Biography;

Dancer; naturalist; author.  Self-trained as a naturalist in Alabama and Mexico. As a dancer, performed with Isadora Duncan; member of a dance troupe that performed for soldiers in World War I.  Moved to Fairhope after World War II.

Source;

Introduction to The Butterfly Tree, University of Alabama Press, 1991.

Publications;

Artist’s Mermaid.  New Haven, CT:  Penny Poems, 1960.

Fields of Force:  An Excursion into Hindu Metaphysics as Applied to Biology.  London:  Theosophical Publishing House, 1956.

Private Life of the Protozoa, and of their Neighbors, the Metazoa and the Insect Larvae.  New York: Ronald Press, 1950.

Webs in the Wind:  The Habits of Web-Weaving Spiders.  New York:  Ronald Press, 1949.

Biography:

Accountant. Born– March 14, 1906, Winston County. Parents– Jim E. and Laura Gertrude (Buchanan) Dunn. Married– Chlora Curtis, June 8, 1936. Children– Two. Education– Pan American College, 1928; University of Alabama, 1933-1935; studied at La Salle Extension University, 1940-1944 Certified public accountant; worked for various gas companies in North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Alabama, 1929-1932; accountant in Chattanooga, 1948-1973. Organized and directed the Arley Community Historical Association; helped place historical markers in the Arley area. In 1971-72 compiled a volume of photographs of and personal letters from governors of each of the fifty states and presented it to the University of Alabama. Died May 1994.

Source:

Floyd B. Dunn, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Publication(s):

Swimmin’ Holes ‘n’ Fishing Poles. Chattanooga, Tenn.; Brushy Creek Press, 1979.

Biography:

Author, documentary filmmaker, magazine executive, entrepreneur, writer, and sportswriter.  Born:  November 2, 1964, Athens, Alabama. Parents: Robert (Bob) and Marjorie Dunnavant.  Education: The University of Alabama.

Keith Dunnavant is the author of seven books, including SPY PILOT, a true story of Cold War intrigue and redemption (with Francis Gary Powers, Jr.), and definitive biographies of football icons Paul “Bear” Bryant, Bart Starr and Joe Montana. His books often explore the collision of sports and culture, including THE MISSING RING, which focused on the 1966 University of Alabama football team’s pursuit of perfection in an imperfect world, against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and a time and place on the brink. THE FIFTY-YEAR SEDUCTION, his book about television’s manipulation of college football, the rise of the all-powerful NCAA, and the impact of the Supreme Court’s landmark Board of Regents decision, has been widely utilized as a college textbook. Dunnavant started his career as a teenage sportswriter for small newspapers in North Alabama and parlayed his early experience into a full scholarship to the University of Alabama as a writer/editor inside the Crimson Tide athletic department. He covered college football and other sports for several major publications including THE NATIONAL before transitioning into magazine management and ownership in New York and Atlanta.  The writer/director of the documentary film THREE DAYS AT FOSTER, which focused on the long-overlooked African-American pioneers who shattered the athletic color barrier at his alma mater, he has been a featured historian on ESPN, HBO, Showtime, Epix, and SEC Network.

Sources:

Keith Dunnavant

Publication(s):

Coach. Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Time Out. Will Publishing, 1999.

The Fifty-Year Seduction.  St. Martin’s Press, 2004.

The Missing Ring. St. Martin’s Press, 2006.

America’s Quarterback. St. Martin’s Press, 2011.

Montana. St. Martin’s Press, 2015.

Spy Pilot. Prometheus, 2019.

Biography: Disc jockey, radio news director, award-winning journalist, historian, and author. Born – June 29, 1947, Athens, Alabama.  Parents – Robert (Bob) and Marjorie Dunnavant. Education – Athens State College.

An aggressive, hard-charging newsman, Dunnavant was a reporter for The News from 1985 – 1995, covering news and feature stories across the Tennessee Valley. He wrote extensively about the space industry in Huntsville, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the history of the area.

At age 14, he received a radio broadcasting license and served as a disc jockey at radio station WJMW, an AM station in Athens, owned by his grandfather, H.F. Dunnavant, and his father, Robert V. Dunnavant. He worked for several radio stations in Athens, Decatur and Huntsville, and served as morning news director of WAFF in Huntsville.
Dunnavant founded the weekly The Athens Journaland was its editor in 1977 and 1978.

He was a reporter for The Alabama (Athens, AL) Courier/ Athens Limestone Democrat, and also wrote for The Decatur (AL) Daily, The, Huntsville (AL) Times, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Birmingham Post-Herald before becoming a staff Dunnavant reporter for The Birmingham (AL) News.

Dunnavant held awards from the Associated Press and Huntsville Press Club for reporting, writing and photography. He shared in a National Headliner Award with the staff of The Nashville Tennessean in 1981.
He taught journalism classes at Athens High School and was a consultant for its journalism department.

He was a recognized authority on North Alabama Civil War history.

Died – December 7, 1995.

Source:

Keith Dunnavant and The Birmingham News

Publications(s):

Antique Athens & Limestone County, Alabama:  A Photographic Journey 1809-1949. Pea Ridge Press, 1994.

Decatur Alabama:  Yankee Foothold in Dixie 1861-1865. Pea Ridge Press, 1995.

Historic Limestone County Alabama.  Pea Ridge Press, 1995.

The Railroad War:  Forrest’s 1864 Raid Through Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee.  Pea Ridge Press, 1994.

Professor of German.  Born–July 10, 1974, Rome, Georgia; moved to Tuscaloosa at an early age.  Parents–Robert H. and Nancy (Barker) Dupree.  Education– Swarthmore College, B.A., 1996; Columbia University, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., 2006.  Additional study at the University of Regensburg, the Free University of Berlin, and Humboldt University.  Post-doctoral fellow, Rice University, 2006-2008; professor of German, Georgetown University, 2008- .

Publications;

The Mask and the Quill:  Actress-Writers in Germany from Enlightenment to Romanticism.  Bucknell University Press, 2011.

Joint_editor;

Performing Knowledge, 1750-1850. de Gruyter, 2015.

Biography:

Newspaper correspondent; educator.  Born–February 27, 1889.  Mobile. Parents– Francis G. and M. E. (Henry) Ruffin. Education– St. Joseph’s College, Emmitsburg, Md., B.A. Married– Joseph F. Durham. Employed as teacher; public relations officer for Mobile Schools;  Mobile correspondent for the Birmingham News and Age Herald. Member and president of Alabama Writers Conclave; chairman of the Alabama Anthology Committee; League of American Penwomen. Died June 22, 1972.

Source:

Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Dungi Speaks. St. Louis, Mo.; Charles E. Luntz Pub., 1958.

Mobile: A History Reader.  Mobile Public Schools, 1954.

Sea Women; Poems. Portland, Me.; House of Falmouth, 1964.

Swallows in the Air; Certain Haiku. Charleston, Ill.; Prairie Press, 1969.

Compiler:

The Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928. Atlanta; E. Hartsock, The Bozart Press, 1928.

Biography:

Civil Rights activist. Born–August 6, 1903, Birmingham. Parents– Sterling and Josephine (Rice) Foster. Married– Clifford Judkins Durr, March 5, 1926. Children– Five. Attended Wellesley College, 1921-23. Member of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (1938) and the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax; active in Henry Wallace Campaign for the presidency. Ran for the U.S. Senate from Virginia on the Progressive Party ticket, 1948.  After many years in Washington, moved to Montgomery in 1952 and became active in civil rights activities. Member of the Alabama Council on Human Relations; supported the Montgomery bus boycott; went with E.D.Nixon to get Rosa Parks out of jail. Provided food and lodging to civil rights workers in the 1960’s. Elected to Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame, 2006. Died February 24, 1999.

