City: McKenzie<\/p>\n
JOHNSON, Philip Franklin<\/strong>, minister of the gospel; born Weakley county, Tenn., Jan. 20, 1852; Scotch-Irish and German descent; son of W.B. and Sarah (Groom) JOHNSON<\/strong>; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents John P. and Mary (Harral) JOHNSON<\/strong>; maternal grandparents Bright and Kate (Winders) GROOMS<\/strong>; educated at Bethel College and Cumberland University; graduated from Bethel College with A.B. degree, June, 1881, B.D. conferred by Cumberland University, June, 1885; entered the ministry in early life; married Susan V. FLIPPIN<\/strong>, Dec. 28, 1881; member F. & A.M.; Democrat; ordained to the full work of the ministry, March, 1881; labored as a minister in Ky., Ore., Tex., Ark., Mo., and Tenn.; elected member of the board of trustees of Bethel College, Oct. 1905, and president of same, 1909; elected member of the board of education and corresponding secretary and treasurer, 1906; elected dean theological department Bethel College, July 17, 1908; member of Cumberland Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: McKenzie JOHNSON, Philip Franklin, minister of the gospel; born Weakley county, Tenn., Jan. 20, 1852; Scotch-Irish and German descent; son of W.B. and Sarah (Groom) JOHNSON; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandparents John P. and Mary (Harral) JOHNSON; maternal grandparents Bright and Kate (Winders) GROOMS; educated at Bethel College and Cumberland University; graduated from Bethel […]<\/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":[1760,21,31,363,79,818,4419],"tags":[1333,1722,1747,4360,2477],"class_list":{"0":"post-5989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bethel-college","7":"category-carroll","8":"category-cumberland-university","9":"category-henry","10":"category-surname-j","11":"category-weakley","12":"category-x_featured-image-no","13":"tag-flippin","14":"tag-groom","15":"tag-harral","16":"tag-johnson","17":"tag-winders","18":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989","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=5989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15501,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5989\/revisions\/15501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}