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.

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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.

Biography:

Socialite.  Born April 14, 1879,  Decatur, Alabama. Parents  J. Monroe Hinds (former Ambassador to Brazil) and Lucia Anita Trillia Hinds.  Married (1) Alfred Duggan , May 1, 1902 (died 1915). Three children. Married (2) Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, February 2, 1917.  (Curzon, an influential British politician and former Viceroy of India, served as Foreign Secretary, 1919-1924; died 1925). As Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston, a leading figure in British society;  the first woman to be awarded the Grand Cross of the British Empire, 1922, for her work in support of the British Red Cross and Queen Alexandra’s Nursing Association in World War I. Died June 25, 1958.

Sources:

Obituary, New York Times, 1958.

Encyclopedia Brittanica, 15th edition.

Pearson, Hesketh. Marrying Americans. New York; Coward McCann, 1961.  Pp. 116-127.

Owen’s History of Alabama, Vol. 3 (entry for J. Monroe Hinds).

Publication:

Reminiscences.  New York:  Coward-McCann, 1955.

Biography;

Writer.  Born: October 19, 1895, Muir’s Station, Kentucky.  Parents:  Clifton B. and Lilla May (Hall) Smith.  Married (1) Robert Peddicord of Birmingham, September 16, 1916  (died 1935);  (2) John Albion Dahl of Mobile, January 29, 1946.  Education:  attended Ward-Belmont College, Nashville,  for two years; later attended the Cincinnati School of Expression. Worked as an accountant’s clerk at TVA, 1940’s.  Began writing for magazines and newspapers in 1940; worked as a staff writer for the Southern Hotel Journal.  Member of the Alabama Quill Club and the National League of American Penwomen; president of the Alabama Writers Conclave;  organizing president of the Mobile Branch of the National League of American Penwomen. Died April 1977.

Sources:

Montgomery Advertiser, December 5, 1958.

Files at the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery.

Atchison, Ray M., and Barefield, Paul.  “Evelyn Dahl:  Author of Belle of Destiny, ” Alabama Librarian, XIII (1962), 45-46.

Author;

Belle of Destiny.  New York:  Greenberg, 1958.

Biography:

Professor of public administration; consultant. Born– October 3, 1919, Milton, Wisconsin. Parents– John Norton and Nellie (Furrow) Daland. Married (1) Dorothy Shaw, June 6, 1942; children–two. Married (2) Edwina Nary, November 20, 1979.  Education– Milton College, B.A., 1942; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1947; Ph.D. 1952. U.S. Army service, 1942-45. Taught at the University of Alabama, 1949-1956; the University of Connecticut, 1959-61; the University of Southern California, 1961-63; University of North Carolina, 19636-1985.  Ford faculty fellow at the University of California, 1954-1955;  Metropolitan Region Program fellow at Columbia University, 1958-1959; Fulbright Fellow, Rio de Janeiro, 1968-69. Member of American Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association, Policy Studies Association, American Society for Public Administration, Sierra Club, North Carolina Coastal Federation. Named professor emeritus, UNC, 1985.  Died July 22, 1994.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; Marquis Who’s Who online

Publication(s):

Brazilian Planning; Development, Politics, and Administration. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.

A Brief Survey of Auditing Practices in Alabama.  University, Ala.:  Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1954.

Bureaucracy in Brazil; Attitudes of Civilian Top Executives Toward Change. Austin, Tex.: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, 1972.

The County Buys Dunwoodie Golf Course. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1961.

Dixie City: A Portrait of Political Leadership. University, Ala.: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1956.

An Evaluation of Annexation Procedures in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama League of Municipalities, 1954.

Exploring Brazilian Bureaucracy; Performance and Pathology. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981.

Financing Municipal Sewerage Systems in Alabama.  Montgomery, Al.:  Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, and the Alabama League of Municipalities, 1953.

Government and Health, the Alabama Experience. University, Ala.:  Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1955.

Municipal Fringe Area Problem in Alabama. University, Ala.: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1953.

Public Health Administration in Alabama.  Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1952.

Public Recreation as a Municipal Service in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama League of Municipalities, 1953.

Some Aspects of Municipal Utility Administration in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama League of Municipalities, 1954.

A Strategy for Research in Comparative Urban Administration. Bloomington, Ind.: Comparative Administrative Group, American Society for Public Administration, 1966.

The Transfer of the Children’s Camps. New York; Inter-University Case Program, 1960.

Joint_Publication(s):

(With David A. Johnston). A Brief Survey of Municipal Auditing Practices in Alabama. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1954.

(With Asa Green). Revenues for Alabama’s Cities. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama League of Municipalities, 1956.

Editor:

Comparative Urban Research: The Administration and Politics of Cities. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1969.

Perspectives of Brazilian Public Administration. Los Angeles, Calif.: School of Public Administration, University of Southern California, 1963.

Biography:

Businessman (banking, insurance, real estate). Born– September 16, 1864, Philadelphia, Pa. Parents– Joseph and Mary (Lasserre) Dangaix. Education:  Institute d’Etudes francaises de Touraine, Tours, France; Sorbonne, Paris.   General agent, Southern States Agricultural Insurance Co. Organized and served as first president of the Birmingham Savings Bank, which later merged into the First National Bank of Birmingham. Retired from active business, 1908. Travelled widely; lived principally in Paris after retirement. Foreign agent of War Trade Board, Berne, Switzerland, 1918-19.  Died September 7, 1943.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online.

