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FINNEY, Newton Jefferson<\/strong>, educator; born Mt. Juliet, Tenn., Nov. 6, 1846; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William and Eliza Jane (Cloyd) FINNEY<\/strong>; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents William and Margaret (Jefferson) FINNEY<\/strong>; maternal grandparents Newton and Elizabeth (Williamson) CLOYD<\/strong>; educated at Mt. Juliet (Tenn.) High School and Cumberland University; graduated from latter with B.A. degree, 1868; M.A. 1870; in early life worked on farm in summer and attended school in winter; after graduation he began teaching; married Ruth Louisa SMITH<\/strong>, Dec. 19, 1872; member Royal Arch Masons; Democrat; was for several years president of Cumberland Female College, McMinnville, Tenn.; now president of the Bethel College, McKenzie, Tenn., the Theological School of the Cumberland Presbyterian church; member of Cumberland Presbyterian church and ruling elder in same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: McKenzie FINNEY, Newton Jefferson, educator; born Mt. Juliet, Tenn., Nov. 6, 1846; Scotch-Irish descent; son of William and Eliza Jane (Cloyd) FINNEY; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents William and Margaret (Jefferson) FINNEY; maternal grandparents Newton and Elizabeth (Williamson) CLOYD; educated at Mt. Juliet (Tenn.) High School and Cumberland University; graduated from latter with B.A. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[21,31,363,4410,288,818,102,4419],"tags":[2475,1282,4349,4356,4362],"class_list":{"0":"post-5971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-carroll","7":"category-cumberland-university","8":"category-henry","9":"category-surname-f","10":"category-warren","11":"category-weakley","12":"category-wilson","13":"category-x_featured-image-no","14":"tag-cloyd","15":"tag-finney","16":"tag-jefferson","17":"tag-smith","18":"tag-williamson","19":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15082,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions\/15082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}