{"id":4996,"date":"2013-03-17T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T18:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:42:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:42:28","slug":"lester-charles-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/lester-charles-w\/","title":{"rendered":"LESTER, Charles W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong> Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong>LESTER<\/strong>, <strong>Charles W<\/strong>., lawyer; son of William and Lucinda (Tuck) <strong>LESTER<\/strong> of Knox Co, Tenn.; their families were among the pioneer settlers of East Tenn., having emigrated from Virginia; they are of Scotch and English descent; their people having come to this country in the early settlement of it; <strong>Charles W.<\/strong> <strong>LESTER<\/strong> was born July 10, 1869; he remained upon his father\u2019s farm till about 18 years of age, when he left home to enter the Grant Memorial University at Athens, Tenn.; he worked his way through college, being a member of the class of 1902; in early life taught school and read law; admitted to the bar at Athens, Tenn, in 1893; the same year formed a partnership with is college classmate, W. L. Humphrey, Cleveland, Tenn.; while at Cleveland, frequently acted as assistant attorney-general for the Seventeenth judicial district at the same time taking an active part in politics, church and school work; married <strong>Cora E. BERGEN<\/strong>, of Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 24, 1903; member of the Knoxville bar and takes more or less interest in literary work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Knoxville LESTER, Charles W., lawyer; son of William and Lucinda (Tuck) LESTER of Knox Co, Tenn.; their families were among the pioneer settlers of East Tenn., having emigrated from Virginia; they are of Scotch and English descent; their people having come to this country in the early settlement of it; Charles W. LESTER was [&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":[18,212,276,81,4419],"tags":[2776,2775],"class_list":{"0":"post-4996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bradley","7":"category-grant-university","8":"category-knox","9":"category-surname-l","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-bergen","12":"tag-lester","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","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=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15565,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/15565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}