McGRAW, EDGAR LEON, 1917-1987

Biography:

Editor; teacher. Born– July 21, 1917, Anderson, Lauderdale County, Ala. Parents– Lee Andrew and Louisa Idenia (Nix) McGraw. Married– Jonnie Faye Richardson, April 6, 1938. Children– Three. Education– University of North Alabama, 1935-1937; B.S., 1941; M.S., 1949, additional study, Auburn University; University of Kentucky. Employed as an elementary school teacher, Lauderdale County, 1937-1939; assistant editor, Auburn University’s Cooperative Extension Service, 1941-1944; U.S. Army, 1944-1945; taught vocational agriculture, Town Creek, 1944-1948; subject matter specialist in vocational agriculture, Auburn University, 1948-1957; associate editor, Auburn University’s Agricultural Experiment Station, 1957-1968; head, Department of Research Information and Editor, Auburn University’s Agricultural Experiment Station, 1968-1982; edited, Auburn University Self Study, 1982-1983; Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1984-1986. Member– Phi Delta Kappa, Gamma Sigma Delta, Kappa Delta Pi; served as secretary-treasurer, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists; president, Auburn Lions Club.  Died December 10, 1987.

Source:

Edgar Leon McGraw, Auburn, Ala.

Joint_Publication(s):

Farm Business Management. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn Printing Co., 1962.

Geography of Alabama; Her Land and People. Montgomery, Ala.; Viewpoint, 1966.

Editor:

Vertebrate Wildlife of Alabama. Opelika, Ala.; Craftmaster Printers, 1984.

Vertebrate Animals of Alabama in Need of Special Attention. Opelika, AIa.; Craftmaster Printers, 1986.

McGREGOR, ALBERT ALEXANDER, 1835-1907

Biography:

Educator; farmer.  Born– March 1, 1835, Lawrence County, Ala. Parents– William and Elizabeth (Carpenter) McGregor. Married– Celia King, December 23, 1858. Children– Seven. Married–Harriet C. Cooper, February 13, 1902. Education– LaGrange College, LaGrange, Ala., graduated 1854. Employed as chair of mathematics, LaGrange College, 1855-1861; Confederate States Army, 1861-1865; cotton farmer 1865-70; taught at LaGrange College, 1870-1876; Tuscumbia Academy; president, Hartselle College, after 1858.  Died March 11, 1907.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography; obituary

Publication(s):

History of LaGrange College. S.l.; s.n., 190-? (LaGrange Military Academy, LaGrange, Ala.)

McGREGOR, ALBERT G.

See McGregor, Albert Alexander

McILHENNY, EDWARD AVERY, 1872-1949

Biography:

Businessman; conservationist; explorer. Born– March 29, 1872, Avery Island, La. Parents– Edmund and Mary Eliza (Avery) McIlhenny. Education– Wyman’s Institute (Ill.), 1885-1887; Holland School (N.Y.), 1887-1890; Lehigh University, 1890-1892. Married– Mary Matthews, June 9, 1900. Children– Three. Served as president of the McIlhenny Company (produced Tobasco Sauce), Petite Company, Jungle Gardens, Jan Jean Lafitte Company. Joined the Naturalist Peary Relief Expedition, 1893; headed his own Arctic expedition, 1897-1899. Created a wildlife refuge on the family estate on Avery Island; led an effort to designate a large tract of Lousiana coastal marshlands as a Bird Sanctuary.  Banded thousands of birds and published studies in scientific journals. Member– National Audubon Society, American Game Protection Society, American Museum of Natural History, American Ornithologists Union, American Society of Mammalogists. The E. S. McIlhenny Collection of Natural History in the Library of Lousiana State University was named in his honor. Died August 8, 1949.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online

Publication(s):

The Alligator’s Life History. Boston; Christopher Publishing House, 1935.

The Autobiography of an Egret. New York; Hastings House, 1939.

Bird City. Boston; Christopher Publishing House, 1933.

The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914.

McKINNEY, JOHN WILLIAM, 1908-1989

Biography:

Agriculturalist; editor. Born– August 12, 1908, Greenville, S.C. Parents– Scion Blythe and Sue (Smith) McKinney. Married– Adelaide Wigington, 1931. Children– Five. Education– Clemson University, 1926-1928; Iowa State College; University of Southern California, 1929; B.S., Cornell University, 1930. Employed as a vocational education teacher, South Carolina Department of Education, Madison, 1935-1941; farm supervisor, Farm Security Administration, Spartanburg, 1941-1943; U.S. Soil Conservation Service, Spartanburg, S.C., Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hartwell, Ga., 1943-1947; Progressive Farmer, Birmingham, Ala., associate editor, 1947-59; photographic editor, 1959. Served in the Peace Corps in Malaysia, 1973-76. Died June 28, 1989.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

The Sheep Book. New York; Wiley, 1957.

The Willow Farm Pickle Book. Lightning Tree, 1973.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Livestock Book. Memphis; W. R. Thompson, 1952.

McKINNEY, KATE SLAUGHTER, 1859-1939

Biography:

Writer. Born– February 6, 1859, London, Ky. Parents– James Love and Lucinda Jane Price Slaughter. Married– James Isaac McKinney, May 7, 1878. Lived in Montgomery, where her husband was superintendent of the L & N Railroad. Education– Daughters’ College, a private girls’ school in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Began writing poems in her teens; published in local and national newspapers and journals. Used pen name “Katydid.”  Elected Poet Laureate, State of Alabama, 1931. Died 1939.

Source:

Who’s Who of North American Authors and  American Literary Yearbook.

Publication(s):

Katydid’s Poems. Louisville, Ky.; Courier-Journal Printing Co., 1887.

Palace of Silver (poems). New York; H. Vinal, Ltd., 1927.

The Silent Witness; a Tale of a Kentucky Tragedy. New York; Neale, 1906.

The Weed by the Wall. Boston; R. G. Badger, 1911.

McKOWN, DELOS BANNING, 1930-

Biography:

University professor. Born– August 30, 1930, Muir, Mich. Parents– Laurel Ellis and Irene Elizabeth (Banning) McKown. Married– Anna Louise Watts, September 4, 1958. Children– Two. Education– B.A., Alma College, 1951; B.D., Lexington Theological Seminary, 1955; M.A., University of Kentucky, 1958; Ecumenical Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, 1958; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1972. Employed as clergyman, Disciples of Christ, 1951; minister, Muir, Michigan, Church of Christ, 1949-1951; Jackson, Ky. Christian Church, 1951-1955; Cynthiana, Ky., 1955-1958. Instructor of religion and philosophy, Berea College, 1958-1959; University of Idaho, 1960-1961; Little Rock University, 1961-1962; Auburn University, 1962-1999 (Head of Philosophy Department, 1972-99). Member ad president of the Auburn, Ala. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. Awarded status of professor emeritus at Auburn on his retirement in 1999.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1974,  Who’s Who in Religion, 1975.

Publication(s):

Behold the Antichrist:  Bentham on Religion. Amherst, NY:  P

The Classical Marxist Critiques of Religion; Marx, Engels, Lenin, Kautsky. The Hague, Netherlands; Martinus Nijhoff, 1975.

