Biography:

Teacher; children’s author. Born– April 8, 1928, Ozark. Parents– James P. and Merle Tilley. Married– James Yancey Carroll, September 16, 1950.  Children– Two. Education– Randolph-Macon College, A.B., 1949.  Taught in the public schools of Enterprise. Had stories published in Jack and Jill, Together, and National Scholastic. Honors– Southern Writers Award for Juvenile Literature, 1961.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and This Is Alabama.

Publication(s):

This is Alabama. Austin, Tex.; Steck-Vaughn Co., 1981.

Biography:

Born– July 7, 1926, Dothan. Parents– William Franklin and Sara English (Owens) Newton. Married– Kells C. Carroll, June 12, 1947. Children– Two. Education– Attended the University of Alabama; Troy State University, B.A., 1970. Honors– Alabama Library Association Alabama Authors Award for Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, 1975. Lives in Ozark.

Source:

The Search and Sara Newton Carroll.

Publication(s):

The Search; a Biography of Leo Tolstoy. New York; Harper & Row, 1973.

Biography:

Radio broadcaster; speechwriter, novelist. Born–September 4, 1925, Oxford, Alabama. Parents– Ralph and Hermione Carter.  Married– India Thelma Walker.  Children– four.  Education–Attended the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado for one year.  Served in the U.S. Navy in WWII.   Worked as a radio broadcaster in Alabama; at station WILD, Birmingham, 1953-55.  A rabid segregationist during the 1950s and 1960s; served as a speech writer for George Wallance during that time.  Ran for governor of Alabama in 1970; after losing the election moved to Florida and began a new career as a novelist using the pseudonym Forrest Carter.  His novel Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales was made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood. Died June 7, 1979.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online;  Anniston Star, December 1, 1985.

Publication(s):

The Education of Little Tree. New York; Delacorte Press, 1976.

Cry Geronimo.  Dell, 1980.

Rebel Outlaw; Josie Wales. S.l.; Whipperwill Publishers, 1973. (also published as “Gone To Texas”. New York; Delacorte, 1975).

The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales. New York; Delacorte Press, 1976.

Watch For Me On the Mountain. New York; Delacorte Press, 1978.

Biography:

Teacher, university professor; civic leader. Born– May 21, 1922, Springville, Miss. Parents– David and Mary Annie (McCutcheon) Tunnell. Married– John Thomas Carter, March 16, 1946. Children– Two. Education– Attended Blue Mountain College; Wood Junior College, A.A., 1942; University of Southern Mississippi, B.S., 1946; University of Tennessee, M.S., 1948; University of Illinois, Ed.D., 1954; postgraduate study at Ursuline College, 1961, Dayton University, 1963 and Florida State University, 1970. Taught in elementary and high schools and junior colleges in Mississippi; worked for an airplane manufacturing company in Birmingham during WWII: Samford University professor, 1956-84; national executive director, Kappa Delta Epsilon, 1987-2003; president, Carter and Carter Consultants, 1987-2004. Active in numerous organizations and civic activities, including the Civil Air Patrol (attained rank of lieutenant colonel) and teaching of English as a Second Language. Founded the American Rosie the Riveter Association, 1998. Writer for Baptist Brotherhood Commission and North American Mission Board. Elected to Alabama Silver Haired Legislature. Honors– Special Service award from the American Red Cross, 1962. Birmingham Woman of the Year, 1977; Birmingham Volunteer of the Year, 1980; named to Senior Citizen Hall of Fame, 2002; with her husband received the Hoover Chamber of Commerce Freedom Award, 2006.

Source:

Who’s Who online.

Publication(s):

Chung Fu and Jim. Birmingham, Ala.; Woman’s Missionary Union, Southern Baptist Convention. 1977.

Sammy in the Country. Atlanta; Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convertion, 1960.

Teachers Guide for Mission Books. Nashville; Convention Press, 1969.

‘Tween-age Ambassadors. Nashville; Convention Press, 1970.

Papers;

Papers and other materials of Frances Tunnell Carter are held by the Special Collections Department of the Samford University Library.

Biography:

University professor. Born– December 16, 1921, Mantee, Miss. Parents– John and Mattie (George) Carter. Married– Frances Larraine Tunnell, March 16, 1946. Children– Two. Education– Mississippi State University, B.S.; University of Tennessee, M.S, 1948; University of Illinois, Ed.D., 1954 Served in the U.S. Army, 1943-1945; decorated with the Bronze Arrowhead. Principal in Maben, Miss.; taught at Wood Junior College and Clarke Memorial College in Mississippi before becoming a professor of education at Howard College—now Samford University– in 1956. Served as dean of juvenile literature for the Alabama Writers Conclave, 1969; member of the New York and Alabama Academies of Science, the National Association of College Teachers of Education and International Council of Teachers of Education.

Source:

Who’s Who In the South and Southwest, 1973.

Publication(s):

East is West. Atlanta; Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1965.

Mike & His Four-Star Goal. Atlanta; Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1959.

Witness in Israel. Nashville; Broadman Press, 1969.

Papers;

Papers and other materials of John Thomas Carter are held by the Special Collections Department of the Samford University Library.

Biography:

Botanist; inventor; college professor. Born–1864, Diamond Grove, Mo. Parents– Giles and Mary Carver; raised by Moses and Susan Carver. In infancy, he lost his father; was stolen and carried into Arkansas with his mother. Bought from his captors for a race horse valued at $300 and returned to his former home in Missouri. Education– Iowa State University of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts, B.S. degree in agriculture, 1894, M.S., 1896; Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, D.Sc., 1928. Taught at Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts, 1894-96 (first African-American faculty member); professor and head of Department of Agriculture, Tuskegee Institute, 1896-1943. Built the department into a center for research and outreach/education for local farmers. Scientist known for his research into ways of growing and using peanuts and sweet potatoes. Wrote and published forty-four practical bulletins and pamphlets directed at farmers, with over a hundred recipes for using peanuts. In 1940 used his savings to establish the George Washington Carver Foundation to support scientific research at Tuskegee.   Widely honored for his work, including the Spingarn Medal, 1923 and the Roosevelt Medal, 1939. Named to the Royal Society of Arts, London, 1917;  Hall of Fame for Great Americans, 1977, and the USDA Hall of Heroes, 2000.  A WWII liberty ship and a nuclear submarine were named in his honor.  Many schools, parks, and community centers bear his name.  The George Washington Carver National Monument was established in Diamond, Missouri, and the Carver National Historic Site and Museum at Tuskegee.  Died January 5, 1943.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online; Dictionary of American Biography online.

Publication(s):

Help for the Hard Times. Tuskegee, Ala.; Tuskegee Institute, 1910.

How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption. Tuskegee, Ala.; Tuskegee Institute, 1942.

How to Grow the Tomato and 115 Ways to Prepare it for the Table. Tuskegee, Ala.; Tuskegee Institute, 1936.

