City: Napier<\/p>\n
VOORHIES, David Luther<\/strong>, merchant and farmer; born Wayne Co, Tenn., Aug. 25, 1855; English descent; son of Thomas and Eliza J. (Nichols) VOORHIES<\/strong>; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents, David and Alice (McBride) VOORHIES<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, David Porter and Emily E. (Rickets) NICHOLS<\/strong>; educated in the public schools of Lewis Co., and Nashville, Tenn.; early life was spent on farm, then became general superintendent of Columbian cotton mill at Strathmore, Tenn., 1884-89; was a merchant at Summertown, for one and one-half years, and commissary manager for Napier (Tenn.) Iron Works, 20 years; married Mattie E. CRAIG <\/strong>Nov. 11, 1875; member F. & A. M.; Democrat (regular); former justice of the peace of Lawrence Co., Tenn.; notary public, and postmaster at Napier, Tenn.; member of Cumberland Presbyterian church; stockholder Napier Iron Works; merchant and farmer, owns farms in Lewis and Davidson counties, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Napier VOORHIES, David Luther, merchant and farmer; born Wayne Co, Tenn., Aug. 25, 1855; English descent; son of Thomas and Eliza J. (Nichols) VOORHIES; father was a farmer; paternal grandparents, David and Alice (McBride) VOORHIES, maternal grandparents, David Porter and Emily E. (Rickets) NICHOLS; educated in the public schools of Lewis Co., and Nashville, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"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":[162,151,807,4414,817,4419],"tags":[641,1338,523,3177,2393],"class_list":{"0":"post-8616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-hamilton","8":"category-lewis","9":"category-surname-v","10":"category-wayne","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-craig","13":"tag-mcbride","14":"tag-nichols","15":"tag-rickets","16":"tag-voorhies","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}