City: Memphis<\/p>\n
BOWERS, Duke Cayce<\/strong>, retail groceryman; born Mobile, Ala., Nov. 17, 1874; English-Irish and Scotch descent; son of Calvin T. and Ida (Cayce) BOWERS<\/strong>; father’s occupation, merchant; paternal grandparents, Giles and Rebecca (Adams) BOWERS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, John Hardy and Louisa (Milner) CAYCE<\/strong>; educated at Marvin College, at Clinton, Ky., and was expelled from same for not being willing to give up to principal an unread note from a young lady; about a year ago by recommendation of said principal was exonerated by the Board of Curators of said college, and later was elected by the board as one of its members; entered retail grocery business in early life, and is owner and operator of 35 retail grocery stores in Memphis, Tenn., known as “Temples of Economy;” married Ethel GIBBS<\/strong> Oct. 24, 1900; member Scottish Rite Masons, Merchants’ Exchange, Business Men’s Club and Y.M.C.A.; former City Clerk and Mayor of Columbus Ky.; assistant to Mr. Thomas Dies in trying to get better street car service for Memphis; refused as a volunteer in late Spanish war on account of being partially blind in one eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Memphis BOWERS, Duke Cayce, retail groceryman; born Mobile, Ala., Nov. 17, 1874; English-Irish and Scotch descent; son of Calvin T. and Ida (Cayce) BOWERS; father’s occupation, merchant; paternal grandparents, Giles and Rebecca (Adams) BOWERS, maternal grandparents, John Hardy and Louisa (Milner) CAYCE; educated at Marvin College, at Clinton, Ky., and was expelled from same […]<\/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":[272,2645,2646,149,2647],"class_list":{"0":"post-6490","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-adams","10":"tag-bowers","11":"tag-cayce","12":"tag-gibbs","13":"tag-milner","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","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=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8745,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions\/8745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}