Biography:

Telephone operator; hotel manager. Born–December 12, 1908, Harpersville. Parents– James Simpson Newman and Jessie Married– Royal M. Coats, May 2, 1942. Children– One. with her husband, managed hotels in Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida. After Mr. Coats died she lived at Harpersville. Died May 29, 2001.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service and at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

The Old Rocking Chair. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1967.

Biography:

College instructor; telephone company employee. Born– June 25, 1944, Cullman. Parents– Buell E. and Kathryn (McDaniel) Cobb. Married– Mary Wilson Elliot, August, 1968. Education– University of Montevallo, B.A., 1966; graduate study in English, Auburn University. Taught at West Georgia College. Conducts shaped-note workshops all over the country. Articles appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and in Louisiana Studies.

Source:

Gene Geiger, Auburn University, and book jacket to The Sacred Harp.

Publication(s):

Like Cords around My Heart: A Sacred Harp Memoir.  Outskirts Publishing Company, 2013.

The Sacred Harp; a Tradition and Its Music. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1978.

Contributor;

In the Spirit:  Alabama’s Sacred Music Traditions.  Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1995.

Biography:

Farmer. Born– About 1885. Parents– Hayes and Liza (Culver) Cobb. Married– Hannah Ramsey, 1906 (died 1950). Children– Nine; married–Josie Travis Todd.  An illiterate Black tenant farmer in Tallapoosa County. In 1932 he was involved in the Alabama Sharecroppers’ Union. In December of that same year he was involved in a shooting with a deputy sheriff who had been sent to foreclose on one of Cobb’s neighbors. Served twelve years in prison. In 1971, Theodore Rosengarten tape recorded Cobb telling his life story and published the autobiographical book on Cobb’s life as All God’s Dangers; the Life of Nate Shaw.  Received the National Book Award for general nonfiction, 1974. Died November 5, 1973.

Source:

All God’s Dangers.

Publication(s):

All God’s Dangers; the Life of Nate Shaw. New York; Knopf, 1974.

Biography:

Writer; University professor. Born– October 20, 1937, Eutaw; grew up in Demopolis. Parents– Sledge and Inez (Land) Cobb. Married– Loretta Douglas, August 15, 1965. Children– One. Education– Livingston State University, A.B., 1961; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1963.  Professor and writer in residence at the University of Montevallo, 1963-2000. Published short stories, plays, and novels.  fellowship in creative writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1970. Had short stories and essays published in many periodicals and anthologies. Has written several plays; three of these were produced off-Broadway in New York.  Received the Story of the Year Award from Story magazine in 1964; the Alabama Library Association Awards, 1998, 2000, and the Harper Lee Award from the Alabama Writers Forum in 2007.

Source:

William S. Cobb, Montevallo.

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Captain Billy’s Troopers: A Writer’s Life.  University of Alabama Press, 2015.

Coming of Age at the Y. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1984.

Harry Reunited.  Montgomery; Black Belt Press, 1995.

The Hermit King. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1986.

The Hermit King, and Five New Stories.  Livingston, AL: Livingston Press, 2005.

The Last Queen of the Gypsies.  Crane Hill, 2010.

Somewhere in All This Green; New and Selected Stories.  Black Belt Press, 1997.

A Spring of Souls.  Birmingham; Crane Hill, 1999.

Sweet Home:  Stories of Alabama.  SixFinger Publishing, 2013.

A Time to Reap.  Sarasota, FL: Sixfinger Publishing, 2013.

A Walk Through Fire. New York; Morrow, 1992.

Wings of Morning.  Birmingham; Crane Hill, 2001.

Plays:

At Home. A One-act play. Produced by Shelby County Community Theater, 1977.

Brighthope.  Produced Montevallo, 1985.

Early Rains; a Play. Montevallo, Ala.; W. Cobb, 1988.

A Place of Springs; a Play In Two Acts. Montevallo, Ala.; W. Cobb, 1987.

Recovery Room.  Produced New York, 1987.

Sunday’s Child; a Play In Two Acts. Montevallo, Ala.; W. Cobb, 1985.

The Vine and the Olive. Book and Lyrics to Musical Comedy. Produced at Livingston University, 1960.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of William Sledge Cobb is held by the library at Vanderbilt University.

Biography:

Leader in women’s work in Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Born– January 20, 1860, Bolivar, Tennessee. Parents– William Horton and Mary Janette Safford Thompson. Married– Daniel Boone Cobbs, a lawyer, January 20, 1890. Children– Two. Moved to Mobile in 1884 and lived there until 1937. Instrumental in the development of the Presbyterian Women’s Auxiliary.  Women’s page editor of the Gulf States Presbyterian, 1910-1914.  Died 1953.

Source:

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

Publication(s):

Presbyterian Women of the Synod of Alabama. Mobile, Ala.; Women’s Auxiliary of the Synod of Alabama, 1936.

Joint_Publication(s):

Around the Year in Mobile (1702-1924). Mobile, Ala.; Cobbs, Howard & Watkins, 1923.

Papers:

Papers of Aleathea Thompson Cobbs are included in the Safford Family Collection in the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia.

Biography:

Writer. Born– February 7, 1865, Selma. Parents– John M. and Mary Willis (Cobb) Johnson. Married– Hugh Hagan, October 26, 1887 (d. 1898). Children– Two. Married– Lucian H. Cocke, 1903. Education– Lucy Cobb Institute, a girls’ preparatory school in Athens, Georgia.  Wrote sketches and articles for magazines and newspapers, often under the name of “Mammy Phyllis’s Sketches.” Member DAR, Colonial Dames, Society of Southern Writers.  Died January 18, 1944.

Source:

Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors and  Woman’s Who’s Who of America, 1914-1918.

Publication(s):

Bypaths in Dixie. New York; E. P. Dutton, 1911.

The Master of the Hills. New York; E. P. Dutton. 1917.

Old Mammy Tales from Dixie Land. New York; E. P. Dutton, 1926.

Biography:

Writer; music teacher, composer.  Born– November 10, 1840, Marion, Ala. Parents– Woodson St. George and Mary Elizabeth (Binyon) Cocke. Education– Graduated from Judson College, 1856. Travelled and studied music in Europe. Beginning in 1869 she was for several years principal of the Music Department at Judson; director of the Music Department in the University of the Northwest in Lake Forest, Illinois for some time; then for three decades lived in Boston and taught music to students from Harvard College. Translator for Boston Public Library. Moved back to Alabama in 1918; lived in Mobile and Gadsden. Published essays, short stories, and poems in national periodicals; also composed songs and other musical compositions.  About 1915 her portrait was hung in the State House of Representatives in Montgomery as an expression of appreciation for her achievements as an Alabama author and musician.  Died December 3, 1929.

Source:

Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors; Woman’s Who’s Who of America, 1914-1915; Who Was Who in Alabama; and Musical Alabama, Vol. 1.

