City: Johnson City<\/p>\n
COX, James B., <\/strong>attorney at law;\u00a0 born at Blountville, Sullivan Co., Tenn., March 4, 1861; English and Scotch descent; son of\u00a0 Abram J. <\/strong>and Harriet (Worley) COX;\u00a0 <\/strong>father\u2019s occupation, public official, educator; paternal grandparents John W.<\/strong> and Elizabeth (Barnstetter) COX<\/strong>, maternal grandparents James B.<\/strong> and Mary (Shell) WORLEY<\/strong>; educated in public schools, Jefferson Academy and University of Tenn.; in early life taught school; licensed to practice law in 1891; elected City Attorney for Johnson City 1898; secured contract to supply National Home for disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Johnson City, Tenn., with water; secured legislation to condemn water for same 1903; appointed local counsel for C.C. & O. Ry. in Tenn. 1906; appointed U. S. Atty. April 26, 1910; married Mary Amelia RICHMOND<\/strong> May 31, 1882; Republican; <\/strong>interested in water works; owns Austin Springs property and other property in Johnson City; also interested in business and owns property Gate City, Va., and owns a farm in Spokane Co., Washington; member of Methodist Episcopal church, Steward and Sunday School Teacher in same for twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Johnson City COX, James B., attorney at law;\u00a0 born at Blountville, Sullivan Co., Tenn., March 4, 1861; English and Scotch descent; son of\u00a0 Abram J. and Harriet (Worley) COX;\u00a0 father\u2019s occupation, public official, educator; paternal grandparents John W. and Elizabeth (Barnstetter) COX, maternal grandparents James B. and Mary (Shell) WORLEY; educated in public schools, […]<\/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":[663,4407,418,216,4419],"tags":[2165,486,1517,2166,1093],"class_list":{"0":"post-4794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sullivan","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-university-of-tennessee","9":"category-washington","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-barnstetter","12":"tag-cox","13":"tag-richmond","14":"tag-shell","15":"tag-worley","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","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=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14927,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/14927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}