Biography:

Educator. Born– June, 1870, near Roanoke. Parents–Jerry and Addie Greer Holtzclaw, former slaves. Married– Mary Ella Patterson. Children–five.  Education–Tuskegee Institute, 1890-1898, while employed as farm worker, office boy, and buggy driver for Booker T. Washington. Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College, MA, 1908; further study in summer sessions at Harvard College. Publisher of a newspaper for Afro-Americans in Alabama; taught at the school at Snow Hill, Ala., 1898-1902. Founded a school on the Tuskegee model in Utica, Mississippi, in 1902; it became Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, the first institute of higher education for African-Americans in northern Mississippi.  Holtzclaw was director and president of Utica Institute for forty years, until his death.  The Library at the school, now the Utica campus of Hinds Community College, was named in his honor when it was dedicated in 2003. Died 1943.

Source:

Growing up Black, edited by David Jay; Lives of Mississippi Authors, 1817-1967; article in Roanoke Leader, March 7, 1973.

Publication(s):

Black Man’s Burden. New York; Neale Pub. Co., 1915.

A Negro’s Life Story. Utica, Miss.; Utica Institute Electric Printing, 1908.

Biography:

Librarian. Born– October 9, 1911, in The Rock, Upson, Ga. Parents–Cornelius S. and Rosa Ogletree Marchman. Married– Wilfred Main Honour.  Children– one. Education– Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1951-1954; Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, B.A., 1955; University of Southern California, M.S.L.S., 1959; Auburn University, M.A., 1962. Reference, gifts and exchange librarian, Auburn University, 1955-. Received an award for excellence in history writing, Journal of Library History. Died February 14, 1997.

Source:

Biographical Directory of Libraries in the United States and Canada, 1970.

Publication(s):

The Political and Intellectual Climate of Britain in 1776; …. Auburn, Ala.; s.n., 1976.

Publications in the Beasley Collection; a Tentative Bibliography. Auburn, Ala.; Ralph Brown Draughon Library, Auburn University, 1980.

The State of the Industrial Revolution in 1776. New York; Vantage Press, 1977.

Biography:

Historian; librarian. Born– May 16, 1903, Darlington, S.C. Parents– William Brunson and Mary Eva (Powers) Hoole. Married– Martha Anne Sanders, August 2, 1931 (died 1960). Children– Two. Married– Addie Shirley Coleman, May 30, 1970. Education– Wofford College, A.B., 1924, A.M., 1931; Duke University, Ph.D., 1934; North Texas State University, B.S. in Library Science, 1943; further study at Columbia University, University of South Carolina and University of Chicago. Teacher, Spartanburg, S.C., High School, 1924-1925; Darlington High School, 1927-1931; teaching fellow, Duke University, 1931-1934; teacher, Birmingham Southern College, 1934-1935; librarian, Birmingham Southern College, 1935-1937; librarian, Baylor University, 1937-1939; director of libraries, North Texas State University, 1939-1944; Dean of Libraries, University of Alabama, 1944-1971; professor of librarianship, 1971-1973; dean emeritus of university libraries and professor emeritus of library service after 1973. Library consultant, research consultant to U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Special Education, consultant to U.S. Office of Education, and president, National Committee on Libraries. Honors– Author’s Award, Alabama Library Association, 1958;  Alabama Academy of Distinguished Authors; Tuscaloosa Heritage Award, 1989. Honorary Degrees; Wofford College, Litt.D., 1954; University of Alabama, LL.D., 1975; D. Humanities, Francis Marion College, 1980.  Died December 12, 1990.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online.

Publication(s):

According to Hoole; the Collected Essays and Tales of a Scholar-Librarian and Literary Maverick. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1973.

Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Unveiling of the Darlington County Confederate Monument, Darlington, South Carolina, May 10, 1980. S.l.; s.n., 1980.

Alabama Bibliography; a Short-title Catalogue of the Publications of Peter Alexander Brannon, Former Director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1984.

Alabama Tories; the First Alabama Cavalry, U.S.A., 1862-1865. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1960

Alabama’s Boy Generals of the Confederacy. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1984.

Alabama’s Golden Literary Era; a Survey and Selected Bibliography. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1983.

Alias Simon Suggs; the Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1952.

And Still We Conquer; the Diary of a Nazi Unteroffizier in the German Africa Corps Who Was Captured by the United States Army, May 9, 1943, and Imprisoned at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1968.

The Ante-bellum Charleston Theatre. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1946.

The Birmingham Horrors. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1980.

A Check-list and Finding-list of Charleston Periodicals, 1732-1684. Durham, N.C.; Duke University Press, 1936.

Cherokee Indians in Georgia. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1980.

The Classified List of Reference Books and Periodicals for College Libraries. 3rd ed. Atlanta; Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, 1955.

Confederate Foreign Agent; the European Diary. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1976.

The Diplomacy of the Confederate Cabinet of Richmond and Its Agents Abroad; Being Memorandum Notes Taken in Paris during the Rebellion of the Southern States from 1861 to 1865. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1963.

Early History of Northwest Alabama and Incidentally of Northwest Georgia. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1979.

Foreign Newspapers in Southeastern Libraries. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1963.

Four Years in the Confederate Navy; the Career of Captain John Low on the C.S.S. Fingal, Florida, Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and Ajax. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia, 1964.

It’s Raining Violets; the Life and Poetry of Robert Loveman. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1981.

The James Boys Rode South; a Thrilling and Authentic New Episode in the Fabulous Lives of the Most Daring Desperadoes of Modern Times, Frank and Jesse James and their Comrades in Crime. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; s.n., 1955.

John Witherspoon DuBose; a Neglected Southern Historian. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1983.

Let the People Read! Spartanburg, S.C.; Band & White, Printers, 1946.

A Library for Lauderdale; Recommendations for the Establishment of a City-County Public Library for Meridian City and Lauderdale County, Mississippi. Meridian, Miss.; s.n., 1948?

Louise Clarke Pyrnelle; a Biography with Selections from Her Writings. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1982.

Margaret Ellen O’Brien (1879-1898); a Neglected Alabama Author- Journalist. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1981.

Martha Young; Alabama’s Foremost Folklorist. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1982.

Ode to a Druid Oak; a Tale of Tuscaloosa and the University of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1979.

Peedee Epiphany. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1981.

The Saga of Rube Burrow, King of American Train Robbers, and His Band of Outlaws. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1981.

Sam Slick in Texas. San Antonio, Tex.; The Naylor Co., 1945.

Vizetelly Covers the Confederacy. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1957.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Battle of Resaca, Georgia, May 14-15, 1864. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1983.

Confederate Norfolk; the Letters of a Virginia Lady to the Mobile Register, 1861-1862. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1984.

The Yankee Invasion of West Alabama, March-April, 1865. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1985.

Editor:

The Early History of Montgomery and Incidentally of the State of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1979.

Florida Territory in 1844, the Diary of Master Edward C. Anderson, United States Navy. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1977.

Historical Sketches of Barton’s (later Stovall’s) Georgia Brigade; Army of Tennessee, C.S.A. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1984.

A History of Athens and, Incidentally, of Limestone County, Alabama, 1820-1876. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1978.

A History of Madison County and, Incidentally, of North Alabama, 1732-1840. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1976.

History of Shockley’s Alabama Escort Company. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1983.

History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Alabama Volunteers. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1982.

History of the Seventh Alabama Cavalry Regiment; Including Capt. Charles P. Storr’s Troop of University of Alabama Cadet Volunteers. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1984.

A History of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1816-1949. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1977.

The Log of the C.S.S. Alabama and C.S.S. Tuscaloosa, 1862-1863. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1972.

Pee Dee Light Artillery of Maxcy Gregg’s (later Samuel McGowan’s Brigade, First South Carolina Volunteers (Infantry) C.S.A.; a Historical Sketch and Roster. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1983.

A Rebel Spy in Yankeeland; the Thrilling Adventures of Major W.P Gorman Who Was the Emissary of the Confederacy to the Copperheads of the North, 1861-1865. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1981.

Reconstruction in West Alabama; the Memoirs of John J. Hunnicutt. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1959.

Editor_and_Translator

A Visit to the Confederate States of America in 1863; Memoir Addressed to His Majesty Napoleon III. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1962.

