Biography:

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

Source:

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

Publication(s):

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

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

It Could be Heaven. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1948.

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

The Signal of Promise. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1954.

These Are My Jewels. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1945.

Biography:

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

Source:

Owen’s The Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

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

Biography:

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

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Remedies and Rackets. New York; Norton, 1958.

The Segregationists. New York; Appleton, 1962.

Biography:

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

Source:

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

Publication(s):

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

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

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

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

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

Biography:

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

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

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

Blood Innocents. New York; Playboy Press, 1980.

Breakheart Hill.  New York:  Bantam, 1995.

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

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

The Cloud of Unknowing.  Orlando:  Harcourt, 2007.

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

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

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

Elena. Boston; Houghton, 1984.

Evidence of Blood. New York; Putnam, 1991.

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

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

Flesh and Blood. New York; Putnam, 1989.

Instruments of Night.  New York: Bantam, 1998.

The Interrogation.  New York;  Bantam, 2002.

Into the Web.  New York:  Bantam, 2004.

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

Master of the Delta.  Orlando:  Harcourt, 208.

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

Night Secrets. New York; Putnam, 1990.

The Orchids. Boston; Houghton, 1982.

Peril.  New York;  Bantam, 2004.

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

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

Red Leaves. Orlando:  Harcourt, 2005.

Sacrificial Ground. New York; Putnam, 1988.

Sandrine’s Case.  Mysterious Press, 2013.

Streets of Fire. New York; Putnam, 1989.

Tabernacle. Boston; Houghton, 1982.

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

Joint_Publications:

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

 

Biography;

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

Source;

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

Obituary, Eufaula Tribune, September 11, 2009.

Publications;

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

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

Editor_and_Joint-Author;

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography;

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

Source;

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

Publications;

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography:

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

Source:

David W. Coombs, Birmingham.

Joint_Publication(s):

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

Contributor:

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

Biography:

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

Source:

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

Publication(s):

Crossville. Chicago; Adams, 1965.

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

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

Lab Cop. London; Cooper, 1975.

Over My Shoulder. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1948.

Third Person Singular. Chicago; Adams Press, 1969.

Biography:

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

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

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

Biography:

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

Source:

Who’s Who in America, 1980-1981.

Publication(s):

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

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

Papers;

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

Biography:

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

Source:

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

Publication(s):

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joint_Publication(s):

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

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

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

Biography:

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

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joint_Publication(s):

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

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Biography:

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

Source:

Robert G. Corley, Birmingham.

Publication(s):

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

Joint_Publication(s):

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

Biography:

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

Source:

Anthology of Magazine Verse, 1926.

Publication(s):

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

Biography:

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

Source:

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement.

Publication(s):

A Corner of Today. Nashville; Broadman, 1969.

Joint_Publication(s):

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

Biography:

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

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

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

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

Biography:

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

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Piney Woods. New York; Vanguard Press, 1962.

Biography;

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

Source:

University of Alabama Press website.

Joint_Publications;

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

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

Biography; 

Attorney; writer. Born Atlanta, 1952.  Education– Birmingham-Southern, B.A.; University of Alabama Law School, 1978.  Practiced law in Alabama and Florida;  currently a senior attorney in the firm of Becker and Poliakoff, Ft. Walton Beach, FL.  Member of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association.  Received the George Garrett Fiction Award, 2003, for The Blessings of Hard-Used Angels. 

Sources;

Author profiles in Climbing Mt. Cheaha.

Publications;

The Blessings of Hard-Used Angels.  Huntsville, TX:  Texas Review Press.

Biography:

Educator; rehabilitation counselor; consultant. Born– March 20, 1937, Winfield, Marion County. Parents– Ferman Hill and Bertha (Milner) Couch. Married– Helen Gibbs Daniel, March 11, 1959. Children– Three. Education– Attended Florence State College (now University of North Alabama), 1955-1957; Alabama College at Montevallo (now the University of Montevallo), A.B., 1960, M.A.T., 1962; further study at New York University and the University of North Carolina; Auburn University, Ed.D., 1973. Taught at Montevallo High School, 1960-1962; supervised a rehabilitation research and demonstration project at the Darden Rehabilitation Center at Alabama School of Trades in Gadsden, 1962-1964; rehabilitation counselor in the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services at Montgomery, 1964-1967; employed at Auburn University after 1967,  as Coordinator of Rehabilitation Services, professor, and head of the Department of Rehabilitation and Special Education. Served as state and national president of the division for Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Association (a division of the National Rehabilitation Association.) Awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award in 1990; Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1992 Recipient of the the Alabama Society for Crippled Children and Adults Professional Award and the National Paul Hoffman Award of the Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Association. The College of Education at Auburn established the Robert H. Couch Award in his honor. Died December 2, 2013.

