Biography; 

Attorney; writer. Born Atlanta, 1952.  Education– Birmingham-Southern, B.A.; University of Alabama Law School, 1978.  Practiced law in Alabama and Florida;  currently a senior attorney in the firm of Becker and Poliakoff, Ft. Walton Beach, FL.  Member of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association.  Received the George Garrett Fiction Award, 2003, for The Blessings of Hard-Used Angels. 

Sources;

Author profiles in Climbing Mt. Cheaha.

Publications;

The Blessings of Hard-Used Angels.  Huntsville, TX:  Texas Review Press.

Biography:

Educator; rehabilitation counselor; consultant. Born– March 20, 1937, Winfield, Marion County. Parents– Ferman Hill and Bertha (Milner) Couch. Married– Helen Gibbs Daniel, March 11, 1959. Children– Three. Education– Attended Florence State College (now University of North Alabama), 1955-1957; Alabama College at Montevallo (now the University of Montevallo), A.B., 1960, M.A.T., 1962; further study at New York University and the University of North Carolina; Auburn University, Ed.D., 1973. Taught at Montevallo High School, 1960-1962; supervised a rehabilitation research and demonstration project at the Darden Rehabilitation Center at Alabama School of Trades in Gadsden, 1962-1964; rehabilitation counselor in the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services at Montgomery, 1964-1967; employed at Auburn University after 1967,  as Coordinator of Rehabilitation Services, professor, and head of the Department of Rehabilitation and Special Education. Served as state and national president of the division for Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Association (a division of the National Rehabilitation Association.) Awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award in 1990; Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1992 Recipient of the the Alabama Society for Crippled Children and Adults Professional Award and the National Paul Hoffman Award of the Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Association. The College of Education at Auburn established the Robert H. Couch Award in his honor. Died December 2, 2013.

Source:

Sketch “About the Author” in Every Day is Easter in Alabama, Auburn University website, materials in the library at Jacksonville State University, obituary.

Publication(s):

Camp ASCCA-Easter Seals; Alabama’s Special Camp for Children and Adults; A Historical Sketch.  Auburn, Al: Couch, 1996.

Every Day is Easter in Alabama; the History of the Alabama Society for Crippled Children and Adults, 1926-1976. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1976.

Fifty-Five at Twenty-Five; the History of Winfield High School’s Class of 1955, 1942-1980. Auburn, Ala.; Author, 1980.

One Alabama Couch Family.  Auburn, Al;  R. H. Couch, 1981.

Rehabilitation Facility Attendance of the Disadvantaged; A Comparison of Tangible and Intangible Reinforcers.  Auburn University Dissertation, 1973.

Winfield Remembered.  Auburn, Al.; Couch and Elrod, 1991.

Joint_Publication(s):

(with Jack Hawkins). Out of Silence and Darkness; the History of Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, 1858-1983. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1983.

Biography:

Businessman; Newspaper columnist; local historian. Born– August 12, 1914, Phenix City. Parents– Harrison T. and Vera Coulter. Married– Barbara Mary Stewart, December 20, 1940. Children– Two. Military service:  U.S. Navy, World War II; awarded the Cross of Military Service. Official Russell County historian. Wrote column “Garden Tips” beginning in the 1930’s and beginning on June 13, 1968, wrote a column, “Good Old Days”, for the Phenix Citizen. Awarded the Alabama Award of Merit for historical preservation, and a Resolution of Commendation from the Alabama Legislature for his newspaper column. Died July 1, 1977.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; ancestry.com.

Publication(s):

A People Courageous; a History of Phenix City, Alabama. Columbus, Ga.; Howard Printing Co., 1976.

Oral archives;

The Library at Columbus State University holds recorded oral history interviews with Harold S. Coulter, produced in 1974 by the Chattahooche Valley History Project.

Biography:

Educator; university president; attorney. Born– July 12, 1848, Fayetteville, N.C. Parents– William and Mary Jane Councill. Married– Maria H. Weeden, September 5, 1885.  Children–four. Education–attended one of the first schools established for African-Americans after the Civil War, in Stevenson, AL, 1865-1867; otherwise privately tutored and self-educated (studied Latin, mathematics, chemistry, and law). Ph. D. Morris Brown College.  First black attorney admitted to the Alabama bar, 1883 (but neber practiced law).   Began teaching in 1867; served as principal of Hunstville Colored School; as chief enrolling clerk for the Alabama House of Representatives, 1872-1874; as receiver for the general land office for the northern district of Alabama, 1875. Appointed principal of the newly created Alabama State Normal and Industrial School at Huntsville in 1875;  served as its president until his death in 1909.  Instrumental in the selection of the school as the black land-grant institution in Alabama under the Morrill Act of 1890, when it was renamed the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College. Founder and editor of weekly newspaper Huntsville Herald, 1877-1884.  An ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; founded St. John A. M.E. Church in Huntsville, 1885.   Died April 17, 1909.

Source:

Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, vol. 1; Dictionary of American Negro Biography (1982); Who Was Who in America online and Who Was Who in Alabama.

Publication(s):

Bright Side of the Southern Question. Speech Delivered at Corona, Ala., August 25, 1903. Huntsville, Ala.; Hay Printing Co., 1978.

Lamp of Wisdom; or, Race History Illuminated …. Nashville; Haley, 1898.

Negro Development in the South.  1901.

The Servant Problem in the South. Extracts from Speeches. Normal, Ala.; s.n., 1901.

Biography:

Writer. Born– November 19, 1911, Birmingham. Parents– John Saunders and Nettie Young (McCrory) Counselman. Married– Horace B. Vinyard, November 13, 1941.  Children– One. Education– Alabama College for Women for one year; University of Alabama for two summers; correspondence courses in journalism from the Newspaper Institute. Reporter for the Birmingham News; instructor in creative writing at Gadsden State Junior College and at the University of Alabama. Founder, publisher, and editor of Verity Publishing Company. Began writing at an early age; best-known story, “Three Marked Pennies,” was written at age fifteen.  Wrote more than four hundred poems and stories; 68 published in the Saturday Evening Post; contributed stories to Weird Tales, Ladies Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping. Many dramatized on television. Writings translated in at least eighteen languages.   Edited “Year at the Spring” magazine, 1977-80. Lecture at writers’ gatherings throughout the South.  Member American Penwomen and National Fantasy Fan Federation. Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, 1976-77.  Received an award from the National Fantasy Fan Federation for short story “Overture.” Died November 13, 1994.

Source:

Mrs. Horace Vinyard, Gadsden, Ala.

Publication(s):

African Yesterdays.  Gadsden, Al.:  Verity Publishing, 1975; revised edition, 1977.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Supernatural.  Verity, n.d.

The Eye and the Hand. S.l.; s.n., 1978.

The Face of Fear and other poems. Pensacola, Fla.; Edilon Press, 1984.

The Fifth Door.  Strange Books, 1982.

Half in Shadow.  Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1978.

Move Over–It’s Only Me.  Verity,, 1975.

Papers;

The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama holds a collection of the papers of Mary Elizabeth Counselman.

Biography:

Genealogist. Born– February 1, 1913, Huntsville. Parents– Claiborne T. and Mabel (Landers) Geron. Married– Jackson E. Countess, June 26, 1933. Children– Three. Education– Huntsville High School graduate, 1929; studied at the Nashville Conservatory of Music. Library assistant at Redstone Arsenal, 1951-55.  Member UDC and DAR.  Awarded second place in the Parker Genealogical Contest in 1971 for “They Passed This Way”.  Died March 30, 1975.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. 3.