Humorist; newspaper editor; lawyer. Born– June 9, 1815, Wilmington, North Carolina.  Parents– Archibald and Charlotte de Berniere Hooper.  Married– Mary Mildred Brantley, 1842.  Children–two. Read law in his brother’s law office in New Bern, Alabama, 1835-1838; admitted to the bar, 1838; practiced law in in Lafayette and Dadeville.  Editor of the East Alabamian, LaFayette; the Wetumpka Whig; the Alabama Journal, Montgomery; the Chambers County Tribune; and the Montgomery Mail.  Worked as Talladega County census taker for the 1840 census.  Beginning in 1843 published sketches and stories in national periodicals including the Spirit of the Times of New York City.  Published humorous sketches of life in Alabama which became nationally popular and were collected into several books.   Increasingly involved in politics in the 1850s; wrote in favor of secession and the Southern cause.  Served as secretary of the Southern Convention in 1851; secretary of the Confederate Congress, 1861-62.  Died June 7, 1862.

Sources;

American National Biography online.

Bain, Robert, and Flora, Joseph M.  Fifty Southern Writers before 1900.  New York; Greenwood Press, 1987.

Publications;

Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers… Philadelphia; Carey and Hart, 1845.

A Ride with Old Kit Kuncker, and Other Sketches and Scenes of Alabama. Tuscaloosa; M.D. J. Slade, 1849.

The Widow Rugby’s Husband, a Night at the Ugly Man’s, and Other Tales of Alabama.  Philadelphia; A. Hart, 1851.

Read and Circulate; Proceedings of the Democratic and Anti-Know-Nothing Party in Caucus, or the Guillotine at Work.  Montgomery:  Barret and Wimbish, 1855.

Dog and Gun; A Few Loose Chapters on Shooting. New York; C.M.Saxton & Co., 1856.

Simon Suggs’ Adventures and Travels, Comprising All of the Scenes, Incidents, and Adventures of his Travels… with Widow Rugby’s Husband and Twenty-six other Humorous Tales of  Alabama.      Philadelphia:  T. B. Peterson, 1856. 

Papers;

A collection of Hooper Family papers is held in the Southern History Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Biography:

Accountant; bridge master. Born– February 12, 1912, Louisville. Parents– Alto and Sarah Augusta (Helms) Horn. Married– Irene Myrtle Toergerson, July 16, 1949. Children– One. Education– Berry College, 1934-1935; University of Alabama, B.S., 1939. Farm worker, 1939-1940; employee of Alabama State Employment Service, 1940; accountant for army post exchanges in Alexandria, La., 1941-1942; Army Air Corps Weather Service, 1942-1945, serving in Alabama, Illinois, Hawaii, and Guam; field agent and estate tax examiner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, 1946-1965. After 1969, employed in public accounting and tax service.  Bridge life master; taught bridge classes and participated in tournaments. Died September 24, 2007.

Source:

A.C. Horn, Dothan.

Publication(s):

Contract Bridge. Dothan, Ala.; A. C. Horn, 1977.

Biography:

Journalist. Born– May 15, 1872, in Ringgold, Ga. Parents– John Randolph and Janie Lawton (Mulkey) Hornady. Married– Maude Morella Simmons, November 28, 1896. Children– Three. Education– Educated by his mother until her death when he was ten years old. Worked for the Birmingham News, 1895-1921, as reporter, city editor, managing editor, and associate editor (1908-1915);  worked one year for the Cincinnati Enquirer; served as editor, Rome, Ga., News Tribune after 1930. Served as Commissioner for Health and Education on the Birmingham City Commission, 1915-21; advocated for increased funding for schools.  Chairman, Coosa-Alabama River Improvement Association. Author of a series of twelve articles on short ballot principles and commission government. Published articles in McClure’s, Metropolitan, and Leslie’s. Died March 1, 1948.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography; Marquis who’s who online; bhamwiki

Publication(s):

Atlanta, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. S.l.; American Cities Book Co., 1922.

The Book of Birmingham. New York; Dodd, 1921.

Editorials of J. R. H. Birmingham:  Roberts & Son, 1914.

Soldiers of Progress and Industry. New York; Dodd, 1930.

See:

Payne, Pierra Stephen Robert

Biography:

Businessman. Born– September 14, 1844, Heard County, Ga. Parents– William Henry and Eliza Ann (Bennett) Houghton. Education– Dover Academy, Columbus, Ga. Served as private, Glenville Guards of Barbour County, which became Company H, Fifteenth Alabama Regiment of the Confederate State Army; fought in the battles of Second Manassas, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Shenandoah Valley, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, and others; wounded several times. After the war, engaged in mercantile trade in Union Springs and was one of the organizers of the Bullock County Bank and the Senate Bank of Montgomery; served as officer of both banks, then engaged in planting and real estate interests. Organized the Commercial and Industrial Association of Montgomery; President, Board of Revenue of Montgomery, four years; Chairman, Democratic Executive Committee of Bullock County.  Commander of Tennessee Division, United Confederate Veterans. The Houghton Library at Huntingdon College was donated by his heirs as a memorial to him. Died November 4, 1925.

Source:

Dictionary of Alabama Biography, p. 847.

Publication(s):

From the Beginning Until Now; Essays. Montgomery, Ala.; Author, 1914?

With William Robert Houghton; Two Boys in the Civil War and After. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1912.

Biography:

Attorney. Born– May 22, 1842, in Heard County, Ga. Parents– William Henry and Eliza Ann (Bennett) Houghton. Married– Anna M. Streety, December 21, 1875. Children– One. Education– From age fifteen, alternately taught school and attended an academy until 1860. Served in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. Studied law, 1865-1866; admitted to the bar in Dale County, 1866; practiced law at Hayneville, 1866-1887, then moved to Birmingham. Died July 30, 1906.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

Joint_Publications;

With Mitchell Bennett Houghton; Two Boys in the Civil War and After. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1912.

Editor:

Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determine in the Supreme Court of Alabama, [1820-1838]. Atlanta; Constitution Job Office, 1891.

Biography:

Linguist, writer, teacher. Born– 1940, Bessemer. Education– Birmingham-Southern; University of Iowa Writers Workshop, M.A., Ph.D. Served in the U.S. Air Force as a Russian linguist; taught at Breadloaf School of English and Breadloaf Writers Conferences, George Mason University, University of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico; Universidad Catalica in Lima, Peru, and at the University of Arizona. Published non-fiction articles in the New York Times, Mother Jones and Southern Exposure. Fulbright Lecturer in Peru.

Source:

Contemporary Literature in Birmingham.

Publication(s):

Ararat. New York; Avon, 1982.

Bisbee ’17. New York; Pantheon Books, 1979.

Blood Tango. New York; Avon, 1984.

Cholo. New York; Avon, 1981.

A Drive With Ossie. Syracuse, N.Y.; Salt Mound Press, 1970.

The Fourth Codex. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

The Line. New York; Ballantine, 1986.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. New York; Ballantine, 1986.

The Nation Thief. New York; Pantheon Books, 1984.

The 16th of September Game. New York; Ballantine, 1985.

Joint_Editor:

Leon Felipe; the Last Troubadour. Tucson, Ariz.; Bluemon Press, 1979.

Biography:

Teacher. Born– September 12, 1926, Gadsden. Parents– John Moses and Ethel (Gilchrist) Simmons. Married– Max James Howard, March 19, 1948. Children– One. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1948. Employed by the Research Dept. at the University of Alabama, 1948-1950; assisted Dr. James B. Sellers in writing the History of the University of Alabama.  Teacher, Fort Payne public schools, 1949-1962; trustee and editor of Landmarks of Dekalb County, associate editor, Landmarks News, 1972-. Received merit and distinguished service awards of the Alabama Historical Commission.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1980.

Publication(s):

The Vagabond Dreamer. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode Publishers, 1976.

Editor:

The Dekalb Legend. Fort Payne, Ala.; Landmarks of Dekalb County, 1972.

Landmarks; a Pictorial History of Dekalb County, Alabama. Fort Payne, Ala.; Landmarks of Dekalb County, 1971.

Biography:

Businessman. Born– September 29, 1940, Rome, Ga. Parents– Gilbert and Mable (Burkhalter) Howard. Married– Sue Crow, October 1961. Children– Two. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1977; graduate school of the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, 1965-92.

Source:

Gene L. Howard, Wellington, Ala.

Publication(s):

Death at Cross Plains. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1984.

History of the Rubber Workers in Gadsden, Alabama, 1933-1983.  Gadsden:  URW Local 12, 1983.

Patterson for Alabama:  The Life and Career of John Patterson.  University of Alabama Press, 2008.

Pleasant Gap: An Old Place and a New Experience.  Essence Publishing Company, 2004.