Publication(s):

How Latin America Affects Our Daily Life. New York; New York Institute for Public Service, 1917.

How We Affect Latin America’s Daily Life. New York; New York Institute for Public Service, 1919.

Biography:

Historian, university professor. Born– October 13, 1921, Talladega Springs. Parents– James Grady and Annie Lee Blalock Daniel. Education– Florence State Teachers College, 1940-1941; Abilene Christian College, A.B., 1957; University of Alabama, M.A., 1959. U.S. Army, 1942-45; 1946-54.  Taught history and Spanish, Huntsville High School, 1959-1960; taught history at the University of North Alabama, 1960-83. Member of the Alabama and American Historical Associations and the Alabama and National Education Associations.  Died December 27, 1983.

Source:

Library of Alabama Lives by Frank L. Grove.

Publication(s):

Formative Period of TVA. New York; Carlton Press, 1973.

Biography:

Geologist. Born– January 24, 1922, Wetumpka. Parents– T.W. and Anne M. (Thomas) Daniel. Married– Madge Downing Cyr, June 15, 1948. Children– Three. Education– attended Port Arthur College, Tex., 1946-1947; University of Florida, B.S., 1952.  Served in U.S. Army Air Corps, WWII. Worked for Century Geophysics Corporation in Tulsa, 1952-1954.; radioactivity logging operator for Welex Corporation in Fort Worth, 1954-1955; a radio broadcasting technician in Bessemer, 1955-1956; staff geologist for the Geological Survey of Alabama, 1956-1960; head of the Office of Coal Research and a consultant to Public Service Coal, 1960- . Died June 21. 2014.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1976; obituary.

Publication(s):

Mineral Resources Map of Winston County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1969.

Mineral Resources of Bibb County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1976.

Joint_Publication(s):

Exploring Alabama Caves. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1973.

Geologic Map of Limestone County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1960.

The Geology and Mineral Resources of Limestone-County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1968.

Mineral Resources Map of Choctaw County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1969.

Mineral Resources Map of Marion County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1969.

The Mineral Resources of Limestone County. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1976.

Mineral Resources of Marion County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1972.

Mineral Resources of Wilcox County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1970.

Rock and Minerals of Alabama; a Guidebook for Alabama Rockhounds. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1966.

Strippable Coal in the Fabius Area, Jackson County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1970.

A Strippable Lignite Bed in South Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1973.

Biography:

Librarian; editor. Born– July 8, 1888, Jackson, Miss. Parents– Thomas Marshall and Anna Letitia Dabney Miller. Married– J. Peran Danton. Education– Newcomb College, B.A., 1907; additional study at Columbia University. Certified as a librarian in New York in 1911.  Branch assistant for the Minneapolis Public Library, 1911-1914; reference librarian in Birmingham Public Library, 1914-1920;  hospital librarian for the U.S. Public Health Service and the U. S. Veteran’s Bureau, 1920-1923; editor of the ALA Booklist and other ALA Publications, 1923-1925; freelance worker for ALA, 1935-1937; director of Birmingham Public Library, 1947-55;  executive assistant in the Alabama Public Library Service, 1954.  Died August 1982.

Source:

Who’s Who in Library Service, 1955.

Editor:

The Library of Tomorrow, a Symposium. Chicago; American Library Association, 1939.

Pioneering Leaders in Librarianship. Chicago; American Library Association, 1953.

 Biography:

Community and civic leader. Born June 1, 1876, Jacksonville. Parents General John H. and Septima Sexta Middleton (Rutledge) Forney, Married–  Clarence William Daugette,  December 22, 1897.  Children–five. Education– Graduate of Jacksonville State Normal School, 1893; attended Cooper Union School and National Academy of Design in New York. “First lady” of Jacksonville State, during her husband’s forty-three years as president. Active in many cultural, service, and historical organizations.  Organized the Civic League of Jacksonville; served on the State Advisory Committee of the Federal Writers Project, the State Advisory Committee of the Works Progress Administration, and other governmental agencies and commissions. President of the Alabama Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; made honorary Life President in 1952. Campaigned for the restoration of Alabama’s Great Seal; personally helped design the  Seal adopted  by the Legislature in 1939. Compiled biographies of Alabama Civil War Generals; wrote historical articles about Jacksonville and Calhoun County.  Received the Jefferson Davis Medal for distinguished service by the UDC. Awarded the honorary Doctorate of Humanities, Jacksonville State University, 1970. Scholarships were established in her name at Huntingdon College and Jacksonville State University.  Elected to Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame, 1978.  Died  September 11, 1974.

Source:

Forney Forever, by Lee Forney Crawford; Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame Website.

Publication(s):

Historic Jacksonville, Semi Centennial, 1902-1952. Jacksonville, Ala.; General John H. Forney Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1952.

The Life of Major General John H. Forney. Jacksonville, Ala.; (mimeographed), 19–.

