{"id":1099,"date":"2011-05-02T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T21:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:56:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T20:56:29","slug":"craighead-erwin-1852-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"CRAIGHEAD, ERWIN, 1852-1932"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Newspaper editor, writer, civic leader. Born&#8211; April 14, 1852, Nashville, Tenn. Parents&#8211; James B. and Ellen Kirkman (Erwin) Craighead. Married&#8211; Lura Harris, December 12, 1878. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of Nashville, B.Litt., 1872.\u00a0 Travelled and studied in Europe, 1872-77. Admitted to the Tennessee bar, 1876.\u00a0Worked as an editor\u00a0for New Orleans newspapers\u00a01880-1882; editor of the Mobile Register, 1882-1926. Supported progressive causes; a\u00a0\u00a0moderate on racial issues. An advocate for the city of Mobile; supported local cultural institutions such as the Mobile Symphony. Member\u00a0Iberville Historical Society and Mobile Commercial Club; a trustee of the State Department of Archives and History.\u00a0\u00a0Became editor emeritus in 1926. Awarded the honorary LL. D. by the University of Alabama in 1906.\u00a0Died February 3, 1932.<\/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>Craighead&#8217;s Mobile.\u00a0 Mobile:\u00a0 Haunted Bookshop, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>From Mobile&#8217;s Past. Mobile, Ala.; Powers Printing Co., 1925.<\/p>\n<p>The Literary History of Mobile. Mobile, Ala.; s.n., 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile; Facts, Traditions, Noteworthy People and Events. Mobile, Ala.; Powers Printing Co., 1930.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile, the Gulf City of Alabama. Mobile, Ala.; Mobile Board of Trade, 1883.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Newspaper editor, writer, civic leader. Born&#8211; April 14, 1852, Nashville, Tenn. Parents&#8211; James B. and Ellen Kirkman (Erwin) Craighead. Married&#8211; Lura Harris, December 12, 1878. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of Nashville, B.Litt., 1872.\u00a0 Travelled and studied in Europe, 1872-77. Admitted to the Tennessee bar, 1876.\u00a0Worked as an editor\u00a0for New Orleans newspapers\u00a01880-1882; editor of the [&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-1099","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\/1099","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=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7135,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/7135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}