{"id":540,"date":"2012-08-12T02:03:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T07:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=540"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:40:13","slug":"johnson-benton-mcmillan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/johnson-benton-mcmillan\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSON, Benton McMillan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Byrdstown<\/p>\n<p><strong>JOHNSON, Benton McMillan<\/strong>, traveling salesman, minister; born Rome, Tenn., Nov. 10, 1881; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>J. D. and Jennie B. (Flippen) JOHNSON<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation hotel keeper; educated Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.; began business career as school teacher; later assistant cashier Bank of Albany, Ky.; married <strong>Mertie HIGGINBOTHAM<\/strong> June 8, 1902; member of Masons and I. O. O. F.; Democrat; was Second Sergeant 4<sup>th<\/sup> Kentucky Volunteers Spanish-American war, promoted from rank of private; member of M. E. church; built a church at Byrdstown, Tenn., out of his own funds, and dedicated same Nov. 17, 1907; his first sermon as a minister was delivered on the occasion of the dedication; has been traveling salesman for 10 years,, and is proprietor of two general stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Byrdstown JOHNSON, Benton McMillan, traveling salesman, minister; born Rome, Tenn., Nov. 10, 1881; Scotch-Irish descent; son of J. D. and Jennie B. (Flippen) JOHNSON; father\u2019s occupation hotel keeper; educated Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.; began business career as school teacher; later assistant cashier Bank of Albany, Ky.; married Mertie HIGGINBOTHAM June 8, 1902; member of [&hellip;]<\/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":[181,552,197,79,4419],"tags":[553,554,4360],"class_list":{"0":"post-540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peabody-college","7":"category-pickett","8":"category-smith","9":"category-surname-j","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-flippen","12":"tag-higginbotham","13":"tag-johnson","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15499,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/15499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}