{"id":5185,"date":"2013-03-20T14:47:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2023-06-15T22:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:00:36","slug":"white-william-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/white-william-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"WHITE, William Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong>\u00a0 Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHITE, William Thomas<\/strong>, educator; born near Walhalla, S. C., May 12, 1859; son of <strong>Thomas and Margaret (Keogh) WHITE<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation real estate; Irish-English descent; paternal grandparents <strong>James and Hannah (Ryan) WHITE<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>Edward and Margaret (McDonald) KEOGH<\/strong>; educated University of Tenn., and graduated from same June, 1877, with degree of A. B.; degree of M. A. was conferred upon him in 1883; in early life he was principal of High School, and has conducted Normals in Ashville and Goldston, N. C.; writer for daily press and educational magazines; collector of books; owner of large private library; conversant with German, French, Spanish and Italian tongues; interested in athletic sports; stockholder in banks and owner of real estate; Catholic; member of Irving Club, American Association of Science, National Historical Association., Classical Association of Middle South; Democrat; sinking fund commissioner for the city of Knoxville, Tenn., 1888-1891.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Knoxville WHITE, William Thomas, educator; born near Walhalla, S. C., May 12, 1859; son of Thomas and Margaret (Keogh) WHITE; father\u2019s occupation real estate; Irish-English descent; paternal grandparents James and Hannah (Ryan) WHITE; maternal grandparents Edward and Margaret (McDonald) KEOGH; educated University of Tenn., and graduated from same June, 1877, with degree of A. [&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":[276,4415,418,4419],"tags":[2806,559,460,4347],"class_list":{"0":"post-5185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-university-of-tennessee","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-keogh","11":"tag-mcdonald","12":"tag-ryan","13":"tag-white","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185","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=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15313,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions\/15313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}