Biography:

Methodist clergyman and denominational official. Born– September 9, 1886, Randolph County, Ark. Parents– Henry Akin and Ellen A. (Kirkpatrick) Clark. Married– Mary Alva Yarbrough, August 15, 1923. Education– Temple University, B.D., S.T.D., 1925; Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1926; George Peabody College for Teachers, M.A., 1927. Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1911; pastor of churches in Missouri, 1908-1917; Held various positions in editorial and mission work of Methodist Church; editor of the World Outlook, 1927-1952. Member Methodist Historical Association; World Methodist Council, International Methodist Historical Society. Honors– Recipient of gold medals from the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Brazil and the Methodist Church of Northern Europe; World Outlook Medal, Oslo, Norway; Florida Southern College, honorary LL.D., 1927; Southwestern University, Litt.D., 1940. Died August 30, 1966.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online and Marquis Who’s Who online

Publication(s):

An Album of Methodist History. New York; Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1952.

Arthur James Moore; World Evangelist. New York; Editorial Dept., Joint Section of Education and Cultivation, Board of Missions of the Methodist Church, 1960.

Captain W. W. Martin, Friend of Man. S.l.; s.n, 19-?

The Chiangs of China. New York; Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1943.

The Church and the World Parish. Nashville; Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1929.

The Church Efficiency Movement. S.l.; Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1915.

Francis Asbury, Prophet of the Long Road. Lake Junaluska, N.C.; United Methodist Church, Commission of Archives and History, 1976.

Healing Ourselves, the First Task of the Church in America. Nashville; Cokesbury Press, 1924.

The Last Journey of Francis Asbury. Greensboro, N.C.; North Carolina Christian Advocate, 197?

The Latin Immigrant in the South. Nashville; Cokesbury Press, 1924.

Methodism in Western North Carolina. S.l.; Western North Carolina Conference, Methodist Church, 1966.

The Methodist Evangel. Nashville; Association of Methodist Historical Societies, 1966.

The New Evangelism. S.l.; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1915.

The Psychology of Religious Awakening. New York; Macmillan, 1929.

The Rebirth of Protestantism in Europe. S.l.; General Sunday School Board, Department of Missionary Education, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1925.

The Small Sect in America. Nashville; Cokesbury Press, 1937.

Social Studies of the War. New York; Doran, 1919.

The Task Ahead; the Missionary Crisis of the Church. S.l.; Board of Missions, Centenary Commission, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1925.

Thy Kingdom Come, an Historical Study of Stewardship and Missions. Nashville; Cokesbury Press, 1925.

The Warm Heart of Wesley. New York; Association of Methodist Historical Societies, 1950.

What’s the Matter in China? S.l.; Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1927.

Joint_Publication(s):

Latin America, U.S.A. New York; Joint Division of Education and Cultivation, Board of Missions and Church Extension, the Methodist Church, 1942.

The World Methodist Movement. Nashville; The Upper Room, 1956.

Editor:

Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury. New York; Abingdon Press, 1958.

The Journal of the Reverend Jacob Lanius. S.l.; s.n., 1963.

The Missionary Imperative. Nashville; Cokesbury Press, 1929.

What Happened at Aldersgate. Methodist Publishing House, 1938.

Who’s Who in Methodism. Chicago; A. N. Marquis, 1952.

Joint_Editor:

The Book of Daily Devotion. Nashville; Cokesbury Press, 1932.

Compiler:

Talking Points on Christian Education. S.l.; Christian Education Commission, M.E. Church, South, 1920?

Biography:

Railroad and mining engineer. Born–  March 3, 1859, Providence, R.I. Parents– Charles and Ann Elizabeth Huntingdon Clark. Married– Rosalie Heustis. Children– Two. Education– Yale University. Worked for the New York and Lackawanna Railroad and for several other railroads before he came to Alabama to engineer the location of the Selma and Cahaba Valley Railroad in 1887; chief engineer of the East and West Railroad of Alabama; in 1890 moved to Birmingham and became engineer for Birmingham Realty company; served as general manager of Birmingham Traction Company, Birmingham Belt Railroad, and Frisco Systems; served as Jefferson County Engineer, 1915-1916; assistant geologist for the State of Alabama, 1921-1925. Died November 30, 1941.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

Mica Deposits of Alabama. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1921.

Rock Asphalts of Alabama and Their Use in Paving. University, Ala.; Alabama Geological Survey, 1925.

Biography:

College Administrator. Born– June 6, 1884, Hamilton. Parents– Henry Turner and Missouri Ann (Carpenter) Clark. Married– Lillie Pearce, 1911. Children– One. Education– Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1907; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1910; Harvard University, A.M., 1911; New York University, Ph.D., 1926; graduate work at Columbia, Michigan State and University of Chicago. Principal of schools in Union Springs, Nanafalia and Marion County; superintendent of schools in Linden; dean of Mercer University, 1929-41; president of Tennessee College for Women, 1942-46; head of the department of citizenship at Lincoln Memorial University, 1946-53; visiting professor at Austin Peay State College, 1953-1954. Served as vice president, then president of the Academic Deans Conference of the Southern Colleges and Universities; served as secretary, vice president and president of the Alabama History Teachers’ Association. Member of American Association of University Professors, Georgia Education Association, Georgia Society for Archaeology, and Kappa Delta Pi. Died January 21, 1983.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography and Marquis Who’s Who Online.

Publication(s):

Populism in Alabama. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn Publishing Co., 1927.

Contributor:

Dictionary of American History. New York; Scribner, 1940.

Sherwood, Adiel. Gazeteer of the State of Georgia. [Biographical sketch by John B. Clark, President Spright Dowell, Mercer University.] Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1939.

Biography:

Editor; journalist, author. Born– February 22, 1851, Camden. (Raised in Charlemont, Mass.) Parents– Edwin and Priscilla (Maxwell) Upson. Married– Edward Perkins Clark, January 1, 1874. Children– three. Education– Wheaton Female Seminary, Norton, Mass., 1869; Westfield Normal School, 1872. Taught in Cleveland, Ohio; edited the Springfield Republican and the New York Evening Post.  Contributed articles to various periodicals including Atlantic Monthly, Christian Herald,  Godey’s Lady’s Book, Harper’s Magazine.  Lectured on cultural, political, and literary subjects.  Spoke in support of women’s suffrage.  Trustee of Wheaton College.  Died February 17, 1935.

Source:

Owen’s Story of Alabama and Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors; Finding Aid to the Kate Upson Clark Papers, Five Colleges Archives and Manuscript Collections website.

Publication(s):

Art and Citizenship. New York; Eaton & Mains, 1907.

Bringing Up Boys. New York; Crowell, 1899.

The Dole Twins; or, Child Life in New England in 1807. Boston; Page, 1907.

Donald’s Good Hen; the Nearly True Story of a Real Hen. Salem, Mass.; S.E. Cassino & Son, 1905.

How Dexter Paid His Way. New York; Crowell, 1901.

Move Upward. New York; Crowell, 1902.

Prologue; Poems. Norton, Mass.; s.n. (handwritten manuscript), 1900.

Susan Hayes Ward; an Appreciation. New York; s.n. (manuscript), 1916.

Up the Witch Brook Road. New York; J. F. Taylor & Co., 1902.

