{"id":1020,"date":"2011-05-24T14:04:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T21:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2018-01-19T11:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:05:18","slug":"denson-john-vernon-1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1020","title":{"rendered":"DENSON, JOHN VERNON, 1885-1940."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer, banker. Born&#8211; June 10, 1885, LaFayette. Parents&#8211; Nimrod Davis and Carrie (Vernon) Denson. Married&#8211; Clara Ellen Forbes Owens, December 10, 1940. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1905; M.S., 1906; University of Alabama, LL.B, 1908. Military service&#8211;U.S. Army captain, WWI. Practiced law in LaFayette, 1908; in\u00a0Opelika until 1940; president of Farmers National Bank. Member of the Board of Directors, West Point Manufacturing Company; Board of Trustees of Alabama Polytechnic Institute.\u00a0 Died December 17, 1940.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s The Story of Alabama, Vol. 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slavery Laws in Alabama. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn University Historical Studies, 1908.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Lawyer, banker. Born&#8211; June 10, 1885, LaFayette. Parents&#8211; Nimrod Davis and Carrie (Vernon) Denson. Married&#8211; Clara Ellen Forbes Owens, December 10, 1940. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1905; M.S., 1906; University of Alabama, LL.B, 1908. Military service&#8211;U.S. Army captain, WWI. Practiced law in LaFayette, 1908; in\u00a0Opelika until 1940; president of Farmers National Bank. Member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7371,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}