With Faith and Fury. Buffalo, N.Y.; Prometheus Books, 1985.

McKREADY, KELVIN (Pseudonym)

See:

Murphy, Edgar Gardner

McLAIN, CATHERINE RODGERS

See:

Rodgers, Catherine

McLAURIN, MELTON ALONZA, 1941-

Biography:

Historian; university professor. Born– July 11, 1941, Fayetteville, N.C. Parents– A. Merrill and Thelma (Melton) McLaurin. Married– Sandra Cockrell, November 23, 1961. Children– Two. Education– B.S., East Carolina University, 1962; M.A., 1964; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1967. History instructor, University of South Alabama, 1967-1977; University of North Carolina, Wilmington, 1977-2004; Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UNCW, 1996-2003. Chair of NC Humanities Council. Member– Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association, North Carolina Historical Society. Awarded emeritus status at UNCW on his retirement in 2018. Received the Lillian Smith Award for Non-Fiction, for Separate Pasts, 1988, and the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina’s highest award for service to the state, in 2018.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s):

Celia, a Slave. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1991.

The Knights of Labor in the South. Westport, Conn.; Greenwood Press, 1978.

The Marines of Montford Point: America’s First Black Marines.  University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

The North Carolina State Fair:  The First 150 Years. Office of Archives and History. N. C. Dept. of Cultural Resources, 2003.

Paternalism and Protest; Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875-1905. Westport, Conn.; Greenwood Pub. Corp., 1971.

Separate Pasts; Growing up White in the Segregated South. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Image of Progress; Alabama Photographs, 1872-1917. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1980.

Mobile; American River City. Mobile, Ala.; Easter Pub. Co., 1975.

Mobile; the Life and Times of a Great Southern City. Woodland Hills, Calif.; Windsor Publications, 1981.

Joint_Editor;

You Wrote My Life:  Lyrical Themes in Country Music.  Gordon and Breach, 1992.

McLEOD, GROVER STEPHEN, 1923-2012

Biography:

Attorney; businessman. Born– June 15, 1923, Shelby County, Ala. Parents– Grover C. and Lucile (Meeks) McLeod. Married– Esme Hope, Australia, May 4, 1947. Children– Four. Education– Birmingham Southern College, University of Western Australia School of Law, University of Alabama School of Law and the University of Texas. U.S. Navy submarine service, 1941-1946.  Practiced law in Birmingham for fifty years; board certified as a civil practice lawyer.  Involved in various business enterprises, including mortgage banking and real estate. Member– U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II; Alabama and American Bar Associations; Jefferson County Pensions and Securities Board. Assisted in the commissioning of the U.S.S.Drum and the U.S.S. Alabama. Died August 22, 2012.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. III; obituary, Birmingham News, August 22, 2010.

Publication(s):

About Women. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1979.

The Bottom Stories. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1971.

Civil Actions at Law in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1980.

Equitable Remedies and Extraordinary Writs in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1981.

Ghost of the Chimera. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1988.

Sketches From the Bar. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1966.

Sub Duty. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1986.

Sub Sailor. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1964.

Submarine Stories. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1977.

The Sultan’s Gold and Other Fleet Type Submarine Stories. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1988.

Teodoro. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1969?

Trial Practice and Procedure in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1983.

The Trials of Fat, an Illustrious Member of the Criminal Bar. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1989.

Worker’s (sic.) Compensation in Alabama for On-the-Job Injuries. Birmingham, Ala.; Manchester Press, 1990.

McLESTER, JAMES SOMERVILLE, 1877-1954

Biography:

Physician, university professor. Born– January 25, 1877, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents– Joseph and Nannie (Somerville) McLester. Married– Ada Bowron, 1903. Children– Three. Education– A.B., University of Alabama, 1896; M.D., University of Virginia, 1899; postgraduate, Gottingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Munich. Employed as chief of medicine, Camp Sheridan, 1917; commanding officer, evacuation hospital, 1918; professor of medicine, University of Alabama, 1919-1950. Member– American College of Physicians; Association of American Physicians, American Climatological and Clinical Association, Southern Medical Association and Alabama Medical Association; president of the Alabama Medical Associations, 1920. Died February 8, 1954.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online

Publication(s):

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Disorder of Metabolism. New York; Oxford University Press, 1928.

Nutrition and Diet in Health and Disease. Philadelphia; W.B. Saunders Co., 1931.

McLIN, ELVA BELL, 1917-2015

Biography;

Professor of English; college archivist.  Born– June 5, 1917, Norcatur, Kansas.  Parents– James S. and Ruth Diefendorf Bell. Married–Paul E. McLin, October 18, 1940.  Children–four.  Education–  Kansas State Teachers College, B. S. Ed., B.A., 1940; University of Alabama, M. A., 1964; Peabody Institute of Vanderbilt University, Ph. D., 1971.  Taught at many levels;  Taught English at Athens State College, 1965-1987; served as head of the English Department. Served as college archivist and historian, 1987-. Historian and Public Information for the Ordnance Division of the U.S. Army; wrote press releases and program histories. Member Sigma Tau Delta English honorary; served as National Historian.  Member College English Association, Shakespeare Association, AAUW and DAR.  Archives at Athens State is named in her honor.  Awarded emeritus status on her retirement at Athens State in 1987.  National Senior Scholarship of Sigma Tau Delta is named in her honor.  Athens State Alumni Association Teacher of the Year, 1987;  Distinguished Alumna Award, Emporia State College, 1991. Died February 21, 2015.

Source;

Obituary; Marquis who’s who online

Publications;

Athens College: A Definitive History, 1881-1991. Athens State College Foundation, 1991.

The Bell-Shirley Family.

Madame Childs of Precious Memory; Jane Hamilton Childs, College President.  Athens State College, 1989.

McMANUS, JOSEPH FORDE ANTHONY, 1911-1980

Biography:

Pathologist; physician; professor of medicine. Born– July 13, 1911, in Blackville, New Brunswick, Canada. Parents– John Patrick Cantwell and Mary Clare Rose (Forde) McManus. Moved to United States, 1938; naturalized, 1947. Education– Fordham University, B.S., 1933; Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, M.D., 1938. Married– Norma Rose Shumway, January 3, 1941. Children– Two. Served as assistant pathologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1938-1940; served in Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, 1940-45; Beit Memorial Fellow, Oxford, 1945-1946; taught at the University of Alabama, 1946-1950 and 1953-1961; University of Virginia, 1950-1953; Indiana University, 1961-1965; executive director, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 1965-70. Professor and Dean, Medical University of South Carolina, 1970-74. Formulated the McManus Periodic Anti-Schiff Stain, used in research and diagnosis of the kidney.  Died March 5, 1980.

Source:

Wikipedia

Publication(s):

The Fundamental Ideas of Medicine; … Springfield, Ill.; Charles Thomas, 1963.

General Pathology; the Biological Aspects of Disease. Chicago; Year Book Medical Publishers, 1966.

Medical Diseases of the Kidney: An Atlas and Introduction.  London: Kimpton, 1950.

Progress in Fundamental Medicine.  Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1952.

Staining Methods, Histologic and histochemical.  New York;  Harper, 1965.

