{"id":9143,"date":"2013-12-13T19:09:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T01:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9143"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:37:22","slug":"hitt-lewis-melvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/hitt-lewis-melvin\/","title":{"rendered":"HITT, Lewis Melvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>City:<\/strong> Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>HITT, Lewis Melvin<\/strong>, Circuit Court Clerk, Davidson County; born Davidson County, Tenn., March 26, 1867; German-Scotch descent; son of <strong>John S. and Lucie (Craig) HITT<\/strong>; father, farmer; paternal grandparents <strong>James S. and Nancy (Cunningham) HITT<\/strong>, maternal grandparents, <strong>Lewis Y. and Emily (Lowry) CRAIG<\/strong>; educated county schools, began his business career as farmer, later Deputy Clerk of the Circuit and Supreme Courts, and Circuit Court Clerk; married <strong>Annie DOUGLASS<\/strong>, November 19, 1895; member Scottish Rite Masons, Shriner, Red Men, K. of P., W. of W., Junior O. U. A. M.; Democrat; member Missionary Baptist Church.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who&#8217;s 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 HITT, Lewis Melvin, Circuit Court Clerk, Davidson County; born Davidson County, Tenn., March 26, 1867; German-Scotch descent; son of John S. and Lucie (Craig) HITT; father, farmer; paternal grandparents James S. and Nancy (Cunningham) HITT, maternal grandparents, Lewis Y. and Emily (Lowry) CRAIG; educated county schools, began his business career as farmer, later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"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":[162,77,4062,4419],"tags":[641,516,3987,476],"class_list":{"0":"post-9143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-h","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-craig","11":"tag-douglass","12":"tag-hitt","13":"tag-lowry","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12733,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9143\/revisions\/12733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}