Publication(s):

Cherokee Rose and Other Southern Poems. Boston; R.G.Badger, 1907.

A Doric Reed. Boston; Copeland & Day, 1895.

The Mimosa Tree. S.l.; s.n. (manuscript), s.d.

When Grasshoppers Hop and Other Poems. S.l.; s.n., 1904.

Joint_Publications;

Lilly’s Girlhood, or Child and Woman.  Philadelphia:  E.S.Stuart, 1881.

Songs:

Farewell. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

Flow Down Cold Rivulet to the Sea. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

If I Had Thought Thou Coulds’t Have Died I Might Not Weep for Thee. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

Lullaby. Cincinnati; Louis H. Ross & Co.

Thou Has the Words of Eternal Life. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

To Whom! Oh Blessed Savior, Can We Go? Richmond, Va.; F. A. North & Co., s.d.

Waltz Song. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

Two Cradle Songs. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

What Baby Must Do. Cincinnati; Ross & Co., s.d.

Where the Sandman Gets His Sand. Cincinnati; Ross & Co., s.d.

Piano_Compositions;

Beau of Virginia. Cincinnati; Ross & Co., s.d.

Tyrolienne. Cincinnati; Ross & Co., s.d.

Papers;

Papers of Zitella Cocke are held by Bowling  Library at   Judson College, by the Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, and the the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Biography:

Writer. Born– March 15, 1909, Birmingham. Parents– George Summers and Lucy May (Bradford) Brown. Married– Francis Marion Cockrell, November 3, 1931. Children– One. Education– Attended Sophie Newcomb College, 1926-1929; Metropolitan Art School in New York City, 1929-1930. Wrote short stories, novels, screenplays, television scripts.  Died December 9, 1999.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Lillian Harley. New York; Harper, 1944.

The Misadventures of Bethany Price. New York; Times Books, 1979.

Mixed Blessings. New York; Times Books, 1978.

The Revolt of Sarah Perkins. New York; McKay. 1965.

Shadow Castle. New York; Whittlesey House, 1945.

Something Between. New York; Harper, 1946.

Yesterday’s Madness. New York; Harper, 1943.

Joint_Publication(s):

Dark Waters, a novel. Cleveland; World Publishing Co., 1944. (The same title was adapted to a screenplay.)

Professor, Beware! a screenplay. S.l.; s.n., 1937.

Biography;

Physician; medical school administrator.  Born– February 20, 1925, in Madison, Florida.  Parents– Wilmer Jesse Coggins and Audrey Walker Collins.  Married– Deborah Ferne Reed, April 16, 1949.  Children–five.  Education– Georgia Military Academy; Duke University, M.D., 1951; internship at Georgetown University Medical Center, 1951-52. residency in internal medicine, University of Florida, 1960-62.  Military service, World War II.  Private practice in Boca Grande and Madison, FL, 1954-1960; faculty member and administrator at the University of Florida, 1962-1980; Dean of the College of Community Health Sciences, University of Alabama, 1980-91. Served as a consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Active in the Florida Medical Association and the American College Health Association (president, 1972-73).  Awarded the Ruth Boynton Award for distinguished service by the American College Health Association.  Designated a Laureate of American College of Physicians, Alabama Chapter.  Awarded the status of dean emeritus on his retirement from the College of Community Health Sciences in 1991. Died September 9, 2012.

Sources; 

Downey-Anderson, Charlotte, “The ‘Coggins Affair’:  Desegregation and Southern Mores in Madison County, Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 59 (1980), 464-72.

Marquis Who’s Who online.

Obituary, Tuscaloosa News, 12 September 2012.

Publications;

The Coggins Affair.  2005

Joint publications;

A Special Kind of Doctor:  The History of the College of Community  Health Sciences.  Tuscaloosa, AL:  College of Community Health Sciences, 2004.

Biography:

Writer. Born– June 26, 1891, Charleston, S.C. Parents– Octavus and Rebecca Ottolengui Cohen. Married– Inez Lopez of Bessemer. Children– One. Education– Graduated from Porter Military Academy, 1908; Clemson College, B.S., 1911. Between 1910 and 1912 he worked in the editorial departments of the Birmingham Ledger, the Charleston News and Courier, the Bayonne Times, and the Newark Morning Star; law clerk in his father’s law office, 1912-13; admitted to the South Carolina bar, 1913; practiced law in Charleston for two years. Between 1917 and his death he published 56 books, works that included humorous and detective novels, plays, and collections of short stories. Wrote successful Broadway plays and radio, film, and television scripts. Published hundreds of short stories and serials in the Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, and other popular magazines. Awarded the honorary Litt. D., 1927, by Birmingham Southern College, for his services to Southern literature.

Source:

Contemporary authors online;  Marquis Who’s Who online; bhamwiki

Publication(s):

Assorted Chocolates. New York; Dodd, 1922.

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

Bigger and Blacker. Cincinnati; Little, 1926

Black to Nature. New York; D. Appleton, 1935.

Borrasca. New York; Macmillan, 1953.

A Bullet for My Love, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1950.

Cameos. New York; D. Appleton, 1932.

Carbon Copies. New York; D. Appleton, 1932.

Child of Evil. New York; D. Appleton, 1936.

Come Seven. New York; Dodd, 1920.

The Corpse That Walked. New York; Fawcett, 1950.

The Crimson Alibi. New York; Dodd, 1919.

Damaged Good. Philadelphia; Saturday Evening Post, 1925.

Danger in Paradise. New York; Macmillan, 1945.

Dangerous Lady, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1946.

Dark Days and Black Knights. New York; Dodd, 1923.

Detours. Cincinnati; Little, 1927.

Don’t Ever Love Me, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1946.

East of Broadway. New York; D. Appleton, 1938.

Epic Peters, Pullman Porter. New York; D. Appleton, s.d.

Florian Slappey Goes Abroad. Cincinnati; Little, 1928.

Gray Dusk. New York; Dodd, 1920.

Highly Colored. New York; Dodd, 1921.

I Love You Again. New York; D. Appleton, 1937.

The Iron Chalice. New York; Grossett & Dunlap, 1925.

Jim Hanvey, Detective. New York; Dodd, 1923.

Kid Tinsel. New York; Appleton Century, 1941.

Lady in Armor. New York; D. Appleton, 1941.

The Light Shines Through. Cincinnati; Little, 1928.

Lillies of the Alley. New York; D. Appleton, 1931.

Lost Lady. New York; Fawcett, 1951.

Love Can Be Dangerous, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1955.

Love Has No Alibi. New York; Macmillan, 1946.

The May Day Mystery. New York; D. Appleton, 1929.

Midnight. New York; Dodd, 1922.

More Beautiful Than Murder, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1948.

My Love Wears Black, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1947.