White Butterflies. New York; J. F. Taylor & Co., 1900.

Papers;

The papers of Catherine Upson Clarke are held by the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College.

See:

Jackson, Jacquelyn Mary Johnson

Biography:

Historian. Born– January 1, 1915, Union Springs. Parents– John and Willella (Mays) Clarke. Married– Eugenia Evans, December 24, 1961. Children– Three. Married– Sybille Williams, 1997. Education– New York University, 1948-1952; New School for Social Research, 1956-1958. U.S. Army Air Force, WWII.Feature writer for the Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh, and for the Ghana Evening News, Accra, Ghana, 1957-1958; associate editor of Freedomways, a magazine, after 1962. Professor of African and Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, 1970-85.Consultant on black history and heritage to several publishers and a television network; lectured on these subjects for special programs at several universities, including Hunter College, Columbia University, Cornell University, and New York University. Contributed articles to Negro History Bulletin, Chicago Defender, Journal of Negro Education, Phylon, Presence Africaine, and other periodicals. Honors– Carter G. Woodson Award for excellence in teaching, 1958 and 1971; honorary degrees, University of Denver, 1970; University of the District of Columbia, 1992; Clarke-Atlanta University, 1993. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at Hunter College in 1985. Died July 16, 1998.

Source: Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

African People in World History.  Black Classic Press, 1993.

Africans at the Crossroads: Notes for an African World Revolution.  Africa World Press, 1991.

Black Americans, Immigrants Against Their Will. Atlanta; Atlanta University, 1974.

Black-White Alliances, 1970. S.l.; s.n., 197?

Christopher Columbus and the African Holocaust.  A & b Books, 1992.

Critical Lessons in Slavery and the Slavetrade.  Richmond:  Native Sun Publishers, 1996.

Dimensions of the Struggle Against Apartheid. New York; African Heritage Studies Association, 1979.

The Influence of African Cultural Continuity on the Slave Revolts in South America and in the Caribbean Islands. Atlanta; Atlanta University, 1974.

My Life in Search of Africa.  Chicago:  Third World Press, 1999.

Rebellion in Rhyme. Prairie City, Ill.; Decker Press, 1948.

Who Betrayed the African World Revolution? and other speeches.  Chicago:  Third World Press, 1995.

Joint_Publication;

New Dimensions in African History:  The London Lectures of Dr. Josef be-Jochannan and Dr. John Hendrik Clarke.  Africa World, 1996.

Editor:

American Negro Short Stories. New York; Hill & Wang, 1966.

Black American Short Stories, revised edition. Hill and Wang, 1993.

Black Families in the American Economy.  Education-Community Counselors Association, 1975.

Dimensions of the Struggle against Apartheid.  African Heritage Studies Association, 1979.

Harlem, a Community in Transition. New York; Citadel, 1965.

Harlem, U.S.A. Berlin; Seven Seas Books, 1964; revised ed., 1970.

Harlem:  Voices from the Soul of Black America.  New American Library, 1970.

Malcolm X, The Man and his Times. New York; Macmillan, 1969, rpt., 1990.

Pan-Africanism and the Liberation of Southern Africa. New York; African Heritage Studies Association, 1978.

William Styron’s Nat Turner. Boston; Beacon Press, 1968; rpt., 1987.

World’s Great Men of Color.  Macmillan, 1972.

Joint_Editor:

Black Titan:  W.E.B. DuBois. Boston; Beacon Press, 1970.

Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa. New York; Random House, 1974.

Slave Trade and Slavery. New York; Holt, 1970.

What’s it All About? New York; Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969.

Papers;

Papers of John Henrik Clarke are held by the New York Public Library

Biography:

Socialite; political hostess. Born– January 16, 1825, Nash County, N.C. Parents– Dr. Peyton Randolph and Ann (Arrington) Tunstall. Married– Clement Claiborne Clay, February 1, 1843. Married–Judge David Clopton, November 29, 1887. Education– Attended a private school in Tuscaloosa and graduated from the Nashville Female Academy in 1840. Clement Clay was elected to the U.S. Senate, 1853, and Mrs. Clay became a well-known figure in Washington, D.C. society. After the secession of Alabama, the Clays left Washington in January 1861. Clement Clay served in the Confederate Senate, 1861-63, and was appointed commissioner to Canada in 1864.  He was imprisoned for a year in  Fortress Monroe, Virginia, at the end of the war (1865-66) and was released through the efforts of his wife.  In the 1890’s Virginia Clay-Clopton became a pioneer advocate of woman suffrage in Alabama. Served as president of the Alabama Equal Rights Association from 1896 until 1900.  Active in the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Died January 23, 1915.

Source:

Notable American Women, Vol. 1 and Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.

Publication(s):

A Belle of the Fifties; Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905.

Biography:

Historian; University professor. Born– October 5, 1942, Summit, N.J. Grew up in Lima, Peru. Education– Duke University, B.A., 1964; Tulane University, M.A., 1969, Ph.D., 1972. Taught history and served as director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Alabama, 1972-2013. Chair, Department of History, 2000-2008.Member of the Conference of Latin American Historians and of the Latin American Studies Association. Contributed articles to periodicals, including the Hispanic American History Review and Journal of Latin American Studies. Wrote a weekly column on political affairs for the Tuscaloosa News. Awarded the status of professor emeritus on retirement in 2013.  Inducted into the Royal Order of Charles V, 2015.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Publication(s):

The Andean World. Arlington Heights, Ill.; Forum Press, 1984.

Bartolome’ de las Casas: A Biography.  Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Bartolome’ de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas.  Malden, MA, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship.  Denton:  University of Texas Press, 1990.

The Bolivarian Nations of Latin America. Arlington Heights, Ill.; Forum Press, 1984.

Caulkers and Carpenters in a New World; the Shipyards of Colonial Guayaquil. Athens, Ohio; Ohio University, Center for International Studies, 1980.

Estados Unidos el Peru, 1800-1995.  Lima:  Centro Peruano de Estudios internacionales, 1998.

Grace; W. R. Grace & Company, The Formative Years, 1850-1930. Ottawa, Ill.; Jameson Books, 1985.

Los Astilleros de Guayaquil Colonial. Guayaquil, Ecuador; Archive Historics Dee Guayas, 1978.

Los EE.UU. y el Peru, 1800-1995. Lima, CPEI, 1998.

Melting Pot Mayor:  William Russell Grace and the Election of 1880.  n.p., 1980.

Peru and the United States:  The Condor and the Eagle.  Athens;  UGA Press, 1999.

Joint Publications;

History of Modern Latin America..  Fort Worth, Texas; Harcourt Brace, 1999.

Editor;

Hispanic Experience in North America: Sources for Study in the United States.  Columbus, Ohio:  Ohio State University Press, 1992.

Contributor:

Dependency Unbends; Case Studies in Inter-American Relations. Carrollton, Ga.; West Georgia College, 1978.

Joint_Editor:

Alabama and the Borderlands, from Prehistory to Statehood. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1985.

The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to Northern America in 1539-43.  2 vols.  University of Alabama Press, 1993.