McMILLAN, JAMES BENJAMIN, 1907-1996

Biography:

Linguist; university professor. Born– August 24, 1907, Talladega, Ala. Parents– William C. and Celeste (Miller) McMillan. Married– Antoinette Brannon, August 29, 1931. Children– One. Education– Davidson College, 1925-1926; B.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1929; M.A., University of North Carolina, 1930; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1946; Johns Hopkins, Columbia University. Professor of English linguistics at the University of Alabama, 1931-1975.  Managing editor, Alabama Review, 1947-1963; of Publications of the American Dialect Society, 1964; member, editorial board, American Speech, National University Extension News, College Composition and Communication, Dictionary of American Regional English, Abstracts of English Studies and Harcourt-Brace School Dictionary.  Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Alabama Press, 1945-62. The James B. McMillan Building on the University of Alabama Campus was named in his honor.  Died August 28, 1996.

Source: Contemporary Authors online.

Publication(s): Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English. Coral Gables, Fla.; University of Miama Press, 1971.

Communicative Arts. Birmingham, Ala.; Colonial Press, 1961.

Joint_Publication(s):

Writing and Thinking. Boston; Houghton, 1952.

Joint_Editor:

Dialects in Culture; … University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1979.

McMILLAN, MALCOLM COOK, 1910-1989

Biography:

Historian; University professor. Born– Stockton, Ala., August 22, 1910. Parents– Malcolm and Carolyn Kolb (Cook) McMillan. Married– Dorothy Dismuckes, April 6, 1939. Children– Two. Education– Southwestern College, 1928-1931; A.B., University of Alabama, 1935; M.A., 1939; Ph.D., 1949, North Carolina. Professor of History, Auburn University, 1948-1978; Research Professor, 1954-1963; head, history and political science departments, 1964-1978. Member– Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, Alabama Historical Commission, Southern Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Alabama Education Association; board of editors, Alabama Review. Fellow, 1963-1964. In his honor, the History Department at Auburn established the Malcolm C. McMillan Award for the best student essay on a historical subject. Died July 1, 1989.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online

Publication(s):

The Alabama Confederate Reader. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1963.

Auburn University Through the Years, 1856-1973. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn University, 1973.

Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1798-1901; … Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1955.

The Disintegration of a Confederate State; Three Governors of Alabama’s Wartime Home Front, 1861-1865. Macon, Ga.; Mercer University Press, 1986.

The Land Called Alabama. Austin, Tex.; Steck-Vaughn Co., 1968.

Yesterday’s Birmingham. Miami; E.A. Seaman Pub., 1975.

Indexed:

The Southern States Since the War, 1870-71. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1965.

Papers;

The papers of Malcolm C. McMillan are held by the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.

McMILLAN, NORMAN ROBERT, 1942-

Biography;

College professor of English; writer.  Born 1942, in Greensboro, Alabama.  Married Joan McMillan.  Education; University of Alabama, B.A., 1964; M.A., 1967; University of Michigan, Ph. D.  Taught English at University of Montevallo; Chair of Department of English.  Awarded professor emeritus status upon retirement.  President of Montevallo Arts Council. Executive Secretary of the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English.  Received the Montevallo Alumni Association Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award, 1993; the Outstanding Teaching Award from the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English, 1997; Mitchell Award for Service to the Alabama College English Teachers Association, 1998.Eugene Current-Garcia Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Literary Scholar (from Alabama College English Teachers Association), 2007.

Source;

Don Noble, Climbing Mount Cheaha, Livingston Press, 2004.

Publications;

Distant Son: An Alabama Boyhood.  Brierfield; Cahaba Trace Commission, 2002.

Plays:

Ashes of Roses

If I Had a Dog I’d Name Him Spot

Truman Capote: Against a Copper Sky

Editor;

Three generations of warriors:  The Argonne Trenches, the Flying Tigers, and the Skies of Vietnam.  AuthorHouse, 2002.

Joint_Publications;

No Hill Too High for a Stepper.  Montgomery:  NewSouth Books, 2014.

Joint_editor_and _contributor;

Alabama Bound; Contemporary Stories of A State. Livingston University Press, 1995.

Global Perspectives on Teaching Literature:  Shared visions and distinctive visions.  Urbana, Ill:  National Council on the Teaching of English, 1993.

McMORRIES, EDWARD YOUNG. 1844-1906

Biography:

Teacher. Born– March 4, 1844, Pike (now Bullock) County, Ala. Married– Sarah (Sallie) Warner.  Education– Perote Institute, Pike County. Joined the “Perote Guards,” made up of students from Perote Institute and young men from the surrounding area, in 1859; the Perote company was mustered into the service of Alabama in February 1861 and into Confederate service in April 1861 and served until the end of the War. Served in First Alabama Regiment at Pensacola, Island No. 10, Port Hudson; prisoner, Illinois, 1862; exchanged in September 1862. After the war taught at Arcadia (now LaPine), Plantersville and Clanton, Ala.; founded and operated Clanton University Training School, a private school that prepared male students for college, 1893-1906.  Honors– University of Alabama, honorary doctorate. Died May 1, 1906.

Source:

History of the First Regiment; Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and  Thomas Eugene Wyatt’s book, Chilton County and Her People. S.l.; s.n., 1975.

Publication(s):

History of the First Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A. Montgomery, Ala.; Brown Printing Co., 1904.

McMURRAY, JAMES MAX, 1908-1966

Biography:

Writer. Born– Roanoke, Ala., September 28, 1908. Parents– William Harmon and Corrie Reaves McMurray.  Education– Auburn University, 1924-1929; University of Virginia, 1929-1930; Delta State College, 1932. Died January 3, 1966.

Source:

The Alabama Librarian, January 1952.

Publication(s):

The Far Bayou. New York; Rinehart, 1951.

McMURRY, LINDA OTT, 1945-

Biography:

Historian; University professor. Born– October 24, 1945, Montgomery. Parents– William B. and Tressie (James) Ott. Married– James W. Hines, January 22, 1967. Children– One. Married– Richard M. McMurry, July 12, 1980. Children– Two. Married– John A. Edwards, 1997. Education– Emory University; B.A., Auburn University, 1968; M.A., 1972; Ph.D., 1976. Employed by Auburn University in Montgomery, 1976; Valdosta State College, 1976-1981; North Carolina State University, 1981-2001. Member Organization of American Historians; Southern Historical Association. Honors– Alabama Library Association Authors Award, 1984; Humanities Alumni Award, Auburn, 1996; College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Award, NC State, 1999. Awarded emeritus status at North Carolina State on her retirement.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

George Washington Carver; Scientist and Symbol. New York; Oxford University Press, 1981.

Recorder of the Black Experience; a Biography of Monroe Nathan Work. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1984.

To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells. Oxford University Press, 1985.

McMURRY, MILDRED FRANKLIN DODSON, 1897-1965

Biography:

Denominational administrator. Born– Franklin, Ky., November 18, 1897. Parents– Franklin Pierce and Deliah (Mays) Dodson. Married– William Meense McMurry, 1924. Children– Two. Education– A.B., Tennessee College for Women, 1920; postgraduate work, University of Chicago, 1924. Employed as Mission Study Director of the Woman’s Missionary Union, Birmingham 1951-1954; secretary, Department of Missionary Fundamentals, 1954-1957; Director of Promotions for the WMU, 1957-1962. Member– executive board of WMU, 1964; president of the North American Baptist Woman’s Union, Baptist World Alliance, 1962. Honors– Citation, Missionary Council of the Southern Baptist Convention; honorary Doctor of Letters degree, Oklahoma Baptist University, 1962. Died January 2, 1965.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1962; Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement.

