{"id":9322,"date":"2013-12-13T19:27:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T01:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9322"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:37:57","slug":"hoss-elijah-embree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/hoss-elijah-embree\/","title":{"rendered":"HOSS, Elijah Embree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City<\/strong>: Nashville<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOSS, Elijah Embree<\/strong>, Bishop M. E. Church, South; born Jonesboro, Tenn., April 14, 1849; son of <strong>Henry and Anna (Sevier) HOSS<\/strong>; English, French, German descent; father was a merchant; Chancery Clerk, etc.; paternal grandparents Isaac and <strong>Hannah (Bayless) HOSS,<\/strong> maternal grandparents <strong>John and Sophia (Garrette) SEVIER<\/strong>; graduated from Emory &amp; Henry College, Va., June, 1869, with degrees of B.A., M. A., D.D. and LL.D.; LL.D. conferred upon him by Emory College, Ga., and Ohio Wesleyan University; married <strong>Abbie B. CLARK<\/strong>, November 19, 1872; is a Mason; served as pastor from 1869 to 1876; Professor and President Martha Washington College, 1875 to 1881; Professor Emory\u00a0 &amp; Henry College 1881 to 1885; Professor Vanderbilt University 1885 to 1890; Editor of the Christian Advocate, general organ of M. E. Church, South, 1890 to 1902; Bishop since 1902.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Nashville HOSS, Elijah Embree, Bishop M. E. Church, South; born Jonesboro, Tenn., April 14, 1849; son of Henry and Anna (Sevier) HOSS; English, French, German descent; father was a merchant; Chancery Clerk, etc.; paternal grandparents Isaac and Hannah (Bayless) HOSS, maternal grandparents John and Sophia (Garrette) SEVIER; graduated from Emory &amp; Henry College, Va., [&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":[162,77,7,216,4062,4419],"tags":[209,202,1443,2216,4348],"class_list":{"0":"post-9322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-h","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-washington","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-bayless","13":"tag-clark","14":"tag-garrett","15":"tag-hoss","16":"tag-sevier","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322","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=9322"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12730,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9322\/revisions\/12730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}