{"id":1708,"date":"2012-11-12T15:32:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T22:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2018-10-12T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:52:12","slug":"mathews-mitford-mcleod-1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"MATHEWS, MITFORD McLEOD, 1891-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lexicographer; editor, lecturer. Born&#8211; Jackson, Ala., February 12, 1891. Parents&#8211; James Waldrum and Frances Isabella McLeod. Married&#8211; Georgia Jane Garrett, August 7, 1919. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., Southern University, 1915; A.M., University of Alabama, 1917; Ph.D., Harvard, 1936. U.S. Navy, WWI. \u00a0Employed as instructor, Scarritt-Morrisville (Mo.) College, 1915-1916; high school principal, Ala., 1919-1927; instructor, University of Chicago, 1926-1931; staff, Dictionary of American English, 1925-1944; lecturer, Department of Linguistics, 1951-1957; editor, Dictionary Department, 1944-1956. Member&#8211; editorial staff, Webster New World Dictionary, after 1957. Honors&#8211; Loubat Award, 1953.\u00a0 Died February 14, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online; ancestry.com; obituary, <em>New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Words. Cleveland; World, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The Beginning of American English. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>A Dictionary of Americanism. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Dictionary of Selected Americanisms. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Some Sources of Southernism. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>A Survey of English Dictionaries. London; Oxford University Press, 1933.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching to Read Historically Considered. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Words; How to Know Them. New York; Holt, 1956.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Lexicographer; editor, lecturer. Born&#8211; Jackson, Ala., February 12, 1891. Parents&#8211; James Waldrum and Frances Isabella McLeod. Married&#8211; Georgia Jane Garrett, August 7, 1919. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., Southern University, 1915; A.M., University of Alabama, 1917; Ph.D., Harvard, 1936. U.S. Navy, WWI. \u00a0Employed as instructor, Scarritt-Morrisville (Mo.) College, 1915-1916; high school principal, Ala., 1919-1927; instructor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8941,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/8941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}