See;

HOWINGTON, LINDA S.

Biography:

Attorney, congressman, entrepreneur, writer.  Born– December 12, 1862, Rome, Ga. Parents–Stephen Oliver and Martha Ann Maddry Howard.  Married– Sarah “Sallie” Lankford, December 2, 1883. Children–three. Married–Stella Vivian Harper, November 9, 1926. Little formal education; largely self-taught. Admitted to the bar, 1881, and practiced law in Fort Payne; prosecuting attorney, Dekalb County, four years; city attorney, Fort Payne, two terms; chairman, Dekalb County Democratic Executive Committee; elected as a populist to the U.S. Congress from Alabama’s 7th District and served 1895-1897. Moved to California in 1918; worked for a time in the silent film industry.  Produced and starred in a film based on his novel The Bishop of the Ozarks.  Travelled through Europe in the 1920’s and wrote a column “Vagabond Sketches” for the Birmingham News. Engaged in several business and philanthropic projects, including the “Master Schools” for mountain children and the “Scenic Highway” from Gadsden to Chattanooga.  Died December 28, 1937.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; Encyclopedia of Alabama

Publication(s):

The American Plutocracy. New York; Holland Pub. Co., 1895.

The Bishop of the Ozarks. Los Angeles; Times Mirror Press, 1920.

Fascism, a Challenge to Democracy. New York; Fleming H. Revell Co., 1928.

If Christ Came to Congress. New York; Howard Pub. Co., 1896.

Peggy Ware. Los Angeles; J. F. Rowny Press, 1921.

Biography:

Historian, archivist, teacher. Born– October 21, 1933, Montgomery. Parents– Milo Barrett and Mary Josepha (Key) Howard. Education– Auburn University, A.B., 1955, M.A. 1960. Served in the U.S. Army 1955-1957; employed by the Alabama State Department of Archives and History 1958-81, director, 1967-81; taught at the University of Alabama, 1964-1968 and at Auburn University, 1968. Published articles in historical journals. Board of directors, Governor’s Mansion Advisory Board, Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame, Alabama Military Hall of Fame, and others; historiographer of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, 1969-1975. Honors– honorary D.H.L., Livingston University, 1978; Distinguished Service Award, Montgomery Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1967; Alabama Academy of Honor, 1971.  Died November 3, 1981.

Source:

Who’s Who in America, 1982; Grove’s Library of Alabama Lives; Alabama Academy of Honor website

Joint_Compiler:

The Minutes, Journals and Acts of the General Assembly of British West Florida. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1978.

Joint_Translator:

Memoire Justificatif of the Chevalier Montant de Monberaut. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1965.

Biography:

Naturalist. Born– May 3, 1872, Lake Grove, N.Y. Parents– Elbert Richard and Anne Judson (Holmes) Howell. Married– Grace Bowen Johnson, June 20, 1900. Children– Three. Education– Public schools in Brooklyn, New York. Worked as a clerk and secretary, 1889-1895. Hired as a Biologist, Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammology, U.S. Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, 1895; moved up through the ranks to the position of Senior Biologist, Division of Wildlife Research, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he was still serving at the time of his death in 1940. Led explorations in Texas and New Mexico, 1903; Texas & Louisiana, 1905-1907; Georgia & Tennessee, 1908; Alabama, 1910-1916; Florida, 1918-1939; Georgia, 1927-1933; North Carolina, 1928-1930. Author of approximately eighty major scientific papers.  Fellow of the American Ornithological Union; member of several other scientific organizations. Died July 10, 1940.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; Viola Schantz, “In Memoriam: Arthur H. Howell,” The Auk, LXXX, (1940), 290-294.

Publication(s):

Biological Survey of Alabama. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1921.

Birds of Alabama. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1924.

Birds of Arkansas. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1911.

Birds That Eat the Cotton Boll Weevil. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1906.

Destruction of the Cotton Boll Weevil by Birds in Winter. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1908.

Florida Bird Life. New York; Coward-McCann, 1932.

The Relation of Birds to the Cotton Boll Weevil. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1907.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Arthur Holmes Howell is held by the Archives of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.

Biography:

Psychologist. Born– September 7, 1949, Birmingham. Parents– Joseph Benton and Louise (Butterworth) Howell. Married– Lark Dill, August 16, 1975. Children–two.  Education– Samford University, B.A., 1971; Yale University, M.A. in Religion, 1974; University of Virginia, Ph.D., 1979. Internship in Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Practicing Psychologist in Anniston, 1979-. Presents lectures and workshops. Founded the Institute for Conscious Being, 2012.

Source:

Joseph B. Howell, Anniston.

Publications;

Becoming Conscious: The Enneagram’s Forgotten Passageway.  Balboa Press, 2012.

Joint_Publication(s):

Physician Stress; a Handbook for Coping. Baltimore; University Park Press, 1984.

Biography;

Novelist.  Born– August 3, 1950, Gadsden.  Married– Gary F. Howington.  Secretary, Bowman Transportation, 1969-86.  Began writing at an early age;  began writing for publication in 1980; published her first novel in 1982.  Author of many novels (under the pseudonym Linda Howard), including stand-alone, series, and omnibus novels, using romance, contemporary, historical, Western, and science fiction themes and settings.  A charter member of Romance Writers of America, served as Region 3 Director.  Romance Writers of American Career Achievement Award, 2005.

Sources;

Contemporary Authors online.

Wikipedia.

Publications;

After the Night (1995).

Against the Rules (1983).

All that Glitters (1982).

All the Queen’s Men (1999).

Blue Moon (1999).

Burn (2009).

Come Lie with Me (1984).

Cover of Night. NY: Ballantine Books, 2006.(2006).

Cry No More (2003).

The Cutting Edge (1985).

Death Angel (2008).

Dream Man (1995).

Drop Dead Gorgeous.  NY: Ballantine Books, 2006.

Dying to Please (2002).

Heart of Fire (1993).

Ice (2010).

Kill and Tell (1998).

Killing Time (2005).

Kiss Me While I Sleep (2004).

Lake of Dreams (1985).

Mr. Perfect (2000).

Night Moves (1998).

Now You See Her (1998).

Open Season (2001).

Overload (1993).

Prey (2011).

Shades of Twilight (1996).

Son of the Morning (1997).

Strangers in the Night (2001).

Up Close and Dangerous (2007).

Veil of Night (2010).

The Way Home (1991).

White Out (1997).

Co-Author;

With Linda Jones

Blood Born (2010).

Warrior Rising (2012).

Biography:

Media executive; political party leader; state legislator.  Born– February 11, 1962, Hartwell, Ga.  Married–Susan Sorrells.  Children–two. Education– University of Georgia, B.A. in journalism, 1983.  Assistant Sports Information Director, Auburn University, 1983-1990;  head of Auburn’s radio and television sports network, 1990-94; formed Auburn Network, Inc., media and marketing company, 1994.  Elected to Alabama House of Representatives from the 79th District, 1998; served as House minority leader, 2005-2010. Elected speaker of the House, 2010.  Chairman of Alabama Republican Party, 2007-2010; led Campaign 2010, highly successful Republican fundraising effort. Removed from office, 2016, on conviction of ethics violations; sentenced to four years in prison.  Remains free while case is on appeal (summer 2018).

Sources;

Mike Hubbard website

Publications;

Storming the State House.  NewSouth Books, 2012.

Biography:

Historian, university professor of history. Born– October 5, 1918, Winfield. Parents– James A. and Rachel (Smith) Hubbard. Married– Ruth Ann Perry, August 31, 1947. Education– Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1955; Peabody College, M.A., 1949. Served in the U.S. Army, 1941-1946, captured on Bataan by the Japanese and was a prisoner of war for three and one half years. Teacher, Tennessee high schools, 1949-1951, Austin Peay State University, 1955-88; chairman of the history department, 1979-88. Member; Tennessee, Southern, and American Historical Associations, and the Organization of American Historians. Contributed to various history journals. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement from Austin Peay in 1988.  The Preston Hubbard Scholarship in History at APSU is named in his honor. Died February 17, 2016.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1982; Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Apocalypse Undone:  My Survival of Japanese Imprisonment during World War II.  Nashville:  Vanderbilt University Press, 1990.

Origins of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1961.

Papers;

The papers of Preston John Hubbard are held by the Montgomery County Library, Clarksville, Tennessee.

