{"id":9116,"date":"2013-11-22T21:54:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T03:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9116"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:35:12","slug":"gray-john-moffitt-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/gray-john-moffitt-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAY, John Moffitt, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>GRAY, John Moffitt, Jr.<\/strong>, merchant-manufacturer; born Gallatin, Tenn., June 29, 1869; English descent; son of <strong>John M. and Elvira Dale (Pillow) GRAY<\/strong>; father, merchant and farmer; paternal grandparents <strong>Ben and Martha (Morse) GRAY<\/strong>; maternal grandparents <strong>Jerome B. and Elvira (Dale) PILLOW<\/strong>; he is a descendant of <strong>Sir Thomas DALE, Dolly MADISON, <\/strong>and<strong> Gideon PILLOW<\/strong>; graduated from Montgomery-Bell Academy, Nashville, Tenn., 1887; engaged in the wholesale hardware business early in life; married <strong>Reba Franklin WILSON<\/strong>, April 21, 1897; is now Vice-President of Gray &amp; Dudley Hardware Company and Director in American National Bank, Wilson Lumber &amp; Land Company, Tennessee Rapid Transit Company, Odeon Amusement Company, Nashville Industrial Bureau; member of the Royal Arcanum, Hermitage Club, Nashville Golf and Country Club, being organizer and first President of last named club.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville GRAY, John Moffitt, Jr., merchant-manufacturer; born Gallatin, Tenn., June 29, 1869; English descent; son of John M. and Elvira Dale (Pillow) GRAY; father, merchant and farmer; paternal grandparents Ben and Martha (Morse) GRAY; maternal grandparents Jerome B. and Elvira (Dale) PILLOW; he is a descendant of Sir Thomas DALE, Dolly MADISON, and Gideon [&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":[162,1259,812,4411,4062,4419],"tags":[529,280,4334,3270,3269,4341],"class_list":{"0":"post-9116","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-g","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-dale","13":"tag-gray","14":"tag-madison","15":"tag-morse","16":"tag-pillow","17":"tag-wilson","18":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116","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=9116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13047,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9116\/revisions\/13047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}