{"id":9918,"date":"2013-12-31T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T02:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9918"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:57:00","slug":"stratton-leslie-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/stratton-leslie-m\/","title":{"rendered":"STRATTON, Leslie M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City: Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>STRATTON, Leslie M.<\/strong>, merchant; born Lebanon, Tenn., Feb. 23, 1881; English descent; son of <strong>Golladay and Louisa (Norman) STRATTON<\/strong>; educated common schools of Lebanon, Tenn., studied at Cumberland University; began his career as a newsboy, later became clerk in wholesale grocery store; he is now president of Benedict-Warren Hardware Co., also L.M. Stratton Co., wholesale provisions, Memphis, Tenn., and director in Central Bank &amp; Trust Co.; married <strong>Katherine WHITE<\/strong>, Jan. 15, 1902; member of Business Men&#8217;s Club, Merchants Exchange, Alpha Tau Omega Frat.; Democrat; served as page of Tenn. State senate 1893-1897; now member of State Board of Education Commissioners; superintendent of Sunday school and member of the M.E. Church, South.<\/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 STRATTON, Leslie M., merchant; born Lebanon, Tenn., Feb. 23, 1881; English descent; son of Golladay and Louisa (Norman) STRATTON; educated common schools of Lebanon, Tenn., studied at Cumberland University; began his career as a newsboy, later became clerk in wholesale grocery store; he is now president of Benedict-Warren Hardware Co., also L.M. Stratton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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":[31,261,88,4062,102,4419],"tags":[2925,2582,4347],"class_list":{"0":"post-9918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-shelby","8":"category-surname-s","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-wilson","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-norman","13":"tag-stratton","14":"tag-white","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12924,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9918\/revisions\/12924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}