Publication(s):

The Ancestry and Some of the Descendants of Theodorick Matthews Hereford, Sr. of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1961.

The Ancestry of Preston Yeatman of Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1960.

The Family of Charles McCartney of Madison County, Alabama, in Madison County by 1809. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1960.

The Family of Stephen Chambless of Madison County, Alabama, in Madison County by 1810. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1960.

The Family of Thomas Stewart of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 196-?

Joint_Publications;

They Passed This Way. Huntsville Ala.; s.n., 1969.

They Passed This Way, Errata (and Supplement). Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1969.

Through the Years:  A Study of the Geron, Geren, Garren Families.  Huntsville, 1967.

Biography:

 Psychotherapist; college instructor. Born– February 27, 1947, Repton. Parents– Fisher Burt and Doris (Knight) Covin. Married– June Nolin, August 21, 1971; married Charlotte Covin, June 13, 1981.  Children–two.  Education– Jefferson Davis Junior College, A.A, 1968; Troy State University, B.S., 1969; M.S., 1971; University of Alabama, Ed. Specialist, 1973, and Troy State University, 1972-1973, the University of Utah, 1974; University of Sarasota, Ed.D., 1975.  Alabama Baptist Children’s Home, 1969-71; Instructor of psychology at Troy State University, 1971-75; Instructor at Lomax Hannon Junior College, 1975-78., consulting psychologist and private therapist at the Center for Counseling and Human Development, Ozark, after 1981-. Member American Counseling Association, American association for Family and Marriage Counseling, Phi Delta Kappa, and other professional organizations in psychology and education.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; Marquis Who’s Who online.

Publication(s):

Basic Statistics for Educators. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1973.

Basic Statistics for Teachers. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1973.

The Psychological Case Study. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1974.

Editor:

Classroom Test Construction. New York; MSS Educational Pub., 1974.

Readings in Human Development. New York; MSS Educational Pub., 1974.

Readings in the Psychology of Early Childhood. New York; MSS Educational Pub., 1975.

Biography:

Genealogist; historical researcher. Born– June 7, 1925, Russellville, Ark. Parents– Edward E. and Mabel Louise (Cook) Matthews. Married– Eugene Guyland Cowart, June 24, 1946. Children– Two. Education– University of Alabama three years, Edited; Valley Leaves, the Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society Quarterly for two years; lecturer on Federal Land Records and genealogy. Member of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Archives and the Alabama Constitutional Village.  Awarded the Richard S. Lackey Memorial Award in 1983 by the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University. Died May 22, 2011.

Source:

Margaret M. Cowart, Huntsville, Ala.; obituary, Pensacola News-Journal, May 25, 2011.

Compiler:

Old Land Records of Colbert County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1985.

Old Land Records of Franklin County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1986.

Old Land Records of Jackson County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1980.

Old Land Records of Lawrence County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1991.

Old Land Records of Limestone County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1984.

Old Land Records of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1979.

Old Land Records of Marshall County.  Huntsville, Cowart, 1988.

Old Land Records of Morgan County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1981.

Biography:

Educator; professor of education. Born– January 7, 1890, Luverne. Parents– James Hausford and Mary Jane (Larkin) Cowart. Married Gladys Godbey, June 28, 1920. Education– Luverne and Goshen public schools,  Troy State Normal School (graduated 1910); University of Alabama, B.S., 1914;  Columbia University, M.A., 1921; additional graduate study at Columbia, the University of Michigan, and the University of Bristol (England). Served with the AEF in France, 1918-19. Taught in Andalusia 1910-1911, Castleberry 1911-1912; principal of New Decatur High School 1914-15; superintendent of Albany City Schools, 1915-25.  First full-time secretary of the Alabama Education Association, 1925-27. Professor of Education at the University of Alabama, 1927-60; Interim Dean, 1959-60. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, AEA, NEA, AAUP, Phi Delta Kappa and the Rotary Club.  Awarded the honorary LL. D. by the University of Alabama, 1960.  Died August 6, 1974.

Sources:

Brunson, Marion, and Cowart, Nancy. A History of Our Cowart Family.  Tuscaloosa, 1964.

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and at the University of Alabama Alumni Association.

Obituary, Alabama Alumni News, November-December 1974.

Publication(s):

A Citizen’s Catechism on the Public Schools of Alabama; Being a Compendium of Information in the Form of Eighty-six Questions and Answers. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Education Association, 1926.

Biography:

Teacher, university professor of education; educational consultant. Born– May 29, 1932, Ramer. Parents– Russell Fail and Sara (Mills) Cowles. Education– Troy State University, B.S., 1952, University of Alabama, M.A., 1958, Ph.D., 1962. Taught in Floyd Elementary School, Montgomery, from 1952-1959; served on the faculty of Rutgers University, 1962-97; , University of Georgia, 1966-67; University of South Carolina, 1967-73; at the School of Education, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1973-1990; Dean, 1980-87.  Consultant to many educational projects and institutions. Awarded professor emerita status at UAB on her retirement.  Member many professional education associations, including the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the U.S. National Committee of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, and the American Educational Research Association. Outstanding Public Educator Award from the Capstone College of Education Society at the University of Alabama, 1977.  Outstanding Alumna, Troy State University, 1984.  Early Childhood Education Leadership Award, South Carolina State University, 1992.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online.

Littleton, George. From Ramer to Rutgers. Montgomery: Donnell Group, 2013.

Publication(s):

Developmental Discipline. Birmingham, Ala.; Religious Education Press, 1982.

Early Childhood Education:  A Case for Kindergarten.  Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1969.

Joint_Publication(s):

Activity-oriented classrooms.  NEA, 1992.

Taming the Young Savage. Birmingham, Ala.; Development Press, 1980.

Editor_and_Contributor

Perspectives in the Education of Disadvantaged Children. Scranton, Pa.; International Textbook Co., 1967.

Contributor:

School Begins With Kindergarten. Columbia, S.C.; South Carolina Department of Education, 1978.

Joint_Producer;

“They All Learn:  The Story of a Sequential Program in Williamsburg, South Carolina.”  [Film]. 1969.

Biography:

Engineer. Born January 21, 1925– Roberts Community, Brewton. Parents– Orren G. and Bettie Herrington Cox. Married– Allene Moore, April 21, 1946.  Children– Five. Education– Auburn University, B.S. in Agricultural Engineering, 1949. Served with U.S. forces in Okinawa and Iwo Jima during World War II. Worked for a major chemical company in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Died February 15, 1977.

Source:

Montgomery Advertiser-Journal, February 11, 1968; Files at Auburn University Alumni Association.

Publication(s):

The Earth is Mine. New York; Exposition Press, 1968.

Biography:

Baptist clergyman; denominational historian. Born– October 28, 1888, Climax, Ga. Parents– Barkley Wade and Alice Louise (Brock) Cox. Married– Osye Lee Mathews, 1910. Children– Two. Education– Mercer University, B.A., 1914, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.D., 1918. Ordained; 1910. Student pastor; Georgia and Kentucky. Pastor; Barnesville, Savannah, Ga.; Portsmouth, Va.; Meridian, Miss.; Huntingdon, W.Va.; Mobile, Ala. (1931-1932). First Executive Secretary of the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.  Instrumental in getting 6.6 million pages of rare Baptist books, periodicals, and church records microfilmed.  Oversaw the publication of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, published in 1958.  Edited a Baptist paper in West Virginia and served as Associate Editor of the Quarterly Review, 1951-59.  Died February 9, 1968.