Publication(s):

Constraining Love. Nashville; Broadman Press, 1939.

Educating Youth in Missions. Nashville; Convention Press, 1960.

Spiritual Development. Nashville; Convention Press, 1960.

McNEILL, ROBERT BLAKELY, 1915-1975

Biography:

Presbyterian clergyman; advocate of improved race relations in the South.  Born– May 21, 1915, Birmingham, Ala. Parents– Walter Patterson and Mary McLeod McNeill. Married– Jeanne Lancaster, August 25, 1944. Children– Two. Education– A.B., Birmingham Southern College, 1936; B.D., Union Theological Seminary, 1942; M.A. University of Kentucky, 1944; graduate work, University of Alabama, University of North Carolina. Employed as correspondent, Linde Air Products, 1937-1939. Ordained a Presbyterian minister, 1942; Minister to students at the University of Kentucky, 1942-44; at the University of Texas, Austin, 1944-45.  Pastor at Fairfield Highlands Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, 1945-47;  Jacksonville Presbyterian, 1947-51; First Presbyterian, Columbus, Ga., 1951-59; Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church, Charleston, W.V. , 1968-75; taught at Wilkesboro Community College, NC, 1968-75.  Focus of a nationally publicized controversy over race relations, 1957-59, resulting in his firing from the Columbus church. Died July 15, 1975.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online.

Stephens, Jessica.  The Standoff: First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Georgia, Robert McNeill, and Racial Equality.  MA thesis, Auburn University, 2011.

Publication(s):

God Wills Us Free; the Ordeal of a Southern Minister. New York; Hill & Wang, 1965.

Prophet, Speak Now. Richmond, Va.; John Knox, 1961.

McQUEEN, JAMES WILLIAM, 1900-1954

Biography:

Hospital administrator, physician, writer.  Born– June 9, 1900, Birmingham.  Parents– James W. and Lydia (Edwards) McQueen. Married– Gladys Emmerson. Children– Three. Education– University of Alabama; Rush Medical College, Chicago. Employed as administrator, Hillman-Jefferson Hospital, Birmingham, 1936; Chief of Hospital Administration, University of Alabama Medical College, Birmingham, 1944. Wrote under pseudonyms James G. Edwards and Jay McHugh. Died September 8, 1954.

Source:

Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

But the Patient Died. New York; Doubleday, Doran, 1948.

Death Among Doctors. New York; Doubleday, Doran, 1942.

Death Elects a Mayor. New York; Doubleday, Doran, 1939.

F Corridor. New York; Sun Dial Press, 1936.

Murder at Leisure. New York; Doubleday, Doran, 1937.

Murder in the Surgery. New York; Doubleday, Doran, 1935.

Odor of Bitter Almonds. New York; Doubleday, Doran, 1938.

The Private Pavilion. New York; Doubleday, Doran, 1935.

Sex is Such Fun. New York; Godwin, 1937.

McWHINEY, GRADY, 1928-2006

Biography:

Historian; university professor. Born– July 15, 1928, Shreveport, La. Parents– Henry Grady and Mayme (Holland) McWhiney. Married– Sue Baca, December, 1947. Education– B.S., Centenary College, 1950; M.A., Louisiana State University, 1951; Ph.D., Columbia, 1960. Served in U.S. Marine Corps, 1946-1947. Taught American history at Troy State University, 1952-1954; Millsaps College, 1956-1959; Northwestern University, 1960-1965; University of British Columbia, 1965-1970; Wayne State University, 1970-1975; University of Alabama, 1975-; professor of history and chairman of the department, 1975-1979; director, Center for the Study of Southern History and Culture, 1976-; visiting professor, University of California, Tulane University, University of Michigan.  Contributed articles to many professional journals and anthologies. Member of Southern Historical Association, American Historical Association, Chicago Civil War Roundtable, Ulysses S. Grant Association and other professional organizations.  Received the Gallant Service Award from the Chicago Civil War Association; honorary member of the American Civil War Roundtable of the United Kingdom; honorary first fellow of the Confederate Historical Institute.  With his colleague Forrest McDonald developed the “Celtic Thesis,” that Celtic ancestry influenced Southern way of life and social and military culture. Founded the McWhiney Foundation (now the McWhiney History Education Group in Abilene, Texas, for the support of research and education in 19th century American history.  Died April 18, 2006.

Source: Contemporary Authors online; Obituary, New York Times, April 23, 2006.

Publication(s):

Battle in the Wilderness:  Grant Meets Lee.  Ryan, 1995.

Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat. New York; Columbia University Press, 1969.

The Civil War:  A Concise Account by a Noted Southern Historian.  Abilene, TX:  McWhiney Foundation Press, 2005.

Confederate Crackers and Cavaliers.  Abilene, TX:  McWhiney Foundation Press, 2001.

Cracker Culture; Celtic Ways in the Old South. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1986.

Southerners and Other Americans.  Basic Books, 1973.

Joint_Publication(s):

Attack and Die; Civil War Military and the Southern Heritage. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1962.

The Southerner as American. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1960.

Editor:

Cottonclads!  The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast.  Ryan Place, 1996.

A Deep Steady Thunder:  The Battle of Chickamauga.  Ryan Place, 1996.

The Emergence of Total War.  Ryan Place, 1996.

Grant, Lee, Lincoln and the Radicals; Essays on Civil War Leadership. Evanston, Ill.; Northwestern University Press, 1964.

Reconstruction and the Freedmen. Chicago; Rand McNally, 1963.

Iron and Heavy Guns:  Duel between the Monitor and the Merrimac. Ryan Place, 1996. Last Stand at Mobile.  Abilene, TX:  McWhiney Foundation Press, 2001.

Raphael Semmes and the Alabama. Ryan Place, 1996.

Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians.  Ryan Place, 1995. Texas in the Confederate Cavalry.  Ryan Place, 1995.

The Texas Overland Expedition of 1863.  Ryan Place, 1996.

War in the West: Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove.  Ryan Place, 1996.

Joint_Editor:

Fear God and Walk Humbly:  The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877.  University of Alabama Press, 1997.

Historical Vistas: Readings in United States History.  2 vols.  Allyn and Bacon, 1963-64.

Lee’s Dispatches to Jefferson Davis. New York; Putnam, 1957.

To Mexico With Taylor and Scott, 1845-1847. New York; Blaisdell, 1969.

Papers:

The papers of Grady McWhiney are held by the McWhiney History Education Group (Formerly the McWhiney Foundation) in Abilene, Texas.

