Biography:

University professor; journalist, poet. Born– August 18, 1851, Monroe County, Ala. Parents– Murdock and Lydia Jane (Ranaldson) McCorvey. Married– Netta L. Tutwiler, July 22, 1880. Children– Four. Education– Monroe Institute, Erskine College; University of Alabama,  A.B.,1873; B. Laws, 1875; A.M, 1878. Employed as commandant of cadets, University of Alabama, 1874; professor of history and political science at UA, 1888-1923. Contributed articles and columns to local newspapers; published poetry. Member– Board of Visitors, U.S. Military Academy, 1886, Alabama Centennial Commission, 1919. Honors– LL.D., University of Alabama, 1906. Died April 2, 1932.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online and George B. Johnston’s Thomas Chalmers McCorvey, Teacher, Poet, Historian.  Blacksburg, VA: White Rhinoceros Press, 1985.

Publication(s):

Alabama Historical Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Pub. Co., 1927.

Alabama Historical Sketches.  Charlottesville:  University of Virginia Press, 1960.

The Civil Government of Alabama.  Revised edition. Philadelphia:  Eldredge & Brothers, 1903.

The Government of the People of the State of Alabama. Philadelphia; Eldredge & brothers, 1895.

Introduction to the History of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  Tuscaloosa: Rotary Club, 1925.

Joint_Compiler;

A Register of the Officers and Graduates of the University of Alabama.  Tuscaloosa: George A. Searcy, 1878.

Papers;

The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, holds several collections of the papers of Thomas Chalmers McCorvey.