Source:

Obituary.

Outside the Magic Circle.

Publication(s):

Freedom Writer: Letters from the Civil Rights Years.  New York: Routledge, 2003.

Outside the Magic Circle; the Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1965.

Papers; 

The papers of Virginia Foster Durr are held by the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University. An oral history is held by the Columbia University Oral History Collection.

Biography:

Historian; university professor and administrator.  Born– June 24, 1902, New Albany, Miss. Parents– Walker Wadell and Clementine (Snipes) Dyer. Married– Frances Thaxton, 1925. Education– B.A., 1925; Peabody College, B.S., 1926; M.A., 1930; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1932. Taught at Florence State College, 1926-1932; University of Georgia in Atlanta, 1934-1936; Armstrong State College, 1936-1939; account executive radio station WSAV, 1939-41; state executive, Office of Price Administration, 1941-45; general manager radio station WDAR, 1945-48;  Tulane University, professor of history and  dean of University College and director of the Center of Study Liberal Education for Adults, 1948-75. Member of the Civil War Roundtable, the Southern Historical Association and the Association of University Evening Colleges. New Orleans Cultural Center Commission President, 1960-61. John Percy Dyer Award at Tulane is awarded annually to a faculty member for distinguished service.  Died October 5, 1975.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; Marquis who’s who online

Publication(s):

“Fightin’ Joe” Wheeler. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1941.

From Shiloh to San Juan. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1961.

The Gallant Hood. Indianapolis, Ind.; Bobbs, 1950.

Ivory Towers in the Market Place. Indianapolis, Ind.; Bobbs, 1956.

Tulane; the Biography of a University. New York; Harper, 1966.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Education of American Businessmen. New York; McGraw, 1959.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of John Percy Dyer is held in the Special Collections Department of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University.

See Mantooth, John

Postal clerk, nurse. Born– April 6, 1920, Brookwood. Parents– Luther Latham and Amie Estelle (Collins) Hayes. Married– Dewey Willard Early, March 29, 1938. Children– Two. Education– dental hygenist program of the University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1932; certification for the Chicago School of Nursing, 1953. Employed as a clerk for U.S. Selective Service, 1940-1943; clerk U.S. Postal Service, 1946-1947; physician’s office nurse in Birmingham, 1950-1953; office nurse in Graysville, 1953-1981; part-time nurse, Carraway Medical Center, 1981-1982. Member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Lioness Club, and American Gold Star Mothers. Died October 14, 2004.

Source:

A source in Adamsville, Ala.; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Hallowed Ground. Birmingham, Ala.; EBSCO Medin, 1973.

Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor. Birmingham, Ala.; EBSCO Media, 1975.

Biography;

Attorney; writer. Born– May 17, 1870, Tuscaloosa. Parents– William Russell Smith (President of the University of Alabama) and Wilhelmina Maria (Easby) Smith. Married– Lillian L. Strong, June 5, 1894. Education– Georgetown College (Washington) A.B.; A.M., 1892; LL.B.; LL.M., 1894.  Served in the JAG department, U.S.Army, in World War I; reached the rank of colonel. Served as associate editor Georgetown College Journal; editor, 1891. Admitted to the bar, 1894. Employed as law examiner for the Department of Justice, 1893-1896; special assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana, 1896; pardon attorney, Department of Justice, 1899-1904; assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, 1904-1906.  Practiced law in Washington. Quizmaster (instructor) at Georgetown College Law School; taught constitutional history at Georgetown, 1905.  Published many articles, poems, and stories. Died September 26, 1948.  Buried in Arlington Cemetery.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online

Publication(s):

The Department of Justice, Its History and Functions. Washington, D.C.; W. H. Lowdermilk, 1904.

History of Georgetown University, D.C., 1789-1907. New York; Lewis, 1907.

The New Napolean: A Satire.  Washington: Stormont & Jackson, 1896.

Editor_Translator;

The Songs of Alcaeus. Washington, D.C.; W. H. Lowdermilk, 1901.

The Songs of Sappho. Washington, D.C.; Stormant & Jackson, 1891-1901.

Historian; University professor, college dean. Born– November 20, 1932, Louisville, Miss. Parents–James Tildon and Lillian Lee Haggard Eaves.  Married–Dorothy Ann Green, June 19, 1959. Children–one. Education– Mississippi State University, B.S., 1953; M.A.; Peabody College, M.A., 1957; University of Alabama, M.A.,  Ph,D., 1970. Taught at Dana Jr. High School in San Diego, 1956-1957; professor and Dean of Men at Clarke College, 1958-1962; professor at Birmingham-Southern College, 1962-1963; Auburn University, 1966-1982; Mississippi College, 1982-98. Member of the American and Southern Historical Associations, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Renaissance Society of America, and Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Associate of the Danforth Foundation.  Died April 10, 2016.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1982; obituary

Publication(s):

Henry VII’s Scottish Diplomacy, 1513-1524. New York; Exposition Press, 1971.

Henry VIII and James V’s Regency, 1524-1528. Latham, Md; University Press of America, 1987.

Biography;

Novelist.  Born– September 15, 1966, Atlanta.  Married; children–one.  Education:  Auburn University.  Worked as a college teacher, newspaper editor, and copy editor before becoming a freelance author of novels for young people.  Received the National Readers Choice Award for Major Crush; the Aspen Gold Award for Major Crush; the Aspen Gold Award, the Booksellers’ Best Award, and the Beacon Award for The One that I Want.

Sources;

Contemporary Authors online; Jennifer Echols website.

Publications;

Biggest Flirts.  NY: Simon Pulse, 2014.

The Boys Next Door.  NY: Simon Pulse Press, 2007.

Dirty Little Secret.  NY: Gallery Books, 2013.

The Ex Games.  NY: Simon Pulse Press, 2009.

Forget You.  NY: MTV Books, 2012.

Going Too Far.  NY: Pocket Books Press, 2009.

Levitating Las Vegas.  New York:  Pocket Books, 2013.

Love Story.  New York:  MTV Books, 2011.

Major Crush.  NY: Simon Pulse Press, 2006.

Most Likely to Succeed.  NY: Simon Pulse, 2014.

The One that I Want.  NY: Simon Pulse, 2012.

Perfect Couple.  NY: Simon Pulse, 2014.

Playing Dirty.  NY: Pocket Books, 2013.

Star Crossed.  NY: Pocket Books, 2013.

Such A Rush.  NY: MTV Books, 2012.

Coach, college president. Born– January 15, 1914. Parents– David Henry and Blanche (Planck) Edington. Married– Marguerite Hass, 1940. Children– Two. Education– Southwestern College at Memphis, A.B., 1934; University of Alabama, M.A., 1938. Coached at University Military School in Mobile, 1934-1936; Spring Hill College, 1936-1938; assistant to the president of Southwestern College (now Rhodes), 1938-1940; president of Schreiner Institute (now College), Kerrville, Tex., 1950-1971. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Received the Admiral’s Award, the President’s Citation, and the General Foch Medal of France. Awarded status of president emeritus on his retirement at Schreiner College, 1971. Awarded an honorary LL. D. by Austin College, 1951.  Died April 9, 1998.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online and files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

The Big Search. New York; Pageant Press, 1955.

The Campbells Are Coming.

