{"id":5362,"date":"2013-03-22T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:53:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:53:02","slug":"saylor-james-william","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/saylor-james-william\/","title":{"rendered":"SAYLOR, James William"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City<\/strong>:\u00a0 Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>SAYLOR, James William, <\/strong>attorney at law; born Strawberry Plains, Knox Co., Tenn., Jan. 15, 1858; German descent; son of <strong>John<\/strong> and <strong>Martha<\/strong> <strong>(Moulden) SAYLOR<\/strong>;\u00a0 educated Emory &amp; Henry College, Va.; in early life he was a teacher in the public schools of Knox. Co., Tenn.; thrice married, first, <strong>Lillie N. ANDERSON<\/strong>, June 23, 1886; last to <strong>Sallie KELLEY<\/strong>, Aug. 14, 1902; he is a Master Mason; has several times been elected delegate of the Grand Lodge; in Jan., 1885, he was elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of Knox Co., Tenn., re-elected in Jan., 1897; it was largely due to his earnest efforts that the graded system and uniform text books were adopted in Knox Co.; member of the M. E. Church, South, and member of the Board of Trustees in same for about 22 years; delegate to annual session of the Holston Conference of \u00a0M. E. Church, South, at Bristol, Va., and Tenn., in 1905; he was elected as lay delegate to the general conference of the M. E. Church, South, which met in Birmingham, Ala., on May 4, 1906; was appointed by one of the presiding bishops on a committee with two others to draft a resolution of protest against <strong>Senator Reed SMOOT<\/strong> of Utah, who was a Mormon occupying a seat in the U. S. Senate; has represented his ward as Alderman in the City Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Knoxville SAYLOR, James William, attorney at law; born Strawberry Plains, Knox Co., Tenn., Jan. 15, 1858; German descent; son of John and Martha (Moulden) SAYLOR;\u00a0 educated Emory &amp; Henry College, Va.; in early life he was a teacher in the public schools of Knox. Co., Tenn.; thrice married, first, Lillie N. ANDERSON, June 23, [&hellip;]<\/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":[276,88,4419],"tags":[4318,986,2360,2359],"class_list":{"0":"post-5362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-knox","7":"category-surname-s","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-anderson","10":"tag-kelley","11":"tag-moulden","12":"tag-saylor","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15893,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/15893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}