Biography:

Physician. Born–October 16, 1884, Newburg, Franklin County. Parents– Dr. William Wadkins Cleere and Eliza F. Cleere.  Married– Velma Moore (died 1922). Children–two. Married–Virginia Rawlings Temple, April 6, 1929..  Education– Vanderbilt Medical School, M.D. Served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War I. Practiced medicine in Franklin County for more than forty years. Died November 1969.

Source:

Hello, Hello, Hello, Doc.

Publication(s):

Hello, Hello, Hello, Doc; Amusing Recollection and Anecdotes of a Country Physician. New York; Exposition Press, 1958.

Biography:

Methodist clergyman. Born– February 17, 1913, Athens. Parents– Robert Mason and Cora (Holland) Clem. Married– Nelle Echols, August 5, 1936. Children– Three. Education– Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1937, where he was a member of the unbeaten, untied football team known as “the Southern Squad of 1934”; Emory University, B.D. Served pastorates in churches in Mountain Brook, Fayette, Talladega, Birmingham, and Huntsville; served as district superintendent of the Anniston District of the Methodist Church, 1959-1963. Active in the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church and a delegate to many local and regional conferences and to the World Methodist Conference in London in 1966 and in Dublin in  1976.  Member of the Board of Trustees of Carraway Hospital, Goodwill Industries, and Lake Junaluska Assembly Center, NC; lifetime trustee of Birmingham-Southern College.    Honors– Birmingham Southern, honorary D.D., 1955.  Died March 16, 1999.

Source:

Obituary, Birmingham News, March 18, 1999; Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. 2; and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publication(s):

Filing Your Sermon Ideas. New York; Abingdon Press, 1964.

Biography:

Teacher. Born– July 1, 1903, Millport. Parents– Andrew Alexander and Eudora Amanda Woolbright Alexander. Married– Luna Greene Clemmons, 1940. Education– Livingston State College; University of Alabama, B.Ed., 1947, and M.A., 1952. Taught at Gordo in Pickens County for several years.  Died July 10, 1986.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

Pictures of Silver. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1965.

Biography:

Clergyman, school administrator. Born– October 30, 1929, Chattanooga, Tenn. Parents– Ernest Allen and Mary Ellen (Fridell) Clevenger. Married– Glenda Willoughby, December 17, 1950. Children– Two. Education– David Lipscomb College, B.A., 1951; McKensie College, graduate study, 1953; Harding Graduate School of Bible and Religion, M.A., 1967; Alabama Christian College of Biblical Studies, B.Th., 1975. Became a minister of the Church of Christ, 1959; served pastorates in Russellville, 1957-1963, and Birmingham after 1963; professor of Bible at Alabama Christian School of Religion in Montgomery, 1968-1973; president of the Alabama Christian College of Biblical Studies in Birmingham after 1975; owner and manager of Parchment Press after 1963. Wrote a weekly column for the Ledger and Times (Murray, Ky.), 1954-1959, and under the pseudonym, Ben Rovin, for the Franklin County Times, 1958-1963. Member Southern Association of Marriage Counselors; American Schools of Oriental Research; Sons of the American Revolution. Honors– Berean Christian College and Seminary, honorary S.L.D., 1972. Died April 22, 2014.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

The Bible. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1968.

Bible Characters. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1970.

Bible Doctrine. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1967.

Bible Evidence. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1968.

Bible Geography. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1968.

The Church Ushers Guide. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1967. (Also published as The Art of Greeting and Seating, 1970).

Comprehensive Topical and Textual Lesson Commentary Index…. Russellville, Ala.; E. Clevenger, 1963.

A Condensed Harmony of the Gospels. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1964.

The History of God’s People. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1963.

History of the Bible Church. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1971.

Jesus of the Bible. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1965.

Leadership Training Course. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1964.

Men’s Leadership Training course. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1975.

Pocket Bible Ready Reference. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1965.

Psychology of Jesus. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1975.

Wisdom Books of the Bible. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1966.

Editor:

Bible Surveys. Birmingham, Ala.; Parchment Press, 1969.

See:

Miller, Dixie Lee

Biography:

Writer. Born– July 14, 1935, Birmingham. Parents– Charles Terry and Mildred (Vann) Cline. Married– Linda Street, October 23, 1959. Children– four. Married– Judith Richards, June 30, 1979.  Education– Florida State University, 1957. Has held a variety of positions in radio and television in the Southeastern United States. Owner of Colonial Educational Exhibits in Dothan, 1964-1969; executive director of Land Alive Foundation in Mobile, 1970-1972.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

The Attorney Conspiracy. New York; Arbor House, 1983.

Cross Current. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1981.

Damon. New York; Putnam, 1975.

Death Knell. New York; Putnam, 1979.

Mindreader. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1981.

Missing Persons. New York; Arbor House, 1981.

Prey. New York; New American Library, 1985.

Quarry. New York; New American Library, 1987.

Reaper. New York; D. I. Five, 1989.

Biography:

Writer. Born– February 11, 1941, New York City, N.Y. Parents– Eleanor Fellers. Married– C. Terry Cline, October 23, 1959. Children– Four. Education– Public Schools of Thomasville, Georgia. President and owner of Land Alive of America, Thomasville, Ga. Editor of Land Alive, 1969-1970. Co-author of “Switchwitch; a Children’s Musical Drama,” first produced at the Mobile Theatre Guild on February 20, 1974.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Miracle Season. New York; Berkeley Publishers, 1976.

Weakfoot. New York; Lothrop, 1975.

Contributor;

Too many voices:  A healing relationship, the recovery of self.  Coral Springs, FA: Llumina Publishing, 2005.

Biography:

Historian; high school history teacher. Born–January 9, 1898. Parents– Thomas Patrick and Julia Ann Watkins Clinton.  Married– Bernice Blackshere, May 29, 1938. Children– Two. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1920, M.A., 1942; further study at  Peabody College and the University of North Carolina. Taught at Tuscaloosa High School, 1920-1963, serving as athletic director for twenty five years. Served as president of the Tuscaloosa Historical Society and the Tuscaloosa Teachers Credit Union, and was a member of Alabama Education Association, National Education Association, and Alabama Historical Association. Honors– Recipient of the distinguished service award of the Alabama Council for Social Studies. Died July 30, 1977.

Source:

Tuscaloosa News, July 31, 1977; Who’s Who in Alabama; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Dedication; Tuscaloosa County Courthouse, 1964. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Weatherford Printing Co., 1964.

Historic Tuscaloosa; a Self-conducted Tour. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Tuscaloosa Retired Teachers Association, 1966.

Matt Clinton’s Scrapbook. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1979.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Its Early Days, 1816-1865. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Zonta Club, 1958.

Compiler_and_editor;

The Federal Invasion of Tuscaloosa, 1865.  Northport; American Southern, 1965.

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.

Biography:

Telephone operator; hotel manager. Born–December 12, 1908, Harpersville. Parents– James Simpson Newman and Jessie Married– Royal M. Coats, May 2, 1942. Children– One. with her husband, managed hotels in Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida. After Mr. Coats died she lived at Harpersville. Died May 29, 2001.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service and at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

The Old Rocking Chair. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1967.

Biography:

College instructor; telephone company employee. Born– June 25, 1944, Cullman. Parents– Buell E. and Kathryn (McDaniel) Cobb. Married– Mary Wilson Elliot, August, 1968. Education– University of Montevallo, B.A., 1966; graduate study in English, Auburn University. Taught at West Georgia College. Conducts shaped-note workshops all over the country. Articles appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and in Louisiana Studies.

