{"id":7842,"date":"2013-09-15T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T04:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:29:38","slug":"faxon-finley-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/faxon-finley-w\/","title":{"rendered":"FAXON, Finley W."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAXON, Finley W., <\/strong>real estate; born Clarksville, Tenn., Sept. 12, 1874; English descent; son of <strong>George B.<\/strong> and <strong>Sidney (Finley) FAXON<\/strong><b>; <\/b>father banker; secretary and treasurer M. C. &amp; L. Ry.; paternal grandparents, <strong>Charles<\/strong> and <strong>Lucy (Steele) FINLEY<\/strong><b>,<\/b> maternal grandparents, <strong>Dr. John B.<\/strong> and <strong>Elizabeth (Lamb) FINLEY<\/strong><b>;<\/b> educated in the public schools of Clarksville, Tenn.; enlisted as private in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Tenn. Vol. Spanish-American war April, 1898, attained rank of Sergt.-Maj., and later captain in state militia 1899-1902; began his career as clerk in coal dealer\u2019s office continuing in same seven years, and became salesman for the firm of Geo. H. Glasscock &amp; Co., real estate, 1899-1902; organized firm of F. W. Faxon &amp; Co., Inc., 1902, and is president of same; organized Speedway Land Co., Highland Heights Real Estate Co., also Avondale Land Co., and Memphis Real Estate Investment Co., general manager of all above companies; married <strong>Elinor SELLERS<\/strong><b>, <\/b>June 19, 1901; member of Business Men\u2019s Club (Pres. 1909-10), director and member of Memphis Real Estate Assn.; Democrat; member of St. Mary\u2019s Cathedral, Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis FAXON, Finley W., real estate; born Clarksville, Tenn., Sept. 12, 1874; English descent; son of George B. and Sidney (Finley) FAXON; father banker; secretary and treasurer M. C. &amp; L. Ry.; paternal grandparents, Charles and Lucy (Steele) FINLEY, maternal grandparents, Dr. John B. and Elizabeth (Lamb) FINLEY; educated in the public schools of [&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":[600,261,4410,4419],"tags":[709,2794,1502,2986,710],"class_list":{"0":"post-7842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-montgomery","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-f","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-faxon","11":"tag-finley","12":"tag-lamb","13":"tag-sellers","14":"tag-steele","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","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=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10746,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions\/10746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}