Source:

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1958.

Publication(s):

Dreams, Dungeons, Diadems; in New England, in Virginia, Today and Tomorrow. Nashville; s.n., 1954.

God and Ourselves. Nashville; Broadman, 1960.

We Southern Baptists. Nashville; Covention Press, 1961.

Youth’s Return to Faith. Philadelphia; Judson Press, 1938.

Editor;

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists.  Broadman Press, 1958.

Biography:

Sociologist; university professor. Born– August 25, 1901, Trinidad, British West Indies. Parents– William Raphael and Virginia (Austin) Cox. Moved to the U.S., 1919; became an American citizen,  July 14, 1926. Education– Northwestern University, B.S.L., 1928, University of Chicago, M.A., 1932; Ph.D. 1938. Professor; Wiley College, Marshall, Tex., 1938-1944; Tuskegee Institute, 1944-1949; Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo., 1949-1974; Wayne State University, 1970-74. Published many articles in professional journals. Member American Economics Association; American Sociological Association; National Education Association; Society for Social Research and other professional associations. Awarded LL.D. , Wiley College, 1945; George Washington Carver award in 1948 for Caste, Class, and Race. The American Sociological Association created the Oliver C. Cox Award for the best book in sociology;  George Washington University named a Scholarship Fund in his honor.  Died September 4, 1974.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; African-American Registry online; article “Oliver C. Cox: A Biographical Sketch of his Life and Work,” by Herbert M. Hunter; Phylon, vol. 44 (1983), 249-261.

Publication(s):

Capitalism and American Leadership. New York; Philosophical Library, 1962.

Capitalism as a System. New York; Monthly Review, 1964.

Caste, Class, and Race; a Study in Social Dynamics. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1948.

The Foundations of Capitalism. New York; Philosophical Library, 1959.

Jewish Self-Interest and Black Pluralism.  1974.

Origin of Direct-Action Protest Among Negroes. New York; Bell and Howell, 1973.

Race: A Study in Social Dynamics.  Monthly Review  Press, 2000.

Race Relations; Elements and Social Dynamics. Detroit; Wayne University Press, 1976.

Biography:

Priest, writer and editor. Born– March 23, 1873, Westpark Drum, Ireland. Parents– Owen and Margaret Laetitia (Durney) Coyle. Education–Mungret College, Limerick, Ireland, B.A., 1893, graduated from Collegio Americano del Nord in Rome, Italy. Ordained Roman Catholic priest in Rome, 1896. Assigned to the Cathedral Missions in Mobile and Baldwin County, 1896-1899; Rector of McGill Institute (School for Boys), 1899-1904. Pastor; St. Paul’s Church, Birmingham, 1904-1921. Appointed Dean of North Alabama, 1915. Published articles and poems in newspapers and magazines; founded district newsletter “The Catholic Monthly” and served as its editor.  Member Knights of Columbus.  Died (victim of a widely publicized murder), August 11, 1921.

Source:

Lovett, Rose Gibbons.  Centennial History of St. Paul’s Parish, Birmingham, Alabama, 1872-1972. Birmingham, 1972.

Various articles in The Birmingham News, August 12-15. 1921.

Publication(s):

Rosemary and Violets. Birmingham, Ala.; Dispatch Printing and Stationary Co., 1922.

Editor:

The Catholic Monthly.

Biography:

Teacher; journalist.  Born– August 31, 1855, Atlanta, Ga. Parents– Wiley Person Mangum and Hannah Page (MacIntyre) Cozart. Education– Florence Normal College, 1893; Cook County Normal, Chicago, 1893; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, 1901. Taught in public schools of Troy and Montgomery, Ala.; Aberdeen, Mississippi. Newspaper work: Montgomery Times from 1910-1913.  Active in several historical and patriotic organizations; historian of the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Montgomery; designed the monument erected by that organization on the battlefield site at Chickamauga.  Also served as the historian of the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; wrote the words to the song “The Bonnie Flag,” which was adopted by the UDC for use by the Children of the Confederacy.  A member of the DAR, the Alabama Historical Society, and the Montgomery School Improvement Association.  Died February 4, 1939.

Source:

Obituary, Montgomery Advertiser, February 5, 1939.

Owen’s Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

“Sketch of Henry Hilliard” in Volume IV of Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society.  Montgomery, Ala.; The Society, 1904; reprinted as a separate volume by Forgotten Books, 2016..

(Song) “The Bonnie Flag.”

Biography:

Literary scholar; University professor and administrator. Born– October 28, 1938, New Orleans, La. Parents– French Hood, Jr. and Jane (Bland) Craddock. Education– Stephens College, A.A., 1957; Indiana University, B.A., 1959; Stanford University, M.A., 1960; Yale University, M.A., 1963; Yale University, Ph.D,, 1964. Taught at Alabama College, 1960-1961, Connecticut College, 1963-66,  and Goucher College, 1966-72; taught and served as Department Head, Boston University, 1972-1988; University of Florida, 1988-. Served on editorial boards of several journals and annuals. Member American Association of University Professors, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, The College English Association, and the Modern Language Association. Awarded; Woodrow Wilson fellowship, 1959-1960; Guggenheim fellowship, 1971-1972. Awarded status of professor emerita on her retirement.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Edward Gibbon, a Reference Guide. Boston; G. K. Hall, 1987.

Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian, 1772-1794. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins, 1989.

Young Edward Gibbon, Gentleman of Letters. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Editor:

English Essays of Edward Gibbon. Oxford, Eng.; Clarendon Press, 1972.

Contributor;

The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century.  University of Kansas Press, 1966.

Writers of the English Language.  St. Martin’s Press, 1979.

Biography:

Writer. Born– March 17, 1861, Jackson, Miss. Parents– James and Frances (Donnell) Barr. Married– Benjamin H. Craig. Children– Two. Education– Fair Lawn Institute, Jackson, Mississippi, 1879. Member; Ossian Club, a literary organization; secretary-treasurer; Scriblers, the first organized writers club in Alabama. Published several short stories, poems, and two books. Died January 20, 1930.

Source:

Owen’s The Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

The Contrast. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

Was She?; a Novel. New York; Neale Publishing Co., 1906.

Biography:

Newspaper editor, writer, civic leader. Born– April 14, 1852, Nashville, Tenn. Parents– James B. and Ellen Kirkman (Erwin) Craighead. Married– Lura Harris, December 12, 1878. Children– One. Education– University of Nashville, B.Litt., 1872.  Travelled and studied in Europe, 1872-77. Admitted to the Tennessee bar, 1876. Worked as an editor for New Orleans newspapers 1880-1882; editor of the Mobile Register, 1882-1926. Supported progressive causes; a  moderate on racial issues. An advocate for the city of Mobile; supported local cultural institutions such as the Mobile Symphony. Member Iberville Historical Society and Mobile Commercial Club; a trustee of the State Department of Archives and History.  Became editor emeritus in 1926. Awarded the honorary LL. D. by the University of Alabama in 1906. Died February 3, 1932.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online.