McWHORTER, CHARLES COKER, 1904-1982

Biography:

Accountant. Born– Waxahatchie, Tex., March 18, 1904. Parents– Charles P. and Iva M. (Coker) McWhorter. Married– Alma R. Stockton, September 2, 1923. Children– Three. Education– Moulton, Ala. High School; courses in banking and real estate. Employed as cashier, Bank of Moulton, 1928-1945; chairman, Board of Revenue, Lawrence County, Ala., 1950-1963; U.S. Department of Commerce, 1964-1965; chairman, Moulton Housing Authority; manager, Moulton Chamber of Commerce; City Council of Moulton; operated an accounting service, Moulton.  Died November 1, 1982.

Source:

Who’s Who in Alabama, Vol. II,  files at Alabama Public Library Service.

Publication(s):

I Love to Sing. Emory University, Ga.; Banner Press, 1951.

Ragweeds and Daisies From an Alabama Farm. Chicago; Adams Press, 1974.

McWILLIAMS, RICHEBOURG GAILLARD, 1901-1986

Biography:

Historian; College professor. Born– June 24, 1901, Oak Hill, Ala. Married– Dorothy Schultz, 1937. Education– B.S., 1922; A.M., 1925; A.M., University of Alabama, 1933; University of Wisconsin; University of Puerto Rico; Columbia University; University of Munich, Germany. Employed by Continuation School, Cabo Rojo, P.R., 1922-1923; University of Alabama, 1923-1925; Birmingham Southern College, 1928-1970; head, Department of English; chairman, Humanities Division, Birmingham Southern College; research professor, University of South Alabama, 1970-73. Member– American Council of Learned Societies. Awarded emeritus status at Birmingham-Southern on his retirement in 1970.  Friends and colleagues published festschrift, Essays in Honor of Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams, in 1970. Died February 1986.

Source:

Directory of American Scholars, 1974, 1982.

Publication(s):

History of Beautiful Dauphin Island; Origin of Street Names. Dauphin Island, Ala.; Dauphin Island Park and Beach Board in cooperation with Mobile County Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners, 1956?

Editor_and_Translator;

Fleur de Lys and Calumet; Being the Penicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana. Baton Rough; Louisiana State University Press, 1953.

Iberville’s Gulf Journals. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1981.

McWILLIAMS, TENNANT S., 1943-

Biography:

Historian, university professor, administrator. Born– September 12, 1943, Birmingham. Married– 1975. Children– One. Education– A.B., Birmingham Southern College, 1965; M.A., University of Alabama, 1967; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1973. Employed as professor at Walker College, 1967-1968; University of Georgia, 1968-1973; Tidewater College, 1973-1974;  at University of Alabama at Birmingham beginning in 1974, chairman, Department of History; Dean of School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 1990-2007. Member– Southern Historical Association, American Historical Association.

Source:

The Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Publication(s):

The Chaplain’s Conflict: Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-45.  Texas A & M University Press, 2012.

Hannis Taylor; the New Southerner as an American. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1978.

A New Day Coming; Alabama and the Problem of Change, 1877-1920. Troy, Ala.; Troy State University Press, 1978.

New Lights in the Valley:  The Emergence of UAB.  University of Alabama Press, 2007.

The New South Faces the World; Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self, 1877-1950. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1988.

MEADOR, DANIEL JOHN, 1926-2013

Biography:

Attorney; professor of law. Born– Selma, Ala., December 7, 1926. Parents– Daniel John and Mabel (Kirkpatrick) Meador. Married– Janet Caroline Heimann, November 19, 1955; married Alice P. Meador. Children– Four. Education– B.S., Auburn University, 1949; LL.B., University of Alabama, 1951; LL.M., Harvard University, 1954. Employed as a attorney, 1951; Judge Advocate General Corps, Korean War, 1951-1953; law clerk, Alabama Supreme Court, 1953-1955; law clerk, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Birmingham, 1955-1957; faculty, University of Virginia Law School, 1957-70; dean of the University of Alabama Law School, 1966-1970; faculty, University of Virginia, 1970-94; Assistant Attorney General, United States, 1977-1979; Fulbright lecturer, United Kingdom, 1965-1966. Member– American Law Institute, Virginia Bar Association, Society of Public Teachers of Law, American Society of Legal History. At UVA Received the Raven Award, the Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award, and the Thomas Jefferson Award, the University’s highest honor. Founding president of the Cahaba Foundation, which founded and supported the state historical park at the site of Cahaba, Alabama’s first capitol.  For his efforts in support of Cahaba received the Distinguished Service Award from the Alabama Historical Commission. Died February 9, 2013.

Source:

Who’s Who in America, 1978-1979; obituary, Montgomery Advertiser, February 10, 2013.

Publication(s):

Appellate Courts; Staff and Process …. St. Paul; West Publishing Co., 1974.

Consumers of Justice; How the Public Views the Federal Judicial Process. Washington, D.C.; Alabama Law Institute, 1977.

Criminal Appeals; English Practices and the American Reforms. Charlottesville, Va.; University Press of Virginia, 1973.

Habeas Corpus and Magna Carta; Dualism of Power and Liberty. Charlottesville, Va.; University Press of Virginia, 1966.

Impressions of Law in East Germany …. Charlottesville, Va.; University Press of Virginia, 1986.

Mr. Justice Black and His Books. Charlottesville, Va.; University Press of Virginia, 1974.

Preludes to Gideon; Notes on Appellate Advocacy …. Charlottesville, Va.; Michie, 1967.

The President, the Attorney General, and the Department of Justice. Charlottesville, Va.; White Birkett Miller Center of Public Affairs, 1980.

Recommendations for Utilizing Three Central Staff Attorneys in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. Washington, D.C.; Alabama Law Institute, 1974.

Joint_Publication(s):

Justice on Appeal. St. Paul; West Publishing Co., 1976.

Reporter; Criminal Review Procedures; Proposed Statutory Revisions; Final Report. University, Ala.; Alabama Law Institute, 1971.

MEADOWS, THOMAS BURTON, 1882-

Biography:

University professor. Born– Bowdon, Ga., February 19, 1882. Parents– James Henry and Anna Lee (Thurman) Meadows. Married– Eunice McDonnald.  Children–three. Education– Hanceville, Ala. High School; Alabama Polytechnic Institute; B.S., University of Alabama, 1911; M.S., Peabody, 1912; M.A., Cornell, 1916; Ph.D., Columbia, 1923; Ed.D., New York University, 1932; University of California, Indiana University. Employed as an instructor, University of Alabama; Agricultural College of Mississippi; Winthrop College; Athens College; Milligan College; State Teachers College of Radford, Va.; Georgia State College for Women; and  John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark..

Source:

Who’s Who of North American Authors.

Publication(s):

Guidance in the Study of the New Testament; an Objective Approach. New York; Vantage Press, 1955.

Guidance in the Study of the Old Testament; an Objective Approach. New York; Vantage Press, 1954.

Psychology of Learning and Teaching Christian Education– Psychology for Christian Workers. New York; Pageant Press, 1958.

The School Garden in the South.  Winthrop Normal and Industrial College, 1918.

 

MEEKS, LILLIAN FORT, 1903-1986

Biography:

Teacher; poet.  Born– September 17, 1903, Dallas County, Ala. Married– John H. Meeks. Education– Mississippi State University. Employed as English teacher for thirty-one years. Died May 29, 1986.

Source:

SCRIPSIT.

Publication(s):

New Soil. S.l.; Anderson Printery, 1935.