Biography:

Attorney, congressman. Born– November 11, 1869, Wilson County, Tenn. Parents– Joseph Franklin and Nancy (Sherrill) Huddleston. Married– Bertha Baxley, November 29, 1917. Children– Five. Education– Cumberland University, L.L.B., 1891. Practiced law in Birmingham, 1891-1913; served as private in Co. K, 1st Alabama Regiment during the Spanish American War; alderman in Birmingham, 1910; U.S. Congressman, 1915-1937.  Advocated generally progressive policies: supported the home building bill that was the predecessor of the Federal Home Loan Act; sponsored a public works bill embodying the principles of the Public Works Act of 1933; sponsored a bill for the relief of destitute citizens. First commander of the Alabama Veterans of the Spanish American War, 1899-1900. Authored poems appearing in several newspapers and periodicals. Birmingham-Southern College established the George and Bertha Huddleston Scholarship in his honor. Died February 29, 1960.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography, National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 50; Marquis who’s who online.

Publication(s):

Huddleston Family Tables. Concord, N.H.; Rumford Press, 1933.

Random Verses. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1952.

Joint_Publication(s):

Index to the Official Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1901, State of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Bureau of Legal Research and Service, School of Law, University of Alabama, University of Alabama Press, 1948.

Poet; university professor.  Born–April 22, 1951, Kileen, Texas (grew up in Alabama). Married– Erin McGraw.  Education– Huntingdon College, B.A., 1974;  University of Alabama, M.A., 1976; M.F.A. University of Iowa, 1983. Additional study at University of Syracuse, 1976-78. Teacher at Carver Elementary School, Montgomery, 1973-74; instructor in composition, Auburn University at Montgomery, 1978-81;  at Baylor University, 1984-85; University of Cincinnati, 1985-  ; Humanities Distinguished Professor of English, Ohio State University.  Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry, Stanford University; Alfred Hodder Fellow at Princeton, 1989-1990. Received many awards for his writing, including the Academy of American Poets Award, 1984; Alabama Library Association Award, 1987; Witter Bynner Foundation Prize for Poetry, 1988; Frederick Bock Award, 1997, and others. Taft Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Cincinnati, 1994.

Source;

Contemporary authors online.

Publications;

After the Lost War:  A Narrative. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

American Rendering:  New and Selected Poems.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Babylon in a Jar. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

A Clown at Midnight. Boston:  Mariner Books:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Diary of a Poem.  Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 2011.

Ecstatic in the Poison:New Poems.  Woodstock:  Overlook Press, 2003.

The Glass Anvil. Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 1997.

The Glass Hammer:  A Southern Childhood.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

The Joker:  A Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2013.

The Never-Ending:  New Poems.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1991.

Saints and Strangers. Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

Joint_Publications;

Shut Up, You’re Fine! Poems for Very, Very Bad Children.  Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2009.

Editor;

James Agee: Selected Poems.  New York: Library of America, 2008.

Joint_Editor;

The Waltz He was Born For:  Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 2002.

Biography:

Businessman. Born– June 7, 1958, Montgomery. Parents– Richard F. and Katherine (Frazer) Hudson. Married– Marcia Melton, May 11, 1985. Education– University of Alabama, B.F.A., 1983; graduate study at Santa Reparata Art School in Florence, Italy, 1983. Owner, Pegasus Motor Co., 1984-1987, Jack Ingram Motors 1987-; editor, Performance Market Monthly Newsletter, contributor to Sports Illustrated.

Source:

Adams Hudson, Montgomery.

Publication(s):

How to Buy or Sell a Car by Long Distance. Osceola, Wis.; Motorbooks International, 1987.

Writer; educator.  Born 1953.  Children–one.  Education–University of South Alabama.  English and literature teacher and guidance counselor with the Fairhope, Alabama public schools.  Began writing as a college undergraduate;  left writing for several years to work as a teacher but returned to it twenty-five years later.  Published short stories in Penthouse, New Writers, Eastern Shore Quarterly, and Southern Bard.  Winner of the first prize in the National Endowment for the Arts international writing contest, 1977; Hackney Literary Award for short fiction; first place, Penthouse magazine international short story contest.

Sources;

Biographical sketch in Don Noble, ed., Climbing Mt. Cheaha; Emerging Alabama Writers. Livingston Press, 2004.

Contemporary Authors online.

Publications;

All the Way to Memphis and Other Stories.  Little Rock:  River’s Edge Media, 2014.

In a Temple of Trees.  San Francisco; MacAdam/Cage Publishing Co. , 2003.

In the Dark of the Moon.  MacAdam/Cage, 2005.

Opposable Thumbs.  Livingston Press at the University of West Alabama, 2001.

Contributor;

Christmas Stories from the South’s Best Writers.  Gretna:  Pelican Publishing Co., 2008.

William Gay and Suzanne Kingsbury, The Alumni Grille, MacAdam/Cage, 2004.

Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe’, vols. I, II, and III.  MacAdam/Cage, 2002-05.

Biography:

Civic leader. Born March 7, 1876. Parents– Chambers and Maria Melton (Jordan) McAdory. Married– Eugene LeRoy Huey, October 10, 1899. Children–one. Active in civic activities:  First woman member, Bessemer Board of Education; member, Bessemer Carnegies Library Board; member, Domestic Relations Board of Jefferson County.  Active in fundraising for Liberty Loans and other war work, World War I. Director, Second District, Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs. Bessemer Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Charter member and president for two terms; Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, member and president two terms.  She was what was called in UDC a “real daughter,” her father having been a Confederate soldier. The Bessemer Chapter of the UDC was named in her honor, the Mattie Marie McAdory Chapter, after her death. Died August 16, 1938.

Source:

Owen’s The Story of Alabama, Vol. 5.

Author_and_Compiler;

History of the Alabama Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Vol. I. Opelika, Ala.; Post Pub. Co., 1937.

Biography:

Civil engineer. Born– April 21, 1884, Birmingham. Parents– John Marvin and Alice Elizabeth (McWilliams) Huey. Married– Julia Lee Jones, June 20, 1906. Children– One. Education– Howard College, B.S., 1904. Employed as civil engineer for eight years; city engineer, East Lake, 1907-1908; assistant city engineer, Birmingham, 1909-1910; resident engineer, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, two years; fire insurance business thereafter. Elected to the Alabama State Legislature from Jefferson County, 1918.  Died January 26, 1958.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Ruhama, the Story of a Church, 1819-1940. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Printing Co., 1946.

See:

Butterworth, William Edmund, III

Biography:

Journalist, novelist. Born– November 13, 1910, Hartselle. Parents– John Bradford and Margaret Lois (Brindley) Huie. Married– Ruth Puckett, October 27, 1934 (died 1973). Married– Martha Hunt Robertson, July 16, 1977. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1930. Served in U.S. Navy, WWII. Employed by the Birmingham Post, 1932-1936; co-founder of magazine Alabama: The News Magazine of the Deep South, 1937;  worked for American Mercury as associate editor, 1941-1943, editor and publisher, 1945-1951;  lecturer and freelance writer, 1951-1986. Covered the Civil Rights Movement in the South.  Awarded Alabama Library Association Award for Best Non-Fiction Book, 1975.  Co-host of television program Longines Chronoscope, similar to the later Meet the Press. Inducted into the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Science Hall of  Fame. Inducted into Alabama Writers Hall of Fame, 2018.  Died November 20, 1986.

Source:

Who’s Who in America online; Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

The Americanization of Emily. New York; Dutton, 1959.

The Case Against the Admirals. New York; Dutton, 1946.

Can Do! the Story of the Seabees. New York; Dutton, 1944.

Did the F.B.I. Kill Martin Luther King? Nashville; T. Nelson, 1977.

The Execution of Private Slovik. New York; Delacorte, 1954.

The Fight for Air Power. New York; L. B. Fischer, 1942.

From Omaha to Okinawa. New York; Dutton, 1945.

He Slew the Dreamer. New York; Delacorte Press, 1969.

The Hero of Iwo Jima. New York; New American Library, 1960.

The Hiroshima Pilot. New York; Putnam, 1964.

Hotel Mamie Stover. New York; Clarkson N. Potter, 1963.

In the Hours of Night. New York; Delacorte, 1975.

It’s Me O Lord! Nashville; T. Nelson, 1979.

The Klansman. New York; Delacorte, 1967.

Mud on the Stars. New York; L. B. Fischer, 1942.

A New Life to Live. Nashville; T. Nelson, 1977.

The Revolt of Mamie Stover. New York; Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1951.

Ruby McCollum, Woman in the Suwannee Jail. New York; Dutton, 1956.

