{"id":6703,"date":"2013-06-20T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=6703"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:25:05","slug":"crain-john-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/crain-john-head\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAIN, John Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><b>CRAIN, John Head, <\/b>born Dixon Spring, Tenn., English and Irish descent; son of <b>Hall Shelton<\/b> and <b>Frances (Brooks) CRAIN<\/b>; father\u2019s occupation, merchant; maternal grandparents, <b>Henry<\/b> and <b>Sallie (Martin) BROOKS<\/b>; educated in public schools; in early life was clerk in village store; member of Business Men\u2019s Club, Memphis, Tenn.; Democrat; former coal oil inspector for Memphis; at present member of Shelby Co. Board of Shelby Co. Board of Election Commission; contributed to papers over non de plume \u201cScanty Creek News,\u201d served four years on Nashville American, and conducted daily column entitled \u201cExcess Baggage,\u201d which was devoted to commercial travelers; was \u201con the road\u201d for fifteen years as commercial traveler for snuff and tobacco factories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis CRAIN, John Head, born Dixon Spring, Tenn., English and Irish descent; son of Hall Shelton and Frances (Brooks) CRAIN; father\u2019s occupation, merchant; maternal grandparents, Henry and Sallie (Martin) BROOKS; educated in public schools; in early life was clerk in village store; member of Business Men\u2019s Club, Memphis, Tenn.; Democrat; former coal oil inspector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[261,197,4407,4419],"tags":[686,2724,513],"class_list":{"0":"post-6703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-smith","8":"category-surname-c","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-brooks","11":"tag-crain","12":"tag-martin","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8950,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6703\/revisions\/8950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}