 Biography:

Teacher, school administrator. Born– December 16, 1869, Centerville (an early variant spelling of present Centreville).  Parents– Damon and Adaline (Woods) Davidson. Married– Lula Julia Davis, February 16, 1899 (died 1908); (2) Elizabeth M. Campbell McClellan, September 4, 1913. Education– high school classes at Selma University, graduated from Payne University, Selma, 1893; B. S., Tuskegee Institute, 1934; additional study at Hampton Institute, Columbia University and Fisk University. Established the Centerville Industrial Institute in 1900; it became the Bibb County Training School, 1918. Served as teacher and principal of the school for many years.  Active in African Methodist Episcopal church and in community and civic activities. Served as president of the alumni association for Payne College while it was located in Selma. Honorary Master’s Degree, Selma University. Died 1955.

Sources:

Ellison, Rhoda Coleman.  Bibb County, Alabama:  The First Hundred Years.  University of Alabama Press, 1984.

Inching Along.

Publication(s):

Inching Along; or, the Life and Works of an Alabama Farm Boy, an Autobiography. Nashville; National Publication Company, 1944.

Biography:

Historian. Born-May 30, 1913, West Point, Ga. Parents Robert C. and Annie D. Davidson. Military service, U.S.Army, World War II.  Worked for West Point Pepperell for forty seven years; after retirement worked as a title and historical researcher in a legal office. Charter member of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society; later vice president and president of that organization; member of the Alabama Historical Association; member of the Board of Directors of Bradshaw Regional Library as a representative of Cobb Memorial Archives. Died August 30, 2006.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

Architectural Heritage of West Point-Lanett in the Chattahoochee Valley; in Compliment to Georgia Architectural Seminar and Tour of Georgia College. West Point, Ga.; s.n., 1975.

Brooks of Honey and Butter; Plantations and People of Meriwether County, Georgia. Alexander City, Ala.; Outlook Publishing Co., 1971.

One Hundred Fifty Years of West Point Methodism, 1830-1980. West Point, Ga.; First United Methodist Church, 1980.

Pine Log and Greek Revival; Houses and People of Three Counties in Georgia and Alabama. Alexander City, Ala.; Outlook Publishing Co., 1964.

Proudest Inheritance; a Bicentennial Tribute of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society. S.l.; s.n., 1975.

Word From Camp Pollard. West Point, Ga.; Hester Printing, 1978.

Young Folks’ Primer of Historic West Point, Georgia. West Point, Ga.; Hester’s Print Shop, 1960.

Papers;

The Cobb Memorial Archives at Bradshaw Regional Library hold papers related to William H. Davidson’s historical research.

Biography:

University professor, writer, activist. Born– January 26, 1944, Birmingham. Parents– B. Frank and Sally E. Davis. Education– attended the Sorbonne, 1963-64; Brandeis University, B.A., 1965; graduate study, University of Frankfurt, 1965-1967; University of California at San Diego, M.A., 1968; additional study, 1968-1969. Ph. D. Humboldt University.   Taught philosophy at U.C.L.A., 1969-1970; University of California at Santa Cruz, 1991-2008; San Francisco State University.  Member Black Panthers, Communist Party.  Candidate for U. S. Vice President, Communist Party, 1980 and 1984.  Honorary doctorate, Lenin University. Awarded emerita status at the University of California Santa Cruz on her retirement in 2008.

Source:

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

Publication(s):

Abolition Democracy; Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture. Seven Stories Press, 2005.

Angela Davis; an Autobiography. New York; Random House, 1974.

Are Prisons Obsolete?  Seven Stories Press, 2003.

Beyond the Frame;  Women of Color and Visual Representation.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

The Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves. Somerville, Mass.; New England Free Press, 1970.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism; Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday.  Pantheon Books, 1998.

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle.  Haymarket Books, 2015.

The Meaning of Freedom, and Other Difficult Dialogues.  City Lights, 2012.

Policing the National Body; Sex, Race, and Criminalization.  South End Press, 2002.

Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism. Latham, N.Y.; Women of Color Press, 1985.

Women, Culture, and Politics. New York; Random House, 1989.

Women, Race, and Class. New York; Random House, 1981.

Joint Publications;

If They Come in the Morning; Voices of Resistance.  Third Press, 1971.

Papers; 

The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama holds a collection of Angela Davis papers and ephemera covering the years 1971-1984.

Biography:

Professor of history, college president. Born– August 13, 1910, Mobile. Parents– Matthew and Ruth (Shepard) Davis. Married– Mary Greenfield Merritt, June 6, 1936.  Children–three. Education– Auburn Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1931; M.S., 1932; Duke University, Ph.D., 1938. U.S. Army Air Force, 1942-45. Assistant professor of history, Auburn, 1937-1942; Florida State University, 1947-1959; professor of history and president of Winthrop College, South Carolina, 1950-1973.  Member of American Council on Education and International Association of College Presidents. Died April 13, 1993.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1978.

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1973-1974.

Publication(s):

Colin J. McRae; Confederate Financial Agent. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Publishing Co., 1961.

Cotton Kingdom in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1939.

Editor:

Report of Operations of the U.S. Seventh Army, 1945.

