{"id":9810,"date":"2013-12-02T14:42:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9810"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:52:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:52:40","slug":"russe-william-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/russe-william-h\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSE, William H."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Memphis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>RUSSE, William H., <\/b>business man, born Indianapolis, Ind., in 1855; educated in the public schools of Indianapolis and Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University; entered the lumber business in 1889 in Indianapolis, and two years later opened a branch at Cairo, Ill.; in 1893 he closed his business at Indianapolis, and in 1898 went to Memphis; the following year he disposed of the Cairo branch and at the present time he conducts a lumber business in Memphis, and a branch in New Orleans; since 1894 the firm has been Russe &amp; Burgess; he is a 32d degree Mason, and Noble of the Mystic Shrine, a Knight of Pythias and member of the Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoos; affiliates with the Lutheran church.<\/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: Memphis RUSSE, William H., business man, born Indianapolis, Ind., in 1855; educated in the public schools of Indianapolis and Northwestern Christian (now Butler) University; entered the lumber business in 1889 in Indianapolis, and two years later opened a branch at Cairo, Ill.; in 1893 he closed his business at Indianapolis, and in 1898 went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[261,87,4062,4419],"tags":[3309],"class_list":{"0":"post-9810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-r","8":"category-whoswho","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-russe","11":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12849,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9810\/revisions\/12849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}