{"id":8423,"date":"2015-02-28T20:48:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T02:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:56:18","slug":"speed-james-marlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/speed-james-marlin\/","title":{"rendered":"SPEED, James Marlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPEED, James Marlin<\/strong>, banker; born Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 25, 1873; English-Irish descent; son of <strong>Robert A. and Mary (Jones) SPEED<\/strong>; paternal grandparents <strong>Jones S. and Julia (Kearney) SPEED<\/strong>, maternal grandfather <strong>Reuben JONES<\/strong>, maternal grandmother was a <strong>Miss BRITROM<\/strong> prior to her marriage; educated Christian Brothers&#8217; College, Memphis, Tenn., graduated Nelson&#8217;s Business College, 1888; began his business career as clerk in Memphis Grain Elevator and Manufacturing Co.; served as assistant bookkeeper and second vice-president National City Bank, Memphis, Tenn.; member B.P.O.E., Business Men&#8217;s Club, Chickasaw Club, Hatchie Coon Hunting &amp; Fishing Club; Democrat; chief deputy County Court Clerk&#8217;s office, 1894-1906; vice-mayor and commissioner of fire and police, Memphis, 1910.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/\">Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/a><\/em>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis SPEED, James Marlin, banker; born Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 25, 1873; English-Irish descent; son of Robert A. and Mary (Jones) SPEED; paternal grandparents Jones S. and Julia (Kearney) SPEED, maternal grandfather Reuben JONES, maternal grandmother was a Miss BRITROM prior to her marriage; educated Christian Brothers&#8217; College, Memphis, Tenn., graduated Nelson&#8217;s Business College, 1888; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2688,3723,261,88,4062,4419],"tags":[3145,263,3144,2749],"class_list":{"0":"post-8423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-christian-brothers-college","7":"category-nelsons-business-college","8":"category-shelby","9":"category-surname-s","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-britrom","13":"tag-jones","14":"tag-kearney","15":"tag-speed","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","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=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14426,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions\/14426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}