Seabee Roads to Victory.  Dutton, 1944.

Three Lives for Mississippi. New York; WCC Books, 1965.

Wolf Whistle. New York; New American Library, 1959.

Papers;

Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama holds a collection of William Bradford Huie materials, and a  collection of William Bradford Huie’s papers is held by the Thompson Library at Ohio State University.

Biography:

Linguist, poet, university professor. Born– August 24, 1955, Tuscaloosa. Parents– William Washington and Sarah Aduston (Meriwether) Humphries. Married– Ann Wahl Reiger, August 4, 1984. Married– Jeannie Smith, July 1, 1989. Education– Duke University, A.B., 1977, M.A., 1978; Yale University, M.Phil., 1980, Ph.D., 1981; received fellowship from Yale University, 1977-1981. Taught French at Yale, 1982, French and Italian at Louisiana State Univ., 1982-. Member; Modern Language Association; South Atlantic Modern Language Association; Phi Beta Kappa. Contributed to Southern Review, Book Forum, Oxford Literary Review, and others. Honors– Academy of American Poets Prize from Duke University, 1977. Commandeur de l’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, 2001. LSU Foundation Distinguished Faculty Award, 1993. Died September 20, 2014.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; Marquis who’s who online; LSU website

Publication(s):

Borealis (poems).  University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Losing the Text; Readings in Literary Desire. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1986.

Metamorphosis of the Raven: Literary Overdeterminedness in France and the South since Poe. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

The Otherness Within; Gnostic Readings in Marcel Proust, Flannery O’Connor and Francois Villon. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1983.

The Puritan and the Cynic;  The Literary Moralist in America and France. New York; Oxford University Press, 1987.

Reading Emptiness:  Buddhism and Literature.  State University of New York, 1999.

The Red and the Black: The Myth of Celebrity in Stendhal’s Novel. Boston; Twayne Publishers, 1991.

Editor:

Collected Poems of Edouard Glissant.  University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Conversations with Reynolds Price. Jackson, Miss.; University Press of Mississippi, 1991.

Southern Literature and Literary Theory.  University of Georgia Press, 1990.

Joint editor:

The Future of Southern Letters.  Oxford University Press, 1996.

Poetics of the Americas:  Race, Founding, and Textuality.  LSU Press, 1997.

Biography:

Born– September 24, 1850, near Reform, Pickens County. Parents– Ransom Flournoy and Sarah Elizabeth (Hargrove) Hunnicutt. Married– Alice A. Strong, 1882. Children– Five. Education– Southern University, 1869-70. Organized the Ku Klux Klan in Pickens and Hale counties.Lived in Belton, Texas, for many years;  employed by International Harvester and other companies as bookkeeper and collector. Returned to Tuscaloosa in 1914 and served as chief clerk in Tuscaloosa Probate Office for seven years.  Died May 3, 1932.

Source:

Reconstruction in West Alabama; findagrave.com

Publication(s):

Reconstruction in West Alabama; the Memoirs of John L. Hunnicutt. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1959.

Biography:

Denominational executive; educator; advocate for missions. Born– October 5, 1909, Roanoke, Va. Parents– William Otis and Myrtle (Wertz) Hunt. Education– Longwood College (now Virginia State Teachers College), B.S., 1941; Columbia University, A.M., 1947. Taught in county schools of Roanoke, Va., 1929-1931, principal, 1931-1932; city schools of Roanoke, principal, 1932-1944; William Jewell College, dean of women, 1944-1948. Executive secretary, Woman’s Missionary Union, Southern Baptist Convention, Birmingham, 1948-1974. Volunteer staff member and consultant for women’s work, Baptist Foreign Mission Board, until her death.  Co-founder of North American Baptist Women’s Union, made up of women from fourteen Baptist organizations; Member; Baptist World Alliance (vice-president,1970-75); Southern Baptist Foundation; American Bible Society. Honors– William Jewell College, Honorary D.H.L., 1958. Received many denominational honors; in Alabama, the Hunt Library and Archives at WMU headquarters in Birmingham was set up in her honor. Died June 14, 2008.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. 3; obituary

Publication(s):

Woman’s Missionary Union; History of the Woman’s Missionary Union. Birmingham, Ala.; Woman’s Missionary Union Auxiliary to Southern Baptist Convention, 1964.

Biography:

Writer. Born– September 7, 1919, Denver, Colo. Parents– Clarence A. and Alice H. (Gillman) Fassett. Married– Douglas Lucas Hunt (died 1952). Married– Earl G. Jensen, June 6, 1955. Education– University of Chicago, Ph.D.; Birmingham Southern College, M.A.; Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Program, Stanford University, M.A. Taught English and Journalism at Alabama College, 1952-1953 and at Stanford 1954-1955. Resided in Europe, 1955-1957. Published stories in Yale Review, Story, McCall’s, and Today’s Woman. Died 1992.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1958.

Publication(s):

Family Affair. New York; Harper, 1948.

Joanna Lord. Indianapolis, Ind.; Bobbs, Merrill, 1954.

Contributor;

Stanford Short Stories, 1955.  Stanford University Press, 1955.

Biography;

Writer; ethnologist; folklorist.  Born January 7, 1891, Notasulga (moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family as a child).  Parents–John and Lucy Potts Hurston.  Married– Herbert Sheen, 1927; Albert Price III, 1939.  Education:  graduated from Morgan Academy, Baltimore; Howard College, A.A., 1920; Barnard College, B.A., 1928; graduate study at Columbia University (studied  with the anthropologist Franz Boas and fellow students Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead). Collected folklore in the South and the Caribbean (Jamaica, Haiti, Bermuda, Honduras), 1933-39, 1946-48; staff writer, Paramount Studios, 1941; worked at various jobs (college instructor, librarian, as well as menial work).  Founded the school of dramatic arts at Bethune-Cookman College, 1934; taught at North Carolina College for Negroes. Member American Folklore Society; American Anthropological Society; American Ethnological Society, Zeta Phi Beta. Closely associated with writers of the Harlem Renaissance.  Recognized as an important figure in the history of African-American literature; influenced many other writers. Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, 1936 and 1938; Annisfield Award, 1943; LL. D. from Morgan College, 1939; Bethune-Cookman College Award for Education and Human Relations, 1956. Selected for the first class of the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame, 2015. Died January 28, 1960.

Sources;

Contemporary Authors online.

Publications;

Collected Essays. HarperCollins, 1998.

Complete Stories.  HarperCollins, 1994.

Dust Tracks on a Road.  Lippincott, 1942.

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States. HarperCollins, 2001.

Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings. Library of America, 1995.

The Gilded Six-Bits.  Redpath Press, 1986.

I Love Myself when I Am Laughing.. And then again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive.  Feminist Press, 1979.

Jonah’s Gourd Vine. Lippincott, 1934.

Moses, Man of the Mountains. Lippincott, 1939.

Mules and Men. Lippincott, 1935.

Novels and Stories. Library of America, 1995.

The Sanctified Church:  The Folklore Writings of Zora Neale Hurston. Turtle Island Foundation, 1983.

Seraph on the Suwanee.  Scribner, 1948.

Six Fools. HarperCollins, 2005.

Spunk:  The Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston.  Turtle Island Foundation, 1985.

Sweat. Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Tell My Horse:  Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.  Lippincott, 1938.

Their Eyes Were Watching God. Lippincott, 1937.

Voodoo Gods: An Inquiry into Native Myths and Magic in Jamaica and Haiti.  Dent, 1939.

Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. Harper Collins, 2005.

Joint_Publications;

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts.  HarperPerennial 1931; reprint, 1991.

Papers;

The papers of Zora Neale Hurston are held by the library at the University of Florida.

Biography;

Homemaker; writer. Born–October 29, 1911, Tuscaloosa.  Parents–Theodore Henley and Alice Ashley Jack.  Married–
Charles Davis Hurt, November 23, 1933. Children–two. Education–Attended Wesleyan College, Macon; Emory University, B.A., 1932.  Wrote articles for various publications. Member Emory University Board of Visitors; Friends of Emory University Library; Colonial Dames.  Died August 3, 2003.

Source;

Alabama Bound; obituary

Publications;

Alabama Bound–Family Sketches of a Long Line of Storytellers:  The Jacks, Morgans, Wymans, Boyntons, Martins, Hunters, and Dearings.  Copple House Books, 1988.