Source:

Sketch “About the Author” in Every Day is Easter in Alabama, Auburn University website, materials in the library at Jacksonville State University, obituary.

Publication(s):

Camp ASCCA-Easter Seals; Alabama’s Special Camp for Children and Adults; A Historical Sketch.  Auburn, Al: Couch, 1996.

Every Day is Easter in Alabama; the History of the Alabama Society for Crippled Children and Adults, 1926-1976. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1976.

Fifty-Five at Twenty-Five; the History of Winfield High School’s Class of 1955, 1942-1980. Auburn, Ala.; Author, 1980.

One Alabama Couch Family.  Auburn, Al;  R. H. Couch, 1981.

Rehabilitation Facility Attendance of the Disadvantaged; A Comparison of Tangible and Intangible Reinforcers.  Auburn University Dissertation, 1973.

Winfield Remembered.  Auburn, Al.; Couch and Elrod, 1991.

Joint_Publication(s):

(with Jack Hawkins). Out of Silence and Darkness; the History of Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, 1858-1983. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1983.

Biography:

Businessman; Newspaper columnist; local historian. Born– August 12, 1914, Phenix City. Parents– Harrison T. and Vera Coulter. Married– Barbara Mary Stewart, December 20, 1940. Children– Two. Military service:  U.S. Navy, World War II; awarded the Cross of Military Service. Official Russell County historian. Wrote column “Garden Tips” beginning in the 1930’s and beginning on June 13, 1968, wrote a column, “Good Old Days”, for the Phenix Citizen. Awarded the Alabama Award of Merit for historical preservation, and a Resolution of Commendation from the Alabama Legislature for his newspaper column. Died July 1, 1977.

Source:

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

Publication(s):

A People Courageous; a History of Phenix City, Alabama. Columbus, Ga.; Howard Printing Co., 1976.

Oral archives;

The Library at Columbus State University holds recorded oral history interviews with Harold S. Coulter, produced in 1974 by the Chattahooche Valley History Project.

Biography:

Educator; university president; attorney. Born– July 12, 1848, Fayetteville, N.C. Parents– William and Mary Jane Councill. Married– Maria H. Weeden, September 5, 1885.  Children–four. Education–attended one of the first schools established for African-Americans after the Civil War, in Stevenson, AL, 1865-1867; otherwise privately tutored and self-educated (studied Latin, mathematics, chemistry, and law). Ph. D. Morris Brown College.  First black attorney admitted to the Alabama bar, 1883 (but neber practiced law).   Began teaching in 1867; served as principal of Hunstville Colored School; as chief enrolling clerk for the Alabama House of Representatives, 1872-1874; as receiver for the general land office for the northern district of Alabama, 1875. Appointed principal of the newly created Alabama State Normal and Industrial School at Huntsville in 1875;  served as its president until his death in 1909.  Instrumental in the selection of the school as the black land-grant institution in Alabama under the Morrill Act of 1890, when it was renamed the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College. Founder and editor of weekly newspaper Huntsville Herald, 1877-1884.  An ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; founded St. John A. M.E. Church in Huntsville, 1885.   Died April 17, 1909.

Source:

Biographical Dictionary of American Educators, vol. 1; Dictionary of American Negro Biography (1982); Who Was Who in America online and Who Was Who in Alabama.

Publication(s):

Bright Side of the Southern Question. Speech Delivered at Corona, Ala., August 25, 1903. Huntsville, Ala.; Hay Printing Co., 1978.

Lamp of Wisdom; or, Race History Illuminated …. Nashville; Haley, 1898.

Negro Development in the South.  1901.

The Servant Problem in the South. Extracts from Speeches. Normal, Ala.; s.n., 1901.

Biography:

Writer. Born– November 19, 1911, Birmingham. Parents– John Saunders and Nettie Young (McCrory) Counselman. Married– Horace B. Vinyard, November 13, 1941.  Children– One. Education– Alabama College for Women for one year; University of Alabama for two summers; correspondence courses in journalism from the Newspaper Institute. Reporter for the Birmingham News; instructor in creative writing at Gadsden State Junior College and at the University of Alabama. Founder, publisher, and editor of Verity Publishing Company. Began writing at an early age; best-known story, “Three Marked Pennies,” was written at age fifteen.  Wrote more than four hundred poems and stories; 68 published in the Saturday Evening Post; contributed stories to Weird Tales, Ladies Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping. Many dramatized on television. Writings translated in at least eighteen languages.   Edited “Year at the Spring” magazine, 1977-80. Lecture at writers’ gatherings throughout the South.  Member American Penwomen and National Fantasy Fan Federation. Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, 1976-77.  Received an award from the National Fantasy Fan Federation for short story “Overture.” Died November 13, 1994.