Source:

Gene Geiger, Auburn University, and book jacket to The Sacred Harp.

Publication(s):

Like Cords around My Heart: A Sacred Harp Memoir.  Outskirts Publishing Company, 2013.

The Sacred Harp; a Tradition and Its Music. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1978.

Contributor;

In the Spirit:  Alabama’s Sacred Music Traditions.  Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1995.

Biography;

Writer; editor; college instructor.  Married–William Sledge Cobb, August 15, 1965.  Children–one.  Education– University of Montevallo, B.A.; Bread Loaf School of Writing, Vermont.  Founder and Director of the Harbert Writing Center at the University of Montevallo.  Author of many articles, columns, and profiles.  Awarded the status of Director Emeritus of the Harbert Center on her retirement.

Sources;

Author’s profiles in Climbing Mt. Cheaha:  Emerging Alabama Writers. 

Contemporary Authors online (entry for William Cobb).

Publications;

The Ocean Was Salt.  Livingston Press, 2003.

Biography:

Farmer. Born– About 1885. Parents– Hayes and Liza (Culver) Cobb. Married– Hannah Ramsey, 1906 (died 1950). Children– Nine; married–Josie Travis Todd.  An illiterate Black tenant farmer in Tallapoosa County. In 1932 he was involved in the Alabama Sharecroppers’ Union. In December of that same year he was involved in a shooting with a deputy sheriff who had been sent to foreclose on one of Cobb’s neighbors. Served twelve years in prison. In 1971, Theodore Rosengarten tape recorded Cobb telling his life story and published the autobiographical book on Cobb’s life as All God’s Dangers; the Life of Nate Shaw.  Received the National Book Award for general nonfiction, 1974. Died November 5, 1973.

Source:

All God’s Dangers.

Publication(s):

All God’s Dangers; the Life of Nate Shaw. New York; Knopf, 1974.

Biography:

Writer; University professor. Born– October 20, 1937, Eutaw; grew up in Demopolis. Parents– Sledge and Inez (Land) Cobb. Married– Loretta Douglas, August 15, 1965. Children– One. Education– Livingston State University, A.B., 1961; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1963.  Professor and writer in residence at the University of Montevallo, 1963-2000. Published short stories, plays, and novels.  fellowship in creative writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1970. Had short stories and essays published in many periodicals and anthologies. Has written several plays; three of these were produced off-Broadway in New York.  Received the Story of the Year Award from Story magazine in 1964; the Alabama Library Association Awards, 1998, 2000, and the Harper Lee Award from the Alabama Writers Forum in 2007.

Source:

William S. Cobb, Montevallo.

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Captain Billy’s Troopers: A Writer’s Life.  University of Alabama Press, 2015.

Coming of Age at the Y. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1984.

Harry Reunited.  Montgomery; Black Belt Press, 1995.

The Hermit King. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1986.

The Hermit King, and Five New Stories.  Livingston, AL: Livingston Press, 2005.

The Last Queen of the Gypsies.  Crane Hill, 2010.

Somewhere in All This Green; New and Selected Stories.  Black Belt Press, 1997.

A Spring of Souls.  Birmingham; Crane Hill, 1999.

Sweet Home:  Stories of Alabama.  SixFinger Publishing, 2013.

A Time to Reap.  Sarasota, FL: Sixfinger Publishing, 2013.

A Walk Through Fire. New York; Morrow, 1992.

Wings of Morning.  Birmingham; Crane Hill, 2001.

Plays:

At Home. A One-act play. Produced by Shelby County Community Theater, 1977.

Brighthope.  Produced Montevallo, 1985.

Early Rains; a Play. Montevallo, Ala.; W. Cobb, 1988.

A Place of Springs; a Play In Two Acts. Montevallo, Ala.; W. Cobb, 1987.

Recovery Room.  Produced New York, 1987.

Sunday’s Child; a Play In Two Acts. Montevallo, Ala.; W. Cobb, 1985.

The Vine and the Olive. Book and Lyrics to Musical Comedy. Produced at Livingston University, 1960.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of William Sledge Cobb is held by the library at Vanderbilt University.

Biography:

Leader in women’s work in Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Born– January 20, 1860, Bolivar, Tennessee. Parents– William Horton and Mary Janette Safford Thompson. Married– Daniel Boone Cobbs, a lawyer, January 20, 1890. Children– Two. Moved to Mobile in 1884 and lived there until 1937. Instrumental in the development of the Presbyterian Women’s Auxiliary.  Women’s page editor of the Gulf States Presbyterian, 1910-1914.  Died 1953.

Source:

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

Publication(s):

Presbyterian Women of the Synod of Alabama. Mobile, Ala.; Women’s Auxiliary of the Synod of Alabama, 1936.

Joint_Publication(s):

Around the Year in Mobile (1702-1924). Mobile, Ala.; Cobbs, Howard & Watkins, 1923.

Papers:

Papers of Aleathea Thompson Cobbs are included in the Safford Family Collection in the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia.

Biography:

Writer. Born– February 7, 1865, Selma. Parents– John M. and Mary Willis (Cobb) Johnson. Married– Hugh Hagan, October 26, 1887 (d. 1898). Children– Two. Married– Lucian H. Cocke, 1903. Education– Lucy Cobb Institute, a girls’ preparatory school in Athens, Georgia.  Wrote sketches and articles for magazines and newspapers, often under the name of “Mammy Phyllis’s Sketches.” Member DAR, Colonial Dames, Society of Southern Writers.  Died January 18, 1944.

Source:

Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors and  Woman’s Who’s Who of America, 1914-1918.

Publication(s):

Bypaths in Dixie. New York; E. P. Dutton, 1911.

The Master of the Hills. New York; E. P. Dutton. 1917.

Old Mammy Tales from Dixie Land. New York; E. P. Dutton, 1926.

Biography:

Writer; music teacher, composer.  Born– November 10, 1840, Marion, Ala. Parents– Woodson St. George and Mary Elizabeth (Binyon) Cocke. Education– Graduated from Judson College, 1856. Travelled and studied music in Europe. Beginning in 1869 she was for several years principal of the Music Department at Judson; director of the Music Department in the University of the Northwest in Lake Forest, Illinois for some time; then for three decades lived in Boston and taught music to students from Harvard College. Translator for Boston Public Library. Moved back to Alabama in 1918; lived in Mobile and Gadsden. Published essays, short stories, and poems in national periodicals; also composed songs and other musical compositions.  About 1915 her portrait was hung in the State House of Representatives in Montgomery as an expression of appreciation for her achievements as an Alabama author and musician.  Died December 3, 1929.

Source:

Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors; Woman’s Who’s Who of America, 1914-1915; Who Was Who in Alabama; and Musical Alabama, Vol. 1.

Publication(s):

Cherokee Rose and Other Southern Poems. Boston; R.G.Badger, 1907.

A Doric Reed. Boston; Copeland & Day, 1895.

The Mimosa Tree. S.l.; s.n. (manuscript), s.d.

When Grasshoppers Hop and Other Poems. S.l.; s.n., 1904.

