{"id":9083,"date":"2013-11-18T21:49:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T03:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9083"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:30:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:30:02","slug":"flowers-william-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/flowers-william-valentine\/","title":{"rendered":"FLOWERS, William Valentine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville<\/p>\n<p><strong>FLOWERS, William Valentine<\/strong>, Treasurer Draughon\u2019s Business College; born Cable, Hickman County, Tenn., April 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 1870; Irish descent; son of <strong>David Douglas and Mary (Curl) FLOWERS<\/strong>; father was a physician; educated Haynes &amp; McLean High School, Lewisburg, Tenn., graduating from this school June, 1891; married <strong>Mrs. Lista COONEY<\/strong>, November 11, 1898; he was reared on a farm in Hickman County and taught in the public schools of that county in early life; was later a traveling salesman; was elected to Legislature in 1894, serving one term; studied and practiced law at Centerville, Tenn., until January, 1898; came to Nashville in 1898 and abandoned law for a business career, having been Treasurer of Draughon\u2019s Business College for the past three years; is a member of Cumberland Lodge No. 8, F. &amp; A. M., Scottish Rite Masons.<\/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 FLOWERS, William Valentine, Treasurer Draughon\u2019s Business College; born Cable, Hickman County, Tenn., April 1st, 1870; Irish descent; son of David Douglas and Mary (Curl) FLOWERS; father was a physician; educated Haynes &amp; McLean High School, Lewisburg, Tenn., graduating from this school June, 1891; married Mrs. Lista COONEY, November 11, 1898; he was reared [&hellip;]<\/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":[162,190,4410,4062,4419],"tags":[3250,3249,1508],"class_list":{"0":"post-9083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-hickman","8":"category-surname-f","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-cooney","12":"tag-curl","13":"tag-flowers","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083","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=9083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13264,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9083\/revisions\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}