Publication(s):

Craighead’s Mobile.  Mobile:  Haunted Bookshop, 1968.

From Mobile’s Past. Mobile, Ala.; Powers Printing Co., 1925.

The Literary History of Mobile. Mobile, Ala.; s.n., 1914.

Mobile; Facts, Traditions, Noteworthy People and Events. Mobile, Ala.; Powers Printing Co., 1930.

Mobile, the Gulf City of Alabama. Mobile, Ala.; Mobile Board of Trade, 1883.

Biography:

Housewife, civic leader. Born– Nashville, Tenn., January 17, 1858.  Parents– William Hooper Harris and Virginia Martin Harris. Married– Erwin Craighead, December 12, 1878. 1878. One child. Education– Mary Sharpe College, Winchester, Tennessee; graduate of Patapsco Institute, Baltimore.  Moved to Mobile in 1882; became a leader in many civic and charitable organizations. Helped organize the Shakespeare Club and served as its president. Member of the Alabama Child Labor Committee, Alabama Child Welfare Committee, and Mobile County Juvenile Court Commission. President of the Board of the Benevolent Home for the Aged. Vice president of the Board for the Alabama Boys Industrial School. Member of women’s suffrage organizations. Officer of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs from 1895 until her death.  Died January 27, 1926.

Source:

History of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs; Moore, Albert Burton. History of Alabama and Her People, Vol. III, p. 528.

Publication(s):

History of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1895-1918. Vol. 1. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1936.

Lessons in Parliamentary Law, with Tables, …. Mobile, Ala.; Delchamps Printing Co., 1914 (2nd edition, 1925).

Biography:

Economist; University professor. Born– June 25, 1924, Dixon, Ill. Parents,; Ray C. and Rebecca (Levan) Cramer. Married– Hula Jeana Bond, August 30, 1946. Children– Three. Education– Bradley University, B.S., 1949; M.A., 1951; Louisiana State University, Ph.D., 1958. Served in U.S. Army, WWII. Taught at Louisiana State, 1953-1954; University of Texas, El Paso, 1955-1958; at the University of Alabama, 1958-1988.  Member Southern Economics Association and American Association of University Professors.  Elected to the University of Alabama College of Commerce and Business Administration Hall of Fame, 1997. Died September 4, 2015.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online; Library of Alabama Lives; obituary, Tuscaloosa News, September 6, 2015.

Joint_Publication(s):

Economics; Principles of Income, Prices, and Growth. New York; Macmillan, 1966.

Instructor’s Manual for Economics; Principles of Income, Prices, and Growth. New York; Macmillan, 1966.

Workbook and Study Guide to Accompany Economics; Principles of Income, Prices, and Growth. New York; Macmillan, 1960.

Biography:

Writer. Born– February 19, 1860, Montgomery. Parents– James R. and Mary (Smythe) Powell.  (James R. Powell was one of the founders of the City of Birmingham and its first elected mayor, 1873-75.) Education:  taught at home by her mother, formerly a teacher at St. Wilfrid’s Episcopal School in Marion.  Lived in Europe for several years; studied music and languages with tutors in Paris, Dresden. Returned to the U.S.  and lived in the Northeast; was living in New Jersey when the book was published in 1930.

Source:

Encyclopedia of Alabama (online).

The Life of James R. Powell.

Publication(s):

The Life of James R. Powell, and Early History of Alabama and Birmingham. Brooklyn, N.Y.; Braunworth & Co., 1930.

Biography:

Mining engineer. Born– February 5, 1870, Grafton, Mass. Parents– Richard Reed and Arethusa Thorndyke (Barret) Crane. Married– Margaret M. Gray, December 28, 1898. Children– Three. Education– University of Kansas, A.B., 1895; A.M., 1896; Columbia University, Ph.D. 1901. Engineer and professor with the University of Kansas. 1893-1905; at the School of Mines, Columbia Univ., 1905-08; Dean of the School of Mines, Pennsylvania State University, 1908-18;  Appointed superintendent of the Southern Mining Station, U.S. Bureau of Mines in Birmingham, Ala., 1921; supervising research engineer, U.S. Bureau of Mines until 1933. Consulting engineer in Oakland, California, after 1933. Died April 14, 1947.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; find a grave website

Publication(s):

Deposit of Manganese Ore in the Batesville District, Arkansas. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1922.

Gold and Silver; Comprising an Economic History of Mining in the United States, …. New York; John Wiley and Son, 1908.

Index of Mining Engineering Literature, …. New York; John Wiley, 1909.

Iron Ore (Hematite) Mining Practice in the Birmingham District, Alabama. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1926.

Ore Mining Methods, Comprising Descriptions of Methods of Support in Extaction of Ore, …. New York; John Wiley, 1910.

Report on the Manganese Deposits of Georgia (Second Report on Manganese). Atlanta; Index Printing Co., 1919.

Joint_Publication(s):

Special Report on Coal. Lawrence, Kan.; Kansas Geological Survey, 1898.

Contributor:

Manganese; Uses, Preparation, Mining Costs and the Production of Ferro-alloys. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1920.

Papers;

A small collection of the papers of Walter Richard Crane is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.

Biography:

Writer. Born– November 6, 1888, Ohio.  Parents– Truman H. Aldrich and Anna Monroe Morrison Aldrich. Married– William Charles Cravner, October 31, 1914. Lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Alexander City and Tuscaloosa. Died August 5, 1967.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Zither of Many Strings. Asheville, N.C.; Stephens Press, 1949.

Biography:

Episcopal clergyman. Born– June 17, 1883, Atwood, Pa. Parents– David C. and Amanda Baker Cravner. Married– Marie Antoinette Aldrich, October 31, 1914. Ordained Episcopal clergyman, 1916. Served churches in New York, Florida, Paris, Geneva, North Carolina, and Alexander City. Died July 25, 1955.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

The Daystar at Midnight. New York; Vantage, 1962.

The Dreamer In Galilee. New York; Vantage, 1960.

The Faith Magnificent. New York; Vantage, 1961.

The Fruitful Bough. New York; Vantage, 1959.

God’s Heartbreak Hill. New York; Vantage, 1957.

God’s Ultimate Victory. New York; Vantage, 1964.

A Life In My Hands. New York; Vantage, 1957.

The Reality of the Unseen. New York; Vantage, 1959.

Thinking Samaritan. New York; Vantage, 1957.

The Third Day Comes. New York; Vantage, 1958.

Treasures of Darkness. New York; Vantage, 1957.

We Live In Two Worlds. New York; Vantage, 1958.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of William Charles Cravner is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.

Biography:

Writer; publisher. Born– Birmingham. Parents– Carl Lamar “Sale” Caddell, Sr. Married– William R. Crawford. Children– Three. Education– Samford University, University of Alabama Extension Center in Birmingham, and Auburn University. Lived in Vietnam for four years; worked as free-lance journalist for Stars and Stripes, Copley News Service, and other publications.  Founded the publication Military Living in 1968; built it into the country’s largest publisher of travel-related material for military families. Member National Military Wives Association; served as its director. Received the National Press Women’s Book Award for Nonfiction in 1967, for Customs and Cultures of Vietnam.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service; Military Living website

Publication(s):

Customs and Culture of Vietnam. Rutland, Vt.; C. E. Tuttle, 1966.