Source:

Mrs. Horace Vinyard, Gadsden, Ala.

Publication(s):

African Yesterdays.  Gadsden, Al.:  Verity Publishing, 1975; revised edition, 1977.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Supernatural.  Verity, n.d.

The Eye and the Hand. S.l.; s.n., 1978.

The Face of Fear and other poems. Pensacola, Fla.; Edilon Press, 1984.

The Fifth Door.  Strange Books, 1982.

Half in Shadow.  Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1978.

Move Over–It’s Only Me.  Verity,, 1975.

Papers;

The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama holds a collection of the papers of Mary Elizabeth Counselman.

 

Biography:

Genealogist. Born– February 1, 1913, Huntsville. Parents– Claiborne T. and Mabel (Landers) Geron. Married– Jackson E. Countess, June 26, 1933. Children– Three. Education– Huntsville High School graduate, 1929; studied at the Nashville Conservatory of Music. Library assistant at Redstone Arsenal, 1951-55.  Member UDC and DAR.  Awarded second place in the Parker Genealogical Contest in 1971 for “They Passed This Way”.  Died March 30, 1975.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. 3.

Publication(s):

The Ancestry and Some of the Descendants of Theodorick Matthews Hereford, Sr. of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1961.

The Ancestry of Preston Yeatman of Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1960.

The Family of Charles McCartney of Madison County, Alabama, in Madison County by 1809. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1960.

The Family of Stephen Chambless of Madison County, Alabama, in Madison County by 1810. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1960.

The Family of Thomas Stewart of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 196-?

Joint_Publications;

They Passed This Way. Huntsville Ala.; s.n., 1969.

They Passed This Way, Errata (and Supplement). Huntsville, Ala.; s.n., 1969.

Through the Years:  A Study of the Geron, Geren, Garren Families.  Huntsville, 1967.

Biography:

 Psychotherapist; college instructor. Born– February 27, 1947, Repton. Parents– Fisher Burt and Doris (Knight) Covin. Married– June Nolin, August 21, 1971; married Charlotte Covin, June 13, 1981.  Children–two.  Education– Jefferson Davis Junior College, A.A, 1968; Troy State University, B.S., 1969; M.S., 1971; University of Alabama, Ed. Specialist, 1973, and Troy State University, 1972-1973, the University of Utah, 1974; University of Sarasota, Ed.D., 1975.  Alabama Baptist Children’s Home, 1969-71; Instructor of psychology at Troy State University, 1971-75; Instructor at Lomax Hannon Junior College, 1975-78., consulting psychologist and private therapist at the Center for Counseling and Human Development, Ozark, after 1981-. Member American Counseling Association, American association for Family and Marriage Counseling, Phi Delta Kappa, and other professional organizations in psychology and education.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; Marquis Who’s Who online.

Publication(s):

Basic Statistics for Educators. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1973.

Basic Statistics for Teachers. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1973.

The Psychological Case Study. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1974.

Editor:

Classroom Test Construction. New York; MSS Educational Pub., 1974.

Readings in Human Development. New York; MSS Educational Pub., 1974.

Readings in the Psychology of Early Childhood. New York; MSS Educational Pub., 1975.

Biography:

Genealogist; historical researcher. Born– June 7, 1925, Russellville, Ark. Parents– Edward E. and Mabel Louise (Cook) Matthews. Married– Eugene Guyland Cowart, June 24, 1946. Children– Two. Education– University of Alabama three years, Edited; Valley Leaves, the Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society Quarterly for two years; lecturer on Federal Land Records and genealogy. Member of the Board of Directors of the Alabama Archives and the Alabama Constitutional Village.  Awarded the Richard S. Lackey Memorial Award in 1983 by the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University. Died May 22, 2011.

Source:

Margaret M. Cowart, Huntsville, Ala.; obituary, Pensacola News-Journal, May 25, 2011.

Compiler:

Old Land Records of Colbert County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1985.

Old Land Records of Franklin County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1986.

Old Land Records of Jackson County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1980.

Old Land Records of Lawrence County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1991.

Old Land Records of Limestone County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1984.

Old Land Records of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1979.

Old Land Records of Marshall County.  Huntsville, Cowart, 1988.

Old Land Records of Morgan County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.; Cowart, 1981.

