{"id":4654,"date":"2013-01-30T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:48:20","slug":"boyd-samuel-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/boyd-samuel-b\/","title":{"rendered":"BOYD, Samuel B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOYD, Samuel B.<\/strong>, chief of Knoxville Fire Department; born Washington Co., Va., March 20, 1865; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Samuel B. and Isabella (Reed) BOYD<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, merchant; educated University of Tenn., member of class of 1886; in early life he was engaged in furniture business; married <strong>Julia Jackson HARRISON<\/strong> April 28, 1904; entered public life as Alderman when he was 22 years old which office he held from July, 1888-1890; Feb. 23, 1900, was elected Chief of Knoxville (Tenn) Fire Dept., when it was very small (29 men); he urged and secured passage of appropriation measures before Board of Aldermen, which resulted in increase of Fire Dept. to 72 men; member of Elks, Royal Arcanum, Kappa Sigma Fraternity; former Chairman of Water Committee, Gas &amp; Public Lights, Fire &amp; Police, Vice Chairman Finance Com.; member of International Assn. of Fire Engineers; member Presbyterian Church, South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Knoxville BOYD, Samuel B., chief of Knoxville Fire Department; born Washington Co., Va., March 20, 1865; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Samuel B. and Isabella (Reed) BOYD; father&#8217;s occupation, merchant; educated University of Tenn., member of class of 1886; in early life he was engaged in furniture business; married Julia Jackson HARRISON April 28, 1904; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[276,4405,418,4419],"tags":[425,487,140],"class_list":{"0":"post-4654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-surname-b","8":"category-university-of-tennessee","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-boyd","11":"tag-harrison","12":"tag-reed","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14723,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4654\/revisions\/14723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}