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<\/strong>POWERS, John Pike, Jr., <\/strong>attorney at law; born Mt. Sterling, Ky., Oct. 24, 1875; Scotch-Irish and Anglo-Saxon descent; son of J. Pike<\/strong> and Fannie (Gwin) POWERS<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, Baptist minister; paternal grandparents John<\/strong> and Elizabeth (Montgomery) POWERS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents David S.<\/strong> and Frances (Beckham) GWIN<\/strong>; educated University of Tenn. and University of Va.; graduated from former with degree of B. A. 1894; LL. B. 1895, from University of Va. with degree of B. L. in 1897; admitted to bar in 1897 to practice in all State and Federal courts; began the practice of law in the office of Webb & McClung, Knoxville, Tenn., after two years he became member of firm of Powers & Burrows, remained in same four years, then practiced alone two years; at present member of firm of Powers & Thornburgh; married Lucile Allyn BORDEN<\/strong> Sept. 26, 1906; member of the legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity (Grand Princeps, 1909), Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Fraternity; member of Blue Lodge, Council and Chapter of Masonry; Knights of Pythias; member of Irving Club of Knoxville, Tenn.; former Chairman of Knox Co., Tenn.; Board of Election Commissioners two years from July 1905; City Attorney of Knoxville 1908-1910, and 1910-1912; member of Co. B, University of Tenn. Cadets; Deacon, Clerk and Treasurer of First Baptist Church, Knoxville, Tenn.; Clerk of Tenn. Assn. Baptists five years; Secretary of Powers\u2019 Clothing Co (wholesale clothiers) Knoxville, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City:\u00a0 Knoxville POWERS, John Pike, Jr., attorney at law; born Mt. Sterling, Ky., Oct. 24, 1875; Scotch-Irish and Anglo-Saxon descent; son of J. Pike and Fannie (Gwin) POWERS; father\u2019s occupation, Baptist minister; paternal grandparents John and Elizabeth (Montgomery) POWERS, maternal grandparents David S. and Frances (Beckham) GWIN; educated University of Tenn. and University of Va.; […]<\/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":[276,85,418,4419],"tags":[2333,2334,2332,4381,2331],"class_list":{"0":"post-5323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-surname-p","8":"category-university-of-tennessee","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-beckham","11":"tag-borden","12":"tag-gwin","13":"tag-montgomery","14":"tag-powers","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323","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=5323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15814,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5323\/revisions\/15814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}