{"id":1079,"date":"2011-06-01T13:56:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2017-12-11T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T17:03:28","slug":"cruikshank-george-marcus-1852","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE MARCUS, 1852-1936"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Newspaper\u00a0editor, teacher. Born&#8211; March 15, 1852, Lexington, Ky. Parents&#8211; Marcus Henderson and Matilda Washington (Chrisman) Cruikshank. Married&#8211; Mary Rachel Smith, October 7, 1887. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Peabody Institute, Talladega; Southwood Academy, and Synodical College, B.A.. Taught at Talladega; principal of State Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind for six years. Editor for Talladega Reporter, 1881-1883; admitted to the bar in 1882; appointed general administrator of Talladega County in 1883; bought an interest in and became editor of the Birmingham Chronicle; co-founder of the Evening Chronicle, 1889. Served as superintendent of the House folding room at the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., 1890-1893; assistant postmaster in Birmingham, 1893-1897. Editor of the Birmingham Ledger, 1897-1918. Member of the Alabama Press Association, the Birmingham Press Club, and the Masonic order.\u00a0 Died September 15, 1936.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Pioneers online.<\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Dictionary of Alabama Biography.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A History of Birmingham and Its Environs; a Narrative Account of Their Historical Progress, Their People, and Their Principal Interests. 2 vols. Chicago; Lewis Pub. Co., 1920.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Newspaper\u00a0editor, teacher. Born&#8211; March 15, 1852, Lexington, Ky. Parents&#8211; Marcus Henderson and Matilda Washington (Chrisman) Cruikshank. Married&#8211; Mary Rachel Smith, October 7, 1887. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Peabody Institute, Talladega; Southwood Academy, and Synodical College, B.A.. Taught at Talladega; principal of State Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind for six years. Editor for Talladega [&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-1079","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\/1079","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=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7207,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/7207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}