Nature’s Garden for Victory and Peace.  Tuskegee Institute, 1942.

Papers;

The papers of George Washington Carver are held by the archives at Tuskegee University.

Biography:

Pathologist; genealogist. Born– New York City. Parents– Eugene and Anna Alma (Powell) Casey. Married– Bourdon Veazey, April 19, 1928. Children– Three. Married– Joanne Gunn, November 8, 1952. Education– Spring Hill College, A.B., 1922; St. Louis University, M.D., 1927. Pathologist and teacher of pathology. Worked for the Rockefeller Institute, 1927-1934; University of Virginia, 1934-1938; Louisiana State University, 1938-1942; While at Louisiana State University, served at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Pathologist and the director of laboratories at Birmingham Baptist Hospitals, 1942-1972. Died December 1982.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1973.

Publication(s):

Biographical Encyclopedia of Pathologists. Birmingham, Ala.; Published for Memorial Institute of Pathology by the Amite and Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1963.

European Mentors of American Pathologists …. Birmingham, Ala.; Published for Memorial Institute of Pathology by Amite and Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1979.

Historical and Genealogical Items Relating to North Cork and East Kerry. Birmingham, Ala.; Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1961.

Historical and Topographical Notes, etc. on Buttevant, Castletownroche, Donerails, Mallow, and Places in Their Vicinity. Birmingham, Ala.; Amite and Knockagree Historical Fund, 1969.

Index of O’Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher, and Upper Blackwater in Ireland. Birmingham, Ala.; Amite and Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1979.

Notes on Travers, Traverse or Travis Families of Southern United States. Birmingham, Ala.; Casey, 1978.

O’Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher, and Upper Blackwater in Ireland. Birmingham, Ala.; Privately published for the Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1952.

Southern Taylor Families, 1607-1830. Birmingham, Ala.; The Amite County Historical Fund, 1958.

Southern Travis, Travers, Traverse Families from Lancastershire and Post-Elizabethan Ireland; with Notes on Graham, Cannon, Wilson, Burges, Mills, King, Powell, Casey, Lucey, Easley, Hurst Lea, Farley, Hudnall, West. Birmingham, Ala.; Casey, 1978.

Joint_Publication(s):

Compilation of Common Physical Measurements of Adult Males of Various Races. Birmingham, Ala.; Published privately for the Amite and Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1969.

Reporter; newspaper editor.  Born  August 21, 1951, Midfield.  Parents– J.B. and Ruby Lois Casey. Married–Margie Brooke, 1979.  Children–two.  University of Alabama, BA, 1973.  Writer for The Birmingham News 1973-2000; editorial page editor, 1998-2000.  1991–awarded Pulitzer Prize. 1992–Finalist for the National Headliners Award from the Press Club of Atlantic City.  1994–nominated for a second Pulitzer and for a National Education Writers Award.   Died February 22, 2000.

Source:

Obituary, Birmingham News, February 2000.

Joint author;

For the Love of Alabama; Journalism by Ron Casey and Bailey Thomson.  University of Alabama Press, 2011.

What They Won’t Tell You about your Taxes.  Birmingham News, 1990.

Biography:

Metallurgist; poet. Born– August 30, 1897, Lamar County. Parents– Brian A. and Sara Virginia (Trull) Cash. Married– Ovella Clara Sherrill, May 4, 1926. Children– Three. Education– State Secondary Agricultural School in Hamilton, 1921; attended Troy State College; graduated from the University of Alabama, 1935. “Ran away” when he was eighteen years old; volunteered for military service and served, 1918-1920, one year on the Mexican border and one year in France; played semi-professional baseball; coached football; and was a metallurgist for United States Steel Corporation. Wrote poems published by Henry Vance in The Coal Bin over a period of about fifty years.  Died July 25, 1988.

Source:

McKinley Cash, Hueytown.

Publication(s):

Alabama Folk Testament. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1986.

The Cadence of Living. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1976.

Poems of Our Time. Detroit; Harlo Press, 1965.

Biography:

Historian; University professor. Born– December 9, 1930, Echola. Parents– A. M. and Ovella Clara (Sherrill) Cash. Married– Mary Lou West, December 26, 1952. Children– Two. Education– Mississippi State University, B.A., 1953, M.A., 1957; University of Alabama, Ph.D., 1973. Taught at the University of Alabama, 1959-1960; Alabama College (University of Montevallo), 1960-1962; Delta State University, 1962-95.  Chairman of Department of History at Delta State, 1969-93. Served as a member of the Mississippi ETV board for nine years; president of the Bolivar County and the Mississippi Historical Societies. Editor of the Journal of Bolivar County Historical Society; contributed book reviews to other periodicals. Teacher of the Year at Delta State. Awarded professor emeritus status upon his retirement.  Died December 21, 2004.

Source:

William McKinley Cash, Cleveland, Miss.; obituary

Joint_Editor:

My Dear Nellie. Oxford, Miss.; University of Mississippi Press, 1977.

Contributor:

History of Rosedale, Mississippi, 1876-1976. Spartanburg, S.C.; Reprint Co., 1976.

Biography:

Reporter, university professor. Born– December 20, 1898, Ragland. Parents– Eugene P. and Sarah Coleman Cason. Married– Louise Elliott Rickerman, 1927. Children– One. Education– Attended the University of Alabama, 1913-1917, where he edited the Crimson-White; elected to Phi Beta Kappa; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1925. Joined the U.S. Army and served as an aerial machine gunner in France during World War I. Worked for the Birmingham News, the Louisville Courier-Journal, Washington Times, and New York Times. Faculty member at the University of Minnesota, 1925-1928; the University of Alabama 1928-1935. Died May 8, 1935.

Source:

Bailey Thomson, “Clarence Cason’s Shade,” Alabama Heritage, Spring 2001.

The introduction to the 1983 reprint of 90 Degrees in the Shade. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1985.

Publication(s):

90 Degrees in the Shade. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1935.

Biography:

Business executive; economist. Born– September 6, 1879, Sewanee, Tenn. Parents– Silas Fly and Nora Belle (Waddill) Catchings. Married– Helen Werner, November 7, 1914. Children– Three. Married– May Francis, April 29, 1930. Education– Harvard University, A. B., 1901. Central Foundry in New York, president, 1911-1917; Platt Iron Works Company in Dayton, Ohio, president, 1913-1920; Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company, president, 1917-1918, chairman of the executive committee, 1918-1947. President or a member of the board of Goldman, Sachs, and Company; Warner Brothers Pictures; Catchings-Denker Corporation; Concord Fund Inc.; and C. B. Advisors, Inc. Served on several councils and commissions for the U.S. government. His books on business were extremely influential; influenced Franklin Roosevelt, among others.  Died December 1967.

Source:

Who Was Who online.

Publication(s):

Bias Against Business. New York; s.n., 1956

Do Economists Understand Business? New York; s.n., 1955.

Obvious Facts of Business. New York; Private printing, 1936.

