{"id":9952,"date":"2014-01-06T21:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T03:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:41:58","slug":"landis-john-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/landis-john-t\/","title":{"rendered":"LANDIS, John T."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>LANDIS, JOHN T., <\/b>banker and broker; born Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., August 4, 1866; Swiss-English descent; son of <b>Absalom L. <\/b>and <b>Nancy (Carter) LANDIS; <\/b>father, banker, farmer and manufacturer; paternal grandparents <b>John<\/b> and <b>Mary (Lowe) LANDIS<\/b>, maternal grandparents <b>William<\/b> and <b>Keziah (Tannehill) CARTER<\/b>; educated by private tutor; began his business career in office of manufacturing establishment in 1884; in 1886 entered banking and brokerage business; interested in early development of the telephone in Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana; active in inducing investment of capital from East and North in Southern enterprises; pioneer in development of automobile business in Tennessee and pioneer advocate of good roads movement and restoration of the old Louisville and Nashville turnpike; now engaged in banking and brokerage, real estate and automobile business; married <b>Melinda Bacon BOONE<\/b>, December 17, 1890; member of Hermitage Club, Golf and Country Club, Cumberland Park Club, Board of Trade and Nashville Automobile Club of Nashville; Automobile Club of America, New York.<\/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: Nashville LANDIS, JOHN T., banker and broker; born Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., August 4, 1866; Swiss-English descent; son of Absalom L. and Nancy (Carter) LANDIS; father, banker, farmer and manufacturer; paternal grandparents John and Mary (Lowe) LANDIS, maternal grandparents William and Keziah (Tannehill) CARTER; educated by private tutor; began his business career in office [&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":[14,162,81,4062,4419],"tags":[547,4327,1742,2137,734],"class_list":{"0":"post-9952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bedford","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-surname-l","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-boone","12":"tag-carter","13":"tag-landis","14":"tag-lowe","15":"tag-tannehill","16":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952","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=9952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13144,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9952\/revisions\/13144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}