The Other Tomorrow. New York; D. Appleton, 1927.

The Outer Gate. Cincinnati; Little, 1927.

The Other Woman. New York; Macaulay, 1917.

Polished Ebony. New York; Dodd, 1919.

Romance in Crimson. New York; D. Appleton, 1940.

Romance in the First Degree; a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1943.

Scarlet Woman. New York; D. Appleton, 1934.

Scrambled Yeggs. New York; D. Appleton, 1934.

Six Seconds of Darkness. New York; Grossett & Dunlap, 1918.

Sounds of Revelry. New York; Macmillan, 1943.

Spring Tide. New York; Appleton, 1928.

Star of Earth. New York; D. Appleton, 1932.

Strange Honeymoon. New York; D. Appleton, 1939.

Sunclouds. New York; Dodd, 1924.

The Townsend Murder Mystery. New York; D. Appleton, 1933.

The Valley of Olympus. New York; D. Appleton, 1934.

With Benefit of Clergy. New York; D. Appleton, 1935.

Biography:

Steel executive. Born– March 14, 1897, Instanter, Pennsylvania. Parents–Amos Watson Colcord and Eva Bradford Colcord. Married–Elizabeth Peterson Philips, December 29, 1923.  Education–University of Michigan, 1921.  US Navy, WWI. Work as superintendent, Crucible Steel,, 1926-30; St. Louis Gas and Coke, 1930-33. Came to Birmingham in 1933 to work as superintendent of the blast furnaces of the Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron Company; from 1935 to 1937 he worked on the same job for the Woodward Iron Company; worked in Pennsylvania, 1936-48; President of Woodward Iron Company, 1948-57. Active in Birmingham civic affairs; a director of the Community Chest, the Committee of 100, and the Birmingham Civic Symphony. Member of professional organizations including the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Ordnance Association. Member Mayflower Society. the Newcomen Society, and the Alabama Historical Society.  Died August 16, 1953.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

The History of Pig Iron Manufacture in Alabama. Woodward, Ala.; Woodward Iron Company, 1950.

Biography:

College English instructor. Born– March 4, 1892. Montgomery. Parents– Charles A. and Virginia (Scott) Coleman. Education– University of Alabama, A.B.; Swarthmore College, M.A., 1923. Taught at Lanier High School, 1912-1918; head of the English department at Swarthmore College; taught in the English department at the University of Alabama, 1927-62. First female member of the faculty at the University of Alabama. Great-granddaughter of President John Tyler. Died July 1981.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service

Publication(s):

Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the American Scene, 1816-1889. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1955.

Theme Assignments and Models. University, Ala.; s.n., 1933.

Biography:

Attorney, banker. Born– November 13, 1894, Jasper. Parents– E. W. and Nancy (Shields) Coleman. Married– Gertrude Davidson, July 7, 1921 (died 1924). Married– May Steiner, April 28, 1928. Children–one. Married– Dorothy H. Morrow, July 14, 1970. Education– University of Alabama, LL.B., 1915. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1915.  U. S. Army, WWI.  Practiced law in Birmingham, 1920-1937; served as president of Birmingham Trust National Bank, 1937-1958. Director of the Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Served as president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 1941. Member American Bankers Association;  Newcomen Society. Died March 11, 1972.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publication(s):

Josiah Morris, 1818-1891; Montgomery Banker Whose Faith Built Birmingham. New York; Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1948.

Biography:

Linguist;  university professor. Born– June 10, 1904, Livingston. Parents– Wade Hampton and Lillian (Jackson) Coleman. Married– Margaret Pauline James, June 3, 1930. Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1925, M.A., 1927; graduate study at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at the University of Chicago. U.S.Navy, WWII.  Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Alabama after 1928. Received the Palmes Academique from the French government in the 1950s. Died May 30, 1973.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. 2, and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publications;

Verse Writing in Alabama.  University of Alabama, 1927.

Contributor;

Learning Aural-oral Spanish Skills by Television: A pilot study of the effectiveness of televised instruction in Foreign Languages. University of Alabama, 1960.

Biography:

Novelist, playwright, editor. Born– August 2, 1920, Bartow, Georgia. Parents– John Aldine and Delle Coleman. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1942. U.S. Navy, WWII.  Served as associate editor of Ladies Home Journal, 1947-50; Collier’s, 1951-55; Good Housekeeping, 1961-63; and McCall’s, 1964-72. Wrote novels and plays. Member Authors Guild and Authors League of America.  Died August 13, 1982.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Adams Way. New York; Dutton, 1953.

Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1973.

Clara. New York; Dutton, 1952.

Escape the Thunder. New York; Dutton, 1944.

The Golden Vanity, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1962.

King. New York; McGraw, 1967.

“—I Cat Hattie, and Kingdom Come,” a Burlesque Melodrama in Three Acts. University, Ala.; L. Raines, 1942.

Jolly’s Progress.  Play produced in New York City, 1959.

The Legacy of Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1980.

Look Away, Beulah Land; a Novel. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1977.

Mark.  Simon and Schuster, 1981.

Next of Kin. Play. Produced NY, 1955.

Orphan Jim, a Novel. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1975.

A Place for Polly.  Play produced in New York City, 1970.

Sam; a Novel. New York; D. McKay, 1959.

Ship’s Company. Cincinnati; Little, 1955.

The Sound of Spanish Voices. New York; Dutton, 1951.

The Southern Lady, a Novel. Cincinnati; Little, 1958.

Time Moving West. New York; Dutton, 1947.

A Warm Body.  Play produced in New York City, 1967.

“Wreath Without Laurel”; an Anti-war Fantasy. University, Ala.; L. Raines, 1940.

Biography:

Missionary. Born– May 3, 1888, Tilden, Dallas County. Married  Bertha Terry, 1919.  Children– three. Education– Snow Hill Industrial and Normal School; Talladega College, A.B., 1922. Spent a year in language study in Portugal; additional study at several universities including Cornell, Howard, Pratt Institute, and the Barrow School of Pottery.  Spent a year and half laying steel rails, five years in a logging camp handling oxen, four years in dairying, and three years as a blacksmith. Served in the Military during World War I. Beginning in 1923, spent thirty years as a missionary  at the Galangue Mission in Angola, Portuguese West Africa, for the American Board of Congregational Christian Churches. His efforts increased the agricultural knowledge of people in several areas of Africa. Died March 9, 1957.

Source:

Preacher With a Plow; biographical note to the Samuel B. Coles Collection at the Amistad Research Center.

Publication(s):

Preacher With a Plow. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Samuel B. Coles is held by the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University; some of his papers are found in the MacDowell Collection in the Savery Library at Talladega College.