Biography:

Educator; professor of education. Born– January 7, 1890, Luverne. Parents– James Hausford and Mary Jane (Larkin) Cowart. Married Gladys Godbey, June 28, 1920. Education– Luverne and Goshen public schools,  Troy State Normal School (graduated 1910); University of Alabama, B.S., 1914;  Columbia University, M.A., 1921; additional graduate study at Columbia, the University of Michigan, and the University of Bristol (England). Served with the AEF in France, 1918-19. Taught in Andalusia 1910-1911, Castleberry 1911-1912; principal of New Decatur High School 1914-15; superintendent of Albany City Schools, 1915-25.  First full-time secretary of the Alabama Education Association, 1925-27. Professor of Education at the University of Alabama, 1927-60; Interim Dean, 1959-60. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, AEA, NEA, AAUP, Phi Delta Kappa and the Rotary Club.  Awarded the honorary LL. D. by the University of Alabama, 1960.  Died August 6, 1974.

Sources:

Brunson, Marion, and Cowart, Nancy. A History of Our Cowart Family.  Tuscaloosa, 1964.

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and at the University of Alabama Alumni Association.

Obituary, Alabama Alumni News, November-December 1974.

Publication(s):

A Citizen’s Catechism on the Public Schools of Alabama; Being a Compendium of Information in the Form of Eighty-six Questions and Answers. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Education Association, 1926.

Biography:

Teacher, university professor of education; educational consultant. Born– May 29, 1932, Ramer. Parents– Russell Fail and Sara (Mills) Cowles. Education– Troy State University, B.S., 1952, University of Alabama, M.A., 1958, Ph.D., 1962. Taught in Floyd Elementary School, Montgomery, from 1952-1959; served on the faculty of Rutgers University, 1962-97; , University of Georgia, 1966-67; University of South Carolina, 1967-73; at the School of Education, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1973-1990; Dean, 1980-87.  Consultant to many educational projects and institutions. Awarded professor emerita status at UAB on her retirement.  Member many professional education associations, including the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the U.S. National Committee of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, and the American Educational Research Association. Outstanding Public Educator Award from the Capstone College of Education Society at the University of Alabama, 1977.  Outstanding Alumna, Troy State University, 1984.  Early Childhood Education Leadership Award, South Carolina State University, 1992.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online.

Littleton, George. From Ramer to Rutgers. Montgomery: Donnell Group, 2013.

Publication(s):

Developmental Discipline. Birmingham, Ala.; Religious Education Press, 1982.

Early Childhood Education:  A Case for Kindergarten.  Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1969.

Joint_Publication(s):

Activity-oriented classrooms.  NEA, 1992.

Taming the Young Savage. Birmingham, Ala.; Development Press, 1980.

Editor_and_Contributor

Perspectives in the Education of Disadvantaged Children. Scranton, Pa.; International Textbook Co., 1967.

Contributor:

School Begins With Kindergarten. Columbia, S.C.; South Carolina Department of Education, 1978.

Joint_Producer;

“They All Learn:  The Story of a Sequential Program in Williamsburg, South Carolina.”  [Film]. 1969.

Biography:

Engineer. Born January 21, 1925– Roberts Community, Brewton. Parents– Orren G. and Bettie Herrington Cox. Married– Allene Moore, April 21, 1946.  Children– Five. Education– Auburn University, B.S. in Agricultural Engineering, 1949. Served with U.S. forces in Okinawa and Iwo Jima during World War II. Worked for a major chemical company in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Died February 15, 1977.

Source:

Montgomery Advertiser-Journal, February 11, 1968; Files at Auburn University Alumni Association.

Publication(s):

The Earth is Mine. New York; Exposition Press, 1968.

Biography:

Baptist clergyman; denominational historian. Born– October 28, 1888, Climax, Ga. Parents– Barkley Wade and Alice Louise (Brock) Cox. Married– Osye Lee Mathews, 1910. Children– Two. Education– Mercer University, B.A., 1914, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.D., 1918. Ordained; 1910. Student pastor; Georgia and Kentucky. Pastor; Barnesville, Savannah, Ga.; Portsmouth, Va.; Meridian, Miss.; Huntingdon, W.Va.; Mobile, Ala. (1931-1932). First Executive Secretary of the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.  Instrumental in getting 6.6 million pages of rare Baptist books, periodicals, and church records microfilmed.  Oversaw the publication of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, published in 1958.  Edited a Baptist paper in West Virginia and served as Associate Editor of the Quarterly Review, 1951-59.  Died February 9, 1968.

Source:

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1958.

Publication(s):

Dreams, Dungeons, Diadems; in New England, in Virginia, Today and Tomorrow. Nashville; s.n., 1954.

God and Ourselves. Nashville; Broadman, 1960.

We Southern Baptists. Nashville; Covention Press, 1961.

Youth’s Return to Faith. Philadelphia; Judson Press, 1938.

Editor;

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists.  Broadman Press, 1958.