The Gosfull.  Kerrville:  Herring Printing Co., 1985.

First Aid for the Soul. Herrville, Tex.; Herring Press, 1973.

Monkeying with the Flood.

Some Folks Wonder. Herrville, Tex.; Herring Press, 1972.

Upon This Rock. Herrville, Tex.; Herring Press, 1978.

The Word Made Fresh. 3 vols. Atlanta; John Knox, 1972-1976.

Presbyterian clergyman. Born– November 23, 1878, York, Sumter County, Al. Parents– William and Alice Frances (Morris) Edmonds. Married– Mary Armstrong Fleming, April 30, 1907. Children– Five. Education– Marengo Military Institute, Demopolis;  University of Tennessee, A.B., 1899; Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., B.D., 1907. Ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, 1907. Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Montgomery, 1907-1913; South Highland Church, Birmingham, 1913-1915;  founder and pastor of Independent Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, 1915-1942; Dean of Knowles Memorial Chapel, Rollins College, 1942-1947; pastor of Pilgrim Congregational Church, Birmingham, 1949-1952. Columnist for Birmingham Age-Herald, 1942-1960. Honorary degrees:  Cumberland University, LL.D., 1924; University of Alabama, 1924; Tusculum College, LL.D., 1936; Rollins College, (L.H.D., 1948).  Died July 7, 1960.

Sources:

Lankford, Charlotte, and Monroe, Marian. A Heritage of Witness; South Highland Presbyterian Church, 1888-1988.

Whiting, Marvin Yeomans.  The Bearing Day Is Not Gone;  The Seventy-fifth Anniversary History of Independent Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Alabama, 1915-1990.  Independent Presbyterian Church, 1990.

Marquis who’s who online

Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

About the Manger. Boston; Stratford, 1927.

Beginning the Day. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1932.

A Parson’s Notebook. Birmingham, Ala.; Elizabeth Agee’s Bookshelf, 1961.

Sermonettes and Prayers.  Birmingham: Dispatch Printing, 1916.

Studies in Power. Nashville; Cokesbury, 1931.

The Way, the Truth, the Life. Nashville; Cokesbury, 1936.

Papers;

The papers of Henry Morris Edmonds are held in the special collections department of the Birmingham Public Library.

Artist. Born– June 14, 1914, Clay County, Tenn. Parents– Champ Ferguson and Mary Ellen Donaldson Williams. Married– Thomas Edwards. Children– Two. Education– Tennessee Technical Institute. President of Athens P.T.A., 1950. Died May 21, 1977.

Source:

Jacket of The Lure and Lore of Limestone County; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

The Donaldsons of Middle Tennessee. Athens, Ala.; Edwards, 1972.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Lure and Lore of Limestone County. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1978.

Museum curator. Born– December 6, 1926, Magnolia. Parents– James Marvin and Alma (Shaddix) Anders. Married– Lawrence A. Edwards, June 28, 1952. Children– Two. Education– Jacksonville State University, A.B., 1947; University of Alabama, M.A., 1949; Louisiana State University. Worked for the University of Alabama, 1949-1952; University of North Carolina, 1952-1954; education curator at Magnolia Mound Plantation at Baton Rouge, 1980. Member of Phi Alpha Theta and Kappa Delta Pi.

Source:

Gwen A. Edwards, Baton Rouge, La.

Joint_Publication(s):

Magnolia Mound, a Louisiana River Plantation. Gretna, La.; Pelican Publishing Co., 1984.

Teacher; school administrator. Born– September 12, 1869, Snow Hill. Parents– Jackson and Martha Carmichael Edwards. Originally named Ulysses Grant Edwards; grandfather changed name to William James. Married–Susan Verdelle Johnson, May 17, 1900. Children–six. Education– Tuskegee Institute. Organized and operated Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute, in Wilcox County, which lasted from 1893-1972 and at one point had 400 students. Died March 4, 1950.

Source: Twenty-five Years in the Black Belt.

ancestry.com

Publication(s): Twenty-five Years in the Black Belt. Westport, Conn.; Negro Universities Press, 1970, c1918.

Biography:

Moonshiner. Born– February 25, 1928, Brent. Parents– Harvey A. and Pearl M. Holley Elam. Married– Barbara Jean Horton. Children– One. Married– Beatrice. Married– Mary Elizabeth Wallace. Married– Cammie Kathleen Johnson. Attended Bibb County High School; earned GED diploma while in prison. Served in U.S. Army, 1946-1947; U.S.Air Force, 3 years. Manufactured illegal whiskey. Incarcerated for a time at the Federal Prison Camp at Maxwell Air Force Base. Died November 1, 2004.

Source:

Moonshine ‘Till Dawn.

Publication(s):

Bloody Bibb. Brent, Ala.; Elam Enterprises, 1985.

Moonshine ‘Till Dawn. Brent: Elam Enterprises, 1977.

Attorney, seven-term U.S. Congressman. Born– December 20, 1913, Vina. Parents– George W. and Lenora (Massey) Elliott. Married– Jane Hamilton, June 3, 1940, Children– Four. Education– Graduated from Vina High School, 1930 (valedictorian of his class); University of Alabama, A.B., 1933. Graduated from UA Law School in 1936; admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1936.Practiced law in Russellville and Jasper, 1936; U.S. Commissioner, 1938-1939; recorder for the Jasper City Court, 1939-1942 and 1944-1946. Served in U.S. Army, 1942-1944.  U.S. House of Representatives, 1949-1965. Private practice of law, 1966-1990. Member or chairman of Veterans Affairs Committee, 1949-1951, Committee on Education and Labor, 1951-1960, Committee on House Administration, 1956-1960, Rules Committee, 1961-1965, Select Committee on Government Research, 1963-1965, Presidents’ Committee on Libraries, 1966-1968, Committee to Investigate the Administration of the State Technical Services Act, advisory board of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Instrumental in passage of the National Defense Education Act, 1958. Member of the American, Alabama, and Walker County Bar Association, Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Alpha Delta.  Elected to the Alabama Academy of Honor, 1977. Winner of the first John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, 1990.  The Carl Elliott Regional Library in Jasper was named in his honor.  Died January 9, 1999.

Source:

Encyclopedia of Alabama online; Who’s Who in American Politics, 1973-1974, and the files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

Annals of Northwest Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; s.n., 1958-1972.

Alabama Coal Miners. Jasper, Ala.; Northwest Alabama Publishing Co., 1977.

The Cost of Courage:  The Journey of an American Congressman.  Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 1992.

Herbert South (1913-1975), Marion County. Jasper, Ala.; Northwest Alabama Publishing Co., 1978.

Lester D. Williams, Jefferson County. Jasper, Ala.; Northwest Alabama Publishing Co., 1978.

Robert C. Bice, Jefferson County. Jasper, Ala.; Northwest Alabama Publishing Co., 1978

William M. Warren, St. Clair County. Jasper, Ala.; Northwest Alabama Publishing Co., 1979.

William T. Minor, Walker County. Jasper, Ala.; Northwest Alabama Publishing Co., 1977.

Woodie Roberts, Walker County. Jasper, Ala.; Northwest Alabama Publishing Co., 1979.

Papers:

The papers of Carl Eliott are held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.

Teacher, travel agent, Born– November 1, 1867, Newbern. Parents– Charner and Isabel (Vann) Wallis. Married– James Thomas Elliott, June 27, 1888. Children– Three. Education– Presbyterian College in Talladega; Normal College, Lebanon, Ohio. Taught in city schools of Talladega. Founded Elliott Tours, a successful travel agency. Founded the Elliott Museum, exhibiting items she had collected in her travels. Member and organizer of Talladega Women’s Chamber of Commerce. Helped to organize a school in Howell’s Cove Community; it was named Ida Academy in her honor.  Died August 14, 1961.