Papers;

Papers of Dr. Davis’ tenure as president of Winthrop College are held by the Louise Pettus Archives at Winthrop.

Biography:

Botanist; university professor. Born– January 12, 1916, Charleston, Ill. Parents– Leonard Ernest and Jessie Allie (Echard) Davis. Married– Dorothy Dale Richey, June 5, 1940. Children– Two. Education– Eastern Illinois State University, B.Ed., 1938;  Ohio State University, M.S., 1940; Ph.D., 1947.  Served in the U.S. Army during WWII; awarded four battle stars and the Combat Infantry Medal. Oak Ridge Institute Fellow, 1951. Taught Plant physiology and ecology at Auburn University, 1952-1982.  Member American Society of Plant Physiologists; Weed Society of America; Alabama Academy of Science. Awarded status of professor emeritus on his retirement in 1982.  Honorary D. Ped. by Eastern Illinois State University, 1956.  The Donald E. Davis Arboretum on the Auburn campus, dedicated in 1977,  is named in his honor. Died February 21, 2007.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1975-1976, and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publication(s):

Effects of Herbicides on Submerged Seed Plants. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn University Department of Botany, 1980.

Joint_Publication(s):

Atrazine Fate and Effects in a Salt Marsh. Gulf Breeze, Fla.; Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1979.

Guide and Key to Alabama Trees. Dubuque, Iowa; W. C. Brown, 1965. [Editions 2-5 published by Kendal/Hunt, 1972-1999].

Biography: 

Engineer; professor of engineering; university dean. Born– June 28, 1876, Washington, D.C. Parents George Jacob and Nora Ninette Jones Davis.  Married– Ardelia Barbara Meyer, June 28, 1905.  Children– Two. Education– Attended George Washington University; Cornell University, B.C.E., 1902. Taught engineering at  the University of Wisconsin, 1902-1912; University of Alabama, 1912-1946; dean of the College of Engineering, 1912-46.  Served as engineer for the Alabama State Advisory Committee for Public Works, 1933.  Designed bridges and tunnels for the Tuscaloosa city water works.  One of the original twelve honorary judges for the Fisher Body Craftsman Guild, 1950-53. Member of Phi Beta Kappa; International Rotary Club; Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce; Sons of the American Revolution; American Society of Civil Engineers and several other professional engineering organizations.  Honorary D.Sci., University of Alabama, 1931. Died February 28, 1958.

Source:

Alabama Alumni Magazine, May-June 1958.

Davis, George Jacob.  Family History.  Tuscaloosa, 1955.

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

Family History, With Special Emphasis on the Ancestors of the Brothers, Philip Christopher Davis, George Graham Davis, (and others). Tuscaloosa, Ala.; s.n., 1955.

Biography:

Teacher;  writer.  Born– October 22, 1896,  Guntersville. Parents–James K. and Mary Ann Copeland Morrow.  Married–Hugh McCrory,  Tennessee legislator, January 2, 1921 (died 1935); married George Harding (died 1958); married Clyde J. Davis. Education:  graduated from Chilton County High School, 1915; studied at Howard College and Peabody Insitute, Nashville.  Worked as a  schoolteacher in Birmingham; freelance reporter; clerk, Tennessee legislature. Died August 23, 1978.

Source:

Alabama Journal, March 23, 1967; Clanton Union Banner, April 13, 1967, and Montgomery Advertiser-Journal, 1974.

Publication(s):

Dixie Poet Tree; a Collection of Verses. New York; Carlton Press, 1974.

Rhymoods; an Accumulation of Rhymes. New York; Exposition Press, 1967.

Biography:

Attorney; State government official;  college president. Born– November 23, 1882, Marengo County. Parents:  Thomas Wyley and Mary Kate Goodwin Davis. Married– Lena Vail, December 15, 1917.  Children– Three. Education– South Alabama Baptist Institute at Thomasville, A.B., 1899; University of Alabama, Bachelor of Laws, 1903. Military service:  U. S. Army Infantry, WWI, 1918-1919; retired at the end of the war with the rank of major. Served as Alabama’s first assistant attorney general, 1915-1917; attorney general, 1921-1927; state internal revenue collector, 1933-1939.  Codefied the first Educational Code of Alabama and the first Agricultural Code of Alabama. President, Howard College (now Samford University), 1939-1958. Led in the building of the new Samford campus in Shades Valley and the move to the new campus in 1957. Life member of the Alabama Bar Association;  life member of the Historical Association of the Southern Baptist Convention; Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Delta Phi; the Masons and the Knights of Phythias.  Awarded the honorary LL.D. by the University of Alabama; the honorary Doctorate of Humanities by Birmingham Southern, and the LL.D. by Mobile College.  The Harwell Goodwin Davis Library at Samford University is named in his honor. Died August 5, 1977.

Source:

Obituary, Birmingham News, August 6, 1977.

Sulzby, James F., Jr. Toward a History of Samford University, Vol. II.  Birmingham:  Samford University Press, 1986.

Dust Jacket, The Legend of Landsee.

Publication(s):

Alabama School Code. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama State Department of Education, 1927.

