{"id":4911,"date":"2013-03-11T12:38:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:35","slug":"baxter-elbridge-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/baxter-elbridge-j\/","title":{"rendered":"BAXTER, Elbridge J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Jonesboro<\/p>\n<p><strong>BAXTER, Elbridge J., <\/strong>lawyer; born Washington College Sept. 2, 1860; Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0 <strong>Jacob <\/strong>and <strong>Saraphinia (Shannon) BAXTER; <\/strong>father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents <strong>Jacob<\/strong> and <strong>Catharine (Rhine) BAXTER;<\/strong> maternal grandparents <strong>Elijah<\/strong> and <strong>Eliza (Simpson) SHANNON; <\/strong>graduated Washington college with A.B. degree May 1885; worked on farm in early life, then studied law; member of Tenn., and American Bar Associations since 1900; admitted to practice in all State and Federal Courts and in U. S. Supreme Court; has been President of the Board of Education, Jonesboro, Tenn., eight years; is a member and the secretary of the Board of Trustees of Washington and Tusculum College; at present Secretary and Bursar of the East Tenn. Normal Schools, Johnson City, Tenn.; married <strong>Eleanor LAMPSON<\/strong> June 3, 1893; Democrat; member and officer of the Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Jonesboro BAXTER, Elbridge J., lawyer; born Washington College Sept. 2, 1860; Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0 Jacob and Saraphinia (Shannon) BAXTER; father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents Jacob and Catharine (Rhine) BAXTER; maternal grandparents Elijah and Eliza (Simpson) SHANNON; graduated Washington college with A.B. degree May 1885; worked on farm in early life, then studied law; [&hellip;]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4405,216,1811,4419],"tags":[607,2210,2209,1057,112],"class_list":["post-4911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-surname-b","category-washington","category-washington-college","category-x_featured-image-no","tag-baxter","tag-lampson","tag-rhine","tag-shannon","tag-simpson","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911","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=4911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14672,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions\/14672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}