Source:

ancestry.com

Owen’s Story of Alabama, Vol. 4.

Publication(s):

Laugh and Let Laugh, by Grandma. Talladega, Ala.; Roberts & Son, 1900.

Let’s Go. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

Radio announcer and station executive; free-lance journalist. Born– August 12, 1927, Cordova. Parents– Green Smith and Jennie Dew (Pettus) Elliott. Married– Margaret Rose Knight, August 25, 1949. Education– Massey Business College in Birmingham; St. Bernard College in Cullman. Served at radio station WSGN in Birmingham; WKUL in Cullman; WJBB in Haleyville; WFMH in Cullman, WWWR in Russellville; all between 1948-1966; president and general manager of WJOL in Florence. Died October 1992.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. II.

Publication(s):

Transport to Disaster. New York; Holt, 1962.

Educator, writer, U.S. Steel employee. Born– April 18, 1902, Leeds.  Parents– James Barnett and Ida Lee (Vann) Elliott. Married– Laura Emily Bozeman, February 25, 1928. Children– Three. Education– Birmingham-Southern, B.S., 1926; University of Alabama, M.A., 1929; George Peabody College, 1937. Taught in Jefferson County Public Schools, 1926-1929; Boyles Grammar School in Tarrant, 1929-1937; Birmingham schools, 1937-1942. Worked in the pyrometry department, U.S. Steel in Fairfield, 1942-1966. Author of poems and short stories published in many periodicals and anthologies, including Oberfirst’s Anthology of Short Stories for 1955, 1958, 1959, and 1960. Member of the American Poetry League, American Poets Fellowship Society, Alabama Poetry Society, and the Alabama Writers Conclave.  Won many awards for his writing, including the first prize in the 1960  short story competition of the, New York Writers Guild, 1960; the Pence Prize of the American Poets Fellowship Society, 1967; four first place prizes by the Alabama Writers Conclave, 1967-1968. Awarded honorary degrees by the Free University of Asia (Karachi, Pakistan) and World University, Madras. Named fourth Poet Laureate of Alabama by Governor George Wallace, 1975-82.  Died October 22, 1997.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1976-1977; Who’s Who in Alabama, 1972-1973 and Alabama Public Library Service files.

Publication(s):

Sisu and His Children. S.l.; s.n., 1977.

Skylights; Poems of Inspiration and Devotion, Books 1-3. Birmingham, Ala.; Privately printed, 1951-1959.

Voices; the Universal Scene. Books 1 & 2. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1951-1954.

We Went Singing, and Other Alabama Inspired Poems. Huntsville, Ala.; W. Y. Elliott, 1981.

Wings for the Soul. Birmingham, Ala.; Author, 1969.

Updated 2011-8-11.

Biography;

Writer; professional poker player. Born– Tuscaloosa.  Married–Lex Harris.   Education–University of Colorado, B.A.; New York University, M.A., 1997. Lives in New York.  Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Best Book and the Southern Critics Circle Best Book of the Year, both for Eating the Cheshire Cat. Professional poker player on the national tournament circuit.

Sources;

Contemporary Authors online.

Publications;

American Housewife. Simon and Schuster,2016.

Eating the Cheshire Cat.  New York:  Scribners, 2000.

The Turning: What Curiosity Kills.  New York: Sourcebooks, 2010.

Biography;

Psychologist; university professor. Born September 14, 1924, St. Clair County.  Parents–Olin Ott and Willie Brock Ellis. Married–Mattie Katherine (Kay) Martin. Children–five. Education; Howard College, B.A., 1951; University of Alabama, M.A., 1953; Louisiana State University, Ph. D., 1957.  Taught at Peabody College of Education and Human Development; and at the University of Alabama, 1964-1991. Founded and edited the International Review of Research in Mental Retardation. Awarded emeritus status at the University of Alabama on his retirement in 1991. Received many professional awards, including the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award (1984) and the Outstanding Scholar Award (1986) at the University of Alabama, as well as an endowed scholarship named in his honor in the UA College of Arts and Sciences. Also awarded the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Award; the Edgar A. Doll Memorial Award; and others. An award-winning woodworker and furniture maker. Died September 17, 2018.

Sources;

Obituary, Tuscaloosa News, September 23, 2018.

Editor;

Aberrant Development in Infancy: Human and Animal Studies.  Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associated, 1975.

Handbook of Mental Deficiency:  Psychological Theory and Research.  N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1963; 2nd edition, 1979; rpt. 2016.

Mental Retardation:  Introduction and Personal Perspectives.  Columbus:  Charles E. Merrill, 1975.

Literary historian; professor of English. Born February 15, 1904, Centreville. Parents–John Tullis and Eva Lucille (Cooper) Ellison.  Education: Randolph-Macon Women’s College, B.A., 1925; Columbia University, M.A., 1929; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1945. Taught at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, 1930-1972. Served as Chairman of the  English Department at Huntingdon, 1959-1972. Member of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, National Council of Teachers of English, Modern Language Association, Alabama Historical Association, and Phi Beta Kappa. Received the Sulzby Award from the Alabama Historical Association in 1984 and the Award for the Best Non-fiction book by an Alabama Author from the Alabama Library Association, 1985, both for Bibb County.   The annual Ellison Writers Festival at Huntingdon College is named in her honor.  Died September 12, 2005.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 7th edition, and Alabama Public Library Service files.

Publication(s):

Bibb County, Alabama; the First Hundred Years, 1818-1919. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1984.

A Checklist of Alabama Imprints, 1807-1870. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1946.

Early Alabama Publications; a Study in Literary Interests. University, Ala.; University of Alabama, 1947.

History and Bibliography of Alabama Newspapers in the Nineteenth Century. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1954.

History of Huntingdon College, 1854-1954. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1954; rpt. Montgomery:  New South Books, 2004.

Story of Centreville United Methodist Church, 1889-1989. N.P., 1990.

Rabbi, lawyer. Born– May 20, 1938, Pittsburgh, Pa. Parents– Meyer David and Lillian (Werner) Elovitz. Married– Helen Arna Altheim, October 13, 1963. Children– Three. Education– New York University, B.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1973; Jewish Theological Seminary of America, M.H.L., 1962; Cumberland School of Law, J.D., 1977. Became a rabbi in 1964. Served as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force, 1964-1967; associate rabbi for a Jewish congregation in Cedarhurst, New York, 1967-1969; rabbi in Birmingham, 1970-1977; practiced law in Birmingham,  after 1977. Taught at Macalester College and University of Alabama in Birmingham. Served as associate editor of Cumberland Law Review; book editor for the Reconstructionist, 1975-1976. Member Association of Trial Lawyers; Birmingham Bar Association; Alabama Trial Lawyers Association; Rabbinical Assembly of America; American Association of Jewish Chaplains, Institute of Religion and Mental Health, New York Board of Rabbis, Birmingham Jewish Federation, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

A Century of Jewish Life in Dixie; the Birmingham Experience. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1974.

A History of the Jews of Birmingham; 1871-1971. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1973.

Like It Is. (pamphlet sermons) S.l.; Privately printed, 1970.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Right to Die; Medical Ethics, Law and Human Values. S.l.; Alabama Committee for Humanities and Public Policy, 1976.

