{"id":1116,"date":"2012-10-26T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T18:00:37","slug":"coulter-harold-s-1914-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"COULTER, HAROLD SYLVESTER, 1914-1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businessman; Newspaper columnist; local historian. Born&#8211; August 12, 1914, Phenix City. Parents&#8211; Harrison T. and Vera Coulter. Married&#8211; Barbara Mary Stewart, December 20, 1940. Children&#8211; Two. Military service:\u00a0 U.S. Navy, World War II; awarded the Cross of Military Service. Official Russell County historian.\u00a0Wrote column &#8220;Garden Tips&#8221; beginning in the 1930&#8217;s and beginning on June 13,\u00a01968, wrote a column, &#8220;Good Old Days&#8221;, for the Phenix Citizen. Awarded the Alabama Award of Merit for historical preservation, and\u00a0a Resolution of Commendation from the Alabama Legislature for his newspaper column.\u00a0Died July 1,\u00a01977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; ancestry.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A People Courageous; a History of Phenix City, Alabama. Columbus, Ga.; Howard Printing Co., 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oral archives;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Library at Columbus State University holds recorded oral history interviews with Harold S. Coulter, produced in 1974 by the Chattahooche Valley History Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businessman; Newspaper columnist; local historian. Born&#8211; August 12, 1914, Phenix City. Parents&#8211; Harrison T. and Vera Coulter. Married&#8211; Barbara Mary Stewart, December 20, 1940. Children&#8211; Two. Military service:\u00a0 U.S. Navy, World War II; awarded the Cross of Military Service. Official Russell County historian.\u00a0Wrote column &#8220;Garden Tips&#8221; beginning in the 1930&#8217;s and beginning on June [&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-1116","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\/1116","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=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7115,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/7115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}