{"id":1619,"date":"2016-09-27T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1619"},"modified":"2018-07-20T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T16:22:20","slug":"jordan-weymouth-tyree-1912-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1619","title":{"rendered":"JORDAN, WEYMOUTH TYREE, 1912-1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian, agriculturalist, teacher. Born&#8211; Oct. 31, 1912, Hamlet, N.C. Parents&#8211; William Daniel and Etta Mary (Utley) Jordan. Married&#8211; Louise Elizabeth Riggan, Aug. 11, 1935. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; North Carolina State College, B.S., 1933; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1934, Ph.D., 1937; postdoctoral study, Graduate School, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1947, and Iowa State College, 1948. Taught in Kentucky, North Carolina, and at Judson College, 1938-1940; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1941-1949; Florida State University,\u00a0 1949-1968. Head of the FSU department of history, 1955-64. Received research grants for the study of pre-Civil War plantation practices, plantation medicine in the old South, and\u00a0 Southern agriculture. Authored a number of articles and reviews. Member; Organization of American Historians; American Studies Association; American, Southern, Mississippi Valley, Alabama, and Florida historical associations; and others. Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Died November 22, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ante-Bellum Alabama; Town and Country. Tallahassee, Fla.; Florida State University, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>George Washington Campbell of Tennessee&#8211; Western Statesman. Tallahassee, Fla.; Florida State University, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Herbs, Hoecakes, and Husbandry; the Daybook of a Planter of the Old South. Tallahassee, Fla.; Florida State University, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Davis and His Alabama Plantation. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865; a Roster. Raleigh, N.C.; State Dept. of Archives and History, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Rebels in the Making; Planters&#8217; Conventions and Southern Propaganda. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1958.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, 1783-1861; From Revolution to Civil War. New York; Pageant Press, 1964.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Weymouth Tyree Jordan is held by the library at Florida State University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian, agriculturalist, teacher. Born&#8211; Oct. 31, 1912, Hamlet, N.C. Parents&#8211; William Daniel and Etta Mary (Utley) Jordan. Married&#8211; Louise Elizabeth Riggan, Aug. 11, 1935. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; North Carolina State College, B.S., 1933; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1934, Ph.D., 1937; postdoctoral study, Graduate School, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1947, and Iowa State College, 1948. Taught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8449,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions\/8449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}