Professor of English. Born March 1, 1921, Ripley, Tenn. Parents: O.B. and Lola (Bibb) Emerson. Education– Lambuth College, B.A., 1943; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1946; Ph.D., 1962. Taught English at Webb School, Bell Buckle, Tenn., 1944-45; Taught at the University of Alabama, 1946-1986.  A member of the Modern Language Association, American Dialect Society, National Council of Teachers of English, the Southern Literary Festival Association, the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, and Kappa Sigma.  Served as president of the Association of College English Teachers of Alabama and of the Alabama Council of English Teachers of the Alabama Education Association.  Received the University of Alabama Outstanding Professor Award in 1966 and the Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award of the National Alumni Association of the University in 1980.  On his retirement in 1986 the O. B. Emerson Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in his honor, funded by contributions of his colleagues and students.  Died November 11, 1990.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 7th edition; Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1969-70.

Obituary, Tuscaloosa News, 12 November 1990.

Arts and Sciences Collegian [newsletter of the UA School of Arts and Sciences], Spring 1991.

Publication(s):

Billy Budd and Typee; Notes. Lincoln, Neb.; Cliff’s Notes, 1968.

Faulkner’s Early Literary Reputation in America. Ann Arbor; UMI Research Press, 1984.

Pantosocracy; the Utopian Scheme of Southey and Coleridge. Nashville; Vanderbilt University, 1946.

Editor:

Alabama Prize Stories 1970. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1970.

Southern Literary Culture; a Bibliography of Masters’ and Doctors’ Theses. Rev. ed. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1979.

Papers;

A collection of the papers–largely correspondence–of O. B. Emerson is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.

Attorney, judge. Born– April 13, 1929, Albertville. Parents– Joseph Herman and Nanna Rose (McMullan) Emmet. Married– Elizabeth Thigpen, October 22, 1955. Children– Five. Married– Amy Hinson. Education– University of Alabama, J.D., 1955; J.D., 1956. U.S. Army, Korean War. Admitted to the bar in 1955 and practiced law until 1959. Served as judge of the Family Court of Montgomery, 1959-1963. Elected presiding judge of the Civil Division of the 15th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, 1963. Taught at Jones Law School, 1957-1960. Member of the American Legion, the Alabama and American Bar Associations, and the American Judicature Association. Elected president of Youth Legislature of Alabama; president of the Alabama Institute of Neurological Development, 1966-1969; president of Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Alabama, 1968-1973. Named an Outstanding Young Man of Alabama, 1962. Lived the latter part of his life in southern California. Died September 17, 2011.

Source:

Obituary

Who’s Who in America, 1978, and files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

I Hope “You” Like These. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1974.

Librarian. Born–February 27, 1880,  Dayton, Marengo County. Parents– William J. and Margaret (Jemison) Prowell. Education– East Lake Atheneum, Hollins College, Howard College, and Columbia University. Employed by the New York Public Library, 1905-1912; head of Reference Service at Birmingham Public Library, 1912-1949. Member of the Alabama Library Association, American Library Association, and Southeastern Library Association, League of American Penwomen, Alabama Association for the Blind, and the Birmingham Writers Club. Served as treasurer of the Alabama Library Association. Died February 12, 1949.

Source:

Obituary, Birmingham News, February 14, 1949.

Alabama Blue Book and Social Register, 1929, and Library Journal, March 15, 1949.

Editor_Compiler:

Bibliography of Alabama Authors. Birmingham, Ala.; Howard College, 1923.

Biography;

Woodworker; author.  Born; Mobile, 1952.  Married–deLancey. Children–two. Education; graduated from the University of South Alabama.  Has written articles published in journals, reviews, and anthologies, many on woodworking and restoration of old houses.

Sources;

Author information in Climbing Mt. Cheaha.

Publications;

Mobile’s Legal Legacy; Three Hundred Years of Law in the Port City.  Birmingham; Association Publishing Company, 2008.

A Parting Gift.  New York; Warner Books, 2000.

Attorney. Born– August 23, 1888, Uniontown. Parents– Carl and Sarah (Bernheim) Ernst, Married– (1)Susan Leerburger, 1912 (died 1922); (2) Margaret Samuels, March 1, 1923. Children– Three. Education– Williams College, B.A., 1909; New York Law School, J.D., 1912. Served as treasurer for shirt manufacturer in Brooklyn, 1911-1912; bookkeeper and salesman, 1911-1915, admitted to New York Bar, 1913. Founded and practiced law with firm Greenbaum, Wolff, and Ernst, 1915-1976, specializing in labor, tax, libel, and censorship cases, including the successful defense of James Joyce’s Ulysses and the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act. Held several government posts; special assistant to U.S. Attorney General; personal representative of Franklin Roosevelt abroad during World War II; member of Harry Truman’s Civil Rights Commission. a founding member of the National Civil Liberties Bureau, forerunner of the American Civil Liberties Union, American Political Science Association, American Bar Association, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Gamma Delta.  Named Lawyer of the Year, 1970, by the New York Bar Association; awarded the French Legion of Honor. Died May 21, 1976.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online and Current Biography, 1961.

Publication(s):

America’s Primer. New York; Putnam, 1931.

Back and Forth. Mount Vernon, N.Y.; Peter Pauper Press, 1969.

The Best is Yet …. New York; Harper, 1945.

The Comparative International Almanac. New York; Macmillan, 1967.

Confrontation; a Free Press in a Free Society. New York; New York School of Law, 1975.

The First Freedom. New York; Macmillan, 1946.

The Great Reversals. New York; Weybright and Talley, 1973.

Lawyers and What They Do. New York; F. Watts, 1965.

A Love Affair With The Law. New York; Macmillan, 1968.

Pandect of C.L.D. Mount Vernon, N.Y.; Peter Pauper Press, 1965.

Report of Morris L. Ernst (on Anthracite Coal Industry Commission) Submitted to the Governor of Pennsylvania, May 17, 1937. Harrisburg, Pa.; Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry Commission, 1937.

So Far, So Good. New York; Harper, 1948.

Too Big. Boston; Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1940.

Touch Wood; a Year’s Diary. New York; Atheneum, 1960.

The Ultimate Power. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937.

Untitled; the Diary of My 72nd Year. New York; Luce, 1962.

Utopia 1976. New York; Rinehart, 1955.

Joint_Publication(s):

American Sexual Behavior and the Kinsey Report. New York; Greystone, 1948.

Back and Forth.  Peter Pauper, 1949.

The Censor Marches On. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Doran, 1940.

Censored; the Private Life of the Movies. New York; Cape and Smith, 1930.

Censorship; the Search for the Obscene. New York; Macmillan, 1964.

For Better or Worse. New York; Harper, 1952.

Hold Your Tongue! New York; William Morrow, 1932.

How High Is Up? Indianapolis, Ind.; Bobbs, 1964.

The People Know Best. Washington, D.C.; Public Affairs Press, 1949.

Privacy; the Right to Be Let Alone. New York; Macmillan, 1962.

Report and Opinion in the Matter of Galindez. New York; s.n., 1958.

Report on the American Communist. New York; Holt, 1952.

The Taming of Technology. New York; Simon and Schuster, 1972.

To the Pure. New York; Viking, 1928.

United States of America, Libellant, Against One Book Entitled Ulysses…. New York; Ballou Press, 1933.

Editor:

The Teacher. Englewood Cliffs, N.Y.; Prentice-Hall, 1967.

Ulysses.  1942 [author of Foreword].  Modern Library, 1942.

