{"id":7205,"date":"2013-03-17T20:07:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:37:10","slug":"hill-a-bruce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/hill-a-bruce\/","title":{"rendered":"HILL, A. Bruce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>HILL, A. Bruce<\/strong>, secretary Board of Education; born in Tipton Co., Tenn., Dec. 12, 1837; Scotch-Irish and French descent; son of <strong>John S. and Henrietta (Dewese) HILL<\/strong>; educated at Mt. Carmel Academy, Tipton Co., Tenn., and graduated from same; worked on farm until 1855, then taught school two years; entered the mercantile business 1858-1861; served in Confederate army 1861-1865; engaged in the mercantile business 1865-1881; elected secretary Board of Education, Sept., 1881, and has continued in that position to the present date; married twice, first in 1865, second in 1872; member Masons, Odd Fellows Knights of Honor; Democrat; member of the Old School Presbyterian church and officer in same since 1870.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis HILL, A. Bruce, secretary Board of Education; born in Tipton Co., Tenn., Dec. 12, 1837; Scotch-Irish and French descent; son of John S. and Henrietta (Dewese) HILL; educated at Mt. Carmel Academy, Tipton Co., Tenn., and graduated from same; worked on farm until 1855, then taught school two years; entered the mercantile business [&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":[3062,261,77,260,4419],"tags":[2816,4369],"class_list":{"0":"post-7205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-mt-carmel-academy","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-h","9":"category-tipton","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-dewese","12":"tag-hill","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","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=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8130,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/8130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}