Military Living’s Temporary Military Lodging Around the World; Travel on Less Per Day–the Military Way. Arlington, Va.; Military Living Publications, 1981.

Joint_Publication(s):

Military Living’s Military Camping & Rec Areas Around the World. Arlington, Va.; Military Living Publication, 1983.

Military RV, Camping and Recreation Areas Around the World. Falls Church, Md.; Military Living, 1990.

U. S. Forces’ Travel and Transfer Guide. Falls Church, Md.; Military Living, 1989.

Biography:

Teacher; librarian. Born– December 3, 1911, Troy. Parents– Onis Austin and Magnolia Bay (Powell) Faulk. Married– William Samuel Crawford, August 5, 1933. Education– Troy State University, two years; George Peabody College, B.S., 1931; graduate study at Clemson University and Furman University; correspondence courses; University of Oklahoma in library science. Taught; Good Hope Elementary School, Troy; Georgiana High School. Analyst; Clemson College Extension Service and Tennessee Extension Service. Secretary for governmental bureau. Taught in South Carolina schools until 1967;  Librarian, Anderson County (SC) Schools until 1977.  Died February 10, 1997.

Source:

Annie F. Crawford, Troy, Ala.

Publication(s):

Shut Yo’ Mouth. Montgomery, Ala.; Pioneer Press, 1985.

See:

McLean, Carolyn Crawford

Biography:

Attorney.   Born–May 23, 1904, Montgomery. Parents– Hervey Files Sr. and Pauline (Smith) Crenshaw. Married– Gladys Sessions, December 26, 1945. Education– University of Alabama; Harvard Law School, 1926.  Attorney for State Board of Adjustments, 1935-1952. President of the Montgomery Bar Association. Vice president of Brown Printing Co. Died May 4, 1970.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Joint_Publication(s):

Scottsboro; the Firebrand of Communism. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Printing Co., 1936.

Biography:

Writer. Born– April 18, 1929, Montgomery. Parents– Jack and Catherine (Westcott) Crenshaw. Education– Vanderbilt University, B.A. 1951; University of Havana (Cuba), Parsons School of Design. Fashion industry, New York after 1958. Staff writer for Vogue magazine, 1959-1962. Fashion coordinator for Ohrbach’s, 1962-65; Fashion and beauty reporter for the New York Times, 1965-76. Head of Mary Ann Crenshaw and Associates public relations firm, Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Member Fashion Group Internationa;l, Cosemetics Executive Women, Authors League, and Authors Guild.

Source:

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

Publication(s):

The End of the Rainbow. New York; McMillan, 1981.

The Natural Way to Super Beauty. New York; McKay, 1974.

Prescription Junkie. New York; C. H. Potter, 1980.

Shape-Up for Super Sex. New York; Delacorte, 1977.

The Super Foods Diet. New York; MacMillan, 1983.

Joint_Publications;

DogSpeak:  How to Learn It, Speak It, and Use It to Have a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1999.

Biography:

Housewife; civic leader. Born– November 6, 1878, Montgomery. Parents– Lester Chauncey and Annie Saunders Smith. Married– Hervey Files Crenshaw, December 26, 1900. Children– Three. Founder and president; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the first fine arts museum in the state. Died December 11, 1956.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

From Then Until Now. S.l.; s.n., 1932.

Biography:

University professor. Born– August 3, 1930, Bellevue, Pa. Parents: Charles G. and Mollie Graham Crispens.  Married–Joan A. Crispens. Children– One. Education– Pennsylvania State University, B.S., 1953; Ohio State University, M.S., 1955; Washington State University, Ph.D., 1959. Professor; University of Maryland; University of  Alabama, Birmingham. Awarded; Lederle Medical Faculty Award, 1963. Died June 15, 1992.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 1979.

Publication(s):

Essentials of Medical Genetics. New York; Harper & Row, 1971.

Handbook on the Laboratory Mouse. Springfield, Ill.; C. C. Thomas, 1975.

Quails and Partridges of North America. Seattle; University of Washington Press, 1960.

The Vertebrates; Their Forms and Functions. Springfield, Ill.; C. C. Thomas, 1978.

Biography:

Attorney; political staff member. Born– October 11, 1946, Montgomery. Parents– Quentin Claiborne and Priscilla Tyler (Scott) Crommelin. Education– Rice University, B.A., 1966; University of Virginia, LL.B., 1969. Served in Vietnam. Served as Legislative aide to Senator James B. Allen, 1978 until Allen’s death in 1986. Worked for the National Congressional Club, 1986-87.  Chief counsel and staff director of the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Senate Judicial Committee 1979-1981. Served as legislative aide to Senators Harry Byrd, Strom Thurmond, and John East; Minority Counsel to Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1987-88.  Returned to private law practice in DC, 1988. Member; American, New York, and Alabama Bar Association.

Source:

Alabama Magazine, August 1985 and  Congressional Staff Directory, 1983.

Joint_Publication(s):

Soviet Military Supremacy; the Untold Facts about the New Danger to America. S.l.; Authors, 1985.

Biography:

Literary scholar; college professor, writer. Born– August 2, 1950, Florence. Parents– Johnny C. and Anna Marie (Cooper) Cross. Education– University of North Alabama, B.S., 1973; M.A., 1976; University of Mississippi, Ph.D., 1982. Taught; Lawrence County, Tenn.; Florence City Schools, University of Mississippi, and John C. Calhoun State Community College, Decatur Campus. Wrote articles for the Mark Twain Journal, introductions to the reissued editions of T.S. Stribling’s novels.

Source:

Randy K. Cross, Athens, Ala.

Editor;

Stribling, T. S.  The Forge.  University of Alabama Press, 1985.

The Store.  University of Alabama Press, 1885.

Unfinished Cathedral.  University of Alabama Press, 1986.

Joint_Editor:

Laughing Stock; the Autobiography of T.S. Stribling. Memphis; St. Luke’s Press, 1982.

Biography:

Clergyman; university administrator. Born– October 22, 1868, Lawrenceburg, Ky. Parents– Richard and Elizabeth (Jackson) Crossfield. Married– Annie Ritchie Terry, February 5, 1895. Children– Two. Education– Kentucky University (now Transylvania College), A.B., 1889; College of the Bible, Lexington, Ky., 1892; University of Wooster, M.A., Ph.D., 1900. Ordained Minister, Disciples of Christ, 1894. A key figure in the history of the denomination.  President of Transylvania College, 13 years, College of the Bible for eight and one half years, William Woods College, three years. Pastor in Glasgow and Owensboro, Kentucky, and Norfolk, Virginia (1924-27);  First Christian Church, Birmingham, Ala., 1927-1937. President Transylvania College, 1938-39. Awarded status of president emeritus on his retirement. LL.D., Georgetown College, 1915; University of Kentucky, 1917; Transylvania College, 1930. Died July 30, 1951.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online

Publication(s):

Christian Principles of Sociology and Their Application to Present-Day Problems. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

Pilgrimages of a Parson. Owensboro, Ky.; s.n., 1901.

Biography:

Teacher, librarian, local historian. Born– July 8,1903, Ashville. Parents John Rowan Teague and Talullah Missouri Nunnelly Teague. Married– Abner Hodges Crow, October 31, 1924. Crow. Children– Two. Education– Alabama College; Jacksonville State University, A.B., 1949; University of Alabama, A.M., 1951. Taught at Ashville High School. Librarian for St. Clair County Schools, Jacksonville State University, Birmingham Southern College, Judson College, University of Alabama in Birmingham, and Gadsden State Junior College.  Led efforts for the preservation of local historic records and historic buildings.  Died March 8, 1999.