Contributor:

The Sex Life of the Unmarried Adult. New York; Vanguard, 1934.

Papers:

The papers of Morris Leopold Ernst are held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin.

Music teacher. Born– August 14, 1895, LaFollette, Tenn. Parents– Cornelius and Callie (Turner) Gross. Married– Robert Hugh Ervin. Education– Tennessee College for Women, B.A., 1916; Chicago Musical College, Troy State University, M.S., 1958; attended George Peabody College. Taught at Tennessee College for Women; taught private music lessons in Troy, after 1941. Received the Phi Mu Alpha Orpheus Award; Ingalls Award for Excellence in Teaching. Member of Delta Kappa Gamma and the Federation of Music Clubs.  Died February 14, 1991.

Source:

One Way To Tell It.

Publication(s):

One Way To Tell It. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1982.

Educator; professor of education. Born-June 8, 1908, Wetumpka. Parents: Daniel Webster and Lula Jane (Boyd) Stephens. Married Edgar Earnest Evans, December 25, 1940. Education– Alabama State College, B.A., 1938; University of Michigan, M.A., 1945, and Ed.D., 1955.  Post doctoral study at Teachers College, Columbia University.  Taught at Marengo County Training School, 1928-30; in Shelby County, Alabama, 1939-46; in Waynesboro, Virginia, 1946-48. Professor, Head of the Department of Elementary Education,  and Director of the Early Childhood Education Center at Alabama State University, 1949-1972.  Served as president of the Alabama State Teachers Association and of the Alabama Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. A member of the  Alabama Advisory Committee on Early Childhood Education, and the American Association of Elementary-Kindergarten-Nursery Educators. Zelia Stephans Evans Education is an educational organization named in her honor. Died October 6, 1995.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, 1877-1977. Montgomery, Ala.; The Church, 1978.

A Study of Difficulties Encountered by Selected Student Teachers and Beginning Teachers, Elementary Division of Alabama State College, with Implications for the Teacher Education Program.  Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1955.

Tricks of the Trade for Teachers of Language Arts. New York; Exposition Press, 1974.

Historian; University professor. Born– December 10, 1920, Auburn. Parents– Edward and Mary Rebecca (Hopkins) Everett. Married– Mary Lou Malancon, September 4, 1949, Children– Two. Education– University of Florida, B.A., 1941; Tulane University, M.A., 1950; Ph.D., 1952. Served in U.S. Army Air Force, 1942-1945. Taught at Tulane University, 1952-1953; editorial assistant Mississippi Valley Historical Review; faculty of Trinity University, San Antonio, 1953-91; head of history department, 1966-91. Member of Organization of American Historians, Mississippi Valley Historical Association, and the Southwestern, Southern, Texas, and San Antonio Historical Associations.  Contributor to history journals.  Chair, Board of Editors, Trinity University Press; member Bexar County Historical Survey Commission. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement, 1991.  Died July 6, 2004.

Source:

Who’s Who in America, 1978, Directory of American Scholars, 7th and Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

San Antonio Legacy. San Antonio, Tex.; Trinity University Press, 1979.

San Antonio; the Flavor of Its Past. San Antonio, Tex.; Trinity University Press, 1975.

San Antonio’s Monte Vista:  Architecture and Society in a Gilded Age.  Maverick, 1999.

Trinity University; a Record of One Hundred Years. San Antonio, Tex.; Trinity University Press, 1968.

Editor:

Chaplain Davis and Hood’s Texas Brigade. San Antonio, Tex.; Principa Press of Trinity University, 1962.

Clergyman, editor; organization executive. Born– December 24, 1935, Birmingham. Parents– Findley Pratt and Frieda Mae (Traweek) Eversole. Married– Mary Ann Knox, June 8, 1958. Education– Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1956; Vanderbilt University, B.D., 1958; Union Graduate School, Ph. D., 1976.   Methodist clergyman; literary editor, Motive Magazine, 1959-1961; editor of Interseminarian and Communique, director of the interseminary movement for the National Student Christian Federation, 1961-1964; Senior Book Editor, National Council of Churches, 1964-65; Executive Director, Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, 1966-69; Founder and director, The Creative Society,  1969-72; 1977-84; 1997-. Art Professor, University of Central Florida, 1972-74; President, the Creative Age, Birmingham, 1991-97. Lectured and published journal articles. Member of American Society of Church History, Institute for Religious and Social Studies, American Society for Aesthetics, Pi Kappa Alpha, and Eta Sigma Phi.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; Contemporary Authors online

Author;

Art and Spiritual Formation: The Seven Stages of Death and Rebirth. Rochester, VT:  Inner Traditions, 2009.

Joint_Publication(s):

Our Christian Witness in the World of Struggle. S.l.; s.n., 1955.

Editor:

Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts. New York; Abingdon Press, 1962.

Energy Medicine Technologies. Inner Traditions, 2013.

Infinite Energy Technologies. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2012.

Biography:

Psychiatrist; professor of medicine.  Born– March 22, 1930, Mobile. Parents– William Zachary and Elberta (Gulledge) Fann. Married– Virginia Lee James, May 31, 1958. Children– Three. Education– Alabama Polytechnic Institute (Auburn), B.S., 1955; Medical College of Alabama, M.D., 1959. Served as chief resident in psychiatry, Medical College of Alabama, 1964-1965; assistant professor at Vanderbilt University Medical School, 1965-1971; Duke University Medical School, 1971-74; professor of pharmacology, Baylor University Medical School, after 1974; currently Professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology. Member of the American Psychiatric Association, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Gerontological Society, American Association of University Professors, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the New York Academy of Science.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Joint_Publication(s):

The Language of Mental Health. St. Louis; Mosby, 1973; 2nd edition, 1977.

Joint_Editor;

Drug Issues in Geropsychiatry. Baltimore; Williams and Wilkins, 1974.

Phenomenology and Treatment of Alcoholism. New York; Spectrum, 1980.

Phenomenology and Treatment of Anxiety. New York; Spectrum, 1979.

Phenomenology and Treatment of Depression. New York; Spectrum, 1977.

Phenomenology and Treatment of Psychophysiological Disorders. New York; Spectrum, 1981.

Phenomenology and Treatment of Psychosexual Disorders. New York; Spectrum, 1983.

Phenomenology and Treatment of Schizophrenia. Jamaica; Spectrum, 1978.

Psychopharmacolology and Aging.  Plenum, 1973.

Psychopharmacology of Aging. New York; Plenum, 1980.

Tardive Dyskinesia. New York; Spectrum, 1980.

Treatment of Psychopathology in the Aging. New York; Springer, 1982.

Historian; researcher. Born– September 12, 1897, Montgomery. Parents– James Hunter and Sallie (Dickinson) Farrish. Education– Princeton University, B.S., 1922; Harvard University, M.A., 1926; Ph.D., 1936. Served as assistant principal Choudrant Agricultural School, 1923-1924; taught at Westminister College, 1926-1937; Director of the Department of Research and Records of Colonial Williamsburg, 1937-44. General editor, Williamsburg Historical Studies; Member of the editorial board for William and Mary Quarterly. Member of the American Antiquarian Society. Died January 16. 1945.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online;  files at Alabama Public Library Service; Alabama pioneers website.

Publication(s):

The Circuit Rider Dismounts: A Social History of Southern Methodism, 1865-1900. Richmond, Va.; Dietz Press, 1938.

Editor:

The Present State of Virginia and the College. Charlottesville, Va.; Dominion Books, 1940.