Joint_Publication(s):

Business Without a Buyer. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1927.

Money. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1923.

Money, Men, and Machines. New York; Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953.

Profits. Boston; Houghton, Mifflin, 1925.

Progress and Plenty. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1939.

The Road to Plently. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1928.

Biography:

Journalist; presidential assistant; University professor, college president. Born– August 24, 1923, Montgomery. Parents– Silas D. and Nancy (Chesnutt) Cater. Married– Libby Anderson, December 20, 1950. Children– Four. Education– Harvard University, A.B., 1947, M.A., 1948; Guggenheim Fellow, 1955, Eisenhower Exchange Fellow, 1957.  Served with the OSS during WWII. Worked for Reporter magazine, 1950-1964; special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, 1964-1968; Regents Professor at the University of California in San Francisco, 1971-1972; professor at Stanford University, 1972-76; worked for the London Observer International in London, England  1976-82; president of Washington College, 1982-1990. Honors– George Polk Memorial Award, 1961; Newspaper Guild Page One Award, 1961; Alabama Library Association, Alabama Authors Award, 1966. As a presidential assistant was given credit for many education initiatives and for helping to found the Public Broadcasting Service. Founding fellow and trustee of the Aspen Institute. Died September 15, 1995.

Source:

Who’s Who online; New York Times obituary.

Publication(s):

Dana; the Irrelevant Man. New York; McGraw-Hill, 1970.

Developing Leadership in Government. Washington, D.C.; Brookings Institution, 1960.

The Fourth Branch of Government. Boston; Houghton, Mifflin, 1959.

The Intellectual & the Politician. Cambridge, Mass.; s.n., 1961.

Power in Washington. New York; Random House, 1964.

TV Violence & the Child. New York; Russell Sage, 1975.

Joint_Publication(s):

American Media; Adequate or Not? Washington, D.C.; American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy, 1970.

Ethics in a Business Society. New York; Harper, 1954.

Editor:

Television as a Cultural Force. New York; Praeger, 1976.

Television as a Social Force. New York; Praeger, 1975.

Joint_Editor:

Politics of Health. Melbourne, Fla.; R.E. Krieger, 1972.

Biography:

Book dealer. Born– May 12, 1947, Birmingham. Parents– William Heath and Virginia (Ritchie) Cather. Education– Jacksonville State University; University of Alabama in Birmingham. Partner in Cather & Brown Books, a firm specializing in out-of-print books about Alabama or by Alabama authors. Articles published in Music Memories Magazine and other periodicals.

Source:

James Pat Cather, Birmingham.

Publication(s):

My Alabama Almanack Collection. Birmingham, Ala.; Author, 1984.

The Alabama Local History Librarian and “the Out of Print” Problem. Birmingham, Ala.; Cather and Brown, 1989.

The Birmingham Art Association in 1969; Changing of the Guard. Birmingham, Ala.; Cather and Brown, 1991.

Birmingham Bound:  Opinionated and Often Irreverent Essays on the Fifty Most Important Books about Alabama’s Largest City.  Birmingham:  Cather and Brown Books, 1993.

My Mobile Collection. Birmingham, Ala.; Cather and Brown, 1991.

Tracking Down a Legend; the Jaybird Coleman Story. Birmingham, Ala.; Cather and Brown, 1990.

Author_and_Compiler;

A Brief Essay on Collecting Alabama Related Books and Pamphlets. Birmingham, Ala.; A. H. Cather Publishing, 1982.

Compiler:

1963 Musicana Directory. Birmingham, Ala.; Compiler, 1963.

Biography:

Attorney. Born– June 23, 1868, Hillville, Va.; family moved to Ashville,  AL, about 1872.  Parents– George Roberts and Harriet Hart (Heath) Cather. Married– Mary Presley of Springville (died 1903); Married– Cora Lee Webb of Centre, 1904. Children– Four. Practiced law in Centre.  Died July 25, 1935.

Source:

Elizabeth Lonnergan, St. Clair County Library, Ashville.

Publication(s):

History of St. Clair County, Alabama; a Description of the Land and Its People, Indians and Whites from 1539 to 1846. Ashville, Ala.; St. Clair County Library Board, 1965 (First printed in the Southern-Aegis, 1897).

Biography:

Publisher. Born– November 2, 1918, Birmingham. Parents– Alonzo Heath and Jennie Pearl (Johnson) Cather. Married– Virginia Ritchie, 1942. Children– Two. Married–Dorothy Farmer, 2001. Education– B.A., University of Alabama, 1941. U. S, Army pilot in World War II; rose to the rank of captain.  Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.  Joined the A. H. Cather Publishing Company as a linotype operator; rose to position of president; then chairman of the board of A. H. Cather Publishing Company in Birmingham; retired 2005.  Died May 2, 2016.

Source:

James Pat Cather, Birmingham.

Compiler_and_Editor

Gunfight at Rabaul; the True Story of an Unescorted Raid by B-25 Strafers of the 345th Bomber Group on the Japanese Stronghold of the Southwest Pacific at Rabaul, New Britain, on October 18, 1943. Birmingham, Ala.; Cather Publishing Co., 1974.

Biography:

Farmer, businessman. Born–November 18, 1876, Pleasant Hill. Parents– John Smyly and Maude Mae (Caffey) Catts. Married– Mary Belle Northington, 1920. Employed in newspaper work, farming, industry, and with N.J. Bell Estates as manager of the Bell Building in Birmingham. Died November 18, 1960.

Source:

Files at the Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

What Call It, You Say. Montgomery, Ala.; The Paragon Press, 1957.

Biography:

Psychic healer; author; photographer.  Born– March 18, 1877, near Hopkinsville, Ky. Parents– Leslie B. and Carrie Cayce. Married– Gertrude Evans. Children– Three. Education– through eighth grade at local schools in Hopkinsville; widely read on his own. Trained as an apprentice in the photography studio  of W.R.Bowles in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Began psychic readings early in his life. Lived in Alabama 1912-1926;   worked as a reporter for the Anniston Star, for Russell Brothers photographic studios in Anniston, for Tressler photographic studio in Montgomery and at a studio which he later owned in Selma. Moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia, in 1925 and worked as a professional psychic. In 1931, founded the Association for Research and Enlightenment to keep records of his cases. Became known as the “Sleeping Prophet” because he would put himself into a trance to diagnose ailments and prescribe treatments. Several books of his writing were compiled after his death. Died January 3, 1945.

Source:

Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology and Joseph Millard’s Edgar Cayce, Man of Miracles. Neville Spearman, 1961.

Publication(s):

Atlantis–Fact or Fiction. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1968.

Before the Beginning. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1963.

A Diet/Recipe Guide. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1967.

Dreams, Your Magic Mirror. New York; Dell Books, 1968.

Edgar Cayce on Prophecy. New York; Hawthorn, 1968.

Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation. New York; Hawthorn, 1967.

Edgar Cayce’s Story of Jesus. New York; Coward McCann, 1968.