Holdings of Physical Copies of Newspapers from Jefferson County Courthouse. S.l.; s.n., 1979.

Legend of Landsee. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1976.

The Life and Achievements of Joseph Linyer Bedsole. New York; Newcomen Society in North America, 1962.

Papers;

The papers of Harwell Goodwin Davis are held by the Special Collections Department at the Harwell Goodwin Davis Library at Samford University.

Biography:

Writer; editor, socialite. Born– April 12, 1844 in White Plains, Benton County (became Calhoun County, 1858).  Parents– John and Marian Lucinda (Crutchfield) Moore. Married– Thomas Edward Davis, October 20, 1874.  Educated at home by her mother and intermittently at local schools in Alabama and Texas, where her family moved in 1855. Continued her education as an adult by studying music, French, and other subjects with tutors. Employed as “second assistant” teacher at Professor Hand’s Charnwood School in Tyler, Texas, 1860-61.  Began publishing poems on patriotic and other themes in Texas newspapers in the 1860’s; published her first volume of poetry in 1867. Wrote fiction and poetry throughout her life; employed as an editor on the New Orleans Picayune.  Moved to New Orleans in 1879 with her husband, editor of the New Orleans Times and later editor-in-chief of the New Orleans Picayune; maintained a literary salon at her home on Royal Street. Died January 1, 1909.

Source;

Dictionary of American Biography; American Authors and Books; Who Was Who in Alabama.

Publications;

Antiques: A Rare Collection from Old Creole Families.  New Orleans:  A. H. Thiberge Printing Co., 1894.

A Bunch of Roses.  Boston: Small, Maynard, and Co., 1903.

A Christmas Masque of Saint Roch.  Chicago: McClurg, 1896.

An Elephant’s Track, and Other Stories.  New York:  Harper, 1897.

In War Times at La Rose Blanche.  Boston:  D. Lathrop Co., 1888.

Jaconetta: Her Loves.  Boston:  Houghton, 1901.

The Little Chevalier.  Boston:  Houghton, 1903.

Minding the Gap, and Other Poems.  Houston:  Cushing and Co., 1867.

The Moons of Balbanca.. Boston: Houghton, 1908.

Poems.  Houston:  E. H. Cushing, 1872.

The Price of Silence. Boston:  Houghton, 1907.

The Queen’s Garden.  Boston: Houghton, 1900.

Selected Poems. New  Orleans:  Green Shutter Book Shop, 1927.

The Wire Cutters.  Boston: Houghton, 1899.

Biography:

Teacher, writer, clerical worker. Born– October 20, 1862, Huntsville. Parents– Zebulon Pike (an early mayor of Huntsville) and Williametta (Eason) Davis. Education– Private tutors. Taught in public schools in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas, 1893-1900; worked as a stenographer and newspaper writer; held various government positions, including deputy clerk for U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, 1901-05. Died June 10, 1936.

Source:

History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography, vol. 3.

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 6.

Publication(s):

The Northerner. New York; The Century Company, 1905.

The Other Woman. New York; Century, 1920.

Wallace Rhodes. New York; Harper and Brothers, 1909.

The World’s Warrant. Boston; Houghton, 1907.

Biography:

Microbiologist; university professor. Born– May 7, 1928, San Diego, Calif. Parents– Richard Earl and Cora Elsie Bolin Davis.  Married– Juanita Loudermilk.  Children–two. Education– University of Georgia, B.S., 1953; Ohio State University, M.S., 1955; Ph.D. 1957. Taught at the University of Georgia, 1957-1958; Auburn University, 1958-1990. Member of several professional organizations including the  American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society for Microbiology, Society for Industrial Microbiology, American Chemical Society, and the American Peanut Research and Education Society. Professor emeritus, Auburn, 1990. Fellow of the American Academy for Microbiology.  Received the Golden Peanut Research Award.  Died July 3, 2011.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 14th edition.

Obituary.

Joint_Publication(s):

Guide and Key to Alabama Trees. Dubuque, Iowa; W. C. Brown, 1965.  [editions 2-5 published by Kendall/Hunt, 1972-1999].

Biography:

Agricultural Extension Service official; college administrator; radio pioneer.  Born– August 15, 1890, Athens. Parents– Richard Scoggins and Elizabeth (Barker) Davis. Married– Mildred Kilburn, June 19, 1918. Education– Attended Potter College, Bowling Green, Ky.; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1916; graduate study at API. Employed by Agricultural Extension Service to work with 4-H Clubs, beginning in 1918;  director of the Alabama State Agricultural Extension Service, 1937-1959. Founded  radio station WAPI at Auburn, which later became associated with the National Broadcasting Company, the first radio network in the state. . Executive secretary of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1932-37 (during this period the school was run by an administrative committee made up of three members, the “executive secretary” being one member). Member of Phi Kappa Phi, Masons, Shriners, and Kiwanis.  Named Man of the Year in Alabama Agriculture, 1939, by the Progressive Farmer magazine; awarded a Citation for Distinguished Service to American Agriculture by the American Farm Bureau in 1946. Died January 17, 1973.

Source:

Library of Alabama Lives, 1961.

