{"id":8620,"date":"2013-11-09T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2023-06-17T09:37:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T14:37:13","slug":"alexander-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/alexander-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"ALEXANDER, Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALEXANDER, Gross<\/strong>, minister and editor; born Scottsville, Ky., June 1, 1852; son of <strong>Charles Holliday and Eliza Ann (Drane) ALEXANDER<\/strong>; father, physician; paternal grandparents, <strong>A. C. and Elizabeth (Holliday) ALEXANDER<\/strong>; maternal grandparents, <strong>Anthony and Fannie (Settle) DRANE<\/strong>; attended Univ. of Louisville, Drew Seminary and Southern Baptist Seminary; graduated from Univ. of Louisville, A. B. 1871, Drew Seminary, B. D., 1877; S. T. D. Emory &amp; Henry College (Virginia); twice married, first, <strong>Helen M. WATTS<\/strong>, Louisville, Ky., Aug. 12, 1875, second <strong>Arabel WILBURN<\/strong>, Chicago, Nov. 30, 1887; began his career as teacher of Latin and Greek; later served as pastor in New York, State and City, Louisville and Nashville churches; Professor, New Testament Interpretation, Vanderbilt Univ. 1884-1902; Presiding Elder, Louisville, 1902-1906; Book Editor, M. E. Church, South, and Editor Methodist Review, since 1906.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville ALEXANDER, Gross, minister and editor; born Scottsville, Ky., June 1, 1852; son of Charles Holliday and Eliza Ann (Drane) ALEXANDER; father, physician; paternal grandparents, A. C. and Elizabeth (Holliday) ALEXANDER; maternal grandparents, Anthony and Fannie (Settle) DRANE; attended Univ. of Louisville, Drew Seminary and Southern Baptist Seminary; graduated from Univ. of Louisville, A. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15364,"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":[162,4406,7,4062,4418],"tags":[185,3179,3178,1427,1164,2637],"class_list":{"0":"post-8620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-surname-a","9":"category-vanderbilt-university","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-yes","12":"tag-alexander","13":"tag-drane","14":"tag-holliday","15":"tag-settle","16":"tag-watts","17":"tag-wilburn","18":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16009,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions\/16009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}