{"id":7840,"date":"2013-09-14T23:56:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T04:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:29:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:29:28","slug":"farrington-william-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/farrington-william-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"FARRINGTON, William Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>FARRINGTON, William Martin<\/strong><b>, <\/b>retired merchant and banker; born Franklin, Tenn., September 6, 1822; son <strong>Joshua<\/strong><b>\u00a0 <\/b>and <strong>Nancy (Critz) FARRINGTON<\/strong><b>;\u00a0 <\/b>married <strong>Florence TOPP<\/strong>, August 8, 1867; he founded the Union and Planters Bank in 1869, and was its President for four years; he organized the People\u2019s Insurance Company and was President of the first street railway company in the city; President of the Cham of Commerce immediately after the war; was at one time one of the principal owners of the Gayoso Hotel; has been President of Cossitt Library since its founding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis FARRINGTON, William Martin, retired merchant and banker; born Franklin, Tenn., September 6, 1822; son Joshua\u00a0 and Nancy (Critz) FARRINGTON;\u00a0 married Florence TOPP, August 8, 1867; he founded the Union and Planters Bank in 1869, and was its President for four years; he organized the People\u2019s Insurance Company and was President of the first [&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":[261,4410,232,4419],"tags":[2984,420,2985],"class_list":{"0":"post-7840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-f","8":"category-williamson","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-critz","11":"tag-farrington","12":"tag-topp","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","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=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10745,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/10745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}