Journal & Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian, 1773-1774; a Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion. Williamsburg, Va.; Colonial Williamsburg, 1943.

Historian; college professor, dean. Born– August 13, 1891, Anderson, Ind. Parents– Edgar William and Elizabeth Modlia Farmer. Education– Terre Haute Normal School (Indiana State University), B.S., 1917; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1922; Ph.D., 1927;  Taught in public schools in Madison County, Muncie and Crawfordsville, Ind.; Ball Teachers College, 1917-1927; Alabama State College for Women, 1927-1956, serving as head of the History Department, 1927-49; Dean of Social Science Division, 1949-56. Author of articles in various historical journals and other publications, including fifty entries in the Dictionary of American Biography. Served on the Montevallo Town Council, 1937-45. Active in political causes, including prison reform, legislative reform, women’s rights, the abolition of the poll tax, improved educational standards, and civil rights. Member of AAUW and served as national first vice president. One of the founders of the Alabama Historical Association, 1948.  One of the first class named to the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame, 1971.  Named Distinguished Alumni of Indiana State Teachers College, 1958; elected to Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame; Student Union Building, University of Montevallo, named for her. Iowa Wesleyan College, honorary LL.D. Died June 2, 1960.

Source:

Carolyn H. Edwards, Hallie Farmer, Crusader for Legislative Reform. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1979.

Elizabeth Schafer, “Hallie Farmer Ph.D.” in A Collection of Biographies of Women who Made a Difference in Alabama.  Ed. Miriam A. Toffel. Birmingham:  League of Women Voters of Alabama, 1995.  Pp. 49-58.

Publication(s):

The Legislative Process in Alabama. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama.  Published as a pamphlet series, 1944-47; combined into a book published 1949.

A Manual for Alabama Legislators.  1942.

Editor:

War Comes to Alabama. University, Ala.; Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1943.

Teacher, historian. Born– October 28, 1912, Troy. Parents– Matthew Dower and Sarah (Collier) Pace. Married– Curren A. Farmer, December 1, 1934. Children– Four. Education– Troy State College, B.S., 1932. Taught in the schools of Enterprise, Birmingham, and Brundidge.  Wrote a weekly historical column in the Troy Messenger.  Member of the Alabama and Southern Historical Associations and Delta Kappa Gamma; president of Alabama Historical Society, 1959-60.  Life member, American Association of University Women.  Helped to found the Pike County Pioneer Museum, the Pike County Historical Society, and the Pike County Public Library. Received an award for her work in local history from the American Association for State and Local History. Died January 19, 2007.

Source:

Library of Alabama Lives, 1961, Obituary, Pike County Messenger, January 2007, and Alabama Public Library Service files.

Publication(s):

Historical Highway Markers in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Historical Society, 1965.

History of Pike County, Alabama. Troy, Ala.; s.n., 1953.

One Hundred Fifty Years in Pike County, Alabama, 1821-1971. Anniston, Ala.; Higginbotham, 1973.

Record of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-65, Pike County, Alabama. Troy, Ala.; Pike County Civil War Centennial Commission, 1962.

Attorney. Born– March 18, 1920, Jones County, Miss. Married– Ramon L. Farnell, 1950. Children–three.  Education– Jones County Junior College; University of Alabama, 1942; Jackson Law School. Licensed to practice law in Mississippi, 1948. Worked in her husband’s law practice until 1952. Later worked for a law firm in Montgomery.  Member of the Alabama State Poetry Society; elected state president, 1976. Died September 11, 2008.

Source:

Alabama’s Distinguished, 1973-74.

Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

Dappled Sunshine. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1971.

Attorney, professor of law; law school dean. Born– July 15, 1863, Adrian, Mich. Parents– Thomas and Catherine (Chase) Farrah. Married– Eva A, Wilson, August 28, 1888. Children– One. Education– University of Michigan, LL.B., 1896; Cornell College, A.M., 1906. Served as superintendent of schools in Michigamme, Mich., 1889-1894; admitted to Michigan Bar in 1896 and practiced law in Ann Arbor and Battle Creek; taught law at the University of Michigan, 1897-1900; founding dean and professor of law, John B. Stetson University, 1900-1909; University of Florida, 1909-1912; founding dean at the University of Alabama Law School, 1913-1944. Chairman of the Alabama Board of Law Examiners. Member of the American and Alabama Bar Associations, Phi Delta Phi, and Phi Beta Kappa. Awarded honorary degrees by the University of Alabama (1924) and the University of Florida (1935). Farrah Hall, the former home of the law school at the University of Alabama, was named in his honor. Died June 29, 1944.

Source:

Addresses, papers, and letters.

Marquis who’s who online

Publication(s):

Albert John Farrah, 1863-1944; Addresses Papers and Letters. Montevallo, Ala.; s.n., 1946.

Cases on the Law of Husband and Wife. Ann Arbor; G. Wahr, 1900.

Papers;

The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama holds a collection of papers of Dean Albert John Farrah.

Business writer; journalist.  Born– February 25, 1915, Birmingham. Parents– Sam Cross and Mabel Elon (Canterbury) Farrar. Married–Marigrace Salyer.  Children– three. Education– Attended Birmingham-Southern College, and Emory University; Millsaps College, A.B., 1940. Secretary for the Corinth, Miss. Chamber of Commerce, 1940-1941; Johnson City, Tennessee Chamber of Commerce, 1941-1942; editor of Nation’s Business, 1942-1943; assistant to the Chairman of Republican National Committee, 1943-1944; correspondent for Gannett National Service, 1945-1946; free-lance writer after 1946; publisher of American Surveyor, Photogrammitrist, and Author and Journalist. Correspondent for several business journals. Died September 21, 1970.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Conflict of Interest. New York; Bartholomew House, 1970.

How to Make $18,000 a Year Free-Lance Writing. New York; Hawthorn, 1957.

The Sins of Sandra Shaw. New York; Signet Books, 1958.

Successful Writers and How They Work. New York; Hawthorn, 1959.

Washington Lowdown. New York; Signet Books, 1956.

Whatever Happened to the White Backlash? New York; Macfadden, 1965.

Joint_Publications;

America’s Fifty Foremost Business Leaders.  B.C. Forbes, 1947.

Attorney, judge, editor. Born– July 23, 1886, New York City. Parents– Max and Rachel (Haddas) Feidelson. Married– Adeline Brady Falk, November 15, 1916. Children– Three. Education– University of Georgia, A.B., 1906; LL.B., 1908. Admitted to the Georgia Bar, 1908. Practiced law in Savannah; judge of juvenile court, 1915-1919; editor of the Wilmington (N.C.) Star, 1919-1921; Richmond Dispatch, 1921-1922; journalism instructor at the College of William and Mary, 1922-1924; associate editor of the Birmingham Age-Herald, 1925-1935; regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, 1935-1941; associate editor and columnist for the Birmingham News, 1941-1948; taught history at Florence State College, 1948-1949; radio commentator; lecturer; special assistant to the Secretary of Labor, Washington. Died February 11, 1967.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online

Publication(s):

Plea for the Jew of Ghetto. Savannah, Ga.; s.n., 1910.

Biography;

Historian; university professor.  Born– May 30, 1962,Birmingham.  Parents– Brian and Julia Burgos Feldman. Married– Jeannie Reed.  Children–two.  Education–Birmingham-Southern, B.A. in political science and economics, 1983; Vanderbilt, M.A. in political science, 1986; Birmingham-Southern, B.S. in secondary education, 1989; Auburn, M.A.in history, 1992, Ph. D. in history, 1996.  Professor of history at UAB, 1996-2015; taught Economics and African American Studies ;  served as Director of the Center for Labor Education and Research.  Has published over 150 articles in professional journals.  Member Alabama Historical Association, Southern Historical Association, AAUP. Died October 19, 2015.