Biography:

Music teacher. Born– September 25, 1875, Mobile, Ala. Parents– Alphonse and Sarah (Gaillard) Hurtel. Education– Barton Academy High School; Faelton School of Music, Boston. Taught piano in Mobile. Member of the Alabama Historical Association. Died January 20, 1965.

Source:

Grove’s Library of Alabama Lives; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

The River Plantation of Thomas and Marianne Gaillard, 1832-1850. Mobile, Ala.; Rankin Press, 1959.

Papers;

A collection of papers of the Gaillard and Hurtel families is held by the A.S.Williams Collection at the University of Alabama Libraries.

Biography:

Lawyer, businessman. Born– June 23, 1902, Ham, Tex. Parents– Abner Sheppard and Anne (Borden) McGee. Adopted at age three by his aunt, Margaret Rosa (Borden) Ide, Jacksonville, Ala. Education– University of Alabama, B.A., 1923; Harvard University Law School, LL.B., 1926. Married–Sarah Cowan Harris- 1929. Children– One. Married Rissie Miller, April 11, 1957.  Joined Anniston (Ala.) law firm, 1929-1931; New York Law firm, 1931-37. Served as secretary, vice president, and president of American Home Products Corporation; director of Pal Blade Company, American Machine and Foundry Company, International Cigar Machine Company. Helped organize and served as legal counsel to New York Airways, Inc. Died July 5, 1994.

Source:

Memoirs.

Publication(s):

Memoirs of Knox Ide. Anniston, Ala.; Higginbotham, 1986.

Biography:

Physicist; university professor. Born– November 26, 1913, Ottawa, Kan. Parents–Jonathan and Lettie Young Ikenberry. Married–Janice Turnipseed, 3 June 1953. Education– University of Ottawa, Kansas, B.A., 1936; University of Kansas, M.A., 1938; Louisiana State University, Ph.D., 1950. U. S. Navy, WWII. Taught at Louisiana State University, 1946-1950, and at Auburn University, 1950-1975. Visiting professor at Johns Hopkins, 1975-79. Published extensively in scholarly journals; lectured at many universities. Member; American Mathematical Society; American Physics Society; Italian Society of Physics; Society for Natural Philosophy.  Awarded the status of professor emeritus on his retirement at Auburn. Died January 14, 2007.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 1982.

Publication(s):

Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians and Physicists. New York; Oxford University Press, 1962.

Biography:

Writer (novels and screenplays). Born– August 22, 1943, Elba. Parents– Louis Frederick and Emma Margaret (Cooper) Inman. Married– Paulette Strong, April 15, 1967. Children– Two. Education– University of Alabama, B.A., 1965, M.F.A., 1979. Employed by WSFA-TV, Montgomery, 1965-1968; press secretary for Governor Albert Brewer 1968-1970; employed by WBTV, Charlotte, N.C., 1970-1975; worked for the University of Alabama, 1975-1979; for WBTV, 1979-1996. Free-lance writer after 1996. Author of plays and filmscripts as well as novels.Member Authors Guild; Writers Guild; Dramatists Guild; PEN American Center; North Carolina Writers Forum. Honors– Outstanding Alumnus of the Department of Broadcast and Film Communication, University of Alabama; first prize for fiction, Birmingham Festival of Arts; three-time winner of Outstanding Fiction Award from Alabama Library Association;  various awards for television journalism.

Source:

Robert Inman, Charlotte, North Carolina; contemporary authors online

Publication(s):

The Christmas Bus.  Charlotte, NC:  Novello Festival Press, 2006.

Captain Saturday.  Little, Brown, 2002.

Dairy Queen Days.  New York:  Little, Brown, 1997.

The Governor’s Lady.  John F. Blair, Publisher, 2012.

Home Fires Burning. Boston; Little Brown, 1987.

My Friend Delbert Earle and Other Notes in Closing; Television Essays. Charlotte; Hometown Press, 1989.

A Note in Closing. Charlotte, North Carolina; Hometown Press, 1985.

Old Dogs and Children.  Boston:  Little, Brown, 1991.

Joint_Editor;

No Hiding Place:  Uncovering the Legacy of Charlotte-Area Writers:  An Anthology.  Asheboro, NC: Down Home Press, 1999.

Biography:

Engineer, university professor and administrator.  Born– August 9, 1939, Minneapolis, Minn. Parents–Arthur Fowle Irwin and Virginia Marie Iverson Irwin. Married–Edie Irwin. Education– Auburn University, B.E.E., 1961; University of Tennessee, M.S., 1962, Ph.D., 1967. Employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1967-1969; taught at Auburn University, 1969-2015, serving as chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering for 36 years. Member; American Society for Engineering Education; Alabama and National Society of Professional Engineers; IEEE Computer Society; Southeastern and National Association of Electrical Engineering; executive committee of the Southeastern Center for Electrical Engineering Education; education editor of Computer; editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics; fellow of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers; received the IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984. Retired in 2015 as Professor and Department Head Emeritus at Auburn. Received the Richard M. Emberson Award from IEEE in 2000, for distinguished service to the organization; Auburn University Distinguished Engineer, 1992; Auburn Presidential Award for Excellence, 2007. Honorary Professor, Chinese Academy of Science, 2004.

Source:

J. David Irwin, Auburn, Ala.

Joint_Publication(s):

Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis. New York; Macmillan, 1984.

Digital Logic: Circuit Analysis and Design. Prentice Hall, 1995.

Embedded Microcontroller Interfacing for M-CORE Systems. Academic Press, 2000.

Essentials of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prentice-Hall, 2004.

Fundamentals of Industrial Electronics.  Boca Raton, CRC Press, 2011.

Industrial Noise and Vibration Control. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1979.

An Introduction to Computer Logic. Englewood Cliff, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1974.

Introduction to Electrical Engineering. Prentice Hall, 1995.

Editor_and_Contributor;

Industrial Electronics Handbook.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997.

Biography:

College president; professor; administrator. Born– December 30, 1881, Bellevue, Alabama.  Parents– James M. and Mary Henley (Spencer) Jack. Married– Alice Searcy Ashley, November 9, 1910. Children– Two. Education– University of Alabama, A.B., 1902, A.M., 1903; Harvard University, A.M., 1908; University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1915. Taught at Sewanee Grammar School at the University of the South, 1903-06;  Tulane University, Harvard University, University of Chicago; alumni professor at Southern University, 1906-1916; Emory University, 1916-1933, where he served as dean of the Graduate School, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and vice president of the university; president, Randolph Macon Women’s College, 1933-1952.  Member of Southern Historical Association, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (president, 1926-27), and other professional organizations; a member of the National Council of Phi Beta Kappa and the National Commission  on Accrediting, which was established in 1949 by five educational organizations. Awarded honorary doctoral degrees by several institutions, including Birmingham-Southern College, the University of Alabama, the University of Chicago, Emory University, Tulane University, Wofford College, George Washington University, and Lynchburg College.  Awarded status of president emeritus on his retirement from Randolph-Macon in 1952.  Randolph-Macon’s annual literary magazine is named “The Jack” in honor of Dr. Jack’s support for the writing program at the college. The Theodore H. Jack chair in the history department was established in his honor. Died September 20, 1964.

Source:

Cornelius, Roberta D.  The History of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, from The Founding in 1891 through the Year of 1949-1950.  Chapel Hill; UNC Press, 1951.

Hurt, Melissa Dearing Jack.  Alabama Bound: Family Sketches of a Long Line of Storytellers.  Copple House Books, 1988.

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.

Publication(s):

Sectionalism and Party Politics in Alabama (1816-1842). Menasha, Wis.; George Banta Pub. Co., 1919.

Joint_Publication(s):

(with Smith Burnham). America Our Country. Chicago; John C. Winston Co., 1934.

(with Smith Burnham). The Story of America for Young Americans. Philadelphia; John C. Winston Co., 1932-.

Papers;

A collection of papers of Theodore Henley Jack’s service at Emory University (1911-1933) is held by the special collections library at Emory University.

Biography:

Attorney. Born– June 6, 1914, Clio. Parents– William Alto and Lula Jane (Loftin) Jackson. Married– Emma Pearl Norton, March 28, 1941. Children– Four. Education– University of Alabama, B.S., 1935, J.D. 1937. Admitted to the bar, 1937, and practiced law in Clio, 1937-1939 and after 1945; served in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate  Division, 1942-1945; taught at Troy University, 1967-2004.  Served as Deputy Directory, Troy University Fort Rucker branch.  Member of  town council of Clio, 1948-1952; member and chair, Barbour County Board of Education. Member; Farrah Law Society, Wiregrass Historical Society, Alpha Kappa Psi, Methodist Church. One of the founders of the Amariah B. Stubbs Sr. Historical Association. Awarded emeritus status at Troy University, 2004.  An endowed scholarship was created in his honor at the University of Alabama.  Died July 16, 2011.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1975.