Source:

Who’s Who in Library Service, 1966,

Publication(s):

Ashville Baptist Church and its Beginnings. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1903.

History of St. Clair County (Alabama). Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1973.

Roster of Men Serving in the Confederate Army from St. Clair County, Alabama. S.l.; s.n., 19–?

Editor:

The Diary of a Confederate Soldier; John Washington Inzer, 1834-1928. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1977.

Biography:

Clergyman, seminary professor, ecumenical executive. Born– November 17, 1931, Birmingham (grew up in Lanett). Parents– Paul Abernathy and Beulah Elizabeth (Parker) Crow. Married– Mary Evelyn Matthews, September 11, 1955. Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1954; Lexington Theological Seminary, B.D., 1957; Hartford Seminary, S.T.M., 1957, Ph.D., 1958. Campus minister at the University of Alabama, 1953-1954. Minister in Alabama and Kentucky, 1955-1957. Ordained; Christian Church, 1957. Minister in Hadley, Massachusetts, 1961-1966. Taught at Lexington Theological Seminary, 1961-1968. Visiting fellow at Oxford University, 1967-1968. Secretary; Consultation on Church Union, Princeton, 1968-1974. President of the Council on Christian Unity, 1974-98. Consultant, lecturer, writer on Christian unity.  Jacobus Fellow at Hartford Seminary, 1958-60; Distinguished Alumni, Hartford Seminary, 1986  Honorary DD, Phillips University, 1983; Bethany College, 1983; Yale University, 1986; Virginia Theological Seminary, 1987; DHL, Lynchburg College, 1997.  Honored by publication of a festschriften, The Vision of Christian Unity:  Essays in Honor of Paul A. Crow, Jr., 1997.

Source

Marquis Who’s Who online, and Paul A. Crow, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind.

Publication(s):

The Anatomy of a Nineteenth Century United Church. Lexington, Ky.; Lexington Theological Seminary, 1983.

Christian Unity; Matrix for Mission. New York; Fellowship Press, 1982.

The Ecumenical Movement in Bibliographical Outline. New York; National Council of Churches, 1965.

No Greater Love; the Gospel and Its Imperative. St. Louis; Christian Board of Publications, 1967.

Joint Publications:

The Church for Disciples of Christ., 1998.

Editor:

Digest of the Proceedings of the Consultation on Church Union. Princeton; The Consultation, 1965-1973. (published annually.)

The History of the Ecumenical Movement, Vol. 3. New York; Westminister Press, 1987.

Joint_Editor:

Church Union at Midpoint. New York; Association Press, 1972.

Where We Are in Church Union. New York; Association Press, 1965.

Biography:

Librarian. Born– July 30, 1911, Chattanooga, Tenn. Parents– P.P. and Annie Crowe. Education– University of Chattanooga, B.A., 1933; George Peabody College, B.L.S., 1945. Served as head of cataloging and acquisition for the Negro Branches of Chattanooga, Tennessee libraries, 1935-1939; medical librarian from 1940-1944; intern and library assistant, Vanderbilt University, 1944-1945; chief librarian and assistant professor of bibliography at the Alabama Medical Center, 1945. Member of the Medical Library Association, Special Libraries Association, and Alabama Library Association.

Source:

Who’s Who in Library Service, 1955.

Publication(s):

A History of the Medical College of Alabama. S.l.; Medical College of Alabama Library, 1951.

Biography:

Newspaper editor, teacher. Born– March 15, 1852, Lexington, Ky. Parents– Marcus Henderson and Matilda Washington (Chrisman) Cruikshank. Married– Mary Rachel Smith, October 7, 1887. Children– Two. Education– Peabody Institute, Talladega; Southwood Academy, and Synodical College, B.A.. Taught at Talladega; principal of State Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind for six years. Editor for Talladega Reporter, 1881-1883; admitted to the bar in 1882; appointed general administrator of Talladega County in 1883; bought an interest in and became editor of the Birmingham Chronicle; co-founder of the Evening Chronicle, 1889. Served as superintendent of the House folding room at the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., 1890-1893; assistant postmaster in Birmingham, 1893-1897. Editor of the Birmingham Ledger, 1897-1918. Member of the Alabama Press Association, the Birmingham Press Club, and the Masonic order.  Died September 15, 1936.

Source:

Alabama Pioneers online.

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

Publication(s):

A History of Birmingham and Its Environs; a Narrative Account of Their Historical Progress, Their People, and Their Principal Interests. 2 vols. Chicago; Lewis Pub. Co., 1920.

Biography:

School administrator, teacher. Born– January 13, 1883, near Tuskegee. Parents– John Perry and Harriet Blanche (Parkinson) Howard. Married– Howard Ulmer Crumpton. Children– Two. Education– Graduated from Alabama Conference Female College, 1900; Peabody College, A.B., 1924; M.A., 1925. Supervisor of Walker County Schools, 1925-1935; supervisor Marengo County Schools, 1935-1938; taught at Carlowville High School, 1935-1947.  Died May 24, 1975.

Source:

Library of Alabama Lives.

Publication(s):

From Campfire to Cahaba. Montgomery, Ala.; Dixie Book Co., 1936.

Than Silver and Gold. S.l.; s.n., 1964.

Joint_Publication(s):

Fundamentals of Citizenship. Chicago; Laidlaw Brothers, 1952.

Biography:

Baptist minister; denominational executive.  Born– February 24, 1842, Camden. Parents– Henry Tally and Matilda Smith (Bryan) Crumpton. Married– Ellen Cochran, 1872; Florence Harris, 1910. Education– Georgetown College, Kentucky, for two years.  Served in Co. H., 37th Mississippi Infantry, CSA. Ordained into the Baptist ministry, 1870; Corresponding secretary; Baptist Mission Board of Alabama for twenty eight years; editor of the Alabama Baptist, 1895. President of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, 1917.  Trustee, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  President, Anti-Saloon League of Alabama. Died March 9, 1926.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online

Publication(s):

A Book of Memories, 1842-1920. Montgomery, Ala.; Baptist Mission Board, 1921.

A Story; How Alabama Became Dry. Birmingham, Ala.; Alabama Anti Saloon League, 1925.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1912.

A Book of Daily Devotions. Nashville; Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1923.

Biography:

Public relations, rate supervisor, editor, civic leader. Born– May 3, 1911, Hackneyville. Parents– Charles Henry and Nellie Dunn (Ledbetter) Russell. Married– Jesse Clyde Cruse, December 22, 1931. Children– Two. Education– Birmingham Southern College, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, and University of Minnesota; University of Alabama, A.B. in Journalism (1976); Samford, M.A. in English (1981) and in History (1984). Worked for Southern Bell, 1928-1944, 1954-1976; public relations supervisor from 1965-1968; rate supervisor, 1968-1976.  Edited BAMA Bulletin for South Central Bell Telephone Company; edited the Muse Messenger for the Alabama State Poetry Society, 1977; edited the Alabama Baptist Historian, 1986-89.  Member, vice-president and  president of the Birmingham Association of Industrial Editors. Served on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Festival of the Arts, 1970-73.  Nominated Woman of the Year in Birmingham three times. Earned three Freedom Foundation awards. Outstanding Alumna of University of Alabama New College, 1991. Died February 10, 2002.