Lost Atlantis. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1958.

123 Questions & Answers From the Edgar Cayce Clairvoyant Readings. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1966.

The River of Time. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1965.

A Search for God. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1950.

Story of Attitudes and Emotions; the Two-Edged Sword. New York; Coward McCann, 1972.

Symbols & the Self. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1965.

That Ye May Heal. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1950.

What I Believe. Virginia Beach, Va.; Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1946.

Papers;

The papers of Edgar Cayce are owned by the Edgar Cayce Foundation and are housed in the headquarters of the Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Biography;

Journalist; editor.  Editor of the Anniston Star, 1993-2006; editor-in-chief of the Talladega Daily Home beginning in 2010.

Publications;

Professor-Politician:  The Biography of Alabama Congressman Glen Browder.  NewSouth Books, 2013.

Biography;

Farmer and businessman.  Born April 8, 1886, Chambers County.  Parents–James Benjamin and Cora Tatum Chambers.  Married–Ethel Bennett.  Education–graduated from Bryson Academy.  Property owner and well known local citizen. Died December 12, 1959.

Source: 

Miss Mattie Lou Cato, Lafayette Pilot Public Library, Lafayette.

Joint_Publications;

A Survey of the Older Church Cemeteries in Chambers County, Alabama, Made in 1954.  West Point,  Georgia:  Chattahoochee Valley Historical Association, 1956.

Biography:

Businessman; Probate judge. Born March 14, 1893. Parents– Joseph Sanders Chambers. Lived in Chambers and Lee Counties. Married– Attie Belle Bonner, December 18, 1912. Children– Two. Married– Mabel Crum Dillard, October 25, 1964. Education– Attended Massey Business College in Columbus, Ga.; studied law by correspondence from La Salle Correspondence School in Chicago. Worked in the cotton mills in Riverview and Langdale. Contractor, insurance agent, Public Works Administration agent, tax collector and probate judge of Chambers County. Died December 25, 1981.

Source:

Reminiscences of Judge Joseph Vernon Chambers.

Publication(s):

Reminiscences of Judge Joseph Vernon Chambers. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; s.n., 1969.

Biography:

Mill worker; avocational historian. Born April 16, 1913, Chambers County.  Parents– Jefferson A. and Ethel Bennett Chambers.  Education–graduated from Fairfax High School.  Worked for West Point Pepperell Manufacturing Company.  Member Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society. Died December 12, 1959.

Source;

Miss Mattie Lou Cato, Lafayette Pilot Public Library, Lafayette; findagrave website

Publications;

A Survey of the Older Church Cemeteries in Chambers County, Alabama, made in 1954.  West Point:  Chattahoochee Valley Historical Association, 1956.

Biography:

Photographer. Born– August 13, 1862, Bloomington, Wis. Parents– John Dwight and Jane (Glover) Chambers. Married– Ella Dumas, November 11, 1887. Children– One. Education– Attended Beloit College; studied with the leading photographers in Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. Operated a photographic studio on Dexter Avenue in Montgomery. Photographed members of Alabama State Legislature, 1888-89. Died May 25, 1954.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History, files at Birmingham Public Library, and Owen’s Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

Altzar, the Pirate, a Tale of Reincarnation. Boston; Meador Publishing Co., 1944.

In The Weaving. Boston; Meador Pub. Co., 1942.

The Opal Matrix. Worcester, Mass.; The Salisbury Hill Press, 1937.

Joint_Compiler;

Statements of a Master. Montgomery; Chambers, 1925.

Biography:

Aviation journalist; professor of communications. Born– July 16, 1948, Dallas Tex. Parents– Lewis and Gwynne Greer Chandler. Married– Kathleen, August 10, 1970. Children– Five. Education– University of Texas, B.A., 1975; Jacksonville State University, M.P.A., 1977. Served as a medic in Vietnam; awarded the Purple Heart. News director at WHMA Radio in Anniston, 1979-1985; correspondent for the Birmingham Post Herald, 1980-1984;   instructor of communications at Jacksonville State University 1987-2017. During the time he was news director, received sixteen Associated Press Broadcast Journalism awards. Contributed to many journals including Frequent Flyer, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, American Legion Magazine, Rotarian, Time, and Voice of America. Served on the board of directors of the Alabama Associated Press Broadcasters Association. Received sixteen Associated Press Broadcast Journalism awards; Aerospace Media Lifetime Award, 2017.

Source:

Jerry Chandler, Anniston; Jacksonville State website.

Publication(s):

Fire and Rain: A tragedy in American Aviation. Austin, Tex.; Texas Monthly Press, 1986.

Biography:

Park custodian. Born– January 24, 1881, Montgomery. Parents–Willis S. and Annie Hatchett Chandler.  Married–Elizabeth Newton Gale, January 2, 1902; married Helen, 1922.  Education–attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute for one year, 1900-1901; attended Washington and Lee College, 1901-02. Traveled in Europe and America. Worked in various commercial jobs mainly in Dallas, Texas, 1922-41. Returned to Alabama in 1941.  Custodian at Fort Morgan from the time of World War II until 1957.  Secretary of the Fort Morgan Historical Commission. In his positions as custodian and secretary, he was largely responsible for the development of the park at Fort Morgan. Worked to popularize the fort and its history; wrote various stories about it, many of them embellished with fiction. Buried at the entrance to Fort Morgan. Died August 23, 1967.

Source:

Files at the Alabama Public Library Service; article “Hatchett Chandler and the Quest for Native Tradition at Fort Morgan,” Alabama Review, XL (July 1987), 163-197.

Publication(s):

Fort Morgan and Thoughts Under Seven Flags. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

Little Gems of Fort Morgan. S.l.; s.n., 1953.

The Origin and Nature of a Tropical Hurricane. S.l.; s.n., 1922.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Hatchett Chandler is held by the W.S.Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.

Biography:

Teacher. Born– November 17,1883, Huntsville.  Parents– Reuben Chapman Jr. and Rosalie Sheffey Chapman.  Granddaughter of Governor Reuben Chapman. Education– Mount de Chantal in Wheeling, West Virginia; Howard College; the University of Chicago; and Columbia University, M.A. in History, 1932.  Taught history for fifty years, in Huntsville public schools and then at Graymont and Woodlawn in Birmingham. Died June 9, 1967.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

Changing Huntsville, 1890-1899. Birmingham Ala.; s.n., 1972.

Biography:

University professor of statistics.  Born– May 24, 1894, Lima, Ohio. Parents– Lewis E. and Ella Mae (Faze) Chapman. Married– Lena Blanche McPherson, September 18, 1919. Education– University of Michigan, A.B.; University of Minnesota, graduate study; Columbia University, Ph.D. Taught accounting at the University of Minnesota, 1919 to 1921. Professor of statistics, University of Alabama, 1921-1959; also served as director of the Bureau of Business Research, University of Alabama, 1930-1951. Died January 10, 1977.

