{"id":406,"date":"2012-08-04T02:28:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T07:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=406"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:01:16","slug":"witt-benjamin-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/witt-benjamin-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"WITT, Benjamin B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Benton<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>WITT, Benjamin B.C<\/strong>., lawyer; born Polk Co., Tenn, Sept. 11, 1858; Irish and Scotch descent; son of <strong>John H. and Malisa (Presswood) WITT<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents <strong>Burges and Delphia (Carpenter) WITT;<\/strong> maternal grandparents <strong>Austin and Mary (Harper) PRESSWOOD<\/strong>; received common school education; taught school early in life; later entered politics and was for four years Deputy Sheriff, and eight years Circuit Court Clerk of Polk Co., Tenn.; began practice of law in 1892, and pressing suit against Cooper Mining Companies at Ducktown, Tenn., for abatement of nuisance to a successful conclusion in Supreme Court of Tenn., became known as the \u201cSmoke Nuisance Lawyer;\u201d married twice, first <strong>Maggie RYMER<\/strong> March 17, 1880, second <strong>Alice HILLIARD<\/strong> March 17, 1890; member F. and A.M. NO. 212 (Past Master), I.O.O.F. No. 295 (Vice-Grand); Democrat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Benton WITT, Benjamin B.C., lawyer; born Polk Co., Tenn, Sept. 11, 1858; Irish and Scotch descent; son of John H. and Malisa (Presswood) WITT; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents Burges and Delphia (Carpenter) WITT; maternal grandparents Austin and Mary (Harper) PRESSWOOD; received common school education; taught school early in life; later entered politics and [&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":[235,4415,4419],"tags":[342,169,343,341,338,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polk","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-carpenter","10":"tag-harper","11":"tag-hilliard","12":"tag-presswood","13":"tag-rymer","14":"tag-witt","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15341,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/15341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}