{"id":1711,"date":"2012-11-12T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2018-10-11T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:56:42","slug":"mason-david-pierce-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1711","title":{"rendered":"MASON, DAVID PIERCE, 1919-1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; teacher;university professor. Born&#8211; November 19, 1919, Stockton, Baldwin County, Ala. Parents&#8211;Isaac Pierce Mason and Annie Serena Crosby Mason. Married&#8211; Nancy Higgins, March 8, 1943. Children&#8211;three. \u00a0Education&#8211; graduated from McCallie School, Chattanooga; \u00a0B.A., University of Alabama, 1941; graduate work, Vanderbilt University; M.Ed., Emory, 1950; Ed.D., University of Georgia, 1957.\u00a0 Served in U.S. Army, WWII and Korean Conflict. Teacher; principal, Stockton School, 1946-1956; taught at University of Georgia, 1956-1962; Tift College, 1962-1967; University of South Alabama, 1967. Member Sons of the American Revolution (served as state president); charter member of Fort Mims Restoration Association. Died January 7, 1994.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leaders in Education, 1974 and\u00a0 Five Dollars a Scalp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five Dollars a Scalp; the Last Mighty War Whoop of the Creek Indians. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode Publishers, 1975.<\/p>\n<p>The Oaks of Fort Mims. Mobile, Ala.; University of South Alabama, 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; teacher;university professor. Born&#8211; November 19, 1919, Stockton, Baldwin County, Ala. Parents&#8211;Isaac Pierce Mason and Annie Serena Crosby Mason. Married&#8211; Nancy Higgins, March 8, 1943. Children&#8211;three. \u00a0Education&#8211; graduated from McCallie School, Chattanooga; \u00a0B.A., University of Alabama, 1941; graduate work, Vanderbilt University; M.Ed., Emory, 1950; Ed.D., University of Georgia, 1957.\u00a0 Served in U.S. Army, WWII [&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-1711","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\/1711","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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8933,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/8933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}