Obituary, Troy Messenger, July 20, 2011.

Publication(s):

Clio, Alabama; a History. Clio, Ala.; Author, 1979.

A Chronicle of My Remembering.  1997

Reflections.  2002.

Editor:

So Mourns the Dove; Letters of a Confederate Infantryman and His Family. New York; Exposition Press, 1965.

Updated 2011-08-03.

Biography:

Historian; college professor. Born– January 15, 1933, Sand Mountain, Blount County. Parents– Luther H. and Winnie (Forrester) Jackson. Married– Patricia Dow, 1954. Children– Four. Education– Birmingham Southern College, B.A., M.A., 1959; University of Georgia, Ph.D., 1963; graduate study at Exeter College of Oxford University, 1966.  Served in the U.S. Air Force, 1951-1954.  Reporter for the Birmingham Post Herald, 1956-1957; taught in the Birmingham public schools, 1957-1959; taught at Western Kentucky University, 1961-2001. Fulbright lecturer, University of Bangalore, India and Quad-e-Azam University, Pakistan; visiting professor at William and Mary, Tufts University, University of Graz (Austria), and University of Maryland’s overseas program at Upper Hayford A.F.B. in England. A University Distinguished Professor at WKU, 1996-2001. First “Honorable Mace” at WKU, named a Kentucky Colonel.  Awarded the status of  Distinguished Professor Emeritus on his retirement in 2001.  Died February 10, 2014.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online; obituary online, February 13, 2014.

The Dreadful Month.

Publication(s):

Child of the Sit-Downs:  The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger.  Kent State University Press, 2008.

The Dreadful Month. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982.

Forgotten Tragedy:  The Sinking of HMT Rohna.  Annapolis:  Naval Institute Press, 1997.

The Great Lili. Harrisburg, Penn.; Stackpole, 1978.

Hattie; the Life of Hattie McDaniel. Lanham, Md.; Madison Books, 1990.

Hounds of the Road. Bowling Green, Ohio; Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984.

J. I. Rodale; Apostle of Nonconformity. New York; Pyramid Press, 1974.

P.S. I Love You.  Lexington:  University Press of Kentucky, 2007.

Presidential Vetoes, 1792-1945. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1967

Who Will Take Our Children. New York; Methuen, 1985

Zane Grey. Boston; Twayne, 1973.

Joint_Publication(s):

Challenge to Change. River Forest, Ill.; Laidlaw Bros., 1973.

Foundation of Freedom. River Forest, Ill.; Laidlaw Bros., 1973.

Kentucky Outlaw Man:  A Novel Based on the Life of George Al Edwards.  Bell Buckle TN:  Iris Press, 1994.

Two Centuries of Progress. River Forest, Ill.; Laidlaw Bros., 1974.

Editor;

Dickens, Monica.  Befriending:  The American Samaritans.  Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996.

Grey, Zane.  George Washington, Frontiersman.  Lexington:  University Press of Kentucky, 1994.

Papers;

The papers of Carlton Luther Jackson are held by the Special Collections Library at Western Kentucky University.

Biography:

Secretary; court reporter; businesswoman; writer. Born– February 19, 1911, Hamburg, Iowa. Parents– Henry Oliver and Mattie (Landreth) Greenlee. Married– Fred Knox Jackson, October 3, 1944. Legal secretary, Auburn, Nebraska, 1927-1929; secretary, Kansas City, Mo., 1929-1933; correspondent, Washington, 1933-1936, and Kansas City, 1936-1940; freelance court and contract reporter, St. Louis, 1940-1944, and Prattville, Ala.; for the Alabama Public Service Commission; co-owner and operator of Prattville Quick Freeze, 1948-1963; owner of Quiet Acre, Cottonwood, Ala., 1968-1973. Member; National League of American Pen Women; Birmingham Opera Guild; Alabama Writers Conclave; and other state organizations. Governor’s Award winner, Conference on Volunteerism, 1989. Died June 12, 1997.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1975.

Publication(s):

Fallen Leaves. Philadelphia; Dorrance, 1968.

Poody; Story of a Cat-Nothing But a Cat. S.l.; s.n., 1970.

Editor:

Research 1970; an Annotated List of Research and Demonstration Grants, 1955-1969. Washington, D.C.; U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1970.

Research 1971: An Annotated List of Social and Rehabilitation Service Research and Demonstration Grants, 1955-1971. Washington, D.C.; U.S. Social and Rehabilitation Service, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1971.

Biography:

Ethnomusicologist, linguist, college professor. Born– August 20, 1874, Monson, Maine (moved to Birmingham as a child). Parents– George Frederick and Ann Jane (Pullen) Jackson. Married– Inez Emeline Wright, December 23, 1906 (died 1918).  Children–two. Married– Lois Diantha Barnes, December 18, 1926 (died 1939). Education– Royal Conservatory of Music, Dresden, 1897-1898; Vanderbilt University, 1900-1901; University of Chicago, Ph.B., 1904, Ph.D., 1911; postgraduate work, University of Chicago, University of Munich, University of Bonn. Employed by his father’s company, Huston Biscuit Co., Birmingham, 1895-1900; taught German at Kansas State Agricultural College; Case School of Applied Science; University of Chicago; Oberlin College; Northwestern University; University of North Dakota; Vanderbilt University, 1918-1943. President, University Philharmonic Society, Grand Fork, North Dakota; founder of Nashville Symphony Orchestra; founder of Tennessee Music Teachers Association; founder of Old Harp Singers of Nashville and other shaped note singing groups; member, board of advisors to the editors of Southern Folklore Quarterly; member and president, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Died January 19, 1953.

Source:

“George Pullen Jackson, An Appreciation,” Southern Folklore Quarterly, XVII (March 1953).

Marquis Who’s Who Online.

Publication(s):

Another Sheaf of White Spirituals. Gainesville, Fla.; University of Florida Press, 1952.

Down East Spirituals. New York; J.J. Augustin, 1943.

Spiritual Folksongs of Early America. New York; J. J. Augustin, 1937.

Story of the Sacred Harp. Nashville; Vanderbilt University Press, 1944.

White and Negro Spirituals. New York; J. J. Augustin, 1943.

White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1933.

Editor:

American Folk Music for High School and Other Choral Groups. Boston; C. C. Burchard, 1947.

Papers;

The Special Collections Department at the Heard Library at Vanderbilt University holds an extensive collection of papers and other materials of George Pullen Jackson. A collection of George Pullen Jackson’s books and papers is held by the library at UCLA.

Updated 09/21/2011

Biography;

Historian; professor of history.  Born–February 25, 1943, Junction City, Kansas.  Parents–Harvey H. Jackson Jr. and Elizabeth W. Jackson.  Married–Marcia Flood, 1966; children–one.  Married–Suzanne Brown, 1988; children–two.  Education–Marion Military Institute, graduated 1963; Birmingham-Southern College, B.A., 1965; University of Alabama, B.A., 1966; University of Georgia, Ph. D., 1973. Taught at South Florida Junior College, Avon Park, 1966-70; at Clayton Jr. College, Morrow, Georgia, 1973-1990; at Jacksonville State University, Professor and Chair of History and Foreign Languages, 1990-2008; retired as chair to become Eminent Scholar in History .  Member Alabama Historical Society; Society of Alabama Historians;  Society for Historians of the Early American Republic; Southern Historical Association; Georgia Association of Historians; Georgia Historical Society; Atlanta Historical Society. Awarded Colonial Dames Fellowship, 1972; Alex Bealer Award from Atlanta Historical Society, 1980; Jacksonville State University College of Letters and Sciences Distinguished Research Award, 1995; JSU Faculty Scholar Lecture Award; Milo B. Howard Award (Alabama Historical Association); Virginia  B. Hamilton Award; John F. Ramsey Award of Merit.

Sources;

Contemporary Authors online; Jacksonville State University website

Publications;

Inside Alabama:  A Personal History of my State.  Tuscaloosa:  University of Alabama Press, 2004.

Lachlan McIntosh and the  Politics of Revolutionary Georgia.  University of Georgia Press, 1979; 2003.

Putting Loafing Streams to Work:  The Building of Lay, Mitchell, Martin, and Jordan Dams, 1910-1929. University of Alabama Press, 1997.

