City: Chattanooga<\/p>\n
FAXON, John Wellington<\/strong>, retired banker; born in Buffalo, N. Y., May 24, 1840; direct descendant of Gov. Wm. BRADFORD<\/strong> of Plymouth Colony; son of Charles and Lucy Ann (Steele) FAXON<\/strong>; father\u2019s occupation, editor and publisher, Hartford, Conn., Buffalo, N. Y., and Clarksville, Tenn.; educated Clarksville, Tenn., Masonic College, and Stewart College; in early life he was engaged in banking and insurance business; married Florence HERRING<\/strong> Feb. 22, 1866; member of Masons, Hamilton R. A. C., Council R. & S. M., Chattanooga Golf and Country Club, K. of H.; former Alderman and Treas. of city of Clarksville, Tenn.; appointed Assistant Supervisor of Banks of Tenn., 1859; Ex-Secretary Tenn. Bankers\u2019 Association; Ex-Vice-President American Bankers\u2019 Association for Tennessee; Col. and Aide-de-camp on staff of Commanding Gen. U. C. V.; Vice-President Tenn. Society Sons of American Revolution; Ex-Vice-President Southern Commercial Congress Ex-President Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce; Ex-Assistant Cashier of First National Baank [sic]<\/em> of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Ex-Trustee American Institute of Civics; served in C. S. A. April 16, 1861, to May 3, 1865; member Southern Presbyterian Church and Ruling Elder in same; member of National Geographic Society of Washington, D. C.; General Society of Mayflower Descendants; The Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, Society of the Descendants of Colonial Governors, National Municipal League; retired banker; President of Human Education Society and of Lewis Mission of Chattanooga, and of Faxon, Stuart & Co., real estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Chattanooga FAXON, John Wellington, retired banker; born in Buffalo, N. Y., May 24, 1840; direct descendant of Gov. Wm. BRADFORD of Plymouth Colony; son of Charles and Lucy Ann (Steele) FAXON; father\u2019s occupation, editor and publisher, Hartford, Conn., Buffalo, N. Y., and Clarksville, Tenn.; educated Clarksville, Tenn., Masonic College, and Stewart College; in early […]<\/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":[151,708,4410,4419],"tags":[709,711,710],"class_list":{"0":"post-925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hamilton","7":"category-stewart-college","8":"category-surname-f","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-faxon","11":"tag-herrent","12":"tag-steele","13":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","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=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15073,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/15073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}