{"id":9481,"date":"2013-12-26T18:52:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T00:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:40:46","slug":"kern-john-adam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/kern-john-adam\/","title":{"rendered":"KERN, John Adam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City<\/strong>: Nashville<\/p>\n<p><strong>KERN, John Adam<\/strong>, Professor Vanderbilt University; born Frederick County, Va., April 23, 1846; German-English descent; son of <strong>Nimrod and Eliza (Bentley) KERN<\/strong>; father, farmer and ice dealer; paternal grandparents <strong>Adam and Margaret (Rittenour) KERN<\/strong>, maternal grandparents <strong>George and Catherine (Hoover) BENTLEY<\/strong>; educated Winchester High School, Winchester Seminary and University of Virginia; received from Washington and Lee University 1889, D.D. degree, and from Randolph-Macon College, 1906, the degree of LL.D.; married <strong>Margaret Virginia ESKRIDGE<\/strong>, January 25, 1875; admitted into Baltimore Conference, M. Episcopal Church, South, 1866; elected Professor of Philosophy, Randolph-Macon College, 1886, and President of the college in 1897; held chair of Practical Theology in Vanderbilt University since 1899; author of &#8220;The Ministry to the Congregation,&#8221; &#8220;The Way of the Preacher,&#8221; &#8220;The Listening Heart,&#8221; &#8220;The Idea of the Church&#8221; and &#8220;Christianity as Organized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>Source: Who\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 KERN, John Adam, Professor Vanderbilt University; born Frederick County, Va., April 23, 1846; German-English descent; son of Nimrod and Eliza (Bentley) KERN; father, farmer and ice dealer; paternal grandparents Adam and Margaret (Rittenour) KERN, maternal grandparents George and Catherine (Hoover) BENTLEY; educated Winchester High School, Winchester Seminary and University of Virginia; received from [&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":[162,80,7,4062,4419],"tags":[4049,1413,623,4048,4050],"class_list":{"0":"post-9481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-k","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-bentley","12":"tag-eskridge","13":"tag-hoover","14":"tag-kern","15":"tag-rittenour","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","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=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12954,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions\/12954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}