{"id":4294,"date":"2013-01-08T20:15:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T02:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:52:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:52:31","slug":"rook-charles-wesley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/rook-charles-wesley\/","title":{"rendered":"ROOK, Charles Wesley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Humboldt<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROOK, Charles Wesley, <\/strong>journalist;\u00a0 born Weakley Co., Tenn. in 1869; son of <strong>A. <\/strong>and <strong>Bell (Johnson) ROOK<\/strong>; Scotch-Irish descent; educated public schools; occupation in youth, printer; married <strong>Kate SENTER<\/strong> in 1895; member Elks and K. of P.; purchased West Tenn. Leader in 1890, operated to 1896; founder Somerville Journal 1896; also editor Middle South Mag.; connected with real estate interests; founded Courier-Chronicle in 1902 and is at present editor; elected Mayor of Humboldt Dec. 6, 1909; 24 years a resident of Humboldt; member Board of Education five years; organizer and present secretary of Humboldt Tri-Co. Fair Assn.; Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Humboldt ROOK, Charles Wesley, journalist;\u00a0 born Weakley Co., Tenn. in 1869; son of A. and Bell (Johnson) ROOK; Scotch-Irish descent; educated public schools; occupation in youth, printer; married Kate SENTER in 1895; member Elks and K. of P.; purchased West Tenn. Leader in 1890, operated to 1896; founder Somerville Journal 1896; also editor Middle [&hellip;]<\/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":[58,87,818,4419],"tags":[4360,1987,1866],"class_list":{"0":"post-4294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gibson","7":"category-surname-r","8":"category-weakley","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-johnson","11":"tag-rook","12":"tag-senter","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","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=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15867,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/15867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}