Biography:

Baptist clergyman; superintendent of children’s home. Born April 3, 1875, Coosa County.  Parents– Jesse Allen Colley and Frances Akin Colley.  Married Berta Hitchcock, May 9, 1907. Children– Six. Education– Howard College; Southern Baptist Seminary. Served as pastor of several Baptist churches including ones at Enterprise. Superintendent of Alabama Baptist Children’s Home at Troy, 1922-1942.  Named superintendent emeritus on his retirement in 1942.  Died November 27, 1957.

Source:

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

Joint_Publication(s):

The Story of Alabama Baptist Children’s Home. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1945-1955.

Biography:

Journalist;  information officer. Born–Montgomery, December 22, 1888.  Parents–William A. And Annie Hartean Collier.  Married–Frances Loretta Martin, December 10, 1913.  Children–one. Education– Auburn University, B.A., 1907, M.A., 1911. On staff of the Selma Times Journal, Montgomery Advertiser, Atlanta Georgian, New York American, Chicago Herald Examiner, Chicago American, and Louisville Courier Journal.  Wrote for the Atlanta Constitution under the pen name “Georgia O’Keefe.” Taught for two years at Auburn University; lecturer in political science and public affairs at Emory University. Assistant Director of Information for the regional office for the Farm Security Administration in Montgomery. Published short stories in popular pulp and story magazines.  Died June, 4, 1970.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; “Writers of Weird Tales” website; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Fire in the Sky. Boston, 1941.

Georgia Penal System. Atlanta, 1938.

Penal System:  A Reflection of Our Lives and Our Customs. Atlanta, 1940.

Biography:

Attorney; specialist in banking law. Born– April 4, 1879, Callion. Parents– Robert Wood and Ann Bates (Allen) Collins. Married– Sue Steele Spencer, July 12, 1933. Education– Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1899; University of Chicago, Ph.B., 1908, A.M., 1909; studied at Harvard University, 1910-1911. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1901; admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, 1917; practiced law in Birmingham, 1901-1906. Librarian at the Haskell Oriental Museum, University of Chicago, 1909-1910. Worked in several capacities for the federal government, including  librarian at the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court; General Counsel to  the Bureau of the Budget at the Treasury Department.  Left government service in 1927 and returned to private practice; retired 1947.  Member Maryland Historical Society, American Farm Bureau, National Press Club. Died December 14, 1964.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; University of Maryland website

Publication(s):

Branch Banking Question. New York; Macmillan, 1926.

Fourteenth Amendment and the States. Boston; Little Brown, 1912.

Investment Securities Legal for National Banks; Opinions of …. Washington, D.C.; Babson & Jacobs, 1927.

National Budget System. New York; Macmillan, 1917.

Plan for National Budget System. House Document 1006, 65th Congress, 1918.

The Race Integration Cases. Birmingham, Ala.; American States Right Association, 1954.

Rural Banking Reform. New York; Macmillan, 1931.

Whither Solid South. New York; Pelican, 1948.

Papers:

The papers of Charles Wallace Collins and his wife Sue Spencer Collins are held by the Archives Department at the University of Maryland.

Biography:

Anthropologist specializing in Eskimo prehistory. Born– April 9, 1899, Geneva. Parents– Henry Bascom and Anna Sophie (Neville) Collins. Married– Carolyn Walker, November 26, 1931. Children– One. Education– Millsaps College, A.B., 1922; George Washington University, A.M., 1925. Worked with National Geographic Society,1922; and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1923-24; worked at the Smithsonian Institution, 1924-1967; began as an aide in the Division of Ethnology and retired as Senior scientist  in the Office of Anthropology. Led many Smithsonian and National Geographic expeditions to various parts of the world. Founding member of the Arctic Institute of North America; active in the International Congress of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences; member Anthropological Society of Washington and the Society for American Archaelogy.  Received a gold medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 1936; awarded the honorary Sc. D. by Millsaps College, 1940. Died October 21, 1987.

Source:

Smithsonian website; Encyclopedia Arctica (online; Dartmouth College Library).

Publication(s):

Archaeology of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, 1937.

Arctic Area. Mexico; Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia, 1954.

Excavations at a Prehistoric Indian Village Site in Mississippi. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1932.

The Origin and Antiquity of the Eskimo. Washington, D.C.; U. S. Government Printing Office, 1951.

Prehistoric Art of the Alaskan Eskimo. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, 1929.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Aleutian Islands; Their People and Natural History. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, 1945.

The Far North; 2000 Years of American Eskimo and Indian Art. Washington, D.C.; National Gallery of Art, 1973.

Inua; Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.

Editor:

Science in Alaska. S.l.; Arctic Institute of North America, 1950.

Papers;

Specimens and photos related to the work of Henry Bascom Collins, including several tapes of oral history, are held by the Archives Department of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Biography:

Teacher; educational innovator. Born– August 31, 1936, Monroeville. Parents– Alex L. and Bessis Maye (Knight) Nettles. Married– Clarence Collins, September 2, 1961. Children– Three. Education– Clark College in Atlanta, B.A., 1957; attended Chicago Teachers College and Columbia College, 1965-1967. Taught at Monroeville, 1957-1959; taught in the Chicago Public Schools, 1960-1975. Founded the Westside Prep School in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, 1975, and operated it 1975-2008. Operated Marva Collins Seminars, conducting workshops on educational methods, after 2008.  Member of the International Platform Association, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and the Baptist Church. Member of many professional organizations and boards.  Awarded honorary degrees by Howard University, Wilberforce University, Dartmouth College, and Amherst College and was the subject of the film, “The Marva Collins Story”. Received the Educator of the Year Award, 1981; the Jefferson Award for the Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, 1981; named a “Legendary Woman of the World” by the City of Birmingham, 1982; awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bush, 2004. Died June 28, 2015.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1983; obituary, New York Times, June 28, 2015.

Publication(s):

Black Education and the Inner City.  Washington:  Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, 1981.

Guilty on all Counts.  Norfolk, VA: Hampton Roads, 2000.

The Marva Collins Method: A Manual for Educating and Motivating Your Child.  Chicago:  Westside Preparatory School, 1989.

Marva Collins’ Way. Boston; Houghton, 1982.

Ordinary Children,  Extraordinary Teachers.  Hampton Roads, 1992.

Values: Lighting the Candle of Excellence: A Practical Guide for the Family. Los Angeles:  Dove Books, 1996

Biography:

Psychologist. Born– Guntersville. Parents–  Willard and Eunice (Hunt) Collins. Married– Carolyn Strom, 1966. Children– Two. Education– Guntersville High School, 1963;  Samford University, B.A.; Stanford University, M.A, Ph.D., 1971.  Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Child Development and Psychology at the University of Minnesota, 1971- ; director of the Institute of Child Development at the University. Principal investigator of the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.  Published many articles in professional journals. Editor, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.  Fellow, American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society; member,  Society for Research on Adolescent Development; president, 2000-2002.  Received the Distinguished Research Award from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, 2009; and several other professional awards and grants.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service; W. Andrew Collins website.