Publication(s):

A Century of Science on Alabama Farms. Auburn, Ala.; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1952.

Extension Work:  Its Origin, Nature, Value, and Opportunity.  API, 1949.

My Davis Ancestors and Relatives.  N.P., n.d.

One Man; Edward Asbury O’Neal III, of Alabama. Auburn, Ala.; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1951.

Papers;

The papers of Posey Oliver Davis are held by the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.

Biography:

Historian; university professor. Born– August 28, 1910, Birmingham. Parents– William Columbus and Maude (Gray) Davis. Married–(1) Mildred Dorman, July 24, 1948 (died 1986); married (2) Dorothy Ann Fleetwood, 1987.  Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1931; M.A., 1932; Harvard, M.A., 1943; Ph.D. 1948. Held several staff positions at the U.S.Senate, 1933-46; taught Latin American Studies at the University of Georgia, 1948-1951; George Washington University, 1951-1966; National War College, 1963-1974. Member Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa Phi. Died December 24, 2003.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 7th ed.

Who’s Who in America online

Publication(s):

The Columns of Athens, Georgia’s Classic City. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1951.

The Last Conquistadores; the Spanish Intervention in Peru and Chile, 1863-1866. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1950

Warnings from the Far South: Democracy versus Dictatorship in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. 1995..

Joint_Publication(s):

Soviet Bloc Latin American Activities and Their Implications for United States Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1960.

Editor;

American Historical Association Guide to Historical Literature.  1960.

Index to Writings in American History, 1902-1940.  1956

Biography:

University professor of philosophy. Born– January 5, 1939, Frankewing, Tenn. Parents– George B. and Lois Sawyers Davis. Married–Jill Hunt. Children–four. Education– Abilene Christian College, B.A., 1960; M.A., 1961; Rice University, Ph.D., 1965. Taught at the University of Houston, 1964-1966; Auburn University, 1966-2013. Member of the American, Southwestern, and Alabama Philosophical Associations, the C.S. Peirce Society, the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Named to the Auburn Academy of Teaching and Outstanding Teachers, 2004.  Awarded the status of  professor emeritus upon his retirement at Auburn in 2013. Died May 13, 2017.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; obituary

Publication(s):

The Freewill Question. The Hague, Netherlands; Nijhoff, 1971.

Philosophy of Religion. Abilene, Kan.; Biblical Research Society, 1969.

Peirce’s Epistemology. The Hague, Netherlands; Nijhoff, 1972.

Science and Christian Faith. Abilene, Kan.; Biblical Research Society, 1968.

Biography:

Historian; University professor.  Born February 12, 1884,  Pensacola, Fla. Parents–Mathew L. and Annie Laurie Lane Davis.  Married–Roxana Henderson, 1915. Children–one. Education– Mobile Military Academy; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S. and M.S.; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1913. Professor of history  at the University of Kansas, 1912-1954.  Died April 5, 1960.

Sources:

Encyclopedia of Southern History;  files at Alabama Public Library Service; ancestry.com.

Publication(s):

Ante-Bellum Southern Commercial Conventions. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1905.

The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida. New York; Columbia University Press, 1913.

Biography:

Writer. Born– October 2, 1927, Birmingham. Parents– James Toliver and Lucile (Thiemonge) Dawkins. Education– University of Alabama B.A., 1950;  Stanford University, M.A. 1953. English instructor,  Stephens College, 1953-1958; writer-in-residence at Stephens College, 1961-1962, 1973-1976. Distinguished Visiting professor, University of Hawaii, 1991; visiting professor, Georgia College, Milledgeville, 1996-97.  Contributed to the Paris Review, Sewanee Review, McCalls, Redbook, Saturday Review, and to various anthologies. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1966; Harper-Saxton Fellow, 1968; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1976. Received the McGinnis Award in 1963 and the Harper-Saxton Prize in 1971.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Charleyhorse. New York; Viking, 1985.

Clay Dancers.  New York, 1995.

The Live Goat. New York; Harper, 1971.

The Quiet Enemy. New York; Atheneum, 1963; rpt. University of Georgia Press, 1995.

Rare Earth.  Random House, 1995.

The Santa Fe Rembrandt.  1993.

Turtle Truths.  New York, 1997.

Joint_Publication.

The Displaced Person [play based on stories of Flannery O’Connor]. Produced at the American Place

Theater, New York, 1966.

Editor;

A Woman of the Century, Frances Minerva Nunnery:  Her Story in her Own Words as Told to Cecil Dawkins.  University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Biography:

Professor  of French language and literature; college administrator;  college president. Born– Aug. 10, 1876, Huntsville. Parents– Granville J. and Alice (Roberts) Dawson. Married — Fletcher Stinson, 1906 (died 1927). Children–one. Married– Avis Marshall, December 25,1930 (died 1938).  Education– Georgetown College, Kentucky, A.B., 1901; Howard College, M.A., 1910; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1921. Principal of Scottsboro Baptist Institute, 1901-03; taught at Howard College, 1903-1917; dean, 1917; acting president, 1917, 1921; president, 1921-31. Head, Department of Romance Languages,  University of Alabama, 1930-1947; Howard Payne College, 1947-1948. Also taught at Western State College, 1923, and the University of Toulouse, 1919. Editor of Howard College Studies in History and Literature, 1921-1930. Contributed to various periodicals, including Romantic Review and Modern Language Notes. Member of the educational board of the Southern Baptist Convention; president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Member of Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa and the Authors’ Club of London. Awarded the honorary D.D. by Howard College, 1918. Received the Officer d’Academie decoration from the French government. Died April 9, 1966.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online

James F. Sulzby, Jr., Toward a History of Samford University.  Samford University Press, 1986.

