Town: Centerville<\/p>\n
WALKER, James Buchanan<\/strong>, banker; born Whitfield, Tenn., June 25, 1857; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James and Emeline (Cooper) WALKER<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation farmer; received common school education; began life on a farm and earned first $100 on own account as teacher in the public schools; began mercantile business at age of 22 and followed it for ten years; has been in the banking business for twenty years; married Henrie Bascomb RUSSELL<\/strong> Sept. 30, 1897; member of Knights of Pythias; hard money, Independent Democrat; first mayor of Centerville, Tenn. in 1904 and re-elected for a second term without opposition; twice elected vice-president of the Tenn. Bankers\u2019 Association; member Methodist Episcopal church, South, and for twenty years Superintendent of the Sunday school; cashier of First National Bank of Centerville, Tenn., for past twenty years; large real estate owner in Hickman Co., Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Town: Centerville WALKER, James Buchanan, banker; born Whitfield, Tenn., June 25, 1857; Scotch-Irish descent; son of James and Emeline (Cooper) WALKER; father\u2019s occupation farmer; received common school education; began life on a farm and earned first $100 on own account as teacher in the public schools; began mercantile business at age of 22 and followed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[190,4415,4419],"tags":[437,612,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hickman","7":"category-surname-w","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-cooper","10":"tag-russell","11":"tag-walker","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15274,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/15274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}