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ROSAMON, John W., <\/strong>farmer and fruit grower; born Madison Co., Tenn., Sept. 17, 1842; Irish-German descent; son of John D.<\/strong> and Elizabeth (Hefley) ROSAMON<\/strong>; father was a tanner and farmer; paternal grandparents Henry<\/strong> and Nancy (Rowe) ROSAMON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents Mike<\/strong> and Peggy (Hamilton) HEFLEY<\/strong>; began life on father\u2019s farm and became interested in fruit growing and horticulture;\u00a0 president of the West Tenn. Farmers\u2019 Institute, and was its president for eleven years; traveled and lectured on horticulture through the state of Tenn. eight years; was a pioneer horticulturist and has been engaged in that branch of agriculture for about forty-four years; married Mary E. WARMOTH<\/strong> April 22, 1863; member and Deacon in Missionary Baptist church; Democrat and Prohibitionist; was assistant commissioner of agriculture 1898-1902; was elected Justice of the Peace April, 1872; and has been Notary Public thirty-nine years; has been Trustee of Union University for thirty-five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Gadsden ROSAMON, John W., farmer and fruit grower; born Madison Co., Tenn., Sept. 17, 1842; Irish-German descent; son of John D. and Elizabeth (Hefley) ROSAMON; father was a tanner and farmer; paternal grandparents Henry and Nancy (Rowe) ROSAMON, maternal grandparents Mike and Peggy (Hamilton) HEFLEY; began life on father\u2019s farm and became interested in […]<\/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":[29,36,87,4419],"tags":[4350,1829,1828,1830,1831],"class_list":{"0":"post-3692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crockett","7":"category-madison","8":"category-surname-r","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-hamilton","11":"tag-hefly","12":"tag-rosamon","13":"tag-rowe","14":"tag-warmoth","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","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=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}