{"id":1879,"date":"2016-04-08T09:28:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2016-04-08T09:28:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T16:28:27","slug":"scott-vern-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"SCOTT, VERN, 1911-1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businessman, journalist. Born&#8211; Mar. 7, 1911, in Coldwater, Ala. Parents&#8211; M.C. and Millie Lou (Heaton) Scott. Education&#8211; self-educated after 8th grade. Mailman; sign painter; cinema manager; variety store owner; watch repairer; columnist for Talladega Daily Home and for Western Publications. Member&#8211; Alabama Writers Conclave; chairman Talladega Chamber of Commerce Beautification Committee; honored by Helping Hand Club of Anniston, the City of Talladega, Talladega Co. Commission, Lt. Gov. George McMillan, and Gov. Fob James; received Award of Merit and Distinguished Service Award by Alabama Historical Commission; honored by Alabama legislature in declaring &#8220;Vern Scott Day in Alabama&#8221; in 1981. Died August 22, 1995.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vern Scott and Lucy R. Barnett, Talladega, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Boswell Invents an Aeroplane. Talledega, Ala.; Talladega County Historical Association, 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Rural Churches, Talladega County, Alabama. S.l.; s.n., 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Talladega Town Tour. Talladega, Ala.; Talladega Historical Association, 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businessman, journalist. Born&#8211; Mar. 7, 1911, in Coldwater, Ala. Parents&#8211; M.C. and Millie Lou (Heaton) Scott. Education&#8211; self-educated after 8th grade. Mailman; sign painter; cinema manager; variety store owner; watch repairer; columnist for Talladega Daily Home and for Western Publications. Member&#8211; Alabama Writers Conclave; chairman Talladega Chamber of Commerce Beautification Committee; honored by Helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","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=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5345,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/5345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}