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DEWITT, John H.<\/strong>, attorney at law; born in Summer \/sic\/<\/em>\u00a0Co., Tenn., September 21, 1872; son Rev. Marcus B. and Mary Hibbett DEWITT<\/strong>; Holland Dutch and Scotch-Irish descent; paternal grandfather, <\/b>Dr. W. J. DEWITT<\/strong>; paternal grandmother, Mary (Beardin) DEWITT<\/strong>; maternal grandfather, John J. HIBBETT<\/strong>; maternal grandmother, Nancy (Parker) HIBBETT<\/strong>; educated Public Schools of Nashville, Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville; Vanderbilt University, George Washington University Law School; graduated Vanderbilt 1894, A. B.; George Washington University 1897 LL.B.; school teacher 1894-97; married Rebecca WARD <\/strong>November 14, 1899; member K. of P., Masons, 3d degree; several insurance orders; ex-President of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity; City Council of the city of Nashville 1899-1901; Board of Education of Nashville 1906-09; member and Secretary of State Board of Reformatory Trustees; Elder Broadway Presbyterian Church; began the practice of law 1897 in offices of L. R. CAMPBELL <\/strong>and J. S. PILCHER<\/strong>; afterwards associated with Robert LUSK, T. J. BAILEY <\/strong>and Col. S. A. CHAMPION<\/strong>; he is now a partner of the Hon. I. L. PENDLETON<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Nashville DEWITT, John H., attorney at law; born in Summer \/sic\/\u00a0Co., Tenn., September 21, 1872; son Rev. Marcus B. and Mary Hibbett DEWITT; Holland Dutch and Scotch-Irish descent; paternal grandfather, Dr. W. J. DEWITT; paternal grandmother, Mary (Beardin) DEWITT; maternal grandfather, John J. HIBBETT; maternal grandmother, Nancy (Parker) HIBBETT; educated Public Schools of 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":[162,1259,812,4408,7,4419],"tags":[1043,3220,4324,1128,3219,3222,444,831,3221,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-9036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-montgomery-bell-academy","8":"category-sumner","9":"category-surname-d","10":"category-vanderbilt-university","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-bailey","13":"tag-beardin","14":"tag-campbell","15":"tag-champion","16":"tag-dewitt","17":"tag-lusk","18":"tag-parker","19":"tag-pendleton","20":"tag-pilcher","21":"tag-ward","22":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","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=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9037,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions\/9037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}