong>in 1885, married second Mattie L. BOYD<\/strong> April 7, 1901; member of the Baptist church; Democrat; member of Farmers\u2019 Educational and Co-Operative Union of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Fruitland KOFFMAN, J. H., farmer; born McNairy Co., Tenn., Aug. 22, 1855; German descent; son of James C. and Abigail Hawkins (Atkins) KOFFMAN; educated at the Central Normal School and I. O. O. F. College of Humboldt, Tenn.; early occupation, school teacher in the public schools Gibson Co., Tenn.; later was engaged in newspaper […]<\/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":[58,809,80,4419],"tags":[1428,425,1823,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-3686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gibson","7":"category-obion","8":"category-surname-k","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-atkins","11":"tag-boyd","12":"tag-koffman","13":"tag-phelan","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","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=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15545,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/15545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}