City: Gallatin<\/p>\n
DOUGLASS, Charles S., <\/strong>educator; born at Gallatin, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1839; Scotch-Irish descent; son of G. N.<\/strong> and Beneta (Rawlings) DOUGLASS<\/strong>, his father, a farmer; paternal grandparents James<\/strong> and Katherine (Collier) DOUGLASS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents Dr. Benjamin<\/strong> and Elizabeth RAWLINGS<\/strong>; educated at Center College, Danville, Ky., graduating therefrom with degree of A. B. and later received A. M.; he was preparing for the law when the Civil war began; enlisted as adjutant of 30th<\/sup> Tenn. regiment; was captured at Fort Donelson and a prisoner on Johnson Island, Lake Erie, seven months; after exchange he became Capt. of Co. H, 30th<\/sup> Tenn. regiment, and later adjutant Gen. SMITH<\/strong>\u2019s brigade; fought in all of the battles of the western army after exchange; paroled at the close of war; took up educational work and has held the following positions: President of State Teachers\u2019 Assn., first President of the School Officers\u2019 Assn., member of the State Board of Education 18 years, and was a member of the committee that adopted the first uniform series text books for State of Tenn.; was for 20 years a State Institute conductor, Superintendent of Public instruction for Sumner Co., Tenn., six years and has been Superintendent of graded schools of Gallatin, Tenn., for past 24 years; married Susan Alexander GRAHAM<\/strong> July 21, 1865; member Knights of Pythias and M. E. Church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Gallatin DOUGLASS, Charles S., educator; born at Gallatin, Tenn., Feb. 16, 1839; Scotch-Irish descent; son of G. N. and Beneta (Rawlings) DOUGLASS, his father, a farmer; paternal grandparents James and Katherine (Collier) DOUGLASS, maternal grandparents Dr. Benjamin and Elizabeth RAWLINGS; educated at Center College, Danville, Ky., graduating therefrom with degree of A. B. and […]<\/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":[812,4408,4419],"tags":[1867,516,944,1857],"class_list":{"0":"post-3738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sumner","7":"category-surname-d","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-collier","10":"tag-douglass","11":"tag-graham","12":"tag-rawlings","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","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=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15000,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/15000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}