{"id":7321,"date":"2013-08-20T19:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:34:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:03","slug":"ayres-willis-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/ayres-willis-f\/","title":{"rendered":"AYRES, Willis F."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><b>AYRES, Willis F<\/b>., civil engineer; born Osceola, Ark., Nov. 28, 1876; English descent; son of <b>Edward M. and Sallie J. (BOWEN) AYRES<\/b>; paternal grandparents J<b>ohn B. and _____ (MOSELY) AYRES<\/b>; maternal grandparents <b>Arthur and _____ (HUTCHINSON) BOWEN<\/b>; educated University of Ark., Fayetteville, Ark., and graduated from same with C. E. degree in 1898; was captain and quartermaster of company in Ark. State Guards, 1894-1898; 1898 to 1900 assistant engineer St. Francis levee district of Arkansas; 1900 to 1903 U. S. assistant engineer in charge of construction work, Havana, Cuba; 1903 to 1906 chief engineer Mississippi Valley Ry. of Mo.; 1906 to date consulting engineer, Memphis, Tenn.; chief engineer Jonesboro, Lake City &amp; Eastern Ry. and Wilson Northern Ry.; consulting chief engineer of drainage and reclamation work in Ark. and other improvements; member Business Men\u2019s Club, Chickasaw Guards Club, American Society of Civil Engineers and American Water Works Assn.; Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis AYRES, Willis F., civil engineer; born Osceola, Ark., Nov. 28, 1876; English descent; son of Edward M. and Sallie J. (BOWEN) AYRES; paternal grandparents John B. and _____ (MOSELY) AYRES; maternal grandparents Arthur and _____ (HUTCHINSON) BOWEN; educated University of Ark., Fayetteville, Ark., and graduated from same with C. E. degree in 1898; [&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":[3414,952,1038,3415],"class_list":{"0":"post-7321","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-ayeres","10":"tag-bowen","11":"tag-hutchinson","12":"tag-mosely","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","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=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10194,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions\/10194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}