Biography:

Farmer; historian. Born– September 1, 1859, Tuscaloosa. Parents– Patrick and Catherine (Boyle) Clinton. Married– Julia Watkins, January 7, 1892. Children– Three. Wrote historical sketches for the Alabama Historical Society and for Tuscaloosa newspapers for fifty years.  Died March 4, 1935.

Source:

Obituary, Tuscaloosa News, March 5, 1935; Moore’s History of Alabama, Vol. 3; files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; and the introduction to The Federal Invasion of Tuscaloosa, 1865.

Publication(s):

“The Closing Days of the War of Secession in Tuscaloosa” in the Federal Invasion of Tuscaloosa, 1895. Northport, Ala.; American Southern, 1965.

The Military Operations of Gen. John T. Croxton in West Alabama, 1965. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Historical Society, 1904.

A Century of Catholicity in Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; s.n., s.d.

Papers;

The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama holds a collection of the letters of Thomas Patrick Clinton.