{"id":9825,"date":"2013-12-30T19:59:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T01:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9825"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:53:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:53:02","slug":"scott-alexander-yerger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/scott-alexander-yerger\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTT, Alexander Yerger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><b>SCOTT, Alexander Yerger, <\/b>lawyer; born Three Oaks, Miss., Dec. 17, 1870; English descent; son of <b>Charles<\/b> and <b>Malvina (Yerger) SCOTT<\/b>; father&#8217;s occupation lawyer; paternal grandfather <b>Charles SCOTT<\/b>, maternal grandparents <b>Alexander<\/b> and <b>Elizabeth (Rucks) YERGER<\/b>; educated University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and University of Miss.; graduated from latter with B. L. degree in 1893; married <b>Elizabeth B. CARROLL<\/b>, June12, 1909; member Kappa Sigma fraternity, Mason, Shrine, K. P., B. P. O. E., Natural Art Club and Press club of N. Y., Business Men&#8217;s Club, country club and Tenn. Club; Democrat; member of Episcopal Church; all of his business life has been devoted to the practice of law.<\/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: Memphis SCOTT, Alexander Yerger, lawyer; born Three Oaks, Miss., Dec. 17, 1870; English descent; son of Charles and Malvina (Yerger) SCOTT; father&#8217;s occupation lawyer; paternal grandfather Charles SCOTT, maternal grandparents Alexander and Elizabeth (Rucks) YERGER; educated University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., and University of Miss.; graduated from latter with B. L. degree in [&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":[261,88,393,4062,4419],"tags":[4326,3317,4396,2680],"class_list":{"0":"post-9825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-s","8":"category-univ-of-the-south-sewanee","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-carroll","12":"tag-rucks","13":"tag-scott","14":"tag-yerger","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825","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=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12930,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions\/12930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}