{"id":6454,"date":"2013-06-01T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:57","slug":"bickford-william-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/bickford-william-a\/","title":{"rendered":"BICKFORD, William A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>BICKFORD, William A.<\/strong>, real estate operator; born Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 11, 1874; English descent; son of <strong>Henry H. and Elizabeth (Winchester) BICKFORD<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>William A and Louise (Howland) BICKFORD<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>George and Jane (Nixon) WINCHESTER<\/strong>; educated city schools of St. Louis, Mo., Denver, Colo., and Memphis, Tenn.; at age of eighteen he entered a real estate office in Memphis, Tenn., and in 1895 went into that line of business for himself, and has continued to date under firm name of W. A. Bickford &amp; Co.; he is also director of North Memphis Savings Bank, president of Southern Improvement Co., and president of Saino Fire Door and Shutter Co., Memphis, Tenn.; member of Business Men&#8217;s Club, Country Club, Chickasaw Club and Tennessee Club; Democrat; member of Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis BICKFORD, William A., real estate operator; born Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 11, 1874; English descent; son of Henry H. and Elizabeth (Winchester) BICKFORD; paternal grandparents William A and Louise (Howland) BICKFORD, maternal grandparents George and Jane (Nixon) WINCHESTER; educated city schools of St. Louis, Mo., Denver, Colo., and Memphis, Tenn.; at age of eighteen [&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":[261,4405,4419],"tags":[2631,2632,360,1870],"class_list":{"0":"post-6454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-b","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-bickford","10":"tag-howland","11":"tag-nixon","12":"tag-winchester","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454","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=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8723,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions\/8723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}