City: Knoxville<\/p>\n
CARSON, William Waller<\/strong>, civil engineer; born near Natchez, Miss., June 2, 1845; English, Scotch-Irish and Huguenot descent; son of James Green and Catherine (Waller) CARSON<\/strong> of Louisiana; father’s occupation cotton planter; paternal grandparents, Col. Joseph and Caroline C. (Green) CARSON<\/strong> of Alabama, maternal grandparents, William SMITH<\/strong>, and Catherine (Breckinridge) WALLER<\/strong> of Kentucky; taught by private tutors before the war; studied at Washington College Va., (now Washington & Lee University) after the war; graduated from Washington college in civil engineering in 1868, mining engineering in 1869; in 1873-4 a student in Chemical Laboratory of School of Mines, Columbia College, N.Y.; married Rachel FINNIE<\/strong> of Memphis Dec. 23, 1880; member of Fred Ault Camp No. 5 U.C.V., American Society of Civil Engineers, Engineering Association of the South, Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, Cherokee Country Club, Appalachian Club; private, finally Sergeant-Major, 4th La. Cavalry, C.S.A., 1863-5; professor of Mathematics Davidson College, N.C., 1877-1883; has been engineer on various railroads and other public work; professor of Civil Engineering, University of Tenn., since 1885; member of 1st Presbyterian Church of Knoxville, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Knoxville CARSON, William Waller, civil engineer; born near Natchez, Miss., June 2, 1845; English, Scotch-Irish and Huguenot descent; son of James Green and Catherine (Waller) CARSON of Louisiana; father’s occupation cotton planter; paternal grandparents, Col. Joseph and Caroline C. (Green) CARSON of Alabama, maternal grandparents, William SMITH, and Catherine (Breckinridge) WALLER of Kentucky; taught […]<\/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":[276,4407,4419],"tags":[2115,2181,1188,2182,315,4356,2180],"class_list":{"0":"post-4844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-abbott","10":"tag-breckinridge","11":"tag-carson","12":"tag-finnie","13":"tag-green","14":"tag-smith","15":"tag-waller","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844","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=4844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14854,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4844\/revisions\/14854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}