Publication(s):

Developmental Aspects of Understanding and Evaluating Television Content. Washington, D.C.; Educational Resources Information Center, 1973?

Joint_Publication(s):

Adolescent Psychology; a Developmental View. Reading, Mass.; Addison-Wesley, 1984.

Relationship Pathways: From Adolescence to Young Adulthood. Sage, 2012.

Editor;

Relationships as Developmental Contexts.  University of Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, 1996.

Biography:

Poet, chemist, bookstore owner. Born– September 25, 1924, Riverview. Parents– Elisha Trammell and LaFaye (Hunt) Combs. Education– Attended the University of Washington, 1943-1944; attended the University of Chicago, 1945; University of California, A.B., 1948; further study at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meteorologist in the U.S. Air Force, 1943-1946; chemist with Tidewater-Associated Oil Company, 1948-1951; photography studio owner and manager on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, 1951-1952; owned a book shop on St. Thomas after 1952. Trustee and founder of the Virgin Islands Museum beginning in 1955. Travelled extensively. Member ACLU, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Bibliographical Society; Hakluyt Society; Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society. Ddied April 14, 2018.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Briefs; Poems. Franklin, N.H.; Hillside Press, 1960.

But Never Mind; Poems, etc., 1946-50. S.l.; Golden Mountain Press, 1961.

Ceremonies in Mind; Artists, Boys, Cats, Lovers, Judges, Priests. St. Thomas, V.I.; Author, 1959.

The Christmas Clutch. St. Thomas V.I.?; Author, 1957.

Pilgrims’ Terrace; Poems, American, West Indian. St. Germoan; Editoral La Neuva Salamca, 1957.

Saint-Thomas; Poems. Millertown, Conn.; Wesleyan University Press, 1965.

Saint Thomas’s and Francis’ Cities Song O’Tram. St. Thomas, V.I.; s.n., 1958.

Papers:

A collection of the papers of Elisha Trammell Combs is held by the University of Delaware Library, and a larger collection is in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego.

Biography:

Textile executive. Born– October 14, 1877, Comer. Parents– former governor of Alabama Braxton Bragg Comer and Eva Jane (Harris) Comer. Married– Gertrude Miller, 1904. Children– Four. Education– Graduated from Bingham Military Academy, Asheville, N.C. in 1897. Became associated with Avondale Mills in 1907 and became chairman of the executive board of that company in 1935. Awarded the LL.D. degree by Birmingham Southern College. Died May 31, 1963.

Source:

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4 and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publication(s):

Braxton Bragg Comer, 1848-1927. New York; Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1947.

Biography:

Teacher; lecturer. Born– July 25, 1850, Spring Lake, Mich. Parents– John H. and Frances (Sinclair) Newcomb. Married– S. Huntington Comings, 1902 ( died  1907). Education– Graduated from Mrs. L. H. Stone’s Seminary in Kalamazoo, Mich. Taught at the Ravenswood (Chicago) Public School, 1876-1885; taught at the Moravian Seminary, Bethlehem, Pa., 1895-1898; lecturer on physical culture, dress, voice and kindred subjects, after 1899. Cofounder of the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Ala., and president of its Board of Trustees. Founder and President of the Baldwin County Historical Society.  Died September 21, 1946.

Source:

Woman’s Who’s Who of America, 1914-1915.

Publication(s):

Industrial and Vocational Education, Universal and Self Sustaining. Boston; Christopher Publishing Co., 1915.

Muscular Exercises for Health and Grace. New York; E. S. Werner, 1893.

Joint_Publications;

A Brief History of Baldwin County.  Fairhope, AL:  Baldwin County Historical Society, 1928.

Biography:

Baptist minister. Born– September 7, 1869, Coopers, Chilton County. Parents– James Gilford and Rachel (Gray) Connell. The family moved to Jefferson County when Luther was eight years old. Married– Vesta M. Shirley, November 20, 1890. Children– Ten. Education– Ordained a minister in Baptist Church in 1898; attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Pastored churches in Fayette county for eleven years then moved to North Carolina and served several churches there from 1919 until 1930. In 1930 returned to Fayette County, Ala., where he served churches until 1938. Started a history of the Fayette County Baptist Association which was combined with later writings for publication.

Source:

A History of Fayette County Baptist Association.

Joint_Publication(s):

A History of Fayette County Baptist Association. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1968.

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See:

Mallon, Lucille Simms

Biography:

Realtor, editor. Born- October 6, 1907, in either Meridian, Miss. or Mobile. Married– Samuel J. Constance.  Lived in Alabama, California, New York, Missouri and Florida; in Montgomery in 1945 and 1946. Worked as a secretary to the manager of a newspaper, as an editor with an Atlanta publisher of business magazines and for a real estate firm in Miami, Fla. Died May 1990.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

How to Get and Keep a Husband; a Christian Business-Woman’s Answer to One of the Most Perplexing Problems of Our Time. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1957.

Biography:

Physician. Born– December 29, 1893, Oakman. Parents– Thomas and Catherine (Williams) Conwell. Married– Mary Lou Perry Hooper, January 16, 1949. Education– University of Alabama Medical School, M.D., 1915.  U.S. Medical Corps, WWI. Practiced medicine in Birmingham as an orthopaedic surgeon beginning in 1915; served as associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Alabama Medical School. Published articles in medical journals. Member ACS, AMA, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Alabama State Medical Association, and other professional organizations.  Died March 18, 1973.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online and Library of Alabama Lives.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Injured Back and Its Treatment. Springfield, Ill.; C. C. Thomas, 1940.

The Management of Fractures, Dislocations, and Sprains. St. Louis; C.V. Mosby, 1934. (and six later editions).

Biography:

Professor of English; college administrator; pastor. Born– July 22, 1938, Piedmont. Parents– William Jesse and Genevieve (Putnam) Cook. Married– Judy M. Wallace, February 21, 1959. Children– Three. Education– Jacksonville State University, A.B., 1960; Auburn University, M.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1968. Taught English at Auburn University and Jacksonville State University; worked for Auburn University at Montgomery, 1969-75; vice-president for development, 1973-75.  In 1963 he was ordained a minister in the Church of Christ. Served as minister of the Highland Church of Christ at Carriage Hills in Montgomery, 1969-1976. Vice-president, Hudson-Thompson, Montgomery, 1975-77.  Published articles in professional journals. Member Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, International Platform Association.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

The Bible Chair. Abilene, Tex.: Quality Printing Company, 1968.

Bill Cook’s Strategic Planning for American Schools.  Arlington:  American Association of School Administrators, 1988.

British Short Story.  Twayne, 1978.

The Church and her Responsibility to the Young.  St. Louis: Christian Publishing Co., 1967.

Confidence in Fact. Abilene, Tex.; Quality Printing Co., 1970.

The Eckleburg Perspective; the Best of Bill Cook Comments. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1980.

