{"id":5368,"date":"2013-03-22T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5368"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:56:18","slug":"spence-cary-fletcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/spence-cary-fletcher\/","title":{"rendered":"SPENCE, CARY FLETCHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City:<\/strong>\u00a0 Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>SPENCE, CARY FLETCHER, <\/strong>postmaster, merchant; born Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 21, 1869; son of\u00a0 <strong>John F. <\/strong>and <strong>Elizabeth (Cary) SPENCE,<\/strong> father\u2019s occupation, educator; paternal grandparents <strong>Stephen<\/strong> and <strong>Mary SPENCE<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>William<\/strong> and <strong>Emily CARY<\/strong>; educated University of Tenn.; graduated from Grant Memorial University with degree of B. A. in June, 1890; in early life entered the mercantile business, later became President of Spence Trunk Co. and postmaster at Knoxville, Tenn., which position he now holds; married <strong>Nanon C. CROOK <\/strong>Dec. 1, 1900; Pres. Appalachian Club, Elkmont, Tenn.; member Cumberland Club and Cherokee Country Club, Knoxville, Tenn.; Republican; Captain in Spanish-American war, now Colonel of 3d Tenn. Infantry; Lieut-Col. three years in State Guards and Col. seven years; Pres. of Board of Trade of Knoxville, Tenn., for two terms; Sec. and Treas. of Appalachian Exposition Co., Knoxville, Tenn.; President of Spence Trunk &amp; Leather Co., Knoxville, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Knoxville SPENCE, CARY FLETCHER, postmaster, merchant; born Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 21, 1869; son of\u00a0 John F. and Elizabeth (Cary) SPENCE, father\u2019s occupation, educator; paternal grandparents Stephen and Mary SPENCE, maternal grandparents William and Emily CARY; educated University of Tenn.; graduated from Grant Memorial University with degree of B. A. in June, 1890; in early [&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":[212,276,88,418,4419],"tags":[2362,962,2349],"class_list":{"0":"post-5368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-grant-university","7":"category-knox","8":"category-surname-s","9":"category-university-of-tennessee","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-cary","12":"tag-crook","13":"tag-spence","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","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=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15955,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions\/15955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}