Joint_Publications;

Lilly’s Girlhood, or Child and Woman.  Philadelphia:  E.S.Stuart, 1881.

Songs:

Farewell. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

Flow Down Cold Rivulet to the Sea. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

If I Had Thought Thou Coulds’t Have Died I Might Not Weep for Thee. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

Lullaby. Cincinnati; Louis H. Ross & Co.

Thou Has the Words of Eternal Life. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

To Whom! Oh Blessed Savior, Can We Go? Richmond, Va.; F. A. North & Co., s.d.

Waltz Song. Cincinnati; Root & Co., s.d.

Two Cradle Songs. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

What Baby Must Do. Cincinnati; Ross & Co., s.d.

Where the Sandman Gets His Sand. Cincinnati; Ross & Co., s.d.

Piano_Compositions;

Beau of Virginia. Cincinnati; Ross & Co., s.d.

Tyrolienne. Cincinnati; Ross & Co., s.d.

Papers;

Papers of Zitella Cocke are held by Bowling  Library at   Judson College, by the Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia, and the the Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Biography:

Writer. Born– March 15, 1909, Birmingham. Parents– George Summers and Lucy May (Bradford) Brown. Married– Francis Marion Cockrell, November 3, 1931. Children– One. Education– Attended Sophie Newcomb College, 1926-1929; Metropolitan Art School in New York City, 1929-1930. Wrote short stories, novels, screenplays, television scripts.  Died December 9, 1999.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Lillian Harley. New York; Harper, 1944.

The Misadventures of Bethany Price. New York; Times Books, 1979.

Mixed Blessings. New York; Times Books, 1978.

The Revolt of Sarah Perkins. New York; McKay. 1965.

Shadow Castle. New York; Whittlesey House, 1945.

Something Between. New York; Harper, 1946.

Yesterday’s Madness. New York; Harper, 1943.

Joint_Publication(s):

Dark Waters, a novel. Cleveland; World Publishing Co., 1944. (The same title was adapted to a screenplay.)

Professor, Beware! a screenplay. S.l.; s.n., 1937.

Biography;

Physician; medical school administrator.  Born– February 20, 1925, in Madison, Florida.  Parents– Wilmer Jesse Coggins and Audrey Walker Collins.  Married– Deborah Ferne Reed, April 16, 1949.  Children–five.  Education– Georgia Military Academy; Duke University, M.D., 1951; internship at Georgetown University Medical Center, 1951-52. residency in internal medicine, University of Florida, 1960-62.  Military service, World War II.  Private practice in Boca Grande and Madison, FL, 1954-1960; faculty member and administrator at the University of Florida, 1962-1980; Dean of the College of Community Health Sciences, University of Alabama, 1980-91. Served as a consultant to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Active in the Florida Medical Association and the American College Health Association (president, 1972-73).  Awarded the Ruth Boynton Award for distinguished service by the American College Health Association.  Designated a Laureate of American College of Physicians, Alabama Chapter.  Awarded the status of dean emeritus on his retirement from the College of Community Health Sciences in 1991. Died September 9, 2012.

Sources; 

Downey-Anderson, Charlotte, “The ‘Coggins Affair’:  Desegregation and Southern Mores in Madison County, Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 59 (1980), 464-72.

Marquis Who’s Who online.

Obituary, Tuscaloosa News, 12 September 2012.

Publications;

The Coggins Affair.  2005

Joint publications;

A Special Kind of Doctor:  The History of the College of Community  Health Sciences.  Tuscaloosa, AL:  College of Community Health Sciences, 2004.

Biography:

Writer. Born– June 26, 1891, Charleston, S.C. Parents– Octavus and Rebecca Ottolengui Cohen. Married– Inez Lopez of Bessemer. Children– One. Education– Graduated from Porter Military Academy, 1908; Clemson College, B.S., 1911. Between 1910 and 1912 he worked in the editorial departments of the Birmingham Ledger, the Charleston News and Courier, the Bayonne Times, and the Newark Morning Star; law clerk in his father’s law office, 1912-13; admitted to the South Carolina bar, 1913; practiced law in Charleston for two years. Between 1917 and his death he published 56 books, works that included humorous and detective novels, plays, and collections of short stories. Wrote successful Broadway plays and radio, film, and television scripts. Published hundreds of short stories and serials in the Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, and other popular magazines. Awarded the honorary Litt. D., 1927, by Birmingham Southern College, for his services to Southern literature.

Source:

Contemporary authors online;  Marquis Who’s Who online; bhamwiki

Publication(s):

Assorted Chocolates. New York; Dodd, 1922.

The Backstage Mystery. New York; D. Appleton, 1930.

Bigger and Blacker. Cincinnati; Little, 1926

Black to Nature. New York; D. Appleton, 1935.

Borrasca. New York; Macmillan, 1953.

A Bullet for My Love, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1950.

Cameos. New York; D. Appleton, 1932.

Carbon Copies. New York; D. Appleton, 1932.

Child of Evil. New York; D. Appleton, 1936.

Come Seven. New York; Dodd, 1920.

The Corpse That Walked. New York; Fawcett, 1950.

The Crimson Alibi. New York; Dodd, 1919.

Damaged Good. Philadelphia; Saturday Evening Post, 1925.

Danger in Paradise. New York; Macmillan, 1945.

Dangerous Lady, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1946.

Dark Days and Black Knights. New York; Dodd, 1923.

Detours. Cincinnati; Little, 1927.

Don’t Ever Love Me, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1946.

East of Broadway. New York; D. Appleton, 1938.

Epic Peters, Pullman Porter. New York; D. Appleton, s.d.

Florian Slappey Goes Abroad. Cincinnati; Little, 1928.

Gray Dusk. New York; Dodd, 1920.

Highly Colored. New York; Dodd, 1921.

I Love You Again. New York; D. Appleton, 1937.

The Iron Chalice. New York; Grossett & Dunlap, 1925.

Jim Hanvey, Detective. New York; Dodd, 1923.

Kid Tinsel. New York; Appleton Century, 1941.

Lady in Armor. New York; D. Appleton, 1941.

The Light Shines Through. Cincinnati; Little, 1928.

Lillies of the Alley. New York; D. Appleton, 1931.

Lost Lady. New York; Fawcett, 1951.

Love Can Be Dangerous, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1955.

Love Has No Alibi. New York; Macmillan, 1946.

The May Day Mystery. New York; D. Appleton, 1929.

Midnight. New York; Dodd, 1922.

More Beautiful Than Murder, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1948.

My Love Wears Black, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1947.

The Other Tomorrow. New York; D. Appleton, 1927.

The Outer Gate. Cincinnati; Little, 1927.

The Other Woman. New York; Macaulay, 1917.

Polished Ebony. New York; Dodd, 1919.

Romance in Crimson. New York; D. Appleton, 1940.

Romance in the First Degree; a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1943.

Scarlet Woman. New York; D. Appleton, 1934.

Scrambled Yeggs. New York; D. Appleton, 1934.

Six Seconds of Darkness. New York; Grossett & Dunlap, 1918.

Sounds of Revelry. New York; Macmillan, 1943.

Spring Tide. New York; Appleton, 1928.

Star of Earth. New York; D. Appleton, 1932.