The Rise and Decline of the Redneck Riviera:  An Insider’s History of the Florida-Alabama Coast.  University of Georgia Press, 2011.

Rivers of History:   Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama.  University of Alabama Press, 1995.

Joint_Publications;

Georgia Signers and the Declaration of Independence.  Cherokee Press, 1981.

Joint_Editor;

Forty Years of Diversity:  Essays on Colonial Georgia.  University of Georgia Press, 1984.

Oglethorpe in Perspective:  Georgia’s Founder after Two Hundred Years. University of Alabama Press, 1989.

Biography:

Gerontologist; researcher; professor of sociology. Born– February 24, 1932, Winston Salem, N.C.; grew up in Tuskegee.  Parents– James A. and Beulah Naomi (Crosby) Johnson. Married- Frederick A.S.Clarke, August 26, 1953. Married – Murphy Jackson, May 15, 1962.  Children–one.  Education– University of Wisconsin, Madison, B.S., 1953, M.S., 1955; Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1960; further study at Tuskegee Institute, University of Colorado, Duke University, University of North Carolina. Taught sociology at Philander Smith College, 1954-1955; Southern University, 1959-1962; Jackson State University, 1962-1964; Howard University, 1964-1966; Duke University Medical Center, 1968-98; additional special annual appointment at Howard University, 1978-85; taught at St. Augustine’s College, Raleigh, after retirement at Duke.  Awarded fellowships from the John Hay Whitney, Ford, and National Science Foundations, and the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Has lectured and participated in colloquia, seminars or workshops at more than 175 colleges and universities in the U.S., 1965-1984; presented papers at several international Gerontological Association meetings. Associate editor and editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Minority Aging, Social Problems, International Journal of Aging and Human Development, and Journal of Social Service Research. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Sociological Association; Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists; and other professional organizations. Contributed articles to numerous periodicals and chapters to several books. Received emerita status at Duke on her retirement in 1998. Received the President’s Award from the Association of Homes for the Aging, 1972; Black Women in Education Award, Clark College, 1975; Simon Fuller Award from the American Psychiatric Association, 1978; Pioneer Award, National Black Aging Network, 1990. Died January 28, 2004.

Source:

Jacquelyne Johnson Jackson, Durham, N.C.; Marquis Who’s Who online

Publication(s):

Minorities and Aging. Belmont, Calif.; Wadsworth, 1980.

These Rights They Seek. Washington, D.C.; Public Affairs Press, 1962.

Editor:

Aging Black Women. Washington, D.C.; National Caucus on the Black Aged, 1975.

Biography:

Librarian, library administrator. Born– October 7, 1933, Brewton. Married–Mary Barrows. Education– Samford University, B.A., 1954; Peabody College, M.A.L.S., 1955; Vanderbilt University, Ph. D. . Employed by University of Alabama libraries as a cataloger, 1955-1963, as head of the science library, 1963-1969, acting dean of libraries, 1969-1972; University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, director of Libraries, 1973-1994. Member; Alabama Library Association; Southeastern Library Association; American Library Association, Phi Delta Kappa, Beta Phi Mu.  With his wife, Professor Mary B. Jackson, was honored as Phi Delta Kappa Educators of the Year and Chattanooga’s Outstanding Philanthropists of the Year, 2010.  Died September 16, 2011.

Source:

Who’s Who in Library and Information Services, 1982; obituary.

Publication(s):

Masonry in Alabama; a Sesquicentennial History, 1821-1971. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Printing Co., 1970.

Biography:

Playwright; theatre director; university professor of dramatic arts. Born– February 25, 1941, Helena, Ark. Parents– Howard L. and Edna (Warren) Jackson. Education– Memphis State University, B.S., 1963; Kent State University, M.A., 1964; Southern Illinois University, Ph.D., 1971. Taught high school in Antwerp, Ohio, 1964-1965; taught at Wisconsin State University in Eau Claire, 1967-1968; San Francisco State University, 1968-1970; University of South Alabama, 1971-2003, chair, Department of Dramatic Arts, 1978-2003.  Author and director of many local and university theater productions. Member, American Alliance of Theatre and Education; Association for Theatre in Higher Education; Dramatists Guild; Alabama Theatre League.  Awards:  Pioneer Drama Service national award, 1979, 1980; first alternate, O’Neill Playwriting Contest, 1973; Arts and Sciences Faculty Award, University of South Alabama, 1992-93.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

University of South Alabama website.

Publications (Plays):

The Adventures of Peter Cottontail. Denver; Pioneer Drama Service, 1981.

Animal Krackers. Denver; Pioneer Drama Service, 1983.

Amazing Grace and her Jellybean Tree.  I. E. Clark, 1995.

Arnold.  Pioneer Drama Service, 1985.

Babes in Toyland.  I. E. Clark, 1987.

Boogie Man Rock.  Baker’s Plays, 1984.

The Brave Little Tailor.  Pioneer Drama Service, 1991.

Brer Rabbit’s Big Secret.  Pioneer Drama Service, 1979.

Christmas Crisis at Mistletoe Mesa.  Pioneer Drama Service, 1987.

Christmas with the Three Bears.  I. E. Clark, 1990.

Coffee Pott and the Wolf Man. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1982.

The Crazy Paper Caper. Elgin, Ill.; Performance Publishing, 1976.

The Creepy Castle Hassle. Elgin, Ill.; Performance Publishing, 1975.

The Creepy Crawlers.  Franklin, OH:  Eldridge Publishing Co., 1994.

The Dancing Snowman. Denver; Pioneer Drama Service, 1989.

Eight Plays for Youth. New York; P. Lang, 1991.

Ferdinand and the Dirty Knight. Denver; Pioneer Drama Service, 1968.

A Golden Fleecing. Denver; Pioneer Drama Service, 1980.

Goofus and Doofus.  Eldridge Publishing Company, 1995.

The Hatfields and the McFangs.  Performance Publishing, 1982.

Hospital Hijinx.  Eldridge Publishing Company, 1994.

The Hunting of the Snark.  I. E. Clark, 1987.

The Inn-Spectre. Elgin, Ill.; Performance Publishing, 1983.

The Invasion of the Killer Carrotts. Elgin, Ill.; Performance Publishing, 1983.

Lindy.  Performance Publishing, 1981.

Little Red Riding Wolf. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1973.

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Denver; Pioneer Drama Services, 1988.

The Little Mermaid.  Pioneer Drama Service, 1991.

Peter and the Wolf.  I. E. Clark, 1993.

Peter Pan in Neverland.  I. E. Clark, 1991.

Pinocchio; a 2-Act Musical Play. Schulenburg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1985.

Popeye the Sailor.  Pioneer Drama Service, 1984.

The Princess and the Goblin. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1983.

Rag Dolls. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1981.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Santa.  I. E. Clark, 1990.

Rumpelstiltskin is My Name. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1977.

Secret Garden.  I. E. Clark, 1992.

School for Nerds. Denver; Pioneer Drama Services, 1989.

The Sleeping Beauty. Denver; Pioneer Drama Service, 1976.

Snowballs and Grapevines.  Published in Dekalb Literary Journal, 1976.

Snowhite and the Space Gwarfs.  Pioneer Drama Service, 1980.

Song of Hiawatha. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1988.

Superkid. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1980.

Switcheroo.  Eldridge Publishing Company, 1995.

Triple Play. Chicago; Dramatic Publishing, 1974.

Unidentified Flying Reject. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1982.

Who Can Fix the Dragon’s Wagon. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1973.

Wild Pecos Bill.  Eldridge Publishing Company, 1995.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; a Two-Act Play. Schulenberg, Tex.; I. E. Clark, 1977.

You’re a Grand Old Flag.  I. E. Clark, 1992.

Joint author;

Bumper Snickers.  I. E. Clark, 1978.

Biography:

Businessman, columnist. Born– August 19, 1901, Glenwood. Parents– Abner Dozier and Telitha Cumi (Henderson) Jackson. Married– Myra Petrey, March 7, 1924. Children– Three. Married– Allie Carroll Murphree, September 28, 1968. Education– Glenwood Public School; University of Alabama. Employed by the W.L. Petrey Wholesale Co., 1924-. His book is a selection of columns published over a twenty year period in the Luverne Journal, Luverne, Ala.  Died July 26, 1986.

Source:

Sid Jackson, Sr., Petrey, Ala.

Publication(s):

Here & There. S.l.; s.n., 1982.