The Evolving Corporation:  A Humanist Interpretation.  Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2000.

The Great Commission.  Abilene, Tex.: Quality Printing Co. 1968.

Masks, Modes and Morals; the Art of Evelyn Waugh. Rutherford, N.J.; Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1971.

Strategies:  The Art and Science of Holistic Strategy.  Westport, CT:  Quorum Books, 2000.

The Urgency of Change: Metamorphosis of America’s Schools.  Montgomery:  Underdog Press, 1988.

 

 

Biography:

Sportswriter; radio host. Born– November 6, 1945, Birmingham. Parents– Barney B. and Marion N. Cook. Married– Cathie Arbo. Education– University of Alabama; University of Alabama in Birmingham; Birmingham Southern College, B.S., 1972. Worked for the Birmingham News, 1967-1970; Marietta Journal, 1973-1975; the SEC Sports Journal, 1977-1983. Writings appeared in many publications including the Sporting News, Event, and Sports Illustrated.  Host of an afternoon sports talk radio show on station WJOX for twelve years. Member Friends of Rickwood.  Inducted into Birmingham Barons Hall of Fame, 2013. Won awards from several organizations for his writing. Died July 10, 2015.

Source:

The Office of the Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference; obituary, Birmingham News, July 12, 2015.

Publication(s):

Good Wood: A Fan’s History of Rickwood Field.  Birmingham:  R. Boozer Press, 2005.

Legend in Crimson. Oxford, Miss.; Sports Yearbook Co., 1982.

The Road to No. 1. Birmingham, Ala.; The Sports Page, 1977.

Year of the Tide. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode Publishers, 1980.

Joint_Publications;

The Big Bad Book of Sports.  Sweetwater Press, 2012.

 

Biography:

Artist; writer. Born–August 24, 1883, Attala County, Mississippi. Reared in the Black Belt of Alabama. Parents–Monroe A. and Mollie M. Brown Booker.  Married– Victor A. Cook. Education– Rural education was supplemented by teachers her parents brought to the farm from time to time. Lived in Houston, Texas, after her marriage.  Worked as an artist (drawings). Died December 26, 1974.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967; Find a Grave website..

Publication(s):

Captain Sam’s Daughter. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1957.

Enchanted Acres. New York; Fortnay’s, 1940.

It Could be Heaven. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1948.

A Magnolia for Joan. New York; Pelican Press, 1951.

The Signal of Promise. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1954.

These Are My Jewels. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1945.

Biography:

Educator; college president. Born– January 16, 1895, Birmingham. Parents– Rufus Alexander Cook and Vashti Rosala Edwards Cook. Married– Delene Mims, August 28, 1924. Children– One. Education– Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1925; University of Alabama, M.A., 1931. Served as principal of Fairfield High School;  became professor of economics and sociology at the State Teachers’ College in Florence. Appointed president of Snead Junior College, 1942. In 1938, Athens College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Letters and Humanities. Died June 4, 1956.

Source:

Owen’s The Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

Selected Writings. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1956.

Biography:

Reporter; college English instructor. Born– February 23, 1925, Fayette. Parents– Alfred McKelvey and Bess (Graham) Cook. Married– Betsy Blanton, 1957. Education– University of Southern California, A.B.; San Francisco State College, M.A. Military service; U.S. Navy, 1942-45. Worked as a reporter for the United Press in Miami; the Commercial Appeal in Memphis; the New York Post, and the San Francisco Examiner; English instructor, San Francisco State College, 1961-62; Santa Barbara City College, 1962-66.  Died March 25, 1966.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Remedies and Rackets. New York; Norton, 1958.

The Segregationists. New York; Appleton, 1962.

Biography:

Methodist clergyman. Born April 4, 1905,  Gardendale. Parents– Rufus A. and Vashti R. Cook. Married– Mary C. McShan, November 14, 1928. Children–one. Education– Birmingham Southern College. Pastor of Methodist Churches in Birmingham,   Fort Payne, Northport, and Tuscumbia. Died January 22. 1991.

Source:

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

Publication(s):

Cabin Lore. Dallas, Tex.; Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1947.

Curtains Aside. Dallas, Tex.; Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1949.

Glimpses of the Southland; (poems). Vulcan Press, 1956.

The Heavenly City; a Devotional Exposition of the Christian Hope. Dallas, Tex.; Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1953.

Southern Echoes. Northport, Ala.; American Southern, 1965.

Biography:

Writer. Born– September 19, 1947, Fort Payne. Parents– Virgil Richard and Myrick (Harper) Cook. Married– Susan Terner, March 17, 1978. Children– One. Education– Georgia State College, B.A., 1969; Hunter College of the City University of New York, M.A. 1972; Columbia University, Master of Philosophy, 1976. Advertising executive for U.S. Industrial Chemicals in New York City, 1970 to 1972; clerk typist for the Association for Help of Retarded Adults in New York City, 1973-1975; teacher of English and history at Dekalb Community College in Georgia, 1978-1981; book review editor for Atlanta magazine, 1978-82. Full time writer after 1981. Published work in many journals and anthologies. Edited several editions of the Best American Crime Writing and the Best American Crime Reporting.  Member Authors Guild, Authors League of America.  Awarded the Hammett Prize by the International Association of Crime Writers, 1995; Edgar Allan Poe Award, 1996; Barry Award, 2006, and Martin Beck Award, 1996.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Blood Echoes:  The True Story of an Infamous Mass Murder and Its Aftermath.  New York:  Dutton, 1992.

Blood Innocents. New York; Playboy Press, 1980.

Breakheart Hill.  New York:  Bantam, 1995.

The Chatham School Affair.  New York:  Bantam, 1996.

The City When it Rains. New York; Putnam, 1991.

The Cloud of Unknowing.  Orlando:  Harcourt, 2007.

The Crime of Julian Wells.  New York:  Mysterious Press, 2011.

A Dancer in the Dust.  New York:  Mysterious Press, 2014.

Early Graves; a Shocking True-Crime Story of the Youngest Woman Ever Sentenced to Death Row. New York; Dalton, 1990.

Elena. Boston; Houghton, 1984.

Evidence of Blood. New York; Putnam, 1991.

The Fate of Katherine Carr.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

Fatherhood and Other Stories.  Cambridge, UK:  Pegasus Press, 2014.

Flesh and Blood. New York; Putnam, 1989.

Instruments of Night.  New York: Bantam, 1998.

The Interrogation.  New York;  Bantam, 2002.

Into the Web.  New York:  Bantam, 2004.

The Last Talk with Lola Faye.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Master of the Delta.  Orlando:  Harcourt, 208.

Mortal Memory.  New York:  G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1993.

Night Secrets. New York; Putnam, 1990.

The Orchids. Boston; Houghton, 1982.

Peril.  New York;  Bantam, 2004.