Pendrifts. (3 vols. entitled; Lute Songs, Metamorphis, and Lighted Candles). S.l.; Delta Branch, National League of American Pen Women, 1968.

Wind and Hearthstone. Los Angeles; National Poetry Press, 1972.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Lillian Fort Meeks is held by the Gender Studies Collection in the University of Mississippi Library.

MEEKS, WAYNE A., 1932-

Biography;

Historian of Christianity; university professor.  Born January 9, 1932, Aliceville.  Parents; Benjamin LaFayette and Winnie Meeks.  Married (1) Martha Fowler, June 10, 1954.  Children–three. Married (2) Judith Colton, March 18, 2000. Education; University of Alabama, B. S., 1953; Austin Theological Seminary, B. D., 1956; University of Tubingen, graduate study, 1956-57; Yale University, M. A., 1963; Ph. D., 1965.  Career; ordained Presbyterian minister, 1956; university pastor, Memphis, Tennessee, 1957-61; Dartmouth College instructor in religion, 1965-66; Yale University United Ministry university pastor, 1966-68; Indiana University at Bloomington, assistant professor, 1966-68; Yale University associate professor of religious studies, 1969-73; professor, 1973-1999; Director, Division of the Humanities, 1988-91.  Published many articles in journals and periodicals; delivered lectures and lecture series; consultant for television programs on history of Christianity.  Member, American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature, Studorium Novi Testamenti Societas, Phi Beta Kappa.  Awards;  Fulbright fellowship, 1956-57;  Kent fellow, 1962-65; NEH senior fellow, 1975-76; Guggenheim fellow, 1979-80; elected a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, 1992.  Awarded the Doctor Theologicae honoris causis by the University of Uppsala, Sweden, 1990.  Emeritus status at Yale, 1999. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, published The Social World of the First Christians, a festschriften, in his honor in 1995.

Sources;

Contemporary Authors online (updated 1/07/2010).

Marquis Who’s Who online.

Publications;

Christ Is the Question.  Louisville:  Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.

Go From Your Father’s House: A College Student’s Introduction to the Christian Faith.  Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1964.

The First Urban Christians; The Social World of the Apostle Paul.  New Haven;  Yale University Press, 1983; 2nd edition, 2003.

In Search of the Early Christians; Selected Essays.  New Haven; Yale University Press, 2002.

The Moral World of the First Christians.  Atlanta:  Westminster John Knox, 1986.

The New Testament in its Social Environment.  Atlanta; Westminster John Knox, 1988.

The Origins of Christian Morality;  The First Two Centuries.  New Haven; Yale University Press, 1993.

The Prophet-King.  Long Island City, NY; E. J. Brill, 1967.

Editor;

The Writings of St. Paul: A Norton Critical Edition. New York: Norton, 1972.

Zur Soziologie des Urchristentums.  Munich:  Kaiser, 1979.

Joint_Editor:

Conflict at Colossae; A Problem in the Interpretations of Early Christianity.  Missoula, MT; Society of Biblical Literature, 1973.

The Future of Christology; Essays in Honor of Leander E. Keck.  Philadelphia; Fortress Press, 1990.

God’s Christ and His People.  Oslo, Norway; Universitetsforlager, 1977.

Greeks, Romans, and Christians; Essays in Honor of Abraham J. Malherbe.  Philadelphia; Fortress Press, 1990.

Jews and Christians in Antioch in the First Four Centuries of the Common Era.  Missoula, MT; Scholars Press, 1978.

The Writings of St. Paul; Annotated Texts, Reception, and Criticism.  New York; Norton, 2007.

Series editor/coeditor;

HarperCollins Study Bible (coeditor). New York;  HarperCollins, 1993.

Harper’s Bible Commentary (associate editor). New York; HarperCollins, 1988.

Library of Early Christianity (general editor).  Westminster Press, 1982-87.

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MELL, ANNIE REBECCA WHITE, 1849-1920

Biography:

Historian; genealogist. Born–August 28, 1849,  Athens, Ga. Parents– William Nathaniel and Rebecca (Benedict) White. Married– Patrick Hues Mell, June 15, 1875. Member– Colonial Dames; state historian, Alabama Daughters of the American Revolution; state treasurer, Alabama United Daughters of the Confederacy; vice-president, Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs. Died October 14, 1920.

Source:

Owen’s Story of Alabama, Vol. III.

Publication(s):

Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Historical Society, 1904.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Genealogy of the Mell Family in the Southern States. Albany, N.Y.; J. Munsell’s Sons, 1897.

MELL, PATRICK HUES, 1850-1918

Biography:

Agriculturist, university professor. Born– May 24, 1850, Penfield, Ga. Parents– Patrick Hues and Lurene Howard (Cooper) Mell. Married– Annie R. White, June 15, 1875. Education– A.B., 1871; M.E., 1872; Ph.D., University of Georgia. Employed as a state chemist, Georgia, 1874-1877; taught geology and botany, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1878-1902; president, South Carolina A. & M. College (Clemson), 1902-1910; director, Alabama Weather Service, API, 1884-1893; director, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1898; invented, weather signals used by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Member– treasurer, Board of Missions, Southern Baptist Convention, 1913; president, College Section, American Association of Colleges and Stations, 1909; Commander, Alabama Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, 1898.

Source:

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.

Publication(s):

Biological Laboratory Methods. New York; Macmillan, 1902.

Gardening for the South; or, How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits. Richmond; B.F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1901.

The Genealogy of the Mell Family in the Southern States. Albany, N.Y.; J. Munsell’s sons, 1897.

Report on the Climatology of the Cotton Plant. Washington, D.C.; Weather Bureau, 1893.

Editor:

A Manual of Parliamentary Practice, rev. ed. Louisville, Ky.; Baptist Book Concern, 1893.

MELLOWN, BENNIE CATHERINE, 1906-1997

Biography:

Teacher. Born– September 25, 1906, Birmingham, Ala. Parents– Luther Smith and Sudie (Crumly) Mellown. Education– Florence State Teachers College; B.S., Howard College; M.A., University of Alabama. Employed as teacher, Hillview, 1928-1935; Crumly, 1935-1939; Sayre, 1939-1944; Sandusky, 1944. Member– Jefferson County Classroom Teachers Association, Jefferson County Elementary Teachers, N.E.A., A.E.A., Alpha Delta Kappa. Honors– Freedom Foundation Teachers Medal, 1962-1964. Died September 20, 1997.

Source:

Who’s Who of American Women, 1970; obituary, Birmingham News, September 23, 1997.

Publication(s):

Memoirs of a Pre-Civil War Community. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1950.

MELLOWN, ROBERT OLIVER, 1945-

Biography:

University Professor. Born– May 8, 1945, York, Ala. Parents– Elgin W. and Georgia (Clay) Mellown. Education– B.A., University of Alabama, 1967; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1975. Employed as an art instructor, University of Alabama, 1971.

Source:

Robert W. Mellown.

Publication(s):

The University of Alabama; a Guide to the Campus. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1988.

The University of Alabama: A Guide to the Campus and its Architecture.  University of Alabama Press, 2014.

Compiler_and_editor;

The Art of the Alabama Indians. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Moody Gallery of Art, 1976.

