City: LaFollette<\/p>\n
TAYLOR, J. Will, <\/b>lawyer; born in Union county, Tenn., Aug. 28, 1880; English and Irish descent; son of James W. <\/b>and Elizabeth (Rogers) TAYLOR; <\/b>father\u2019s occupation farmer, merchant, politician, in Senate in 1895, House of Representatives, 1891; paternal grandparents George<\/b> and Malinda (Gray) TAYLOR<\/b>; maternal grandparents F. H.<\/b> and Emily (Beeler) ROGERS<\/b>; educated in Holbrook Normal College, American Temperance University, and Lebanon Law School; graduated from latter with L.L. B. degree in 1902; in early life taught school, worked on a farm; married Mossie KINCAID, <\/b>Oct. 4, 1905; member Commandery, Royal Arch, and Master Mason; Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor, I. O. O. F., Woodmen of America, Eagles, and T. M. A.; Republican; appointed postmaster at LaFollette at 22 years of age, and resigned after five years to make the race for mayor of LaFollette, to which office he was elected March 29, 1910, and is the present incumbent; member of the Methodist church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
City: LaFollette TAYLOR, J. Will, lawyer; born in Union county, Tenn., Aug. 28, 1880; English and Irish descent; son of James W. and Elizabeth (Rogers) TAYLOR; father\u2019s occupation farmer, merchant, politician, in Senate in 1895, House of Representatives, 1891; paternal grandparents George and Malinda (Gray) TAYLOR; maternal grandparents F. H. and Emily (Beeler) ROGERS; educated […]<\/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":[13,19,391,4412,815,4419],"tags":[2387,280,1226,244,150],"class_list":{"0":"post-5624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anderson","7":"category-campbell","8":"category-lebanon-law-school","9":"category-surname-t","10":"category-union","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-beeler","13":"tag-gray","14":"tag-kincaid","15":"tag-rogers","16":"tag-taylor","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","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=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15208,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/15208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}