 

Biography:

Sociologist; university professor. Born– August 25, 1901, Trinidad, British West Indies. Parents– William Raphael and Virginia (Austin) Cox. Moved to the U.S., 1919; became an American citizen,  July 14, 1926. Education– Northwestern University, B.S.L., 1928, University of Chicago, M.A., 1932; Ph.D. 1938. Professor; Wiley College, Marshall, Tex., 1938-1944; Tuskegee Institute, 1944-1949; Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo., 1949-1974; Wayne State University, 1970-74. Published many articles in professional journals. Member American Economics Association; American Sociological Association; National Education Association; Society for Social Research and other professional associations. Awarded LL.D. , Wiley College, 1945; George Washington Carver award in 1948 for Caste, Class, and Race. The American Sociological Association created the Oliver C. Cox Award for the best book in sociology;  George Washington University named a Scholarship Fund in his honor.  Died September 4, 1974.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; African-American Registry online; article “Oliver C. Cox: A Biographical Sketch of his Life and Work,” by Herbert M. Hunter; Phylon, vol. 44 (1983), 249-261.

Publication(s):

Capitalism and American Leadership. New York; Philosophical Library, 1962.

Capitalism as a System. New York; Monthly Review, 1964.

Caste, Class, and Race; a Study in Social Dynamics. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1948.

The Foundations of Capitalism. New York; Philosophical Library, 1959.

Jewish Self-Interest and Black Pluralism.  1974.

Origin of Direct-Action Protest Among Negroes. New York; Bell and Howell, 1973.

Race: A Study in Social Dynamics.  Monthly Review  Press, 2000.

Race Relations; Elements and Social Dynamics. Detroit; Wayne University Press, 1976.

Biography:

Priest, writer and editor. Born– March 23, 1873, Westpark Drum, Ireland. Parents– Owen and Margaret Laetitia (Durney) Coyle. Education–Mungret College, Limerick, Ireland, B.A., 1893, graduated from Collegio Americano del Nord in Rome, Italy. Ordained Roman Catholic priest in Rome, 1896. Assigned to the Cathedral Missions in Mobile and Baldwin County, 1896-1899; Rector of McGill Institute (School for Boys), 1899-1904. Pastor; St. Paul’s Church, Birmingham, 1904-1921. Appointed Dean of North Alabama, 1915. Published articles and poems in newspapers and magazines; founded district newsletter “The Catholic Monthly” and served as its editor.  Member Knights of Columbus.  Died (victim of a widely publicized murder), August 11, 1921.

Source:

Lovett, Rose Gibbons.  Centennial History of St. Paul’s Parish, Birmingham, Alabama, 1872-1972. Birmingham, 1972.

Various articles in The Birmingham News, August 12-15. 1921.

Publication(s):

Rosemary and Violets. Birmingham, Ala.; Dispatch Printing and Stationary Co., 1922.

Editor:

The Catholic Monthly.

Biography:

Teacher; journalist.  Born– August 31, 1855, Atlanta, Ga. Parents– Wiley Person Mangum and Hannah Page (MacIntyre) Cozart. Education– Florence Normal College, 1893; Cook County Normal, Chicago, 1893; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, 1901. Taught in public schools of Troy and Montgomery, Ala.; Aberdeen, Mississippi. Newspaper work: Montgomery Times from 1910-1913.  Active in several historical and patriotic organizations; historian of the Ladies’ Memorial Association of Montgomery; designed the monument erected by that organization on the battlefield site at Chickamauga.  Also served as the historian of the Sophie Bibb Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; wrote the words to the song “The Bonnie Flag,” which was adopted by the UDC for use by the Children of the Confederacy.  A member of the DAR, the Alabama Historical Society, and the Montgomery School Improvement Association.  Died February 4, 1939.

Source:

Obituary, Montgomery Advertiser, February 5, 1939.

Owen’s Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

“Sketch of Henry Hilliard” in Volume IV of Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society.  Montgomery, Ala.; The Society, 1904; reprinted as a separate volume by Forgotten Books, 2016..

(Song) “The Bonnie Flag.”

Biography:

Literary scholar; University professor and administrator. Born– October 28, 1938, New Orleans, La. Parents– French Hood, Jr. and Jane (Bland) Craddock. Education– Stephens College, A.A., 1957; Indiana University, B.A., 1959; Stanford University, M.A., 1960; Yale University, M.A., 1963; Yale University, Ph.D,, 1964. Taught at Alabama College, 1960-1961, Connecticut College, 1963-66,  and Goucher College, 1966-72; taught and served as Department Head, Boston University, 1972-1988; University of Florida, 1988-. Served on editorial boards of several journals and annuals. Member American Association of University Professors, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, The College English Association, and the Modern Language Association. Awarded; Woodrow Wilson fellowship, 1959-1960; Guggenheim fellowship, 1971-1972. Awarded status of professor emerita on her retirement.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Edward Gibbon, a Reference Guide. Boston; G. K. Hall, 1987.

Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian, 1772-1794. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins, 1989.

Young Edward Gibbon, Gentleman of Letters. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.

Editor:

English Essays of Edward Gibbon. Oxford, Eng.; Clarendon Press, 1972.

Contributor;

The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century.  University of Kansas Press, 1966.

Writers of the English Language.  St. Martin’s Press, 1979.

Biography:

Writer. Born– March 17, 1861, Jackson, Miss. Parents– James and Frances (Donnell) Barr. Married– Benjamin H. Craig. Children– Two. Education– Fair Lawn Institute, Jackson, Mississippi, 1879. Member; Ossian Club, a literary organization; secretary-treasurer; Scriblers, the first organized writers club in Alabama. Published several short stories, poems, and two books. Died January 20, 1930.

Source:

Owen’s The Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

The Contrast. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

Was She?; a Novel. New York; Neale Publishing Co., 1906.

Biography:

Newspaper editor, writer, civic leader. Born– April 14, 1852, Nashville, Tenn. Parents– James B. and Ellen Kirkman (Erwin) Craighead. Married– Lura Harris, December 12, 1878. Children– One. Education– University of Nashville, B.Litt., 1872.  Travelled and studied in Europe, 1872-77. Admitted to the Tennessee bar, 1876. Worked as an editor for New Orleans newspapers 1880-1882; editor of the Mobile Register, 1882-1926. Supported progressive causes; a  moderate on racial issues. An advocate for the city of Mobile; supported local cultural institutions such as the Mobile Symphony. Member Iberville Historical Society and Mobile Commercial Club; a trustee of the State Department of Archives and History.  Became editor emeritus in 1926. Awarded the honorary LL. D. by the University of Alabama in 1906. Died February 3, 1932.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online.

Publication(s):

Craighead’s Mobile.  Mobile:  Haunted Bookshop, 1968.

From Mobile’s Past. Mobile, Ala.; Powers Printing Co., 1925.

The Literary History of Mobile. Mobile, Ala.; s.n., 1914.

Mobile; Facts, Traditions, Noteworthy People and Events. Mobile, Ala.; Powers Printing Co., 1930.

Mobile, the Gulf City of Alabama. Mobile, Ala.; Mobile Board of Trade, 1883.

Biography:

Housewife, civic leader. Born– Nashville, Tenn., January 17, 1858.  Parents– William Hooper Harris and Virginia Martin Harris. Married– Erwin Craighead, December 12, 1878. 1878. One child. Education– Mary Sharpe College, Winchester, Tennessee; graduate of Patapsco Institute, Baltimore.  Moved to Mobile in 1882; became a leader in many civic and charitable organizations. Helped organize the Shakespeare Club and served as its president. Member of the Alabama Child Labor Committee, Alabama Child Welfare Committee, and Mobile County Juvenile Court Commission. President of the Board of the Benevolent Home for the Aged. Vice president of the Board for the Alabama Boys Industrial School. Member of women’s suffrage organizations. Officer of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs from 1895 until her death.  Died January 27, 1926.

Source:

History of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs; Moore, Albert Burton. History of Alabama and Her People, Vol. III, p. 528.

Publication(s):

History of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1895-1918. Vol. 1. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1936.

Lessons in Parliamentary Law, with Tables, …. Mobile, Ala.; Delchamps Printing Co., 1914 (2nd edition, 1925).

Biography:

Economist; University professor. Born– June 25, 1924, Dixon, Ill. Parents,; Ray C. and Rebecca (Levan) Cramer. Married– Hula Jeana Bond, August 30, 1946. Children– Three. Education– Bradley University, B.S., 1949; M.A., 1951; Louisiana State University, Ph.D., 1958. Served in U.S. Army, WWII. Taught at Louisiana State, 1953-1954; University of Texas, El Paso, 1955-1958; at the University of Alabama, 1958-1988.  Member Southern Economics Association and American Association of University Professors.  Elected to the University of Alabama College of Commerce and Business Administration Hall of Fame, 1997. Died September 4, 2015.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online; Library of Alabama Lives; obituary, Tuscaloosa News, September 6, 2015.

Joint_Publication(s):

Economics; Principles of Income, Prices, and Growth. New York; Macmillan, 1966.

Instructor’s Manual for Economics; Principles of Income, Prices, and Growth. New York; Macmillan, 1966.

Workbook and Study Guide to Accompany Economics; Principles of Income, Prices, and Growth. New York; Macmillan, 1960.

Biography:

Writer. Born– February 19, 1860, Montgomery. Parents– James R. and Mary (Smythe) Powell.  (James R. Powell was one of the founders of the City of Birmingham and its first elected mayor, 1873-75.) Education:  taught at home by her mother, formerly a teacher at St. Wilfrid’s Episcopal School in Marion.  Lived in Europe for several years; studied music and languages with tutors in Paris, Dresden. Returned to the U.S.  and lived in the Northeast; was living in New Jersey when the book was published in 1930.