Places in the Dark.  New York:  Bantam, 2000.

The Quest for Anna Klein.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

Red Leaves. Orlando:  Harcourt, 2005.

Sacrificial Ground. New York; Putnam, 1988.

Sandrine’s Case.  Mysterious Press, 2013.

Streets of Fire. New York; Putnam, 1989.

Tabernacle. Boston; Houghton, 1982.

Taken: A Novelization.  New York: Dell, 2000.

Joint_Publications:

Moon over Manhattan.  New York:  New Millennium Press, 2002.

 

Biography;

Teacher; genealogist; author.  Born–June 17, 1916, Eufaula, Alabama.  Parents–William Preston James and Beatrice Price James.  Married– Heustis Moore Cook, May 9, 1945.  Children–two.  Education–Alabama College for Women (Montevallo), B. A., 1938; M.A., Birmingham-Southern College. Taught at Pell City High School, 1938-41;  at Camden High School, 1941-46.  Published family histories, regional histories, and magazine articles on Alabama poets.  Named an Outstanding Secondary Educator of America;  named  Alabama Club Woman of the Year by the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs. Died September 10, 2009.

Source;

I See Muddy’s House.  Mobile; T. C. DeLeon Press, 1991.

Obituary, Eufaula Tribune, September 11, 2009.

Publications;

The Book of Cooks; Some Descendants of Daniel and Ruth Moultrie Cook…  Camden, Ala., 1978.

I See Muddy’s House.  Mobile; T. C.DeLeon Press, 1991.

Editor_and_Joint-Author;

The History of the Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1896-1981.  3 vols.  Montgomery: Alabama Printers, 1982.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography;

Teacher; author.  Born June 17, 1916, Eufaula, Al.  Parents–William Preston James and Beatrice Price James.  Married–Heustis Moore Cook, May 9, 1945.  Education–Alabama College for Women (Montevallo), B. A., 1938.  Taught English and modern Languages at Pell City High School, 1938-41; at Camden High School, 1941-46.  Published family histories, regional histories, and magazine articles.  Named an Outstanding Secondary Educator of America and Alabama Club Woman of the Year by the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Source;

I See Muddy’s House.  Mobile:  T. C. DeLeon Press, 1991.

Publications;

I See Muddy’s House.  Mobile: T. C. DeLeon Press, 1991.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography:

Sociologist; University professor. Born– March 19, 1939, Indianapolis, Ind. Parents– David S. and Jeanette (Walsh) Coombs. Married– Joan, May 12, 1973. Children– Two. Education– University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1961; University of Florida, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1971; Master of Public Health, UAB.  Served in the Peace Corps, 1961-1963; taught at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Columbia, 1966-1967, at Spring Hill College 1969-1970, at the University of Alabama, 1970-1983, and at the University of Alabama in Birmingham after 1983. Published articles in many professional journals.  Awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, a State of Florida scholarship, and several research grants. Co-founder of a pioneering employee assistance program for business and industry in Guatemala. Founding member of the Alabama Suicide Prevention and Resource Center. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at UAB.

Source:

David W. Coombs, Birmingham.

Joint_Publication(s):

Map Abstract of Mortality Factors Affecting the Elderly. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1979.

Contributor:

Problems of Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy, and Epilepsy in Alabama; a Sociological Analysis. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1978.

Biography:

Criminologist. Born– March 7, 1901, Birmingham. Parents– Benjamin Andrew and Sarah (Sallie) Osborne Cooper. Married– Claire Virginia Averyt. Children– Three. Education– Birmingham Southern College, A.B., M.A. Taught at Phillips High School in Birmingham; member of the Bar of the State of Alabama; criminologist after 1933.  Major, U. S. Army. Served as chancellor of the National Law Enforcement Standards and executive vice president of the International Academy of Criminology. Member of the American Society of Criminology and the Retired Officers Association. Died July 13, 1986.

Source:

International Yearbook and Statesman’s Who’s Who, 1977.

Publication(s):

Crossville. Chicago; Adams, 1965.

Investigator’s Manual on Drugs and Narcotics. North Miami, Fla.; National Law Enforcement Academy, 1970.

It’s About Phillipians. Birmingham, Ala.; Trade Type, 1973.

Lab Cop. London; Cooper, 1975.

Over My Shoulder. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1948.

Third Person Singular. Chicago; Adams Press, 1969.

Biography:

Religious teacher. Born– June 5, 1891, Minden, Webster Parish, Louisiana. Parents–James F. and Lucy Claire Green Hill.  Married– Davis Cooper, Jr., December 12, 1911. Children–one.  Education– Graduated from Judson College, 1909; attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Teacher of training of Bible teachers for more than thirty-three years and a Sunday school teacher for forty-nine years. Awarded the Judson College Alumnae Association Award for work in religious teaching, 1957. Wrote articles for the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board’s periodicals. Died June 5, 1972.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

Not Your Own. (a textbook on stewardship used for twenty years in Southern Baptist churches) S.l.; s.n., s.d.

Biography:

University professor, administrator. Born–Jasper,  November 12, 1906. Parents– Robert Jackson and Eliza Jane (Bean) Cooper. Married– Julia Allen, June 6, 1930. Education– Abilene Christian College, A.B., 1926; University of Texas, A.M., 1932; University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1939. Worked at the University of Texas as a research assistant, assistant director, then acting director of the Bureau of Municipal Research, and as an instructor, 1933-1936; worked at the University of Alabama, teaching in the Department of Political Science and serving as an assistant director of the Bureau of Public Administration, 1936-1947; worked at the University of Virginia as professor of government, director of the Bureau of Public Administration, director of the Institution on Government, secretary of the Board of Visitors, and administrative assistant to the President, 1947 until his retirement in 1977; served as an executive assistant to the governor of Virginia, 1950-1951; editor of the University of Virginia Newsletter, 1957-1973. Founded the Weldon Center for Public Service at UVA; it is named in his honor. Died May 16, 1996.

Source:

Who’s Who in America, 1980-1981.

Publication(s):

Metropolitan County, a Survey of Government in the Birmingham Area. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1949.

Municipal Government and Administration in Alabama. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1949.

Papers;

Several collections of papers of Weldon Cooper are held in the Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.

Biography:

Geologist. Born– October 1, 1932, Hueytown. Married– Doris, 1957. Children– Two. Education– Birmingham Southern College, B.S., 1954; University of North Carolina, M.S. Served in the U.S.Army in the Korean Conflict. Was Chief of the Geology Division, Geological Survey of Alabama after 1974; Assistant State Geologist at the time of his death. Helped compile the Geologic Map of Alabama,1989. Member, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society; charter member, Alabama Geological Society. Died August 16, 2014.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 1979; obituary, Tuscaloosa News, August 18, 2014.

Publication(s):

Cretaceous and Tertiary Faults in Southwestern Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1976.

