{"id":1010,"date":"2017-10-18T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2017-10-18T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:09:25","slug":"coleman-john-shields-1894-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1010","title":{"rendered":"COLEMAN, JOHN SHIELDS, 1894-1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, banker. Born&#8211; November 13, 1894, Jasper. Parents&#8211; E. W. and Nancy (Shields) Coleman. Married&#8211; Gertrude Davidson, July 7, 1921 (died 1924).\u00a0Married&#8211; May Steiner, April 28, 1928. Children&#8211;one. Married&#8211; Dorothy H. Morrow, July 14, 1970. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, LL.B., 1915. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1915.\u00a0 U. S. Army, WWI.\u00a0\u00a0Practiced law in Birmingham, 1920-1937; served as president of Birmingham Trust National Bank, 1937-1958. Director of the Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Served as president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 1941. Member American Bankers Association;\u00a0 Newcomen Society. Died March 11, 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online\u00a0and Library of Alabama Lives.<\/p>\n<p>Publication(s):<\/p>\n<p>Josiah Morris, 1818-1891; Montgomery Banker Whose Faith Built Birmingham. New York; Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1948.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, banker. Born&#8211; November 13, 1894, Jasper. Parents&#8211; E. W. and Nancy (Shields) Coleman. Married&#8211; Gertrude Davidson, July 7, 1921 (died 1924).\u00a0Married&#8211; May Steiner, April 28, 1928. Children&#8211;one. Married&#8211; Dorothy H. Morrow, July 14, 1970. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, LL.B., 1915. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1915.\u00a0 U. S. Army, WWI.\u00a0\u00a0Practiced law in Birmingham, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6989,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/6989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}