{"id":2231,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2231"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"wilkins, benjamin harrison, sr., 1856-1941  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"WILKINS, BENJAMIN HARRISON, SR., 1856-1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businessman.  Born&#8211;  April 4, 1856, in St. Mary&#8217;s Parish, La.  Parents&#8211;  Richard  Augustus and Margaret Adams (Minge) Wilkins.  Lived in Virginia, 1860-1870; moved to Selma, Ala.  Education&#8211;  private tutors and Richmond schools.  Married&#8211;  Mattie Kent.  Children&#8211;  One.  Married&#8211;  Janie B. Weeden in 1898.  Children&#8211;  One.  Married&#8211;  Mary D. McDavid Foster of Florence.  Employed as bank messenger and as jobber.  Commissioned a captain in Alabama National Guard; served twenty years.  Operated overalls manufacturing plant, Nashville, 1892; established the Tennessee Overalls Company, Tullahoma, 1905. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Encyclopedia of American Biography, New Series, Vol. 15.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>War Boy;  a True Story of the Civil War and Reconstruction Days.  Tullahoma,                      Tenn.;  Wilson Brothers, 1938. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businessman. Born&#8211; April 4, 1856, in St. Mary&#8217;s Parish, La. Parents&#8211; Richard Augustus and Margaret Adams (Minge) Wilkins. Lived in Virginia, 1860-1870; moved to Selma, Ala. Education&#8211; private tutors and Richmond schools. Married&#8211; Mattie Kent. Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Janie B. Weeden in 1898. Children&#8211; One. Married&#8211; Mary D. McDavid Foster of Florence. Employed as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}