Curious Creatures in Alabama Rocks; a Guidebook for Amateur Fossil Collectors. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1963.

Delineation of Linear Feature and Applications to Reservoir Engineering Using Apollo 9 Multispectral Photography. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1970.

Ecocene and Miocene Foraminifera from Two Localities in Duplin County, North Carolina. Ithaca, N.Y.; Paleontological Research Institution, 1964.

Facies Changes in the Alabama Tertiary. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1966.

Geology of the Alabama Coastal Plain; a Guidebook. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1968.

Geology of the Birmingham, Gadsden, and Montgomery 10 x 20 NTMS Quadrangles, Alabama. Aiken, S.C.; Department of Energy, Savannah River Laboratory, 1979.

Joint_Publication(s):

Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of West-Central Alabama. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1989.

Sinkhole Problem Along Proposed Route of Interstate Highway 459 near Greenwood, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1973.

Stratigraphic Profiles of Jurassic Strata in the Western Part of the Alabama Coastal Plain. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1982.

Biography:

Musician, espionage agent; political consultant, author. Born– July 16, 1916, Birmingham. Parents– Miles Axe and Leonore (Armstrong) Copeland. Married– Elizabeth Lorraine Adie, September 25, 1942. Children– Four. Worked as a jazz trumpeter and arranger  in the 1930’s; played with several leading bands including the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Served in the U.S. Army in World War II; assigned to the counter-espionage branch of the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the CIA; worked for the CIA 1945-53 and 1955-57. Worked as a business and political consultant to Middle Eastern governments and private firms.  Contributed articles to magazines, newspapers, and management journals;  co-authored a television film on the British spy Kim Philby. Received the Legion of Merit, the Croix de Guerre, and Presidential Citation. Died January 14, 1991.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Beyond Cloak and Dagger. S.l.; Pinacle Books, 1976.

The Game of Nations. London; Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969.

The Game Player; the Confessions of the CIA’s Original Political Operative. London; Aurum Press, 1989.

The Real Spy World. London; Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1976.

Staffs and Staff Work. S.l.; U. S. Army, 1950.

Without Cloak and Dagger. New York; Simon & Schuster, 1975.

Joint_Publication(s):

Colloquial Damascene Arabic Dictionary. S.l.; s.n., 1952.

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Biography:

Professor, university administrator; civic leader. Born– February 5, 1948, Birmingham. Parents– Robert A. and Edith Marie (Gaines) Corley. Married– Catherine Fievet, November 25, 1972. Children– Two. Education– Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1970; University of Virginia, M.A, 1971, Ph.D., 1979. Worked for the Birmingham Post-Herald, 1971-1973; assistant archivist at Birmingham Public Library, 1977-1980 and 1981-1983; regional director for the National Conference of Christians and Jews 1984-1993; associated with the University of Alabama in Birmingham in various ways after 1973 including assistant to the Dean for Public Relations in the School of Public and Allied Health, and instructor in history.  Contributed articles to periodicals and books; was co-editor of the Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, 1977-1980; and was a member of Alabama Historical Association, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa and the board and executive committee of the Greater Birmingham Ministries. Served two terms as president of the Birmingham Board of Education.  Member of the task force that designed the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and served as a founding member of its Board of Directors. Named one of the Outstanding Young Men of America, 1984.

Source:

Robert G. Corley, Birmingham.

Publication(s):

Paying “Civic Rent”; the Jews of Emanu-El and the Birmingham Community. Birmingham, Ala.; A. H. Cother, 1982.

Joint_Publication(s):

View from the Hilltop; the First 125 Years of Birmingham-Southern College. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Publishing Co., 1981.

Biography:

Writer. Born 1879– North Carolina. Parents– George Franklin and Emma (Pearson) Chase. Married– Jesse Nelson Cornelius, June 5, 1900. Education– Private schools. Member of the American Literary Association and the Verse Writers Guild of America. Contributed poems and essays to magazines and newspapers. Between 1912 and 1926, she won fourteen literary prizes and, between 1913 and 1920, she won four prizes from the State of Alabama for proficiency in Home Arts. Helped edit the Gammadion. In 1926 she was living in Birmingham.  Died April 14, 1952.

Source:

Anthology of Magazine Verse, 1926.

Publication(s):

Flowers From the Foothills. S.l.; s.n., 1923.

Biography:

Church director of education; denominational executive. Born– February 11, 1927, Knoxville, Tenn. Parents– W. W. and Mary Elizabeth (Brewer) Corum. Education– Graduated from Carson Newman College, 1949; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, M.R.E., 1954. Served as education director of Robertsville Baptist Church in Oak Ridge, Tenn.; director of  Junior-Intermediate work for the Training Union Department of the Tennessee Baptist State Convention, 1954-1960; director of the Editorial Service Department of Women’s Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention in Birmingham after 1965. She wrote lesson materials, articles, and poems. Died September 15, 1970.

Source:

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement.

Publication(s):

A Corner of Today. Nashville; Broadman, 1969.

Joint_Publication(s):

Hello, World! A Musical Drama. Nashville; Broadman, 1971.

Biography:

Music teacher. Born–  July 12, 1861, Greensboro. Parents– Thomas and Martha Louise (DuBois) Armstrong. Married– Chappell Cory, December 26, 1890. Children– Four. Education– Mansfield Female College in Louisiana, M.A. Taught music in Birmingham and music and art in Decatur. Organist for churches and for evangelist Sam Jones. Instrumental in the establishment of the Boys Industrial School at Roebuck near where she lived at Roebuck Springs near Birmingham. Member of the committee for Preservation of the White House of the Confederacy. Died June 4, 1951.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

The Ladies Memorial Association of Montgomery, Alabama; Its Origin and Organization, 1860-1870. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Printing Co., 1902.

The True story of the First Confederate Flag.  N.P., 1931.

Biography:

Teacher; author of children’s stories. Born– October 16, 1908, Yonkers, N.Y. Parents– Alfred and Nellie (Forrester) Wyllie. Married– Lee Cotten, December 30, 1949. Lived in Mobile after her marriage.  Education– Florida State University, A.B., 1930. Taught elementary school in Clearwater, Fla., 1932-1949. Member AAUW, Alabama Writers’ Conclave, National League of American Penwomen. Died September 6, 1997.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Piney Woods. New York; Vanguard Press, 1962.

Biography;

Political scientist; university professor.  Education; B.A., Bowling Green State University; M.A., Ph. D. (1975), Ohio State University. Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama. Editor of the Alabama Political Almanac. Awarded the status of professor emeritus on his retirement.

Source:

University of Alabama Press website.

Joint_Publications;

After Wallace:  The 1986 Contest for Governor and Political Change in Alabama.  University of Alabama Press, 2009.

Disconnected:  Public Opinion and Politics in Alabama.  Northport:  Vision Press, 1994.