{"id":1083,"date":"2016-02-15T15:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2017-12-05T14:57:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T21:57:46","slug":"crossfield-richard-henry-1868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1083","title":{"rendered":"CROSSFIELD, RICHARD HENRY, 1868-1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clergyman; university administrator. Born&#8211; October 22, 1868, Lawrenceburg, Ky. Parents&#8211; Richard and Elizabeth (Jackson) Crossfield. Married&#8211; Annie Ritchie Terry, February 5, 1895. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Kentucky University (now Transylvania College), A.B., 1889; College of the Bible, Lexington, Ky., 1892; University of Wooster, M.A., Ph.D., 1900. Ordained Minister, Disciples of Christ, 1894. A key figure in the history of the denomination. \u00a0President of Transylvania College, 13 years, College of the Bible for eight and one half years, William Woods College, three years. Pastor in Glasgow and Owensboro, Kentucky, and Norfolk, Virginia (1924-27); \u00a0First Christian Church, Birmingham, Ala., 1927-1937. President Transylvania College, 1938-39. Awarded status of president emeritus on his retirement. LL.D., Georgetown College, 1915; University of Kentucky, 1917; Transylvania College, 1930.\u00a0Died July 30, 1951.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christian Principles of Sociology and Their Application to Present-Day Problems. S.l.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrimages of a Parson. Owensboro, Ky.; s.n., 1901.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Clergyman; university administrator. Born&#8211; October 22, 1868, Lawrenceburg, Ky. Parents&#8211; Richard and Elizabeth (Jackson) Crossfield. Married&#8211; Annie Ritchie Terry, February 5, 1895. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Kentucky University (now Transylvania College), A.B., 1889; College of the Bible, Lexington, Ky., 1892; University of Wooster, M.A., Ph.D., 1900. Ordained Minister, Disciples of Christ, 1894. A key figure [&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-1083","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\/1083","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=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7178,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/7178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}