{"id":7786,"date":"2013-09-12T23:52:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T04:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:29:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:29:06","slug":"erskine-washington-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/erskine-washington-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"ERSKINE, Washington Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>ERSKINE, Washington Gordon<\/strong><b>, <\/b>insurance; born Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 3, 1878; English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of <strong>Alexander<\/strong> and <strong>Margaret Louisa (Gordon) ERSKINE<\/strong><b>;<\/b> father\u2019s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents, <strong>Alexander<\/strong> and <strong>Susan Catherine (Russel) ERSKINE<\/strong><b>,<\/b> maternal grandparents,<strong> George W.<\/strong> and <strong>Elizabeth (Bradshow) GORDON<\/strong>; educated in the city schools of Memphis, Tenn., and attended Memphis University School two years; began career as clerk in wholesale grocery store, and as secretary and treasurer of W. E. McGehee Co.; in 1906 became soliciting agent of Life Insurance Co., and in 1907 general agent Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., of Philadelphia, Pa.; 1908 became member of the firm of\u00a0 Sibley &amp; Erskine, general agents Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., and Great Eastern Casualty Co., of New York, in which business he is now engaged; member of F. &amp; A. M. (32d degree) and K. T., Business Men\u2019s Club and Chickasaw Club, Memphis, Tenn.; member of Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis ERSKINE, Washington Gordon, insurance; born Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 3, 1878; English and Scotch-Irish descent; son of Alexander and Margaret Louisa (Gordon) ERSKINE; father\u2019s occupation, physician; paternal grandparents, Alexander and Susan Catherine (Russel) ERSKINE, maternal grandparents, George W. and Elizabeth (Bradshow) GORDON; educated in the city schools of Memphis, Tenn., and attended Memphis University [&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":[2757,261,4409,4419],"tags":[2971,2968,1469,2490],"class_list":{"0":"post-7786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-memphis-university-school","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-e","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-bradshow","11":"tag-erskine","12":"tag-gordon","13":"tag-russel","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786","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=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10731,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions\/10731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}