Strange Honeymoon. New York; D. Appleton, 1939.

Sunclouds. New York; Dodd, 1924.

The Townsend Murder Mystery. New York; D. Appleton, 1933.

The Valley of Olympus. New York; D. Appleton, 1934.

With Benefit of Clergy. New York; D. Appleton, 1935.

Biography:

Steel executive. Born– March 14, 1897, Instanter, Pennsylvania. Parents–Amos Watson Colcord and Eva Bradford Colcord. Married–Elizabeth Peterson Philips, December 29, 1923.  Education–University of Michigan, 1921.  US Navy, WWI. Work as superintendent, Crucible Steel,, 1926-30; St. Louis Gas and Coke, 1930-33. Came to Birmingham in 1933 to work as superintendent of the blast furnaces of the Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron Company; from 1935 to 1937 he worked on the same job for the Woodward Iron Company; worked in Pennsylvania, 1936-48; President of Woodward Iron Company, 1948-57. Active in Birmingham civic affairs; a director of the Community Chest, the Committee of 100, and the Birmingham Civic Symphony. Member of professional organizations including the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Ordnance Association. Member Mayflower Society. the Newcomen Society, and the Alabama Historical Society.  Died August 16, 1953.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

The History of Pig Iron Manufacture in Alabama. Woodward, Ala.; Woodward Iron Company, 1950.

Biography:

College English instructor. Born– March 4, 1892. Montgomery. Parents– Charles A. and Virginia (Scott) Coleman. Education– University of Alabama, A.B.; Swarthmore College, M.A., 1923. Taught at Lanier High School, 1912-1918; head of the English department at Swarthmore College; taught in the English department at the University of Alabama, 1927-62. First female member of the faculty at the University of Alabama. Great-granddaughter of President John Tyler. Died July 1981.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service

Publication(s):

Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the American Scene, 1816-1889. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1955.

Theme Assignments and Models. University, Ala.; s.n., 1933.

Biography:

Attorney, banker. Born– November 13, 1894, Jasper. Parents– E. W. and Nancy (Shields) Coleman. Married– Gertrude Davidson, July 7, 1921 (died 1924). Married– May Steiner, April 28, 1928. Children–one. Married– Dorothy H. Morrow, July 14, 1970. Education– University of Alabama, LL.B., 1915. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1915.  U. S. Army, WWI.  Practiced law in Birmingham, 1920-1937; served as president of Birmingham Trust National Bank, 1937-1958. Director of the Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Served as president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 1941. Member American Bankers Association;  Newcomen Society. Died March 11, 1972.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publication(s):

Josiah Morris, 1818-1891; Montgomery Banker Whose Faith Built Birmingham. New York; Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1948.

Biography:

Linguist;  university professor. Born– June 10, 1904, Livingston. Parents– Wade Hampton and Lillian (Jackson) Coleman. Married– Margaret Pauline James, June 3, 1930. Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1925, M.A., 1927; graduate study at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at the University of Chicago. U.S.Navy, WWII.  Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Alabama after 1928. Received the Palmes Academique from the French government in the 1950s. Died May 30, 1973.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. 2, and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publications;

Verse Writing in Alabama.  University of Alabama, 1927.

Contributor;

Learning Aural-oral Spanish Skills by Television: A pilot study of the effectiveness of televised instruction in Foreign Languages. University of Alabama, 1960.

Biography:

Novelist, playwright, editor. Born– August 2, 1920, Bartow, Georgia. Parents– John Aldine and Delle Coleman. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1942. U.S. Navy, WWII.  Served as associate editor of Ladies Home Journal, 1947-50; Collier’s, 1951-55; Good Housekeeping, 1961-63; and McCall’s, 1964-72. Wrote novels and plays. Member Authors Guild and Authors League of America.  Died August 13, 1982.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Adams Way. New York; Dutton, 1953.

Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1973.

Clara. New York; Dutton, 1952.

Escape the Thunder. New York; Dutton, 1944.

The Golden Vanity, a Novel. New York; Macmillan, 1962.

King. New York; McGraw, 1967.

“—I Cat Hattie, and Kingdom Come,” a Burlesque Melodrama in Three Acts. University, Ala.; L. Raines, 1942.

Jolly’s Progress.  Play produced in New York City, 1959.

The Legacy of Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1980.

Look Away, Beulah Land; a Novel. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1977.

Mark.  Simon and Schuster, 1981.

Next of Kin. Play. Produced NY, 1955.

Orphan Jim, a Novel. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1975.

A Place for Polly.  Play produced in New York City, 1970.

Sam; a Novel. New York; D. McKay, 1959.

Ship’s Company. Cincinnati; Little, 1955.

The Sound of Spanish Voices. New York; Dutton, 1951.

The Southern Lady, a Novel. Cincinnati; Little, 1958.

Time Moving West. New York; Dutton, 1947.

A Warm Body.  Play produced in New York City, 1967.

“Wreath Without Laurel”; an Anti-war Fantasy. University, Ala.; L. Raines, 1940.

Biography:

Missionary. Born– May 3, 1888, Tilden, Dallas County. Married  Bertha Terry, 1919.  Children– three. Education– Snow Hill Industrial and Normal School; Talladega College, A.B., 1922. Spent a year in language study in Portugal; additional study at several universities including Cornell, Howard, Pratt Institute, and the Barrow School of Pottery.  Spent a year and half laying steel rails, five years in a logging camp handling oxen, four years in dairying, and three years as a blacksmith. Served in the Military during World War I. Beginning in 1923, spent thirty years as a missionary  at the Galangue Mission in Angola, Portuguese West Africa, for the American Board of Congregational Christian Churches. His efforts increased the agricultural knowledge of people in several areas of Africa. Died March 9, 1957.

Source:

Preacher With a Plow; biographical note to the Samuel B. Coles Collection at the Amistad Research Center.

Publication(s):

Preacher With a Plow. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Samuel B. Coles is held by the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University; some of his papers are found in the MacDowell Collection in the Savery Library at Talladega College.

Biography:

Baptist clergyman; superintendent of children’s home. Born April 3, 1875, Coosa County.  Parents– Jesse Allen Colley and Frances Akin Colley.  Married Berta Hitchcock, May 9, 1907. Children– Six. Education– Howard College; Southern Baptist Seminary. Served as pastor of several Baptist churches including ones at Enterprise. Superintendent of Alabama Baptist Children’s Home at Troy, 1922-1942.  Named superintendent emeritus on his retirement in 1942.  Died November 27, 1957.

Source:

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

Joint_Publication(s):

The Story of Alabama Baptist Children’s Home. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1945-1955.

Biography:

Journalist;  information officer. Born–Montgomery, December 22, 1888.  Parents–William A. And Annie Hartean Collier.  Married–Frances Loretta Martin, December 10, 1913.  Children–one. Education– Auburn University, B.A., 1907, M.A., 1911. On staff of the Selma Times Journal, Montgomery Advertiser, Atlanta Georgian, New York American, Chicago Herald Examiner, Chicago American, and Louisville Courier Journal.  Wrote for the Atlanta Constitution under the pen name “Georgia O’Keefe.” Taught for two years at Auburn University; lecturer in political science and public affairs at Emory University. Assistant Director of Information for the regional office for the Farm Security Administration in Montgomery. Published short stories in popular pulp and story magazines.  Died June, 4, 1970.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; “Writers of Weird Tales” website; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Fire in the Sky. Boston, 1941.

