{"id":7290,"date":"2013-08-19T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:33:36","slug":"allen-richard-henry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/allen-richard-henry\/","title":{"rendered":"ALLEN, Richard Henry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><b>ALLEN, Richard Henry<\/b>, secretary and accountant; born Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 24, 1851; son of <b>Thomas Hampton and Eleanor Hannah (SHANKS) ALLEN<\/b>; father\u2019s occupation, cotton factor, and commission merchant; paternal grandparents, <b>Jesse and Hannah (HAMPTON) ALLEN<\/b>; maternal grandparents, <b>Dr. Lewis and Mary (THOMAS) SHANKS<\/b>; educated in private school of Mr. Vigus, Memphis, Tenn.; graduated from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., elective course, June, 1873; in early life was a cotton factor and commission merchant; married <b>Lizzie Connor WALKER<\/b>, Jan 21. 1879; member Phi Kappa Psi fraternity; Democrat; member School Board Memphis, 1878; captain of police reserves Missouri regiment, Co. \u201cI,\u201d captain Memphis (Tenn.) Light Guard, col. and asst. adj.-gen. National State Guard of Tenn.; member of Protestant church; at present auditing and accounting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis ALLEN, Richard Henry, secretary and accountant; born Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 24, 1851; son of Thomas Hampton and Eleanor Hannah (SHANKS) ALLEN; father\u2019s occupation, cotton factor, and commission merchant; paternal grandparents, Jesse and Hannah (HAMPTON) ALLEN; maternal grandparents, Dr. Lewis and Mary (THOMAS) SHANKS; educated in private school of Mr. Vigus, Memphis, Tenn.; graduated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"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":[261,4406,4419],"tags":[160,3404,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-7290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-a","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-allen","10":"tag-shanks","11":"tag-walker","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10176,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/10176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}