{"id":7461,"date":"2013-07-03T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T21:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7461"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:26:14","slug":"dickson-john-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/dickson-john-w\/","title":{"rendered":"DICKSON, John W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>DICKSON, John W<\/strong><b>., <\/b>lumberman; born Cincinnati, O., Dec. 29, 1851; Irish descent; son of <strong>William B.<\/strong> and <strong>Mary A. (Johnston) DICKSON<\/strong><b>;<\/b> educated in High School of Cincinnati, O., graduated from same in 1867; began his career as lumber inspector; entered lumber business with his father under firm name of W. B. Dickson Co., Indianapolis, Ind., in 1884; succeeded his father in business under firm name of J. W. Dickson Lumber Co., Inc. of Memphis, Tenn.; which firm continued until 1892, when it was succeeded by J. W. Dickson Co., (not incorporated), of which he is president and sole representative; also president of The Valley Log Loading Co., Memphis, Tenn.; married <strong>Cora B. GUNAKEL<\/strong>, Feb. 14, 1884; member of F.&amp; A. M., (chapter), B. P. O. F. lodge No. 13, Indianapolis, Ind., Business Men\u2019s Club, Hatchie Coon Hunting and Fishing Club, Memphis, Tenn., and \u201cHoo Hoo\u201d Lumberman\u2019s Club; Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis DICKSON, John W., lumberman; born Cincinnati, O., Dec. 29, 1851; Irish descent; son of William B. and Mary A. (Johnston) DICKSON; educated in High School of Cincinnati, O., graduated from same in 1867; began his career as lumber inspector; entered lumber business with his father under firm name of W. B. Dickson Co., [&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":[261,4408,4419],"tags":[4357,2851,684],"class_list":{"0":"post-7461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-d","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-dickson","10":"tag-gunakel","11":"tag-johnston","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461","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=7461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9893,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7461\/revisions\/9893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}