Georgia Penal System. Atlanta, 1938.

Penal System:  A Reflection of Our Lives and Our Customs. Atlanta, 1940.

Biography:

Attorney; specialist in banking law. Born– April 4, 1879, Callion. Parents– Robert Wood and Ann Bates (Allen) Collins. Married– Sue Steele Spencer, July 12, 1933. Education– Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1899; University of Chicago, Ph.B., 1908, A.M., 1909; studied at Harvard University, 1910-1911. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1901; admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, 1917; practiced law in Birmingham, 1901-1906. Librarian at the Haskell Oriental Museum, University of Chicago, 1909-1910. Worked in several capacities for the federal government, including  librarian at the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court; General Counsel to  the Bureau of the Budget at the Treasury Department.  Left government service in 1927 and returned to private practice; retired 1947.  Member Maryland Historical Society, American Farm Bureau, National Press Club. Died December 14, 1964.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; University of Maryland website

Publication(s):

Branch Banking Question. New York; Macmillan, 1926.

Fourteenth Amendment and the States. Boston; Little Brown, 1912.

Investment Securities Legal for National Banks; Opinions of …. Washington, D.C.; Babson & Jacobs, 1927.

National Budget System. New York; Macmillan, 1917.

Plan for National Budget System. House Document 1006, 65th Congress, 1918.

The Race Integration Cases. Birmingham, Ala.; American States Right Association, 1954.

Rural Banking Reform. New York; Macmillan, 1931.

Whither Solid South. New York; Pelican, 1948.

Papers:

The papers of Charles Wallace Collins and his wife Sue Spencer Collins are held by the Archives Department at the University of Maryland.

Biography:

Anthropologist specializing in Eskimo prehistory. Born– April 9, 1899, Geneva. Parents– Henry Bascom and Anna Sophie (Neville) Collins. Married– Carolyn Walker, November 26, 1931. Children– One. Education– Millsaps College, A.B., 1922; George Washington University, A.M., 1925. Worked with National Geographic Society,1922; and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1923-24; worked at the Smithsonian Institution, 1924-1967; began as an aide in the Division of Ethnology and retired as Senior scientist  in the Office of Anthropology. Led many Smithsonian and National Geographic expeditions to various parts of the world. Founding member of the Arctic Institute of North America; active in the International Congress of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences; member Anthropological Society of Washington and the Society for American Archaelogy.  Received a gold medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 1936; awarded the honorary Sc. D. by Millsaps College, 1940. Died October 21, 1987.

Source:

Smithsonian website; Encyclopedia Arctica (online; Dartmouth College Library).

Publication(s):

Archaeology of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, 1937.

Arctic Area. Mexico; Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia, 1954.

Excavations at a Prehistoric Indian Village Site in Mississippi. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1932.

The Origin and Antiquity of the Eskimo. Washington, D.C.; U. S. Government Printing Office, 1951.

Prehistoric Art of the Alaskan Eskimo. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, 1929.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Aleutian Islands; Their People and Natural History. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution, 1945.

The Far North; 2000 Years of American Eskimo and Indian Art. Washington, D.C.; National Gallery of Art, 1973.

Inua; Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.

Editor:

Science in Alaska. S.l.; Arctic Institute of North America, 1950.

Papers;

Specimens and photos related to the work of Henry Bascom Collins, including several tapes of oral history, are held by the Archives Department of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

Biography:

Teacher; educational innovator. Born– August 31, 1936, Monroeville. Parents– Alex L. and Bessis Maye (Knight) Nettles. Married– Clarence Collins, September 2, 1961. Children– Three. Education– Clark College in Atlanta, B.A., 1957; attended Chicago Teachers College and Columbia College, 1965-1967. Taught at Monroeville, 1957-1959; taught in the Chicago Public Schools, 1960-1975. Founded the Westside Prep School in the Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, 1975, and operated it 1975-2008. Operated Marva Collins Seminars, conducting workshops on educational methods, after 2008.  Member of the International Platform Association, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and the Baptist Church. Member of many professional organizations and boards.  Awarded honorary degrees by Howard University, Wilberforce University, Dartmouth College, and Amherst College and was the subject of the film, “The Marva Collins Story”. Received the Educator of the Year Award, 1981; the Jefferson Award for the Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, 1981; named a “Legendary Woman of the World” by the City of Birmingham, 1982; awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bush, 2004. Died June 28, 2015.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1983; obituary, New York Times, June 28, 2015.

Publication(s):

Black Education and the Inner City.  Washington:  Lincoln Institute for Research and Education, 1981.

Guilty on all Counts.  Norfolk, VA: Hampton Roads, 2000.

The Marva Collins Method: A Manual for Educating and Motivating Your Child.  Chicago:  Westside Preparatory School, 1989.

Marva Collins’ Way. Boston; Houghton, 1982.

Ordinary Children,  Extraordinary Teachers.  Hampton Roads, 1992.

Values: Lighting the Candle of Excellence: A Practical Guide for the Family. Los Angeles:  Dove Books, 1996

Biography:

Psychologist. Born– Guntersville. Parents–  Willard and Eunice (Hunt) Collins. Married– Carolyn Strom, 1966. Children– Two. Education– Guntersville High School, 1963;  Samford University, B.A.; Stanford University, M.A, Ph.D., 1971.  Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Child Development and Psychology at the University of Minnesota, 1971- ; director of the Institute of Child Development at the University. Principal investigator of the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.  Published many articles in professional journals. Editor, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.  Fellow, American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society; member,  Society for Research on Adolescent Development; president, 2000-2002.  Received the Distinguished Research Award from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, 2009; and several other professional awards and grants.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service; W. Andrew Collins website.

Publication(s):

Developmental Aspects of Understanding and Evaluating Television Content. Washington, D.C.; Educational Resources Information Center, 1973?

Joint_Publication(s):

Adolescent Psychology; a Developmental View. Reading, Mass.; Addison-Wesley, 1984.

Relationship Pathways: From Adolescence to Young Adulthood. Sage, 2012.

Editor;

Relationships as Developmental Contexts.  University of Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, 1996.

Biography:

Poet, chemist, bookstore owner. Born– September 25, 1924, Riverview. Parents– Elisha Trammell and LaFaye (Hunt) Combs. Education– Attended the University of Washington, 1943-1944; attended the University of Chicago, 1945; University of California, A.B., 1948; further study at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meteorologist in the U.S. Air Force, 1943-1946; chemist with Tidewater-Associated Oil Company, 1948-1951; photography studio owner and manager on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, 1951-1952; owned a book shop on St. Thomas after 1952. Trustee and founder of the Virgin Islands Museum beginning in 1955. Travelled extensively. Member ACLU, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Bibliographical Society; Hakluyt Society; Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society. Ddied April 14, 2018.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Briefs; Poems. Franklin, N.H.; Hillside Press, 1960.

But Never Mind; Poems, etc., 1946-50. S.l.; Golden Mountain Press, 1961.

Ceremonies in Mind; Artists, Boys, Cats, Lovers, Judges, Priests. St. Thomas, V.I.; Author, 1959.

