{"id":6493,"date":"2013-06-06T17:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6493"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:48:20","slug":"boyd-alston-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/boyd-alston-m\/","title":{"rendered":"BOYD, Alston M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOYD, Alston M.<\/strong>, real estate agent; born Pine Bluff, Ark., Jan. 9, 1878; Scotch-English descent; son of <strong>Irby and Mary (Fuller) BOYD<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation cotton merchant and planter; educated in Memphis and Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and graduated from later [sic] B.S. degree June, 1899; early occupation, connected with Memphis Machine Works, and five years with Chickasaw Base Ball team, 1898-1903; attended Paris exposition, 1900, and St. Louis World&#8217;s Fair, 1904; married <strong>Mary BELL<\/strong>, Feb. 17, 1904; member Chickasaw Guards Club; Democrat; served as lieutenant in military company in Ala. Polytechnic Institute; member of Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis BOYD, Alston M., real estate agent; born Pine Bluff, Ark., Jan. 9, 1878; Scotch-English descent; son of Irby and Mary (Fuller) BOYD; father&#8217;s occupation cotton merchant and planter; educated in Memphis and Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and graduated from later [sic] B.S. degree June, 1899; early occupation, connected with Memphis Machine Works, and five [&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":[269,425,1862],"class_list":{"0":"post-6493","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-bell","10":"tag-boyd","11":"tag-fuller","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493","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=6493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8746,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6493\/revisions\/8746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}