{"id":1308,"date":"2018-05-01T13:47:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2018-05-01T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:48:14","slug":"hamill-howard-melancthon-1849-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"HAMILL, HOWARD MELANCTHON, 1849-1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Methodist clergyman, educator. Born&#8211; August 10, 1849, Lowndesboro. Parents&#8211; Edward Joseph and Anne Jane Hamill. Married&#8211; Ada L. Tuman, July 7, 1885. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; East Alabama Male College at Auburn, A.B., 1868; Illinois College, A.M. 1900.\u00a0\u00a0 Served in Civil War, 1864-1865. Held positions as city school superintendent in Illinois and Missouri; president of the Missouri State Teachers Association in 1885. Ordained a Methodist minister, 1885. Active as fieldworker in Methodist Sunday School movement; established the first State Sunday School normal department in 1889. Superintendent of\u00a0Sunday School program in Illinois, 1889-96; international Sunday School field secretary, 1896-1902. Chaplain-general of United Confederate Veterans, 1913. \u00a0D.D. Illinois College, 1900. Died January 22, 1915.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online.<\/p>\n<p>Owens, T.M., History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sam Davis; a True Story of a Young Confederate Soldier. Griffin, Ga.; Mills Printing Co., 1911?<\/p>\n<p>The Bible and Its Books. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1903.<\/p>\n<p>Legion of Honor Teacher-Training Lessons. Chicago; W. B. Jacobs, 1908.<\/p>\n<p>Manual of Southern Methodism; including Church History, Doctrine, Polity, and Missions. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1909.<\/p>\n<p>Practical Outline; Study of the Four Gospels. Chicago; Winonn Publishing, 1904.<\/p>\n<p>The Old South, a Monograph. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1904.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday School Teacher. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1902.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Methodist clergyman, educator. Born&#8211; August 10, 1849, Lowndesboro. Parents&#8211; Edward Joseph and Anne Jane Hamill. Married&#8211; Ada L. Tuman, July 7, 1885. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; East Alabama Male College at Auburn, A.B., 1868; Illinois College, A.M. 1900.\u00a0\u00a0 Served in Civil War, 1864-1865. Held positions as city school superintendent in Illinois and Missouri; president of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7953,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/7953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}