{"id":1142,"date":"2016-02-15T15:03:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2018-04-17T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T20:39:10","slug":"combs-elisha-trammel-1924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1142","title":{"rendered":"COMBS, ELISHA TRAMMELL &#8220;TRAM&#8221;, 1924-2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Poet, chemist,\u00a0bookstore owner. Born&#8211; September 25, 1924, Riverview. Parents&#8211; Elisha Trammell and LaFaye (Hunt) Combs. Education&#8211; Attended the University of Washington, 1943-1944; attended the University of Chicago, 1945; University of California, A.B., 1948; further study at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meteorologist in the U.S. Air Force, 1943-1946; chemist with Tidewater-Associated Oil Company, 1948-1951; photography studio owner and manager on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, 1951-1952; owned a book shop on St. Thomas after 1952. Trustee and founder of the Virgin Islands Museum beginning in 1955.\u00a0Travelled extensively.\u00a0Member ACLU, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Bibliographical Society; Hakluyt Society; Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society. Ddied April 14, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Briefs; Poems. Franklin, N.H.; Hillside Press, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>But Never Mind; Poems, etc., 1946-50. S.l.; Golden Mountain Press, 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Ceremonies in Mind; Artists, Boys, Cats, Lovers, Judges, Priests. St. Thomas, V.I.; Author, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The Christmas Clutch. St. Thomas V.I.?; Author, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrims&#8217; Terrace; Poems, American, West Indian. St. Germoan; Editoral La Neuva Salamca, 1957.<\/p>\n<p>Saint-Thomas; Poems. Millertown, Conn.; Wesleyan University Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Thomas&#8217;s and Francis&#8217; Cities Song O&#8217;Tram. St. Thomas, V.I.; s.n., 1958.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Elisha Trammell Combs is held by the University of Delaware Library, and a larger collection is\u00a0in the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Poet, chemist,\u00a0bookstore owner. Born&#8211; September 25, 1924, Riverview. Parents&#8211; Elisha Trammell and LaFaye (Hunt) Combs. Education&#8211; Attended the University of Washington, 1943-1944; attended the University of Chicago, 1945; University of California, A.B., 1948; further study at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meteorologist in the U.S. Air Force, 1943-1946; chemist with Tidewater-Associated Oil [&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-1142","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\/1142","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=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}