{"id":5164,"date":"2013-03-19T14:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T19:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:59:27","slug":"vestal-robert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/vestal-robert\/","title":{"rendered":"VESTAL, Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong>\u00a0 Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong>VESTAL, Robert<\/strong>, president Vestal Lumber &amp; Mfg Co.; born Knoxville, Tenn., April 17, 1875; English descent; son of <strong>Robert and Annie Mary (Gredig) VESTAL<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, wholesale clothing merchant; paternal grandparents, <strong>Jeremiah and Sarah (Murray) VESTAL<\/strong>; maternal grandparents, <strong>Jeremiah and Annie (Gredig) GREDIG<\/strong>; educated at Knoxville, Tenn.; graduated from University of Tenn., June 1895; began his business career as a stenographer, later became secretary to president of K. C. G. &amp; L. Railway; married <strong>Annie B. NELSON<\/strong>, July 11, 1900; member B. P. O. E., No. 160, Knoxville; F. O. E., No. 1009, Knoxville; Democrat (regular); election commissioner for Knox county, Tenn., two years during Governor Patterson\u2019s first term; interested in lumber enterprises; Presbyterian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Knoxville VESTAL, Robert, president Vestal Lumber &amp; Mfg Co.; born Knoxville, Tenn., April 17, 1875; English descent; son of Robert and Annie Mary (Gredig) VESTAL; father\u2019s occupation, wholesale clothing merchant; paternal grandparents, Jeremiah and Sarah (Murray) VESTAL; maternal grandparents, Jeremiah and Annie (Gredig) GREDIG; educated at Knoxville, Tenn.; graduated from University of Tenn., June [&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":[276,4414,418,4419],"tags":[2796,1181,357,2795],"class_list":{"0":"post-5164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-surname-v","8":"category-university-of-tennessee","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-gredig","11":"tag-murray","12":"tag-nelson","13":"tag-vestal","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","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=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15267,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions\/15267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}