City: Butler<\/p>\n
CURTIS, Finley P<\/strong>., farmer and merchant; born in Caldwell Co., N. C., May 21, 1841; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Hezekiah and Celia (Coffey) CURTIS<\/strong>; father was a farmer and trader; paternal grandparents Samuel and Sallie (Cotrell) CURTIS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents William and Anna (Boone) COFFEY<\/strong>; his maternal grandmother was the grandniece of Daniel Boone<\/strong>; received common school education; served a s private in C. S. A. during the civil war, was wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; came to Tenn. Feb. 1872, went into mercantile business and has devoted his life to merchandise, farming and stock trading; built the first house in the town of Butler, Tenn., in the year 1874; married Selma F. ROSENBLOTT<\/strong> May 21, 1885; Democrat; formerly Postmaster Butler, Tenn. for several years; member of the Baptist church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Butler CURTIS, Finley P., farmer and merchant; born in Caldwell Co., N. C., May 21, 1841; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Hezekiah and Celia (Coffey) CURTIS; father was a farmer and trader; paternal grandparents Samuel and Sallie (Cotrell) CURTIS, maternal grandparents William and Anna (Boone) COFFEY; his maternal grandmother was the grandniece of Daniel Boone; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[215,4407,4419],"tags":[547,545,546,361,548],"class_list":{"0":"post-534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johnson","7":"category-surname-c","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-boone","10":"tag-coffey","11":"tag-cotrell","12":"tag-curtis","13":"tag-rosenblott","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14951,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/14951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}