Source:

Obituary, Birmingham News, February 12, 2002; Foremost Women in Communications, 1970; Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1982.

Publication(s):

A Centennial Reminiscence. S.l.; s.n., 1982.

The First Ten Years; an Informal History of Metropolitan Business and Professional Women’s Club of Birmlngham. Birmingham, Ala.; Cruse, 1973.

To Bear the Message; a Dramatic Presentation for the Christmas Season. Franklin, Ohio; Eldridge Pub. Co., 1953.

Biography:

Physician. Born– August 2, 1863, Ft. Gaines, Ga. Parents– Francis Tenneille and Harriet Emma (Coachman) Cullens. Married– Annie Laura Davis, September 17, 1891. Children– Six. Education– Tulane University, 1895-1896; Memphis Hospital Medical College, 1896-1897 and 1899. Licensed to practice medicine, 1897; established practice at Ozark; served as coroner, 1913-. Member of the Democratic Party, Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Woodmen of the World. Wrote short stories and articles for professional journals and newspapers. Died July 12, 1938.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

“Luce the Foundling”; an Anglo-American Tale. Richmond, Va.; Lewis Printing Co., 1925.

The Serpent’s Trail:  Memoirs of Harold Bagote, Physician.  New York; Broadway Publishing Co., 1909.

Where the Magnolias Bloom, A Tale of Southern Life.  New York:  Abbey Press, 1901.

Biography:

Soldier. Born– Birmingham, August 21, 1893. Parents– John Bryant Cumming and Rosa Palmer Cumming. Married– Rhea LaPierre. Children–two. Second lieutenant in the Rainbow Division during World War I; worked in the clerical department at Wilson Dam.  Died May 15, 1932.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; obituary.

Publication(s):

Me,–an’ War Goin’ On. Boston; The Cornhill Publishing Co., 1921..

Biography:

Nurse, teacher. Born–Edinburgh, Scotland, 1835. Parents– David and Jessie Cummings. Emigrated to Mobile with her family in the 1840’s. Went to Corinth, Mississippi, to help nurse Confederate soldiers after the Battle of Shiloh, and in August 1862 volunteered to work as a nurse with the Army of the Tennessee under its medical director Dr. Samuel Stout.  Appointed  a “matron” (hospital supervisor) in the Confederate Medical Department and served at Confederate hospitals for the duration of the war. Moved to Birmingham with her father in 1874;  gave music lessons and taught school there.  During her years as a nurse kept a diary which is a very important source for information on women and medical service in the Confederate Army.  Died June 5, 1909.

Source:

Notable American Women, Vol, 1; Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors; and  Living Female Authors of the South.

Publication(s):

Gleanings from Southland. Birmingham, Ala.; Roberts & Son, 1895. (The same material has been printed under three different titles; A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, The Journal of Kate Cumming, and Kate; the Journal of a Confederate Nurse.)

Biography:

University professor. Born– March 22, 1926, Birmingham. Parents– Louis John and Marie Virginia (Schillinger) Cunningham. Married– Margery Ann Winters, August 20, 1949. Children– Eight. Education– St. Gregory Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, A.B., 1947; Laval University, Ph.D., 1951; Taught philosophy at Xavier University, 1951-53; at San Francisco College for Women (now Lone Mountain College), 1953-58; at the University of San Francisco, 1958-; Assistant Dean, University of San Francisco, 1981-84. Member American Philosophical Association; American Catholic Philosophical Association; Mont Pelerin Society.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online and Marquis Who’s Who online

Compiler:

Situationism and the New Morality. New York; Appleton, 1970.

Compiler_and_Contributor;

Liberty and the Rule of Law. College Station, Tex.; Texas A & M University, 1979.

Contributor:

New Themes in Christian Philosophy. Notre Dame, Ind.; University of Notre Dame Press, 1968.

Toward Liberty, Vol. 2. Menlo Park, Calif.; Institute for Humane Studies, 1971.

Biography;

College professor; writer.  Born November 15, 1964, Lincoln, Nebraska.  Children–one.  Education; University of Missouri, B.A., 1987; Louisiana State University, Ph. D., 1993.  English instructor, Troy University at Montgomery, 1993-  .  Member F. Scott Fitzgerald Society.  Board member, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, Montgomery. Managing Editor of journal F. Scott Fitzgerald Review. Received Hackney Awards for Short Fiction, 2004, 2005, 2006; Best Books of Indiana Award in Fiction, 2008; Gold Medal in Nonfiction Writing, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, 2008.

Source;

Contemporary Authors online.

Publications;

Alienated-Youth Fiction.  Detroit: Gale, 2000.

Baby, Let’s Make a Baby; plus Ten More Stories.  Montgomery, AL:  River City Publishing, 2003.

Breathing out the Ghost.  Montgomery, AL:  River City Publishing, 2007.

Brian Wilson.  Bristol, CT.: Equinox Pub., 2012.

The Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald.  New York;  Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Coffee with Hemingway.  New York; Duncan Baird, 2007.

Dixie Noir.  Detroit; Five Star, 2009.

Ernest Hemingway and the Expatriate Modernist Movement.  Detroit; Gale, 2001.

Raising Aphrodite. Montgomery, River City Press,  2015.

Wise Economies; Brevity and Storytelling in American Short Stories.  Moscow, ID:  University of Idaho Press, 1997.

Editor;

A Historical Guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald.  Oxford University Press, 2004.

The Critical Response to Gertrude Stein.  Westport, CT;  Greenwood Press, 2000.

Key West Hemingway; A Reassessment.  Gainesville, FL;  University Press of Florida, 2009.

Created 1-10-2013; Nancy B. DuPree

Biography:

Literary scholar; University professor. Born– July 8, 1908, New Orleans. Parents– Joseph Robustiano and Bertha (Ehrhardt) Current-Garcia. Married– Alva Garrett, June 18, 1935. Children– Three. Education– Tulane University, A.B., 1930; M.A., 1932; Harvard, A.M., 1942, Ph.D, 1947. Taught at the University of Nebraska, 1936-1939; Suffolk University, Boston, 1939-1942; Louisiana State University, 1944-1947; Auburn University, 1947-1993. Fulbright lecturer at the University of Salonika, Greece, 1956-1958. Editor of the Southern Humanities Review, 1967-1979. Member Phi Beta Kappa, Southern Humanities Conference, and South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at Auburn. Named first Phi Kappa Pi American Scholar, 1994. Died January 1, 1995.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online;  and Who’s Who in America, 1980-1981.

Publication(s):

The American Short Story before 1850; A Critical History.  Twayne, 1985.

O. Henry. New York; Twayne, 1965.

O. Henry; A Study of the Short Fiction.  Twayne, 1993.

Joint_Publication(s):

American Short Stories; 1820 to the Present. Chicago; Scott Foresman, 1952.

Realism and Romanticism in Fiction. Chicago; Scott Foresman, 1962.

What is the Short Story? Chicago; Scott Foresman, 1961.

Editor:

Short Stories of the Western World. Glenview, Ill.; Scott Foresman, 1969.

Joint_Editor:

Shem, Ham, and Japeth; the Papers of W. O. Tuggle. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1973.