Source:

Encyclopedia of Alabama (online).

The Life of James R. Powell.

Publication(s):

The Life of James R. Powell, and Early History of Alabama and Birmingham. Brooklyn, N.Y.; Braunworth & Co., 1930.

Biography:

Mining engineer. Born– February 5, 1870, Grafton, Mass. Parents– Richard Reed and Arethusa Thorndyke (Barret) Crane. Married– Margaret M. Gray, December 28, 1898. Children– Three. Education– University of Kansas, A.B., 1895; A.M., 1896; Columbia University, Ph.D. 1901. Engineer and professor with the University of Kansas. 1893-1905; at the School of Mines, Columbia Univ., 1905-08; Dean of the School of Mines, Pennsylvania State University, 1908-18;  Appointed superintendent of the Southern Mining Station, U.S. Bureau of Mines in Birmingham, Ala., 1921; supervising research engineer, U.S. Bureau of Mines until 1933. Consulting engineer in Oakland, California, after 1933. Died April 14, 1947.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; find a grave website

Publication(s):

Deposit of Manganese Ore in the Batesville District, Arkansas. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1922.

Gold and Silver; Comprising an Economic History of Mining in the United States, …. New York; John Wiley and Son, 1908.

Index of Mining Engineering Literature, …. New York; John Wiley, 1909.

Iron Ore (Hematite) Mining Practice in the Birmingham District, Alabama. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1926.

Ore Mining Methods, Comprising Descriptions of Methods of Support in Extaction of Ore, …. New York; John Wiley, 1910.

Report on the Manganese Deposits of Georgia (Second Report on Manganese). Atlanta; Index Printing Co., 1919.

Joint_Publication(s):

Special Report on Coal. Lawrence, Kan.; Kansas Geological Survey, 1898.

Contributor:

Manganese; Uses, Preparation, Mining Costs and the Production of Ferro-alloys. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1920.

Papers;

A small collection of the papers of Walter Richard Crane is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.

Biography:

Writer. Born– November 6, 1888, Ohio.  Parents– Truman H. Aldrich and Anna Monroe Morrison Aldrich. Married– William Charles Cravner, October 31, 1914. Lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Alexander City and Tuscaloosa. Died August 5, 1967.

Source:

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

Publication(s):

Zither of Many Strings. Asheville, N.C.; Stephens Press, 1949.

Biography:

Episcopal clergyman. Born– June 17, 1883, Atwood, Pa. Parents– David C. and Amanda Baker Cravner. Married– Marie Antoinette Aldrich, October 31, 1914. Ordained Episcopal clergyman, 1916. Served churches in New York, Florida, Paris, Geneva, North Carolina, and Alexander City. Died July 25, 1955.

Source:

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

 

Publication(s):

The Daystar at Midnight. New York; Vantage, 1962.

The Dreamer In Galilee. New York; Vantage, 1960.

The Faith Magnificent. New York; Vantage, 1961.

The Fruitful Bough. New York; Vantage, 1959.

God’s Heartbreak Hill. New York; Vantage, 1957.

God’s Ultimate Victory. New York; Vantage, 1964.

A Life In My Hands. New York; Vantage, 1957.

The Reality of the Unseen. New York; Vantage, 1959.

Thinking Samaritan. New York; Vantage, 1957.

The Third Day Comes. New York; Vantage, 1958.

Treasures of Darkness. New York; Vantage, 1957.

We Live In Two Worlds. New York; Vantage, 1958.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of William Charles Cravner is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.

Biography:

Writer; publisher. Born– Birmingham. Parents– Carl Lamar “Sale” Caddell, Sr. Married– William R. Crawford. Children– Three. Education– Samford University, University of Alabama Extension Center in Birmingham, and Auburn University. Lived in Vietnam for four years; worked as free-lance journalist for Stars and Stripes, Copley News Service, and other publications.  Founded the publication Military Living in 1968; built it into the country’s largest publisher of travel-related material for military families. Member National Military Wives Association; served as its director. Received the National Press Women’s Book Award for Nonfiction in 1967, for Customs and Cultures of Vietnam.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service; Military Living website

Publication(s):

Customs and Culture of Vietnam. Rutland, Vt.; C. E. Tuttle, 1966.

Military Living’s Temporary Military Lodging Around the World; Travel on Less Per Day–the Military Way. Arlington, Va.; Military Living Publications, 1981.

Joint_Publication(s):

Military Living’s Military Camping & Rec Areas Around the World. Arlington, Va.; Military Living Publication, 1983.

