{"id":5161,"date":"2013-03-19T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:59:27","slug":"van-deventer-horace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/van-deventer-horace\/","title":{"rendered":"VAN DEVENTER, Horace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong>\u00a0 Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong>VAN DEVENTER, Horace<\/strong>, lawyer; public official; born Clinton, Iowa, July 22, 1867; Dutch-French Huguenot-Scotch-English descent; son of <strong>James Thayer and Laetitia (Flournoy) VAN DEVENTER<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>Christopher and Sally (Birckhead) VAN DEVENTER<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Thomas Jefferson and Maria (Dallam) FLOURNOY<\/strong>; educated in the public schools of Clinton, Iowa, Michigan Military Academy, Orchard lake, Mich., University of Mich. and Harvard Law School; graduated from Mich. Military Academy 1886, University of Mich. with degree of Ph. B. 1890, Harvard Law School with degree LL. B. 1893; married <strong>Mary Lurton FINLEY<\/strong> April 9, 1902; member Mil. Order of For. Wars., Penn., Sons of Revolution, Tenn., Holland Society of N. Y., Masons, Alpha Delta Phi, Peninsular Chapter, Cherokee Country Club, Knoxville, Tenn., Shriner; former City Atty. West Knoxville, 1895-7; Senator from Knox Co., Tenn., in 52d General Assembly of Tenn. 1901; Clerk U. S. District Court, E. D. T. 1905 to date; First Lieut. And R. Q. M. Sixth U.S. Vol. Inf., 1898-99, Capt Sixth U S Vol. Inf.; member Protestant Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Knoxville VAN DEVENTER, Horace, lawyer; public official; born Clinton, Iowa, July 22, 1867; Dutch-French Huguenot-Scotch-English descent; son of James Thayer and Laetitia (Flournoy) VAN DEVENTER; paternal grandparents Christopher and Sally (Birckhead) VAN DEVENTER, maternal grandparents Thomas Jefferson and Maria (Dallam) FLOURNOY; educated in the public schools of Clinton, Iowa, Michigan Military Academy, Orchard lake, [&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":[276,4414,4419],"tags":[2792,2793,2794,2791,2790],"class_list":{"0":"post-5161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-surname-v","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-birckhead","10":"tag-dallam","11":"tag-finley","12":"tag-flournoy","13":"tag-van-deventer","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","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=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15262,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/15262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}