{"id":5371,"date":"2013-03-23T15:02:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T20:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=5371"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:56:18","slug":"spence-john-fletcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/spence-john-fletcher\/","title":{"rendered":"SPENCE, John Fletcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City<\/strong>:\u00a0 Knoxville<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>SPENCE, John Fletcher, <\/strong>Chancellor Emeritus; born Greenfield, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1828; son of\u00a0 <strong>Stephen and Matilda (_____) SPENCE; <\/strong>graduated Ohio Wesleyan 1853, A. B., 1856, A. M., 1880, Mount Union college, D. D., 1880, Scioto College, LL. D., 1888; married <strong>E. E. CARY <\/strong>Aug., 1865; Chaplain-in-Chief of G. A. R., 1908-1909; member of the Methodist Episcopal church; ordained to the ministry of the M. E. church in 1858; officer U. S. volunteers 1862-1865; President Knoxville Female college, Tenn., 1865-1888; founded East Tenn. Wesleyan University, 1868; present Chancellor nineteen years, Grant Memorial University founded 1893, Chancellor, 1893-1894; Chancellor Emeritus, since 1904; American University of Harriman, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Knoxville SPENCE, John Fletcher, Chancellor Emeritus; born Greenfield, Ohio, Feb. 3, 1828; son of\u00a0 Stephen and Matilda (_____) SPENCE; graduated Ohio Wesleyan 1853, A. B., 1856, A. M., 1880, Mount Union college, D. D., 1880, Scioto College, LL. D., 1888; married E. E. CARY Aug., 1865; Chaplain-in-Chief of G. A. R., 1908-1909; member of [&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":[212,276,88,4419],"tags":[2362,2349],"class_list":{"0":"post-5371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-grant-university","7":"category-knox","8":"category-surname-s","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-cary","11":"tag-spence","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","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=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15956,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions\/15956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}