Source:

Library of Alabama Lives.

Publication(s):

Estimate of Probable Yield of a Sales Tax in Alabama, Under Provisions of Proposed Revenue Bill by Mr. Harrison. University, Ala.; Bureau of Business Research, University of Alabama, 1936.

An Introduction to Business; Commerce One, Folder One. University, Ala.; School of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama, 1940.

Iron and Steel Companies in Years of Prosperity and Depression. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Weatherford Printing Co., s.d. (Originally published as thesis at Columbia University, 1935).

The Iron and Steel Industries of the South. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1953.

Population of Alabama: An analysis.  Bureau of Business Research, 1931.

Social and Economic Statistics of Alabama.  Bureau of Business Research, 1930.

Biography:

Writer. Born– March 4, 1873, Selma. Parents– Thomas Holmes and Mary Elizabeth (Glass) Hopkins. Married– Dr. John Thomas Chapman, October 8, 1891. Children–two. Education– Shorter College, Rome, Ga., 1887; and Lake Chautauqua, 1904.  Member Daughters of the American Revolution and National League of American Pen Women (served as its historian). Died May 21, 1930.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online; obituary, The Anniston Star

Publication(s):

Fusing Force. Chicago; McClurg, 1911.

Love’s Way in Dixie. New York; Neale Publishing Co., 1905.

The Moulting Sea-Gull.  Montgomery:  Paragon Press, 1909.

Sketch of Dr. La Fayette Guild, Medical Director and Chief Surgeon of the Army of Northern Virginia. S.l.; s.n., 1909.

Biography:

Business executive; teacher. Born– June 12, 1918, Game, Kentucky. Parents– Theodore Robert and Alma Voris (Jordan) Chapman. Married– Thelma Isabelle Light, June 14, 1941. Children– Three. Education– Eastern Michigan University, B.A., 1940; Wayne State University, M.Ed., 1949. Taught school; served as office manager with Chemstrand Corporation in Decatur, 1952-1955; worked with  the Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Mo. Member of Pi Kappa Delta and Phi Delta Kappa. Died March 26, 2014.

Source:

Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, 1977.

Publication(s):

Tell It To the Chaplain. New York; Exposition Press, 1952.

Biography:

Methodist clergyman. Born– January 8, 1882, Flatwoods, Tenn. Parents– William B. and Mary (Gillham) Chappell. Married– Cecil Hart, April 15, 1908. Children– Two. Education– Duke University, 1902-1903; Harvard, 1904-1905. Principal of E. W. Grove High School, Paris, TN, 1906-08. Ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1908; served as pastor of churches in Texas, Oklahoma, Washington, D.C., and Tennessee, 1908-1932, in Birmingham, 1932-1936, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1936-1941, Jackson, Miss., 1941-1945, and Charlotte, N.C., 1945-1949. Honors– Duke University honorary D.D., 1920; Centenary College of Louisiana, honorary D.D., 1920; Birmingham Southern College, D.Litt., 1936. Died August 1972.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

And the Prophets. New York; Abingdon, 1945.

Anointed to Preach. New York; Abingdon, 1951.

Chappell’s Special Day Sermons. New York; Abingdon, 1936.

Christ and the New Woman. New York; Abingdon, 1928.

The Cross Before Calvary. New York; Abingdon, 1960.

Evangelistic Sermons of Clovis G. Chappell. New York; Abingdon, 1973.

Faces About the Cross. New York; Abingdon, 1941.

Familiar Failures. Grand Rapids, Mich.; Baker Book House, 1927.

Feminine Faces. New York; Abingdon, 1942.

Home Folks. New York; Abingdon, 1926.

If I Were Young. New York; Abingdon, 1962.

In Parables. New York; Abingdon, 1953.

A Jarring Question; Will a Man Rob God? Chicago; General Board of Lay Activity, the Methodist Church, 1950.

Living With Royalty. New York; Abingdon, 1962.

Living Zestfully. New York; Abingdon, 1944.

Meet These Men. New York; Abingdon, 1956.

The Modern Dance; Three Sermons. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1923.

More Sermons on Biblical Characters. Dorman, 1923.

Questions Jesus Asked. New York; Abingdon, 1948.

The Road to Certainty. Nashville; Cokesbury, 1940.

The Sermons on the Mount. Nashville; Cokesbury, 1930.

Sermons from Job. Nashville; s.n., 1957.

Sermons from Revelations. New York; Abingdon, 1943.

Sermons from the Miracles. New York; Abingdon, 1937.

Sermons from the Parables. New York; Abingdon, 1933.

Sermons from the Psalms. New York; Abingdon, 1931.

Sermons on Biblical Characters. New York; Harper, 1950.

Sermons on New Testament Characters. New York; Harper, 1924.

Sermons on Old Testament Characters. New York; Harper, 1925.

Sermons on Simon Peter. New York; Abingdon, 1959.

Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer and Other Prayers of Jesus. New York; Abingdon, 1934.

The Seven Words. New York; Abingdon, 1952.

Surprises in the Bible. New York; Abingdon, 1967.

Ten Rules for Living. New York; Abingdon, 1938.

Values That Last. Nashville; Cokesbury, 1939.

The Village Tragedy and Other Sermons. Baltimore; Williams & Wilkins, 1921.

When The Church Was Young. New York; Abingdon, 1950.

Biography:

Historian; university professor. Born– September 10, 1911, Birmingham. Parents– Charles Arthur and Clemmie (Fason) Chappell. Married– Winn Ownbey, August 30, 1939. Children– Two. Education– Birmingham-Southern College, A.B., 1935; Vanderbilt University, A.M., 1936, Ph.D. 1941. Taught at Vanderbilt University, Winthrop College, Newberry College; head of the Department of History and Political Science at Huntingdon College after 1945; served as visiting professor of history during summer sessions at the University of Alabama. Contributed articles to historical journals and encyclopedias. Honors– Outstanding Educator of America Award, 1972. Died Feb. 6, 2002.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1978; Library of Alabama Lives; obituary, Huntsville Times, February 9, 2002.

Joint_Publication(s):

Know Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Paul R. Malone, 1955.

Local Historical Societies in Alabama. 1960.

Some Patterns of Land Speculation in the Old Southwest.  1949.

Biography:

Folklorist, author, editor. Born– February 15, 1904, Huntsville. Parents– Robert Collier and Emma Florence Chase. Education– Antioch College, B.S., 1929. Lecturer on folklore and storyteller of Appalachian folktales. Honors– Southern California Council on Literature award, 1970; honored by the Governor of Virginia, 1972, by the Los Angeles Renaissance Pleasure Faire, 1973,  by the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of Mensa in 1975. Died February 2, 1988.

Source:

Who’s Who in America online and Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Jack and the Three Sillies. Boston; Houghton, 1950.

Wicked John and the Devil. Boston; Houghton, 1951.

Compiler:

Hullabaloo, and Other Singing Folk Games. Boston; Houghton, 1949. (also published as Singing Games and Playparty Games. New York; Dover, 1967).

