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BAXTER, Elbridge J., <\/strong>lawyer; born Washington College Sept. 2, 1860; Scotch-Irish descent; son of\u00a0 Jacob <\/strong>and Saraphinia (Shannon) BAXTER; <\/strong>father\u2019s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents Jacob<\/strong> and Catharine (Rhine) BAXTER;<\/strong> maternal grandparents Elijah<\/strong> and 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 Eleanor LAMPSON<\/strong> June 3, 1893; Democrat; member and officer of the Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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; […]<\/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":[4405,216,1811,4419],"tags":[607,2210,2209,1057,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-4911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-b","7":"category-washington","8":"category-washington-college","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-baxter","11":"tag-lampson","12":"tag-rhine","13":"tag-shannon","14":"tag-simpson","15":"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}]}}