Publication(s):

A French Regicide in Alabama. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1939.

Lakanal the Regicide. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1948.

Picard’s ‘La Petite Ville.”  Ginn and Company, 1912.

Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1919.

Toulouse in the Renaissance. New York; Columbia University Press, 1923.

Biography:

Baptist clergyman. Born– April 24, 1865, Chambers County. Parents– Andrew Jackson and Marie Antoinette (Bailey) Dawson. Married– Margaret Samuel Lewis, October 30, 1890. Children– Two. Education– Howard College, A.B., 1886;  Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, (graduated 1889); studied at Columbian University (became George Washington University in 1904), the University of Alabama, and the University of Berlin, Germany. Ordained in Baptist ministry, 1888; pastored churches in Kentucky, 1888-1892; pastor of First Baptist Church,  Tuscaloosa, 1892-1924; taught at Howard College, 1924-1938; founded Edgewood Baptist Church, Birmingham, in 1926 and served as its pastor, 1926-1938. Served as president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, Southern Baptist Young People’s Union, and Rotary International. Member of the Alabama Baptist State Executive Committee and Southern Baptist Educational Association. Trustee, Central Female College, Tuscaloosa; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Druid City Hospital. Awarded the honorary D.D. by Howard College, 1897.   Edgewood Baptist Church was renamed Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in his honor.  Died January 14, 1938.

Source:

Guffin, R.L.  A Legacy of Love: The First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa.  Available on First Baptist Church website.

Marquis Who’s Who online.

Publication(s):

After Fifty Years. Nashville; Broadman, 1965.

Light Spots. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Weatherford, 1933.

Biography;
Historian; university professor; administrator. United States Military Academy, B.S., 1979.  Active duty in U.S.Army, 1979-95. Taught history at the U.S. Military Academy,  (1989-92); Marion Military Institute (1995-96);  Judson College (1996-99); and Auburn University at Montgomery (1999-2000);  at the University of Montevallo, 1997-  ; served in various administrative posts,  including assistant vice president for academic affairs, at  Montevallo. Delivered many lectures and presentations; author of numerous articles in professional journals.   Member of several local historical organizations.  Named the University Scholar at Montevallo, 2014. Received the Clinton Jackson Coley Award for best work on Alabama local history, awarded by the Alabama Historical Association, 2014.
Source;
University of Alabama Press catalog; University of Montevallo website.
Publications;
Diamonds in the Rough: A History of Alabama’s Cahaba Coal Field. University of Alabama Press, 2013.

Biography:

Medievalist; translator; college instructor.. Born– January 25, 1929, Birmingham. Parents– Howard and Marjory Leake. Married- Jim Day, 1950. Children– Five. Education– Northwestern University, B.S., 1950; Samford University, M.A., 1970; University of Alabama, Ph.D., 1975. Postgraduate fellow at the University of California at Los Angeles, 1981-82. Taught at Southern Benedictine College, 1975-1979; adjunct professor at Birmingham Southern College, 1979. Edited Quondam Et Futurus, Newsletter of Arthurian Studies, 1979. Contributed to the Proceedings of the Colloquium of Ghent and Literature at the University of Ghent, Belgium, in 1981.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1982; The Rise of Gawain; bhamwiki

Editor_and_Translator;

Latin Arthurian Literature.  Rochester: Boydell and Brewer, 2005.

The Rise of Gawain; Nephew of Arthur. New York; Garland Publishers, 1984.

The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria.  NY: Garland, 1988.

Editor;

Gawain:  Knight of the Goddess:  Restoring an Archetype.  Aquarian Press, 1990.

Joint_Editor:

King Arthur Through the Ages. New York; Garland, 1990.

Contributor;

Popular Arthurian Traditions.  Madison, WS, Popular Press, 1992.

Biography:

Editor, writer. Born– February 23, 1858, Montevallo. Parents– William Phineas and Margaret Elizabeth Warwick (Stevens) Browne. Married– John MacMurphy de Cottes, February 8, 1877. Education– Attended Ursuline Convent in Tuscaloosa; graduated from Saybrook Hall, Montreal, Canada. First woman to work for the Montgomery Advertiser; women’s editor of Advertiser, 1890-1908. Founded the magazine Social World in 1890 and published it for many years.  Died July 10, 1936.

Source:

Owen’s The Story of Alabama, Vol. 3.

Publication(s):

A Social Directory of Montgomery, Alabama, 1900-1901. S.l.; s.n., 1900.