Editor:

American Folk Tales and Songs. New York; New American Library, 1956; reprinted Dover, 1971.

Billy Boy (folk song). San Carlos, Calif.; Golden Gate Junior Books, 1966.

Grandfather Tales. Boston; Houghton, 1943.

The Jack Tales. Boston; Houghton, 1943.

Old Songs and Singing Games. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1938.

Editor_Author of Introduction;

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage.  Houghton, 1960.

Papers;

Papers of Richard Chase are held by the University of Minnesota Children’s Literature Research Collection; the East Tennessee State University Library; and the Western North Carolina Library Network.

Biography:

University professor; economics consultant. Born– September 26, 1925, Pickens, S.C. Parents– Elijah D. and Ida (Hendricks) Chastain. Married– Marian B. Faulker, August 25, 1956. Children– Two. Education– Clemson University, B.S., 1947; Cornell University, M.S., 1948; Purdue University, Ph.D., 1956. U.S. Army, Captain, WWII.  Taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1949-1956; research assistant at Purdue University, 1954-1956; professor and  director of graduate studies in the School of Business at Auburn University , 1956-89. Editor of the Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, 1962-1965. Member American Agricultural Economics Association, American Economics Association, Southern Economics Association, Alabama Academy of Science. Died March 24, 1989.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online.

Joint_Publication(s):

Adaptation of corporate organization to family farms.  Auburn Agricultural Experiment Station, 1963.

Father-son farming: Resource accumulation and efficiency aspects of intergenerational family farm business arrangements.  Auburn Agricultural Experiment Station, 1963.

Farm Business Management. Auburn, Ala.; s.n., 1966.

Opportunities for profit on your farm.  Auburn Agricultural Experiment Station, 1959.

Problem recognition in agriculture, managerial adjustment opportunities.  Auburn Agricultural Experiment Station, 1959.

Production-consumption interrelationships of Alabama farm family businesses.  Auburn Agricultural Experiment Station, 1963.

Biography:

Escort; author. Raised in Alabama. Parents– Heyward and Marlyn Taylor. Married at seventeen and separated from her husband at nineteen. Graduated from Oakton High School, Fairfax, Va.; attended Northern Virginia Community College. Worked as a chauffeur, cocktail waitress, and escort. Part owner of Gold Mine Saloon in Panama City. In 1979, lived in the Murray Hills area of New York City.

Source:

Newsweek and Time, both dated October 23, 1978, and from Defector’s Mistress.

Publication(s):

Defector’s Mistress; the Judy Chavez Story. New York; Dell, 1979.

Biography:

University professor; literary scholar . Born– November 1, 1944, Birmingham. Parents– Alan Breck and Billie (Gunter) Cheney. Education– Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1966; Florida State University, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1971. Taught English and American literature at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1968-2000.  Member American Culture Association, Modern Language Association, and other professional organizations.  Nominated for Pulitzer Prize for Life and Letters of Jesse Hill Ford.  Awarded emeritus status on her retirement from Virginia Tech in 2000.  Died December 17, 2001.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1979-1980;  Contemporary Authors online; obituary.

Publication(s):

“The Changing Status of Women” (screenplay). Blacksburg, Va.; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1974.

Lorraine Hansberry. Boston; Twayne, 1982.

Millay in Greenwich Village. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1975.

Editor;

‘The Burg’ and Other Poems.  Lewiston, NY:  Mellen Press, 1998.

Dead Snakes, Cats, and the IRS: Poetry of Rock and Rebellion.  Lewiston, NY: Mellen,  1995.

The Life and Letters of Jesse Hill Ford, Southern Writer.  Mellen, 1996.

Ophelia’s Legs and Other Poems.  Blacksburg, VA:  Pochantas Press,1997.

Biography:

Author of children’s books; Episcopal priest. Born– December 20, 1916, Birmingham. Parents– Franklin C. and Irene (Denny) Cheney. Married– Benjamin Waring Partridge, Jr., September 2, 1939. Children– Four. Education– Florida State College for Women, 1934-1936; University of Georgia, A.B., 1938; Antioch College, M.Ed., 1971.  Author of over twenty books for children.  Ordained as an Episcopal priest, 1999; set up rural parishes in several states, including Florida and Vermont.  Oldest woman to be ordained to the Episcopal priesthood.  Died February 21, 1999.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1961-1962, Contemporary Authors online and Something About the Author online

Publication(s):

Alaska. New York; Dodd, 1980.

The Case of the Iceland Dogs. New York; Dodd, 1977.

Christmas Tree Hessian. New York; Holt, 1958.

Crown of the World. New York; Dodd, 1979.

Doll of Lilac Valley. New York; Knopf, 1959.

Fortune Hill. New York; Holt, 1956.

Girl at Jungle’s Edge. New York; Knopf, 1962.

Incredible Deborah. New York; Scribner, 1967.

Key of Gold. New York; Holt, 1955.

Mystery of the Disappearing Cars. New York; Knopf, 1964.

Peg-legged Pirate of Sulu. New York; Knopf, 1960.

Plantation Doll. New York; Holt, 1955.

Profiles From the Past; an Uncommon History of Vermont. Taftsville, Vt.; Countryman Press, 1976.

The Rocking Chair Buck. New York; Holt, 1956.

Rumpus on Commodore Hill. New York; Holt, 1957.

Skeleton Cave. New York; Holt, 1954.

Tales From a Taiwan Kitchen. New York; Dodd, 1976.

Treasures of Lin Li-ti. New York; Hawthorn, 1969.

Vermont, the State with a Storybook Past. Brattleboro, Vt.; S. Greene Press, 1976.

Joint_Publication(s):

China Sea Roundup. New York; Knopf, 1960.

Rendezvous in Singapore. New York; Knopf, 1961.

Underseas!. New York; Coward, 1961.

Biography:

Physician; professor of medicine. Born– June 9, 1916, Philadelphia, Pa. Parents– Herman and Celia (Homes) Cheraskin. Married– Caroline Elwood, September 23, 1944. Children– One. Education– St. Joseph’s College; Georgetown University; University of Alabama, A.B., 1939, M.A. 1941, D.M.D. 1952; University of Cincinnati, M.D., 1943. Began private practice of medicine in Moundville, Ala., 1947. After 1948 associated with the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham as instructor of anatomy, 1948-1950, assistant professor of physiology, 1950-1952, and as professor of oral medicine after 1953. Has contributed more than 350 articles to dental, medical, nutritional, and educational journals. Honors– Received the Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Sao Paulo in 1961 and an achievement award from the Angiology Research Foundation in 1968. Died August 3, 2001.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Bio-Nutronics; Lower Your Cholesterol in 30 days. New York; Perigee Books, 1986.

Diagnostic Stomatology. New York; McGraw, 1961.

Health and Happiness; Simpler, Safe and Sour Siptems and Solutions. Wichita, Kan.; Bio-Communications, 1989.

