{"id":6140,"date":"2013-05-03T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6140"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:25","slug":"barton-robert-mckinney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/barton-robert-mckinney\/","title":{"rendered":"BARTON, Robert McKinney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>BARTON, Robert McKinney<\/strong>, lawyer; born Greeneville, Tenn., Nov. 26, 1851; Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Robert McFarland and Hannah (McFarland) BARTON<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>Isaac and Jane (Barton) BARTON<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Robert and Mary (Scott) McFARLAND<\/strong>; educated in the private schools of Hamblen Co., Tenn., and at University of Va., 1871; reared on farm and taught school one session; read law under father, Judge Barton, and uncle, Judge Robert McFarland; married <strong>Virginia McFARLAND<\/strong>, Oct. 4, 1876; member K. of P., Business Men&#8217;s Club, and Memphis Literary Assn.; Democrat; U.S. Commissioner Eastern District of Tenn., eight years, alderman of city of Chattanooga, Tenn., 1879-1880, city attorney of Chattanooga, 1881-1882; State Senator from Hamilton Co., Tenn., 1893-1895; Judge of the Court of Chancery Appeals and Court of Civil Appeals, 1895-1910, first appointed, twice elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis BARTON, Robert McKinney, lawyer; born Greeneville, Tenn., Nov. 26, 1851; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Robert McFarland and Hannah (McFarland) BARTON; paternal grandparents Isaac and Jane (Barton) BARTON, maternal grandparents Robert and Mary (Scott) McFARLAND; educated in the private schools of Hamblen Co., Tenn., and at University of Va., 1871; reared on farm and [&hellip;]<\/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":[254,800,151,261,4405,4419],"tags":[585,1978,4396],"class_list":{"0":"post-6140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-greene","7":"category-hamblen","8":"category-hamilton","9":"category-shelby","10":"category-surname-b","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-barton","13":"tag-mcfarland","14":"tag-scott","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140","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=6140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8192,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6140\/revisions\/8192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}