William Nichols, Architect. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Moody Gallery of Art, 1979.

MELTON, WIGHTMAN FLETCHER, 1867-1944

Biography:

Teacher. Born– September 26, 1867, Ripley, Tenn. Parents– Isaac Quimby and Fanny Louise (Ellis) Melton. Married– Oliver Kelly, September 19, 1889. Children– Three. Education– George Peabody College, 1889; Blount (Ala.) College, 1890; Troy State Normal School, 1894; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1906. Employed as a teacher, Blountsville, 1889; examiner of teachers, Blount County, Ala., 1890; president, Florida Conference College, Leesburg, Fla., 1892-1895; vice-president, Nashville College for Young Ladies, 1895-1897; president, Tuscaloosa Female College, 1897-1903; Emory University, 1908-1924; professor, extension division, Oglethorpe University, 1931-1943; Georgia State Department, 1935-1939; curator, State Museum of Georgia, 1943; mayor, Oxford, Ga., 1912-1918; editorial writer, Griffin (Ga.) News, 1924; Poet Laureate, Georgia, 1943.

Source:

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.

Publication(s):

Along Life’s Road. Griffin, Ga.; Southern States Printing, 1961.

Chimes of Oglethorpe. Oglethorpe University, Ga.; Oglethorpe University Press, 1933.

The Preacher’s Son. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1894.

The Rhetoric of John Donne’s Verse… Baltimore; J.H. Furst Company, 1906.

Editor:

Frank Lebby Stanton, Georgia’s First Poet Laureate. Atlanta; Georgia. Department of Education, 1938.

Lanier Memorial Poems of Trees. 8 vols. Atlanta; Banner Press, 1931-1933.

MELZER, JOHN HENRY, 1908-1967

Biography:

University Professor. Born– Effingham, Ill., July 10, 1908. Parents– Emil Frederick and R. Laura (Linn) Melzer. Married– Dorothy Garrett, July 4, 1936. Children– Two. Education– Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., 1928; C.R.M, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., 1931; A.M., 1934; Ph.D., 1937, Vanderbilt University. Employed by Ashland College, 1937-1939; Citadel, 1939-1940; Jamestown Junior College Extension, Alfred University, 1940-1941; Lambuth College, 1945-1946; University of Missouri, 1946-1947; University of Kentucky, 1947-1958; Auburn University, 1958; established the Deparment of Philosophy, Citadel; dean, director, Jamestown Junior College Extension; head, Philosophy Department, Auburn. Member– American Philosophical Association, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Alabama Philosophical Society; Pi Kappa Alpha.

Source:

Contemporary Authors, Permanent Series, Vol. 1.

Publication(s):

An Examination of Critical Monism. Ashland, Ohio; University Post Pub., 1937.

Functional Logic. Dubuque, Iowa; W.C. Brown, 1957.

Functionalism; an Outline of a Philosophy for Today. New York; Philosophical Library, 1965.

A Guide to Philosophical Terminology. Ashland, Ohio; University Post Pub. 1938.

Modern Functional Logic. Dubuque, Iowa; W.C. Brown, 1961.

Philosophy in the Classroom. Lincoln; University of Nebraska Press, 1955.

MERONEY, ELOISE WHITLOW, 1898-

Biography:

Teacher. Born– Montevallo, April 4, 1898. Parents– Charles Lloyd and Ellen (Nelson) Meroney. Education– Alabama Girls Technical Institute (The University of Montevallo), 1917; A.B., University of Alabama, 1920; A.M., Columbia University, 1922; further study at Chicago, Duke, and Northwestern Universities. Employed as English teacher, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N.C., 1922-1926, Ward-Belmont College, 1926-1928, Memphis Technical High School, 1929; University of Montevallo, 1930-1965.

Source:

Eloise Merony, Montevallo, Ala.

Publication(s):

Montevallo, the First One Hundred Years. Montevallo, Ala.; Times Printing Co., 1977.

MERRIWETHER, JAMES LEWIS, 1914-

Biography:

Farmer, minister. Born– Atmore, February 28, 1914. Parents– Jacob and Claudia V. (Robinson) Merriwether. Married– Olivia Beatrice Verell, May 29, 1938. Children– Five. Education– B.S., Agricultural Administration, Auburn University, 1939; M. Divinity, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1964; M. Rel., same institution, 1966; M.S., University of Southern Mississippi, 1971; Ed.D., Luther Rice Seminary, 1974. Employed as a farm supervisor, Farm Security Administration, Butler and Cullman Counties, 1939-1942; proprietor and manager, J. Meriweather Livestock and Wagons, Atmore, 1943-1947; farmer, 1943-1958; tractor dealer, Atmore, 1948-1958; minister, Southern Baptist Church, 1958; pastor of churches, Atmore area, 1958-1968; Pleasant View Baptist and Manor Baptist churches, Mobile, 1968-1979.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1982.

Publication(s):

A Quest for Abundant Living. New York; Carlton Press, 1977.

MERSMANN, JAMES FREDERICK, 1938-

Biography:

University Professor. Born– Richmond, Kan., December 25, 1938. Parents– Fred and Regina (Lickteig) Mersmann. Married– Karolyn Decker, September 29, 1959. Children– Four. Education– B.A., University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1965; M.A., 1967; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1972. Employed as U.S. Marine Corps, 1956-1958; taught, Mt. St. Scholastica College, 1969-1971; Benedictine College, 1971; University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1973. Member– Modern Language Association of America, American Association of University Professors, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Honors– Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, University of Kansas, 1965-1966; National Endowment, Humanities Seminar, 1973.

Source:

Contemporary Authors, Vol. 61 and from Contemporary Literature in Birmingham.

Publication(s):

The Isis Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Thunder City Press, 1977.

Out of the Vietnam Vortex; a Study of Poets and Poetry Against the War. Lawrence; University Press of Kansas, 1974.

MERTINS, GUSTAVE FREDERICK, 1872-1926

Biography:

Born– Evergreen, Ala., August 19, 1872. Parents– Gustave Ferdinand and Jennie A.L.W. (Stahl) Mertins. Married– Bessie P. Screws, February 26, 1908. Education– private tutelage; College of St. Anthony, Geneva, Switzerland; Kolmar, Posen, Germany; studied law, Washington and Lee University. Employed as an attorney, Montgomery, Ala., 1893; special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, 1910.

Source:

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.

Publication(s):

The Storm Signal. Indianapolis, Ind.; Bobbs-Merrill, 1905.

The Twilight Soul. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1920.

A Watcher of the Skies. New York; Crowell, 1911.

METCALF, CLAYTON GILLIS, 1920-1999

Biography:

Merchant. Born– Brinson, Ga., October 10, 1920. Parents– Roderick Anthony and Thelma Bessie (Gillis) Metcalf. Married– Helen Josephine Smith, April 6, 1947. Children– Three. Education– Associate of Arts, 1941; B.S., University of Florida, 1946 . Employed by U.S. Army, World War II; officer training, Ft. Benning; Command and General Staff College. Employed with family’s farm equipment business, Enterprise, 1980; president, Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, Member– Enterprise chapter of Jaycees; president, Pea River Historical and Genealogical Society; editor, Pea River Magazine. Died November 28, 1999,

Source:

Clayton G. Metcalf, Enterprise, Ala.

