{"id":4822,"date":"2013-06-21T20:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T01:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:03","slug":"ayres-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/ayres-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"AYRES, Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong>\u00a0 Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong>AYRES, Brown<\/strong>, educator; born Memphis Tenn, May 25, 1856; Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of <strong>Samuel Warren<\/strong> and <strong>Elizabeth Little (Cook) AYRES<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation lawyer; paternal grandparents, <strong>Isaac<\/strong> and <strong>Mary Furman (Smith) AYRES<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, <strong>William Arthur<\/strong> and <strong>Catherine Stewart (Brown) COOK<\/strong>; educated Washington &amp; Lee University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and John Hopkins University; graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N J., with degree B. S. in 1878, Ph. D., 1888; he was Professor in Tulane University, New Orleans, La., 1880-1904; married <strong>Katie Allen ANDERSON<\/strong> July 5, 1881; Fellow of American Assn. Advancement of Science, member of American Physical Society, Society Promotion Engineering Education, and College Fraternities; received Honorary degrees, L.L.D. from Washington &amp; Lee University, Tulane University of La., University of S. C., University of Ala., D. C. L. University of the South; member of Jury of Awards World\u2019s Fair, Chicago, 1904, Cotton Exposition, Atlanta, 1905, and Tenn Centennial 1897; President of Association Colleges &amp; Preparatory Schools Southern States 1905; President National Association State Universities, 1910; at present he is President of University of Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Knoxville AYRES, Brown, educator; born Memphis Tenn, May 25, 1856; Scotch-Irish and English descent; son of Samuel Warren and Elizabeth Little (Cook) AYRES; father\u2019s occupation lawyer; paternal grandparents, Isaac and Mary Furman (Smith) AYRES, maternal grandparents, William Arthur and Catherine Stewart (Brown) COOK; educated Washington &amp; Lee University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"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":[276,261,4406,4419],"tags":[4318,2740,208,562,4356],"class_list":{"0":"post-4822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-a","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-anderson","11":"tag-ayers","12":"tag-brown","13":"tag-cook","14":"tag-smith","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8974,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/8974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}