{"id":1926,"date":"2014-02-21T15:42:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T22:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2015-04-22T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:43:08","slug":"ruffin-margaret-ellen-henry-1857","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1926","title":{"rendered":"RUFFIN, MARGARET ELLEN HENRY, 1857-1941."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer. Born&#8211; August 26, 1857, Daphne. Parents&#8211; Thomas and Mary (Nugent) Henry. Married&#8211; Francis Gildart Ruffin, Jr., April 20, 1887. Children&#8211; Six. Education&#8211; Immaculate Conception School and Visitation Convent in Mobile, graduated from St. Joseph&#8217;s College, Emmitsburg, Md., 1877. President of Catholic Knights and Ladies of America, Branch No. 130.\u00a0 Awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by St. Joseph&#8217;s College, 1907. Died December 19, 1941.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s History of Alabama; Baldwin County Genealogy website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drifting Leaves. New York; Catholic Publishing Society, 1884.<\/p>\n<p>Eden of the James.<\/p>\n<p>John Gildart, an Historic Poem. New York; W. H. Young &amp; Co., 1901.<\/p>\n<p>The North Star; a Tale of Norway in the Tenth Century. Boston; Little, 1904.<\/p>\n<p>Personal Memories of Father Ryan, the Southern Poet-Priest.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Funk and Wagnalls, 1899.<\/p>\n<p>The Shield of Silence. New York; Benziger Brothers, 1914.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. Born&#8211; August 26, 1857, Daphne. Parents&#8211; Thomas and Mary (Nugent) Henry. Married&#8211; Francis Gildart Ruffin, Jr., April 20, 1887. Children&#8211; Six. Education&#8211; Immaculate Conception School and Visitation Convent in Mobile, graduated from St. Joseph&#8217;s College, Emmitsburg, Md., 1877. President of Catholic Knights and Ladies of America, Branch No. 130.\u00a0 Awarded the honorary degree [&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-1926","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\/1926","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=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4264,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/4264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}