The Christmas Clutch. St. Thomas V.I.?; Author, 1957.

Pilgrims’ Terrace; Poems, American, West Indian. St. Germoan; Editoral La Neuva Salamca, 1957.

Saint-Thomas; Poems. Millertown, Conn.; Wesleyan University Press, 1965.

Saint Thomas’s and Francis’ Cities Song O’Tram. St. Thomas, V.I.; s.n., 1958.

Papers:

A collection of the papers of Elisha Trammell Combs is held by the University of Delaware Library, and a larger collection is in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego.

Biography:

Textile executive. Born– October 14, 1877, Comer. Parents– former governor of Alabama Braxton Bragg Comer and Eva Jane (Harris) Comer. Married– Gertrude Miller, 1904. Children– Four. Education– Graduated from Bingham Military Academy, Asheville, N.C. in 1897. Became associated with Avondale Mills in 1907 and became chairman of the executive board of that company in 1935. Awarded the LL.D. degree by Birmingham Southern College. Died May 31, 1963.

Source:

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4 and Library of Alabama Lives.

Publication(s):

Braxton Bragg Comer, 1848-1927. New York; Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1947.

Biography:

Teacher; lecturer. Born– July 25, 1850, Spring Lake, Mich. Parents– John H. and Frances (Sinclair) Newcomb. Married– S. Huntington Comings, 1902 ( died  1907). Education– Graduated from Mrs. L. H. Stone’s Seminary in Kalamazoo, Mich. Taught at the Ravenswood (Chicago) Public School, 1876-1885; taught at the Moravian Seminary, Bethlehem, Pa., 1895-1898; lecturer on physical culture, dress, voice and kindred subjects, after 1899. Cofounder of the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Ala., and president of its Board of Trustees. Founder and President of the Baldwin County Historical Society.  Died September 21, 1946.

Source:

Woman’s Who’s Who of America, 1914-1915.

Publication(s):

Industrial and Vocational Education, Universal and Self Sustaining. Boston; Christopher Publishing Co., 1915.

Muscular Exercises for Health and Grace. New York; E. S. Werner, 1893.

Joint_Publications;

A Brief History of Baldwin County.  Fairhope, AL:  Baldwin County Historical Society, 1928.

Biography:

Baptist minister. Born– September 7, 1869, Coopers, Chilton County. Parents– James Gilford and Rachel (Gray) Connell. The family moved to Jefferson County when Luther was eight years old. Married– Vesta M. Shirley, November 20, 1890. Children– Ten. Education– Ordained a minister in Baptist Church in 1898; attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Pastored churches in Fayette county for eleven years then moved to North Carolina and served several churches there from 1919 until 1930. In 1930 returned to Fayette County, Ala., where he served churches until 1938. Started a history of the Fayette County Baptist Association which was combined with later writings for publication.

Source:

A History of Fayette County Baptist Association.

Joint_Publication(s):

A History of Fayette County Baptist Association. Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1968.

See MALLON, LUCILLE SIMMS

See:

Mallon, Lucille Simms

Biography:

Realtor, editor. Born- October 6, 1907, in either Meridian, Miss. or Mobile. Married– Samuel J. Constance.  Lived in Alabama, California, New York, Missouri and Florida; in Montgomery in 1945 and 1946. Worked as a secretary to the manager of a newspaper, as an editor with an Atlanta publisher of business magazines and for a real estate firm in Miami, Fla. Died May 1990.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

How to Get and Keep a Husband; a Christian Business-Woman’s Answer to One of the Most Perplexing Problems of Our Time. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1957.

Biography:

Physician. Born– December 29, 1893, Oakman. Parents– Thomas and Catherine (Williams) Conwell. Married– Mary Lou Perry Hooper, January 16, 1949. Education– University of Alabama Medical School, M.D., 1915.  U.S. Medical Corps, WWI. Practiced medicine in Birmingham as an orthopaedic surgeon beginning in 1915; served as associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Alabama Medical School. Published articles in medical journals. Member ACS, AMA, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Alabama State Medical Association, and other professional organizations.  Died March 18, 1973.

Source:

Marquis Who’s Who online and Library of Alabama Lives.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Injured Back and Its Treatment. Springfield, Ill.; C. C. Thomas, 1940.

The Management of Fractures, Dislocations, and Sprains. St. Louis; C.V. Mosby, 1934. (and six later editions).

Biography:

Professor of English; college administrator; pastor. Born– July 22, 1938, Piedmont. Parents– William Jesse and Genevieve (Putnam) Cook. Married– Judy M. Wallace, February 21, 1959. Children– Three. Education– Jacksonville State University, A.B., 1960; Auburn University, M.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1968. Taught English at Auburn University and Jacksonville State University; worked for Auburn University at Montgomery, 1969-75; vice-president for development, 1973-75.  In 1963 he was ordained a minister in the Church of Christ. Served as minister of the Highland Church of Christ at Carriage Hills in Montgomery, 1969-1976. Vice-president, Hudson-Thompson, Montgomery, 1975-77.  Published articles in professional journals. Member Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, International Platform Association.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

The Bible Chair. Abilene, Tex.: Quality Printing Company, 1968.

Bill Cook’s Strategic Planning for American Schools.  Arlington:  American Association of School Administrators, 1988.

British Short Story.  Twayne, 1978.

The Church and her Responsibility to the Young.  St. Louis: Christian Publishing Co., 1967.

Confidence in Fact. Abilene, Tex.; Quality Printing Co., 1970.

The Eckleburg Perspective; the Best of Bill Cook Comments. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1980.

The Evolving Corporation:  A Humanist Interpretation.  Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2000.

The Great Commission.  Abilene, Tex.: Quality Printing Co. 1968.

Masks, Modes and Morals; the Art of Evelyn Waugh. Rutherford, N.J.; Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1971.

Strategies:  The Art and Science of Holistic Strategy.  Westport, CT:  Quorum Books, 2000.

The Urgency of Change: Metamorphosis of America’s Schools.  Montgomery:  Underdog Press, 1988.

Biography:

Sportswriter; radio host. Born– November 6, 1945, Birmingham. Parents– Barney B. and Marion N. Cook. Married– Cathie Arbo. Education– University of Alabama; University of Alabama in Birmingham; Birmingham Southern College, B.S., 1972. Worked for the Birmingham News, 1967-1970; Marietta Journal, 1973-1975; the SEC Sports Journal, 1977-1983. Writings appeared in many publications including the Sporting News, Event, and Sports Illustrated.  Host of an afternoon sports talk radio show on station WJOX for twelve years. Member Friends of Rickwood.  Inducted into Birmingham Barons Hall of Fame, 2013. Won awards from several organizations for his writing. Died July 10, 2015.

Source:

The Office of the Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference; obituary, Birmingham News, July 12, 2015.

Publication(s):

Good Wood: A Fan’s History of Rickwood Field.  Birmingham:  R. Boozer Press, 2005.

Legend in Crimson. Oxford, Miss.; Sports Yearbook Co., 1982.

The Road to No. 1. Birmingham, Ala.; The Sports Page, 1977.

Year of the Tide. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode Publishers, 1980.

Joint_Publications;

The Big Bad Book of Sports.  Sweetwater Press, 2012.