{"id":7625,"date":"2013-09-05T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T22:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7625"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:43:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:43:40","slug":"mathews-william-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/mathews-william-d\/","title":{"rendered":"MATHEWS, William D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>MATHEWS, William D.<\/strong>, life insurance and fiscal agent; born Eleroy, Stephenson Co., Ill., Oct. 2, 1855; English-Irish-Scotch-Welsh descent; son of <strong>Sam R. and Celia (Packer) MATHEWS<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation manufacturer; paternal grandparents <strong>William C. and Eliza MATHEWS<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>Daniel B. and Desire (Lincoln) PACKER<\/strong>; educated in the public schools of Lena, Ill., and Carthage, Ill., Lutheran College, and Medical School; in early and middle life he was a newspaper publisher and engaged in banking, real estate and drug business; also admitted to the bar and practiced law; married <strong>Emelilne THORNTON<\/strong>, April 16, 1876; member Masons, Blue Lodge, Chapter, Commander and Shrine, I. O. O. F., K. P. and Elks; Democrat; former postmaster at O\u2019Neill, Neb., five years, register at U. S. Land office O\u2019Neill, 1893.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis MATHEWS, William D., life insurance and fiscal agent; born Eleroy, Stephenson Co., Ill., Oct. 2, 1855; English-Irish-Scotch-Welsh descent; son of Sam R. and Celia (Packer) MATHEWS; father\u2019s occupation manufacturer; paternal grandparents William C. and Eliza MATHEWS, maternal grandparents Daniel B. and Desire (Lincoln) PACKER; educated in the public schools of Lena, Ill., and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[261,82,4419],"tags":[4370,458,2908,423],"class_list":{"0":"post-7625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-m","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-lincoln","10":"tag-mathews","11":"tag-packer","12":"tag-thornton","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10614,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7625\/revisions\/10614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}