The Vitamin C Controversy; Questions and Solutions. Wichita, Kan.; Bio-Communications, 1988.

Joint_Publication(s):

Diet and Disease. Emmaus, Pa.; Rodale Books, 1968.

Diet and the Periodontal Patient. Springfield, Ill.; C.C. Thomas, 1970.

Dynamic Anatomy and Physiology. New York; McGraw, 1958.

Dynamics of Oral Diagnosis. Chicago; Year Book Pub., 1956.

New Hope for Incurable Disease. New York; Exposition Press, 1971.

The Physiological Foundation of Dental Practice. St. Louis; Mosby, 1951.

The Physiology of Man. New York; Reinhold, 1954.

Predictive Medicine. Mountain View, Calif.; Pacific Press Pub. Association, 1973.

Psychodietetics. New York; Stein & Day, 1974.

Contributor:

Clinical Pedodontics. Philadelphia; Saunders, 1957.

Complete Denture Prosthodontics. New York; McGraw, 1962.

Biography:

Agricultural scientist; university professor. Born–August 29, 1879,  Hawkins, Tenn. Parents–Robert and Mary Chestnutt.  Married– Emma Brown. Children– Two. Education– University of Tennessee, 1900; Peabody College, M.S. Taught at Concord and Farragut, Tenn. Agriculture teacher at Alabama College in Montevallo for thirteen years; appointed Assistant State Supervisor of Vocational Agriculture, 1918; professor and head of the Agricultural Education Department at Auburn University, 1919-1950. Retired in 1950 and went to Panama for one year as a specialist in agricultural education under the auspices of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs. Died December 6, 1955.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

The Rural South, Background–Problems–Outlook. Montgomery, Ala.; Dixie Book Co., 1939.

Teaching Field Crops and Horticulture. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Pub. Co., 1922.

Joint_Publication(s):

Poultry Production in the South. Danville, Ill.; Interstate, 1943.

Biography:

University professor, author, newspaper editor. Born– April 19, 1899, Birmingham. Parents– Hayden Prior and Pattie Undine (Goldwire) Childers. Married– Maurine White. Education– Oberlin College, B.A., 1920; Oxford University, B.A., 1923; M.A., 1927. Military service: Naval Aviation, WWI; U.S.Air Force Intelligence, WWII; retired with rank of colonel. Professor of literature at Birmingham Southern College, 1925-1942; associate editor, Atlanta Journal, 1951-1957; lecturer, U.S. Department of State in the Far and Middle East, 1958-1959;  president of Tupper and Love, Inc., book publishers, after 1959. Honors– Rhodes Scholarship, 1921; Oglethorpe University, Litt.D., 1954; Birmingham Southern College, Litt.D., 1955. World traveller and distinguished collector of rare books.  Died July 17, 1965.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online;  Alabama Librarian, vol. 3.

Papers;

Papers of James Saxon Childers are held at the Birmingham Public Library and in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Publication(s):

The Bookshop Mystery. New York; D. Appleton, 1930.

Enemy Outpost. New York; D. Appleton, 1942.

Erskine Ramsay, His Life and Achievements. S.l.; Cartwright and Ewing, 1942.

From Siam to Suez. New York; D. Appleton, 1923.

God Save the Duke. New York; D. Appleton, 1933.

Hilltop in the Rain. New York; D. Appleton, 1928.

Histories or Tales of Past Times Told by Mother Goose, with Morals. S.l.; Nonesuch, 1925.

In the Deep South. 1936.

Laurel and Straw. New York; D. Appleton, 1941.

The Lives and Works of the Uneducated Poets. Oxford University Press, 1925.

Mumbo Jumbo, Esquire. New York; D. Appleton, 1941.

The Nation on the Flying Trapeze; the United States as the People of the East See Us. New York; D. McKay, 1960.

A Novel About a White Man and a Black Man in the Deep South. New York; Farrar, 1936.

Robert McAlpine, a Biography. New York; Oxford University Press, 1925.

Sailing South American Skies. New York; Farrar, 1936.

Through Oriental Gates. New York; D. Appleton, 1930.

War Eagles, the Story of the Eagle Squadron. New York; D. Appleton, 1943.

A Way Home; the Baptists Tell Their Story. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1963.

Joint_Publications;

Tomorrow We Reap.  New York: Dial, 1949.

Editor:

Listen to Leaders in Business. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1963.

Listen to Leaders in Law. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1963.

Listen to Leaders in Medicine. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1963.

Listen to Leaders in Science. Atlanta; Tupper and Love, 1965.

Biography:

Journalist; writer.. Born– September 21, 1957, Monroeville. Parents– Roy and Mary Helen (Gillion) Childress. Education– University of Alabama, B.A., 1978. Worked for the Birmingham News, 1977-80; feature editor for Southern Living, 1980-84; regional editor for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 1984-85. Book of the Year Selection for Crazy in Alabama; Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Alabama, ; Writer of the Year, Alabama Library Association, 1994.

Source:

Anniston Star, November 25, 1984 and Mark Childress, Atlanta, Ga.

Publication(s):

Crazy in Alabama. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.

Georgia Bottoms. New York:  Little, Brown, 2011.

Henry Bobbity Is Missing and It’s All Billy Bobbity’s Fault! Birmingham:  Crane Hill Publishers, 1996.

Joshua and Bigtooth. Boston; Little, Brown, 1992.

Joshua and the Big Bad Blue Crabs. Boston:  Little, Brown, 1996.

One Mississippi.  New York: Little, Brown, 2006.

Tender. New York; Harmony Books, 1989.

V for Victor. New York; Knopf, 1988.

World Made of Fire. New York:  Knopf, 1984.

Contributor:

Home to Jericho. Birmingham, Ala.; Oxmoor House, 1987.

Biography:

Clergyman; evangelist; hymnodist. Born– April 27, 1856, Tuskegee. Parents– William Parish (Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court) and Elvira Frances (Morgan) Chilton. Married– Mabel Cecilia Pierce, December 3, 1878. Children– Nine. Education– left school at the age of fifteen after the death of his father. After studying for the ministry he was licensed to preach in July 1877 in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Court Street Church in Montgomery. Left the Methodist Church in 1901 because of a dispute over the use of musical instruments in the church; continued his ministry as a freelance evangelist.  Played many musical instruments and composed hymns and poems.  Died July 28, 1914.

Source:

Owen’s Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

The Chilton Music for Standard Hymns. New York; s.n., 1923.

Is This Justice? Montgomery, Ala.; privately printed, 1910.

Memorial Address on John T. Morgan. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1913.

Song of the Southland; and Other Poems. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1911.

Pamphlets:

Born of God.

Eternal Punishmen.

False Prophet.

How to Pray.

Plain Truth.

Joint_Publication(s):

(Pamphlet) The Place of Prayer in Redemption.

