Biography:

Businessman. Born– Feb. 4, 1906, in Birmingham. Parents– Josiah Herbert and Willye (Turner) Scruggs. Married– Maude C. Chance, Apr. 10, 1931. Education– University of Alabama, A.B.; Columbia University, B.Litt. In advertising at Alabama Power Co., 1927-1931; sales manager for Gulf Oil Co., 1931-1936; president Southern Culvert Co., 1936-1941; YMCA-USO secretary during World War II; partner in Vulcan Materials Co., 1946-1955. Member National Philatelic Museum, American Philatelic Congress, and British Philatelic Society.

Source:

Alabama Blue Book and Social Register; Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

Alabama Postal History. Birmingham, Ala.; Author, c1950.

Alabama Postal Roads with Maps, 1818-1845. Birmingham, Ala.; Author, c1950.

Alabama Steamboats 1819-1869. Birmingham, Ala.; Author, 1953?

Postal History of the Confederate States. Birmingham, Ala.; Author, 1954.