{"id":6510,"date":"2013-12-27T00:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2023-06-12T12:48:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:48:36","slug":"brett-james-jb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/brett-james-jb\/","title":{"rendered":"BRETT, James, JB."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>BRETT, James, JB.<\/strong>, public official; born Memphis, Aug. 15 1871; Irish descent; son of <strong>James and Laura T. (Nelson) BRETT<\/strong>; father&#8217;s occupation, lawyer; paternal grandparents, <strong>James M. and Sarah (McClain) BRETT<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, <strong>Thomas A. and Miriam (Moslev) NELSON<\/strong>; educated at Germantown, Tenn.; married <strong>Lucille HARRISON<\/strong>; member Masonic lodge, I.O.O.F., K. &amp; L. of H., and Owls; Democrat; former secretary coms. registration elections two years, secretary democratic executive committee four years; at present is deputy county and probate court clerk, in which position he has served 17 years; member of Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n<p>{Note: JB. in the original the B was printed in a smaller size than the J.}<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis BRETT, James, JB., public official; born Memphis, Aug. 15 1871; Irish descent; son of James and Laura T. (Nelson) BRETT; father&#8217;s occupation, lawyer; paternal grandparents, James M. and Sarah (McClain) BRETT, maternal grandparents, Thomas A. and Miriam (Moslev) NELSON; educated at Germantown, Tenn.; married Lucille HARRISON; member Masonic lodge, I.O.O.F., K. &amp; L. [&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":[261,4405,4062,4419],"tags":[2652,487,2566,2653,357],"class_list":{"0":"post-6510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-b","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-brett","11":"tag-harrison","12":"tag-mcclain","13":"tag-moslev","14":"tag-nelson","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510","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=6510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12918,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6510\/revisions\/12918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}