Biography:

Baptist clergyman.  Born– September 5, 1931, Franklin, Tenn. Parents– Charles Wilbur and Bertha Angeline Chitwood. Married– Jane Knight, April 3, 1954. Children– Two. Education– Belmont College, B.A., 1957; Middle Tennessee State University, M.A., 1961; Luther Rice Seminary, B.D., 1967, Th.D., 1971. Elementary school principal, Franklin County, Tenn.; served in the U.S. Air Force, 1950-1954; ordained a Southern Baptist Minister, 1954; served as pastor of churches in Estill Springs, Gallatin, Flintville, and Nashville (Tenn.), Harvey, (Ill.), and Huntsville (Ala.). Died May 31, 2008.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

A Faith That Works; an Inspirational Study of James. Nashville; Broadman, 1969.

Meet the Real Jesus. Nashville; Broadman, 1976.

What the Church Needs Now; a Plan for Renewal. Old Tappan, N.J.; Revell, 1973.

Biography:

Writer; school librarian. Born– June 20, 1918, Boaz. Parents– Robert Edward and Minnie (Wills) Downs. Married– James William Chitwood, August 20, 1937. Education– Public schools in Alabama.  Died September 1, 1999.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

After the Storm. Grand Rapids, Mich.; Zondervan, 1964.

Laughter in the House. Grand Rapids, Mich.; Zondervan, 1961.

This Passing Night. Grand Rapids, Mich.; Zondervan, 1955.

Biography:

Professor; college administrator. Born April 27, 1856. Parents–Daniel Asbury and Margaret Rebecca Moore Christenberry.  Married– Annie Hanna, 1893. Children–three.  Education– Southern University, Ph.B., 1887, A.M., 1888. Principal, Greenville Collegiate Institute, 1888-1889; president, Greensboro Female College, 1889-1892; professor of English language and literature, Southern University, after 1892.  Died May 28, 1911.

Source:

Semi-Centennial History of the Southern University, 1856-1906 and Greensboro Watchman, December 15, 1960.

Publication(s):

Masonic Code of Alabama. S.l.; s.n., 1893.

The Semi-Centennial History of the Southern University, 1856-1906. Greensboro, Ala.; D. P. Christenberry, 1908.

Biography:

Photographer, painter, sculptor; teacher of art. Born– November 5, 1936, Tuscaloosa. Parents– William A. and Ruby Willard (Smith) Christenberry. Married–Sandra Deane, 1967.  Children– three. Education– University of Alabama, B.F.A.,1958,  M.A., 1959.  Taught at the University of Alabama, 1959-61; at Memphis State University, 1962-68; at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., 1968-2009 .Considered  one of the most important artists of the rural South. Honors– Lyndhurst Foundation prize, 1982; Honorary DFA, Kansas City Art Institute, 1983; Jimmy Ernst Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2010; honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, University of Alabama, 1998. Awarded the status of professor emeritus on his retirement at the Corcoran School, 2009.  Died November 28, 2016.

Source:

William Christenberry, Color Photographs; Marquis Who’s Who Online; obituary.

Publication(s):

Southern Photographs. Millerton, N.Y.; Aperture, 1983.

Washington Art; William Christenberry. Potsdam, N.Y.; Art Gallery, State University College, 1971?

William Christenberry, Color Photographs; December 21, 1978-February 11, 1979, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.; The Gallery, 1979.

Working from Memory. Steidl, 2008.

Biography;

Teacher.  Born–May 12, 1926, Belle Mina, Alabama. Parents–Samuel Ward and Althea Tate Washington Roberts.  Married–Dick Christian, January 28, 1967.  Education– Florence State Teachers College,  B.S.; George Peabody College, M.A.; further study at the University of Alabama (earned AA Teaching Certificate).  Taught at Riverside Elementary School in Decatur and Verner Elementary School in Tuscaloosa (1953-1968).  Member American Association of University Women. Died December 24, 2001.

Sources;

Threads of Many Colors; obituary

Publications;

Threads of Many Colors. Tuscaloosa,  1993.

Biography:

Attorney, professor of law; university administrator. Born– October 8, 1917, Duncan, S.C. Parents– William Arthur and Ruby (Thomas) Christopher. Married– Evelyn Montez Hawkins, October 25, 1950. Children–one. Married– Goldie Wood Gambrell, 1985,  Education– Washington and Lee University, A.B., 1939; University of Alabama, LL.B., 1948; New York University, LL.M., 1950; University of Alabama, J.S.D., 1957. Cross Keys School in Union, S.C., principal, 1939-1941; Lorton School, Va., principal, 1941-1942; Emory University Law School, member of the faculty, 1950-1961, associate dean, 1954-1961; University of North Carolina Law School, professor, 1961-1965; University of New Mexico School of Law, professor and dean, 1965-1971; University of Alabama School of Law, professor and dean, 1971-1988.  Honorary LL. D., University of Alabama, 1987.  Died March 22, 2002.

Source:

Who’s Who in America online and Directory of American Scholars, 1978.

Publication(s):

Cases and Materials on Food and Drug Law. Chicago; Commerce Clearing House, 1966.

Constitutional Questions in Food and Drug Law. Chicago; Commerce Clearing House, 1960.

Georgia Procedure and Practice. Atlanta; Harrison, 1957.

Poems From a Carolina Farm. Prairie City, Ill.; Decker, 1948.

San-Tuc:  Selected Poems. and Memories.

What Happened to Horseshoe Robinson?  A Study of John P. Kennedy’s 1835 Novel.  Christopher,  1995.

Joint_Publication(s):

Special Federal Food and Drug Laws. Chicago; Commerce Clearing House, 1954.

Biography:

Political scientist, university professor. Born– May 15, 1938, Kwangju, Chonnam, Korea. Married. Children– Three. Education– Yonsei University, Korea, B.A., 1961; Wisconsin State University, B.S., 1962; University of Kansas, M.A., 1964; University of Nebraska, Ph.D., 1969. Faculty research grant at the University of Alabama, 1971-1972. Research assistant at the University of Kansas, 1963-1964 and at the University of Nebraska, 1967-1969. Assistant professor at California State University at Humboldt, 1969-1970; taught in the political science department at the University of Alabama after 1970.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 1973.

Publication(s):

Pyongyang Between Peking and Moscow; North Korea’s Involvement in the Sino-Soviet Dispute, 1958-1975. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1978.

Biography:

Episcopal clergyman. Born–August 3, 1901, Mobile. Parents– Felix A. and Annie (Sibley) Cirlot. Education– Graduate of Spring Hill College. Died March 30, 1956.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

Apostolic Succession and Anglicanism; a Defense of Anglican Orders and Catholicity. Lexington, Ky.; Author, 1946.

Apostolic Succession at the Bar of Modern Scholarship. West Park, N.Y.; Holy Cross Press, 1946.

Apostolic Succession; Is It True? An Historical and Theological Inquiry. El Paso, Tex.; Author, 1945.

The Early Eucharist. London; Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1939.