Biography:

Editor, writer. Born– May 21, 1839, Columbia, S.C. Parents– Mardici Heninrich and Rebecca (Lopez y Nunez) De Leon, Education– Attended Rugby Academy and Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. Employed as a clerk for the Topographical Engineering Bureau, 1858-1861; served in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865; edited Cosmopolite Magazine, 1865-1866; wrote for various New York newspapers and magazines, and translated French novels, 1866-1867; managing editor of Mobile Register, 1868-1876; editor, 1877-, while continuing to write for national publications;  edited the Mobile papers The Gossip and The Gulf Citizen, 1873-1896. Managed the Mobile Theater, 1873-1885. Organized and managed the Mobile Mardi Gras Carnival for 25 years; created carnivals for several other cities.  Published political writings under the name Dunne Browne. Lost his eyesight in 1903; sometimes called “The Blind Laureate of the Lost Cause.”  Died March 19, 1914.

Source:

Chaudron, Louis de V.  Biographical Sketch of the Author, in De Leon, Four Years in Rebel Capitals.  Mobile, Al.:  Gossip Printing Company, 1982.

Marquis Who’s Who online, and the Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 5.

Publication(s):

Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60s. New York; G.W. Dillingham, 1907.

Coqsurcus; a Lay of a Very Late Encampment. Chicago; The Hanscom Printing Co., 1887.

Crag-Nest. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1897.

Creole and Puritan. Philadelphia; J. B. Lippincott, 1889.

Creole Carnivals. Atlanta; Author, 1899.

Cross Purposes. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1871.

East, West and South. Mobile, Ala.; The Gossip Printing Co., 1891.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1890.

An Innocent Cheat; or, Episodes of the Everlasting Comedy. New York; F. T. Neely, 1898.

F. John Holden, Unionist. St. Paul, Minn.; Price-McGill, 1893.

Joseph Wheeler; the Man, The Statesman, The Soldier. Atlanta; Byrd Printing, 1899.

Juny; or, Only One Octoroon’s Story. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing Co., 1889.

A Novelette Trilogy. London; F. T. Neely, 1897.

Our Creole Carnivals. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Press, 1890.

The Pride of the Mercers. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1898.

The Puritan’s Daughter. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1891.

The Rending of the Solid South. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing Co., 1895.

The Rock or the Rye. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1888.

Schooners That Bump on the Bar. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1894.

Society as I Have Foundered It. Mobile, Ala.; Gossip Printing, 1890.

Sybilla; a Romaunt of the Town. Mobile, Ala.; The Gossip Press, 1891.

Editor:

South Songs. New York; Bleilock & Co., 1860.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Thomas Cooper De Leon is held by the Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Biography:

Poet; college professor. Born– January 19, 1930, Birmingham. Parents– Robert and Alice (Webb) Fleming. Married– Donald Deagon, June 29, 1951. Children– Two. Education– Birmingham-Southern College, B.A., 1950; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1951; Ph.D., 1954. Taught classics at Furman University, 1954-1956; at Guilford College, 1956-94. Published poems in various periodicals. Member of the Academy of American Poets, American Philological Association, American Classical Association, Vergilian Society, North Carolina Writers Conference, Alabama State Poetry Society, Alabama Writers Conclave, Greensboro Writers Club, and Phi Beta Kappa.  Recipient of many awards for poetry.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Carbon 14. Amherst, Mass.; University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.

Habitats. University Center, Mich.; Green River Press, 1982.

Indian Summer. Greensboro, N.C.; Unicorn Press, 1975.

The Pentekontaetia (The Great Fifty Years). Huntington, N.Y.; Water Mark Press, 1985.

Diver’s Tomb. New York; St. Martins, 1984.

Indian Summer. Greensboro, N.C.; Unicorn Press, 1975.

Poetic South. Winston-Salem, N.C.; Blair, 1974.

There is No Balm in Birmingham. Boston; Godine Press, 1976.

Women and Children First. Emory, Va.; Iron Mountain Press, 1976.

Biography:

Novelist. Born– June 23, 1929, Scottsboro. Parents– Hilburn Tyson and Evelyn (Coffey) Hodges. Married– Borden Deal, 1952 (divorced 1975).  Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, B.A., 1952. Employed by Jackson County School System, 1950; typist for U.S. Army, Washington, D.C., Birmingham Brass Company, 1951-1952. Began writing fiction in 1956; published her first short story in 1958.  Published novels, poetry, and short stories.  Member of the Authors Guild. Received awards from Mystery Writers of America, 1967; Alabama Library Association. Died February 20, 2004.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Atchison, Ray M., and Eubanks, Jen.  “Babs Hodges Deal:  Alabama Novelist,”  Alabama Librarian, XIII (1962), 93-94.

Publication(s):

Acres of Afternoon. New York; McKay, 1959.

The Crystal Mouse. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1973.

Fancy’s Knell. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1966.

Friendships, Secrets and Lies. New York; Fawcett, 1979.

Goodnight Ladies. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1978.

The Grail. New York; McKay, 1964.

High Lonesome World. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1969.

It’s Always Three O’Clock. New York; McKay, 1961.

Night Story. New York; McKay, 1962.

The Reason for Roses. Garden City, N.Y; Doubleday, 1974.

Summer Games. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1969.

Waiting to Hear from William. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1975.

The Walls Came Tumbling Down. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1968.