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KEEN, Willard, <\/strong>attorney at law; born Willow Grove, Clay Co., Tenn., June 14, 1873; English and Irish descent; son of James Marion <\/strong>and Virginia Richmond (Mabry) KEEN; <\/strong>father\u2019s occupation, merchant; paternal grandparents John <\/strong>and Jane (Johnson) KEEN; <\/strong>maternal grandparents Thomas <\/strong>and Maria (Creed) MABRY; <\/strong>educated Huntsville Presbyterian Academy, Center College, Danville, KY. and University of Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn.; graduated from Center College with degree of B. S. in 1896, University of Tenn. with degree of L.L. B. in 1899; in early life was engaged in mercantile business and taught school; married Esther WALTON <\/strong>July 8, 1908; member Beta Theta Pi (Greek Letter Fraternity) Center College; Chevalier Commandery Knights Templar, Harriman, Tenn.; Sunbright Chapter R. A. M.; Helenwood Lodge No. 570 F. & A. M.; New River Lodge I. O. O. F.; Huntsville Lodge K. of P.; Bar Association of\u00a0 Tenn.; Republican; United States Commissioner; chairman Scott Co., Tenn., Board of Election Commissioners; member of Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Huntsville KEEN, Willard, attorney at law; born Willow Grove, Clay Co., Tenn., June 14, 1873; English and Irish descent; son of James Marion and Virginia Richmond (Mabry) KEEN; father\u2019s occupation, merchant; paternal grandparents John and Jane (Johnson) KEEN; maternal grandparents Thomas and Maria (Creed) MABRY; educated Huntsville Presbyterian Academy, Center College, Danville, KY. 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":[26,810,80,418,4419],"tags":[2031,4360,2029,2030,1533],"class_list":{"0":"post-4393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-clay","7":"category-scott","8":"category-surname-k","9":"category-university-of-tennessee","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-creed","12":"tag-johnson","13":"tag-keen","14":"tag-mabry","15":"tag-walton","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393","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=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9272,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/9272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}