Military RV, Camping and Recreation Areas Around the World. Falls Church, Md.; Military Living, 1990.

U. S. Forces’ Travel and Transfer Guide. Falls Church, Md.; Military Living, 1989.

Biography:

Teacher; librarian. Born– December 3, 1911, Troy. Parents– Onis Austin and Magnolia Bay (Powell) Faulk. Married– William Samuel Crawford, August 5, 1933. Education– Troy State University, two years; George Peabody College, B.S., 1931; graduate study at Clemson University and Furman University; correspondence courses; University of Oklahoma in library science. Taught; Good Hope Elementary School, Troy; Georgiana High School. Analyst; Clemson College Extension Service and Tennessee Extension Service. Secretary for governmental bureau. Taught in South Carolina schools until 1967;  Librarian, Anderson County (SC) Schools until 1977.  Died February 10, 1997.

Source:

Annie F. Crawford, Troy, Ala.

Publication(s):

Shut Yo’ Mouth. Montgomery, Ala.; Pioneer Press, 1985.

See:

McLean, Carolyn Crawford

Biography:

Attorney.   Born–May 23, 1904, Montgomery. Parents– Hervey Files Sr. and Pauline (Smith) Crenshaw. Married– Gladys Sessions, December 26, 1945. Education– University of Alabama; Harvard Law School, 1926.  Attorney for State Board of Adjustments, 1935-1952. President of the Montgomery Bar Association. Vice president of Brown Printing Co. Died May 4, 1970.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Joint_Publication(s):

Scottsboro; the Firebrand of Communism. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Printing Co., 1936.

Biography:

Writer. Born– April 18, 1929, Montgomery. Parents– Jack and Catherine (Westcott) Crenshaw. Education– Vanderbilt University, B.A. 1951; University of Havana (Cuba), Parsons School of Design. Fashion industry, New York after 1958. Staff writer for Vogue magazine, 1959-1962. Fashion coordinator for Ohrbach’s, 1962-65; Fashion and beauty reporter for the New York Times, 1965-76. Head of Mary Ann Crenshaw and Associates public relations firm, Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Member Fashion Group Internationa;l, Cosemetics Executive Women, Authors League, and Authors Guild.

Source:

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

Publication(s):

The End of the Rainbow. New York; McMillan, 1981.

The Natural Way to Super Beauty. New York; McKay, 1974.

Prescription Junkie. New York; C. H. Potter, 1980.

Shape-Up for Super Sex. New York; Delacorte, 1977.

The Super Foods Diet. New York; MacMillan, 1983.

Joint_Publications;

DogSpeak:  How to Learn It, Speak It, and Use It to Have a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog.  New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1999.

 

Biography:

Housewife; civic leader. Born– November 6, 1878, Montgomery. Parents– Lester Chauncey and Annie Saunders Smith. Married– Hervey Files Crenshaw, December 26, 1900. Children– Three. Founder and president; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, the first fine arts museum in the state. Died December 11, 1956.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

From Then Until Now. S.l.; s.n., 1932.

Biography:

University professor. Born– August 3, 1930, Bellevue, Pa. Parents: Charles G. and Mollie Graham Crispens.  Married–Joan A. Crispens. Children– One. Education– Pennsylvania State University, B.S., 1953; Ohio State University, M.S., 1955; Washington State University, Ph.D., 1959. Professor; University of Maryland; University of  Alabama, Birmingham. Awarded; Lederle Medical Faculty Award, 1963. Died June 15, 1992.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 1979.

Publication(s):

Essentials of Medical Genetics. New York; Harper & Row, 1971.

Handbook on the Laboratory Mouse. Springfield, Ill.; C. C. Thomas, 1975.

Quails and Partridges of North America. Seattle; University of Washington Press, 1960.

The Vertebrates; Their Forms and Functions. Springfield, Ill.; C. C. Thomas, 1978.

Biography:

Attorney; political staff member. Born– October 11, 1946, Montgomery. Parents– Quentin Claiborne and Priscilla Tyler (Scott) Crommelin. Education– Rice University, B.A., 1966; University of Virginia, LL.B., 1969. Served in Vietnam. Served as Legislative aide to Senator James B. Allen, 1978 until Allen’s death in 1986. Worked for the National Congressional Club, 1986-87.  Chief counsel and staff director of the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Senate Judicial Committee 1979-1981. Served as legislative aide to Senators Harry Byrd, Strom Thurmond, and John East; Minority Counsel to Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 1987-88.  Returned to private law practice in DC, 1988. Member; American, New York, and Alabama Bar Association.

Source:

Alabama Magazine, August 1985 and  Congressional Staff Directory, 1983.

Joint_Publication(s):

Soviet Military Supremacy; the Untold Facts about the New Danger to America. S.l.; Authors, 1985.