Contributor:

A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1969.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Eugene Current-Garcia is held by the special collections department of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.

Biography:

Classicist; high school principal; college professor. Born– March 22, 1885, Jasonville, Ind. Parents– Lawrence and Martha Mitten Currie. Married– Rose Blanche Bryan, December 28, 1918. Children– Five. Education– Indiana University, A.B., 1908, A.M., 1911, Ph.D., 1924. Served as principal in several Indiana schools; instructor at the University of Wyoming, 1913-1915; Hendrix College, Conway, Ark.; taught at Birmingham-Southern College, 1920-1939; Millsaps College, 1939-1946; Louisiana College, 1946-1961; Whitworth College, Mississippi, 1961-. Died December 4, 1968.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online and Dictionary of American Scholars, 1969.

Publication(s):

Breezes from Helicon. Dallas; Story Book Press, 1950.

Collected Poems.  New York: Exposition Press, 1954.

Essentials of General and Scientific Latin. Boston; Chapman, 1945.

The Military Discipline of the Romans From the Founding of the City to the Close of the Republic. Bloomington, Ind.; Graduate Council, Indiana University, 1928.

Biography:

Civilian worker for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.  Born– Toinette, Ala., May 18, 1968. Parents– John Earle and Lois Genevieve Vick Curry. Married– Clara Elizabeth Duffee. Children– Three. Education– Business school.  Served in the Naval Reserve in the Korean conflict. In civilian personnel work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Mobile, 1941-75. Died August 19, 1991.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

The Fairies; Poems. New York; Vantage, 1952.

Biography:

Advocate for education; college professor;  legislator; attorney. Born– June 5, 1825, near Double Branches (Lincoln County), Georgia. Parents– William and Susan (Winn) Curry. Married Ann Bowie, March 4, 1847. Children–four.  Married Mary Wortham Thomas, June 25, 1867. Education–graduated from the University of Georgia, 1843; from Dane Law School at Harvard, 1845.  Admitted to the bar in Talladega, 1846; sat in the Alabama legislature in 1847, 1855, and 1857; U.S. Congressman, 1852-1861 (withdrew with other Southerners, 1861); Confederate Congressman, 1861-1863. Served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate cavalry, 1864-65. Ordained as a Baptist minister, 1865; served as president of Howard College, 1865-68; professor of philosophy and law at Richmond College, Virginia, 1868-81.  General agent for the Peabody Fund (a private foundation established for the promotion of education in the South), after 1881.  Used the position to advocate for public education in the South, including the establishment of state normal schools for teacher preparation, the acceptance of responsibility for rural schools by state legislatures, and the provision of public schools for both black and white children.  Considered the father of public schools in the states of the old Confederacy.  Helped to organize the Southern Education Board and served as its director until his death.  Twice appointed U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1885-88 and 1902.  One of two Alabama citizens honored by having a statue placed in the U. S. Capitol. Died February 12, 1903.

Source:

Who Was Who in Alabama; Biographical Directory of the Library of Congress.

Publication(s):

A Baptist Church Radically Different from Pedobaptist Churches. Phildelphia; American Baptist Publications Society, 1900.

A Brief Sketch of George Peabody, and a History of the Peabody Education Fund Through Thirty Years. Cambridge, Mass.; Harvard University Press, 1898.

The Cherokee Indians in Georgia. University, Ala.; Confederate Publishing Co., 1980.

Civil History of the Government of the Confederate States, with Some Personal Reminiscences. Richmond, Va.; B. F. Johnson Publishing Co., 1900.

Constitutional Government in Spain; a Sketch. New York; Harper & Brothers, 1889.

Difficulties, Complications, and Limitations Connected with the Education of the Negro. Baltimore; Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, 1895.

Diplomatic Services of George William Erving. Cambridge, Mass.; J. Wilson, 1890.

Education of the Negro Since 1860. Baltimore; Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, 1894.

Establishment and Disestablishment in America.  N.P., 1899.

Georgia in the 1840’s.  Confederate Publishing Col, 1980.

Hon. Francis Strother Lyon as Commissioner and Trustee of Alabama; a Sketch. New York; Putnam, 1889.

National Peril Remedy. Richmond, Va.; Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1884.

National Problem of Southern Education. Richmond, Va.; Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1882

North American Colonization, with Particular Reference to Virginia and the Carolinas. Washington, D.C.; s.n., 1896.

Papers and Addresses. S.l.; s.n., 1847.

Perils and Duty of the South. Washington, D.C.; L. Tower Printer, 1860.

The Present Condition of Religious Liberty Throughout the World. S.l.; s.n., 1893.

Principles, Acts, and Utterances of John C. Calhoun, Promotive of the True Union of the States. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1898.

The Southern States of the American Union Considered in Their Relations to the Constitution of the United States and to the Resulting Union. New York; Putnam, 1894.

Struggles and Triumphs of Virginia Baptists. Philadelphia; American Baptist Publications Society, 1873.

William Ewart Gladstone. Richnond, Va.; B. F. Johnson, 1891.

Published Speeches and Addresses;

Address before the Virginia State Agricultural Society. Richmond, Va.; Fergusson, 1875.

Address Delivered December 13th, 1888. Atlanta; W. J. Campbell, 1889.

Address Delivered February 6th, 1885. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1885.

Address of Hon. J. L. M. Curry delivered before the Association of Confederate Veterans, Richmond, Va., July 1, 1896. Richmond, Va.; Brown Printing Co., 1896.

Admission of Kansas. Speech of Mr. J. L. M. Curry, of Alabama, in the House of Representatives, February 23, 1858, on the Admission of Kansas as a State …. Washington, D.C.; Congressional Globe Office, 1858.

Causes of the Power and Prosperity of the United State. An address delivered at the annual commencement of the University of Michigan, Thursday, June 27, 1889. Ann Arbor, Mich.; Board of Regents, University of Michigan, 1889.

The Constitutional Rights of the States. Speech of J. L. M. Curry of Alabama, in the House of Representatives, March 14, 1860. Washington, D.C.; McGill Printing Co., 1860.

Lessons of the Yorktown Centennial. Address of the Hon. J. L. M. Curry, LL.D. Richmond, Va.; Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1881.

Proceedings of the Winthrop Training School, Memorial Day, May 12, 1889, with the memorial address of Hon. J. L. M. Curry. Columbia, S.C.; Bryan Printing Co., 1898.

Speech of Hon. J. L. M. Curry, general agent of the Peabody Education Fund, delivered before the North Carolina legislature, January 21, 1891. Raleigh, N.C.; J. Daniels Printer, 1891.

Speech of J. L. M. Curry of Alabama, on the bill granting pensions to the soldiers of the war of 1812. Washington, D.C.; L. Towers, 1858.

Speech of J. L. M. Curry of Alabama, on the selection of speaker, and the progress of anti-slaveryism, delivered in the House of Representatives, December 10, 1859. Washington, D.C.; L. Towers, 1859.

Speech of Jabez L. M. Curry of Alabama, on the Expenditure and the Tariff, delivered in the House of Representatives, February 24th, 1859. S.l.; T. McGill, 1859.

Papers;

The papers of J. L. M. Curry are distributed over several libraries;  larger collections are held by the Library of Congress and the Alabama Department of Archives and History;  smaller collections are found at several libraries, including Duke University and the University of North Carolina.