{"id":7524,"date":"2013-08-27T20:06:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T01:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7524"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:40:02","slug":"james-george-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/james-george-r\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMES, George R."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>JAMES, George R.<\/strong>, manufacturer, born Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 12, 1866; English descent; son of <strong>Henry and Caroline (Roosa) JAMES<\/strong>; educated in public schools of Memphis, Tenn.; became secretary and treasurer of the James &amp; Granam Wagon Co., in 1886, and in 1889 became president of same company, and has so continued until present time; he is also president of Memphis Steel Construction Co., Crystal Ice &amp; Coal Co., and director in U.S. Trust and Savings Bank, Memphis, Tenn.; married <strong>Lizzie C. CARPENTER<\/strong>, Jan. 12, 1888; member F. &amp; A.M. (York and Scottish Rite 32d degree, Shriner), Business Men&#8217;s Club, Country Club, Tri-State Club, National Wagon Manufacturers&#8217; Assn. (President); member of Memphis City Council, 1902, resigned; member Episcopal church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis JAMES, George R., manufacturer, born Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 12, 1866; English descent; son of Henry and Caroline (Roosa) JAMES; educated in public schools of Memphis, Tenn.; became secretary and treasurer of the James &amp; Granam Wagon Co., in 1886, and in 1889 became president of same company, and has so continued until present [&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":[261,79,4419],"tags":[342,4392,2872],"class_list":{"0":"post-7524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-j","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-carpenter","10":"tag-james","11":"tag-roosa","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524","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=7524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10412,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7524\/revisions\/10412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}