Publication(s):

The Gillis Family in the South. Enterprise, Ala.; Metcalf, 1975.

Kriegsgefangen. Enterprise, Ala.; Metcalf, 1984.

Scots and Their Kin, Volume I. Enterprise, Ala.; Metcalf, 1984-

A Study of Metcalf, Andrews and Smith. Enterprise, Ala.; Metcalf, 1979.

METTEE, MAURICE F., 1943-

Biography:

Biologist. Born– Mobile, April 28, 1943. Education– B.S., Spring Hill College, 1965; M.A., University of Alabama, 1967; M.S., 1970; Ph.D., 1974. Employed as an instructor, University of Alabama, 1974; chief of the Environmental Division, Geological Survey of Alabama, 1977; aquatic biologist, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1974; consultant, Okaloosa Darter, Fla., 1975-1978. Awards; Grant, U.S. Forest Service, 1974; grant; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1975-1978.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 1979.

Publication(s):

The Fishes of the Birmingham-Jefferson County Region of Alabama With Ecologic and Taxonomic Notes. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1978.

Fishes of the Black Warrior River System in Alabama. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1989.

Fishes of the Lower Tombigbee System in Alabama and Mississippi. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1987.

Joint_Publication(s):

Benthic Invertebrate Fauna Inhabiting the Island Area of Coosa River Below Jordan Dam, Elmore County, Alabama, 1986-1987. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1989.

Biological Diversity and Water Quality of Streams Draining the Gilbertown Oil Field Area, Choctaw County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1986.

Biological Diversity and Water Quality of Streams Draining the Blowhorn Oil Field Area, Lamar County, Alabama. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1986.

A Biological Inventory of Streams Draining the Citronelle, Pollard and Gilbertown Oil Fields in Alabama. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, Environmental Division, 1983.

Biological Monitoring in Four Tributaries to Lake Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1986-88. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1990.

Coalbed Methane Development in Alabama, Biological and Hydrological Conditions of Streams Draining the Cedar Cove Degasification Field. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1987.

An Environmental Assessment of Areas Favorable to Lignite Mining in Southwestern Alabama. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1981.

Preliminary Map of Wetland and Habitats in Upper Mobile Bay, 1955. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1984?

Sensitivity of Alabama Coastal Shoreline Habitats to Spilled Hydrocarbons. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1983.

A Study of the Fishes in Selected Streams That Drain Lands of Federal Minerals Ownership; Tuscaloosa, Fayette and Walker Counties, Alabama. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1981.

A Study of the Lignite Resources in the Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers Region of Southwestern Alabama. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1978.

Use of Water in Alabama, 1975, With Projections to 2020. University, Ala.; Geological Survey of Alabama, 1978.

Joint_Editor:

Alabama Coastal Region Ecological Characterization; Vol. 2; A Synthesis of Environmental Data. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1982.

MICHAEL, MARILYN ANNE LOSCO, 1947-

Biography:

Social Worker. Born– Jacksonville, Fla., July 26, 1947. Parents– Francis Joseph and —–(Zerwes) Losco. Married– Max Michael, III, June 22, 1970. Children– Two. Education– B.S., University of Florida, 1970; M.A., University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1983. Employed as director, Reach Out to Children Clinic, Birmingham.

Source:

Marilyn Michael, Birmingham, Ala.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Moon Peelers; Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Minerva Press, 1973.

Nothing Silent; Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; U.A.B. Printing, 1979.

Persimmon Dry; Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., s.d.

MILAM, LOUISE

See Julich, Dorothy Louise Milam

MILES, EDWIN ARTHUR, 1926-

Biography:

Born– Birmingham, Ala., February 2, 1926. Parents– Ernest Percy and Ida (Duke) Miles. Education– B.A., Birmingham Southern College, 1948; M.A., 1949; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1954. Employed by U.S. Navy, 1944-1946; researcher, North Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1952-1954; taught, University of Houston, 1954. Member– American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association and Phi Beta Kappa.

Source:

Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R and from Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Publication(s):

Jacksonian Democracy in Mississippi. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina Press, 1960.

Joint_Publication(s):

The Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson, 1816-1841. Arlington Heights, Ill.; AHM Publishing Co., 1979.

MILEY, L. DON, 1905-

Biography:

Minister. Born– Hillsborough County, Fla., June 10, 1905. Married– Ruth Hobbs, August 1, 1934. Children– Two. Education– Samford University, one year; Th.G., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; Th.M., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Tex.; ordained, Baptist Church, August 2, 1925. Employed as pastor, Plant City, Fla., Dallas, Tex.; pastor, Ozark (Alabama) Baptist Church.

Source:

Jacket on History of Ozark Baptist Church.

Publication(s):

History of Ozark Baptist Church. Lakemont, Ga.; CSA Press, 1970.

MILLER, ERNEST L., 1913-1992

Biography:

Dentist, professor. Born– Howard Lake, Minn., August 31, 1913. Parents—Peter H. and Anna E. Miller. Married– Mary L. Havens, 1935. Children– Four. Education– D.D.S., University of Detroit, 1940;  the M.S., Ohio State University in 1952. Employed as professor, Dental School, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1966. Member– American Dental Association, American Prosthodontic Society and American College of Dentistry.  Died May 21, 1992.

Source:

American Men and Women of Science, 1979.

Publication(s):

Removable Partial Prosthodontics. Baltimore; Williams and Wilkins, 1972.

MILLER, LAWRENCE DEAN, 1850-

Biography:

Teacher. Born– February 3, 1850, Pine Grove, S.C. Parents– Joel W. and Eivira (Orr) Miller. Married– Mattie Crook, October 22, 1871. Children– One. Married– Lizzie Vernon. Children– Two. Education– Wofford College. Employed as principal, Reidsville Male High School; principal, Alexandria High School; superintendent, education, Calhoun County; farmer, Jacksonville.

Source:

Owen’s Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

Publication(s):

History of Alabama, Adapted to the Use of Schools and for General Reading. Birmingham, Ala.; Author, 1901.

MILLER, MARY CYNTHIA “DIXIE” CLIFTON, 1905-1999

Biography:

Reporter. Born– Cedar Bluff, Ala., March 2, 1905.  Parents– William Milton and Leila (Tatum) Clifton. Married– Dewey Frank Miller, Sr., 1924. Children– Four. Education– Cedar Bluff High School, 1924; University Center, Gadsden. Employed as a reporter, correspondent, feature writer, Gadsden Times; feature writer, The Summerville News, The Fort Payne Times Journal; reporter, feature writer, The Cherokee County Herald; correspondent, Birmingham News. Member– Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, Cedar Bluff Garden Club; Cherokee County Historical Society, Cedar Bluff Woman’s Club, Business and Professional Women’s Club. Died January 14, 1999.

Source:

Mrs. Dixie C. Miller, Cedar Bluff, Ala.

Publication(s):

Mary George Jordan Waite. S.l.; s.n., 1966.

Stories of Cherokee County and of Some of the Men and Boys that Served in The War Between the States Sometimes Called the Civil War. S.l.; s.d., 1975.

The Story of Lillie Harris. Northport, Ala.; American Southern, 1965.