{"id":7972,"date":"2013-09-17T00:07:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T05:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:40:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:40:56","slug":"king-thomas-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/king-thomas-b\/","title":{"rendered":"KING, Thomas B."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>KING, Thomas B.<\/strong>, cotton merchant; born White County, Ark., July, 1861; son <strong>Thomas B. and Eliza B. (Thomas) KING<\/strong>; educated in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; married, first <strong>Mollie WILLIAMS<\/strong>, Brownsville, 1887; second, <strong>Fannie KING<\/strong>, Memphis, 1904; mayor of Bells, Tenn., 1884-85; member of Tennessee Legislature 1887 from Crockett County, Tenn.; moved from Arkansas to Tennessee 1881; lived Bells, Tenn., 6 years; lived Brownsville, Tenn., 1887 to 1901; owned and edited Brownsville States-Democrat 1896-99; moved to Memphis 1901; was President of the Y.M.C.A. from 1903-10; has been four times elected a delegate to the General Conference of the Southern Methodist Conferences; member Methodist Church, South; Democrat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis KING, Thomas B., cotton merchant; born White County, Ark., July, 1861; son Thomas B. and Eliza B. (Thomas) KING; educated in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; married, first Mollie WILLIAMS, Brownsville, 1887; second, Fannie KING, Memphis, 1904; mayor of Bells, Tenn., 1884-85; member of Tennessee Legislature 1887 from Crockett County, Tenn.; moved from Arkansas to Tennessee [&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":[29,59,45,261,80,4419],"tags":[382,419,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-7972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crockett","7":"category-haywood","8":"category-rutherford","9":"category-shelby","10":"category-surname-k","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-king","13":"tag-thomas","14":"tag-williams","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","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=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7975,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions\/7975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}