City: Loudon<\/p>\n
GREER, James A.<\/strong>, lawyer, born Knox Co., Tenn., Jan. 16, 1846; son of John and Annis GREER<\/strong>; Scotch-Irish and English descent; father\u2019s occupation farmer; educated State University Bloomington, Ind., and Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.; early business farmer, County Court Clerk of Blount Co., from 1872-1880; chief Deputy Collector and clerk in the Internal Revenue office for the 2d Collector District of Tenn., from 1879 to 1885; Clerk and Master of Blount Co., from 1885 to 1890; Cashier of Citizens\u2019 Bank of Loudon, Tenn., from 1889 to 1898; practicing law ever since; married Sarah H. GREENWAY<\/strong>, Jan. 16, 1868; second marriage to Helen H. EVANS <\/strong>Feby. 15, 1887; member of I. O. O. F.; (has been Deputy Grand Master); was the nominee of the Republican party in 1894 for R. R. Commissioner and ran 5,000 votes ahead of his ticket; member of the Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Loudon GREER, James A., lawyer, born Knox Co., Tenn., Jan. 16, 1846; son of John and Annis GREER; Scotch-Irish and English descent; father\u2019s occupation farmer; educated State University Bloomington, Ind., and Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.; early business farmer, County Court Clerk of Blount Co., from 1872-1880; chief Deputy Collector and clerk in the Internal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[17,276,624,2233,4411,4419],"tags":[655,2604,446],"class_list":{"0":"post-6396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blount","7":"category-knox","8":"category-loudon","9":"category-maryville-college","10":"category-surname-g","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-evans","13":"tag-greenway","14":"tag-greer","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8497,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions\/8497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}