Source;

UAB website; obituary.

Publications;

The Disfranchisement Myth:  Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama.  University of Georgia Press, 2004.

From Demagogue to Dixiecrat:  Horace Wilkinson and the Politics of Race.  Lanham, Md:  University Press of America, 1995.

The Great Melding:  War, the Dixiecrat Rebellion, and the Southern Model for America’s New Conservatism.  University of Alabama Press, 2015.

The Irony of the Solid South:  Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944.  University of Alabama, 2013.

Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949.  University of Alabama, 1999.

Editor;

Before Brown:  Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South.  University of Alabama Press, 2004

Nation within a Nation:  The American South and the Federal Government.  University Press of Florida, 2014.

Painting Dixie Red:  When, where, why and how the South Became Republican.  University Press of Florida, 2011.

Politics and Religion in the White South.  University Press of Kentucky, 2005.

Reading Southern History:  Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations.  University of Alabama Press, 2001.

Joint_Editor;

History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South.  University of Alabama Press,

2006.

Biography;

Literary scholar; university professor. Born– February 7, 1944, Indianapolis, Ind. Parents– Robert and Dorothy Felgar. Married– Cynthia Sass, May 13, 1965. Children– Two. Education– Occidental College, B.A., 1966; Duke University, M.A., 1968; Ph.D., 1970. Taught at Duke, 1969-1970; Virginia Wesleyan College, 1970-1971; Jacksonville State University, 1971-.

Source:

Robert Felgar, III.

Jakcsonville State University website

Publication(s):

American Slavery:  A Historical Exploration of Literature.  Santa Barbara, CA:  Greenwood Press, 2014.

Historian’s Narrative of Frederick Douglass:  Reading Douglass’s Autobiography as Social and Cultural History.  Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2017.

Richard Wright. Boston; Twayne Publishers, 1980.

Student Companion to Richard Wright.  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press, 2000.

Understanding Richard Wright’s Black Boy: A Student Casebook.  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press, 1998.

Contributor:

Dictionary of the Black Theatre. Westport, Conn.; Greenwood Press, 1983.

4University professor of criminal justice.  Born– November 19, 1930, Dayton, Ohio.  Parents–Theodore and Mildred M. Felkenes. Married– Sandra Weeks Hartness, March 24, 1961. Education– University of Maryland, B.S., and J.D.; California State University at Long Beach, M.A., 1968; University of California at Berkeley, D.Crim., 1970. Served as an attorney and investigator for Federal Trade Commission, 1961; taught at California State University, 1971; professor of Criminology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1971-1977; Chair, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University; Dean of the School of Applied Arts and Sciences, California State University at Long Beach; Professor of Criminal Justice, Claremont Graduate School. Published articles in anthologies and professional journals; served as consultant to private and governmental agencies on criminal justice. Member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police; American Society of Criminology, Academy of Criminal Justice Service, California Peace Officers Association, and Phi Alpha Delta. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at Claremont Graduate School, 2002. Died March 14, 2016.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; obituary

Publication(s):

Constitutional Law for Criminal Justice. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1978.

The Criminal Justice Doctorate …. Chicago; Joint Commission on Criminology and Criminal Justice Education and Standards, 1980.

The Criminal Justice System: Its Functions and Personnel. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice Hall, 1973.

Criminal Law and Procedure: Texts and Cases. Englewood Cliff, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1975.

Effective Police Supervision. San Jose, Calif.; Justice Systems Development, 1977.

Michigan Criminal Justice Law Manual. St. Paul; West Pub. Co., 1982.

Rules of Evidence. Albany, N.Y.; Delmar Publishers, 1974.

Joint_Publication(s):

Law Enforcement; a Selected Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.; Scarecrow, 1968.

New Dimensions in Criminal Justice. Metuchen, N.J.; Scarecrow, 1968.

Police-Community Relations. Pacific Palisades, Calif.; Goodyear, 1974.

Joint_Compiler:

Police Patrol Operations; Purpose, Plans, Programs and Technology. Berkeley, Calif.; McCutchan Pub. Corp., 1972.

Joint_Editor;

Diversity, Affirmative Action, and Law Enforcement.  Thomas, 1992.

Writer; editor. Born– November 13, 1928, Tuscaloosa. Parents John J. and Gertrude McAlpine Fellows. Married– Gerald Strauss. Children– Two. Education– graduated from the University of Alabama, 1948 (student of Hudson Strode);  Columbia University, M.A. (history), 1951.  Worked as an editor for Simon and Schuster. Wrote several travel guides in the 1990’s. Awarded Eugene F. Saxon Fellowship for 1948-1949. Died 2016.

Source:

The Alabama Librarian, January, 1952, and Contemporary Authors, Vol. 9R.

Publication(s):

Frommer’s Europe.  New York:  MacMillan, 1997.

Laurel, a Novel. New York; Harcourt, 1950.

Music teacher. Born– September 4, 1904, Selma. Parents– John David and Annie Lee (Burke) Livingston. Married– Edward P. Fendley, June 12, 1924. Children– Two. Education– Athens College, 1920-1922; Detroit Institute of Musical Arts, 1922-1924. Taught in the public schools of Live Oak and Leesburg, Fla.; Grove Hill and Demopolis, Ala. Member of the Alabama Music Educators Association. Died November 4, 1987.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1970.

Publication(s):

38 Years of Fried Chicken. S.l.; s.n., s.d. (listed in biographic source only.)

Writer. Born– Wilcox County, March 8, 1865.  (Grew up in Mobile). Parents– William Stoddard and Laura (Sibley) McNeill.  Education: Irving Female Seminary, Mobile. Married– Ludolph Chester. Children– One. Married– Ledyard Scott. Children–one. Married– Ernest Fenollosa, December 28, 1895. Lived in Japan where her second husband, Ledyard Scott, held a consular post. Returned to U.S. and became secretary to Ernest Fenollosa, curator of Oriental art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; moved with him to Japan in 1897 and lived there for several years.  Published her first book in 1899; wrote poems and novels (some under the pen name Sidney MacCall). Several of her novels were extremely popular.   Published on Japanese art; completed her husband’s final work, Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art, after his death. Member of the Society of Dramatists and Composers, Writers’ Branch of Equal Suffrage, and the Pen and Ink Club. Died January 11, 1954.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online

Alabama Public Library Service files.

Publication(s):

Ariadne of Allan Water. Boston; Little, Brown, 1914.

Blossoms of a Japanese Garden. New York; Stokes, 1915.

The Breath of the Gods. Boston: Little, Brown, 1905.

Christopher Laird. New York; Dodd, Mead, 1919.

The Dragon Painter. Boston; Little, Brown, 1906.

Hirosige; the Artist of Mist, Snow and Rain. San Francisco; Vickery, Atkins & Torrey, 1901.

Out of the Nest; a Flight of Verses. Boston; Little, Brown, 1899.

Red Horse Hill. Boston; Little, Brown, 1909.

The Stirrup Latch. Boston; Little, Brown, 1915.

The Strange Woman. New York; Dodd, 1914.

Sunshine Beggars. Boston; Little, Brown, 1918.

Truth Dexter. Boston; Little, Brown, 1906.

Editor:

Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art. New York; Stokes, 1912.