{"id":8416,"date":"2013-11-04T16:52:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=8416"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:56:07","slug":"smith-wright-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/smith-wright-hammond\/","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, Wright Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>SMITH, Wright Hammond<\/strong>, Vice-President and General Manager of the Jonesboro, Lake City &amp; Eastern Railroad, present headquarters at Jonesboro, Ark.; born in Memphis, Tenn., July 21, 1871; son of <strong>James H. and Emily (Wright) SMITH<\/strong>; Scotch-Irish descent; educated Wharton Jones School, Memphis, and Bingham School, N.C., finishing at Bingham, 1889; married <strong>Floyd HARDIN<\/strong> in June, 1897; member of old Chickasaw Guards and present Chickasaw Club; during service in State National Guard rose to position of Major of Second Regiment, N.G., S.T.; served through both campaigns in troubles with miners at Coal Creek in 1891 and 1892; made trip through Orient in 1891; was Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal in 1891; in grain business 1892-97; cotton business 1898 to 1907; Treasurer Lee Wilson &amp; Co. 1907-10; assumed present position spring of 1911; also Director Wilson Northern Ry., and Bank of Wilson, Wilson, Ark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis SMITH, Wright Hammond, Vice-President and General Manager of the Jonesboro, Lake City &amp; Eastern Railroad, present headquarters at Jonesboro, Ark.; born in Memphis, Tenn., July 21, 1871; son of James H. and Emily (Wright) SMITH; Scotch-Irish descent; educated Wharton Jones School, Memphis, and Bingham School, N.C., finishing at Bingham, 1889; married Floyd HARDIN [&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":[261,88,4419],"tags":[4375,4356,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-8416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-s","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-hardin","10":"tag-smith","11":"tag-wright","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416","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=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}