{"id":1249,"date":"2018-01-26T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2018-01-26T13:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:15:52","slug":"du-bose-john-witherspoon-1836-1918","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"DuBOSE, JOHN WITHERSPOON, 1836-1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cotton planter, historian, newspaper journalist, editor. Born&#8211; March 5, 1836, Society Hill, Darlington County, S.C.; moved to Marengo County with his family in 1850. \u00a0Parents&#8211; Kimbrough Cassels and Elizabeth Boykin (Witherspoon) DuBose. Never married. Education&#8211; Dayton Classical Academy; one term at South Carolina College, 1854; studied at home with private tutors.\u00a0Successful cotton planter in the Canebrake area of Marengo County, 1856-61.\u00a0 Served in Confederate Army Quartermaster Corps; reached rank of Lieutenant Colonel, but did not see action because of his deafness. After the War worked as a plantation manager; moved in Birmingham in 1886 and worked\u00a0 as a\u00a0journalist, and free-lance writer, focusing particularly on local and state historical, political, and economic affairs, publishing numerous articles in\u00a0newspapers and magazines. Worked intermittently as a newspaper editor; owned a bookstore in Gadsden.\u00a0Worked as an assistant at the Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1901-07 and 1912-1917. Did\u00a0 Died February 14, 1918.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>bhamwiki; Owen&#8217;s The Story of Alabama; Hoole, William Stanley, &#8220;Life of John Witherspoon DuBose&#8221; in John Witherspoon DuBose:\u00a0 A Neglected Southern Historian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s Tragic Decade. Birmingham, Ala.; Webb Book Co. 1940 (First published as a series of articles in the Birmingham Age-Herald).<\/p>\n<p>General Joseph Wheeler and the Army of Tennessee. New York; Neale, 1912.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.; Teeples &amp; Smith, 1887.<\/p>\n<p>John Witherspoon DuBose: A Neglected Southern Historian, with a Selection of His Uncollected Essays. Edited by William Stanley Hoole.\u00a0 University:\u00a0 Confederate Publishing Company, 1983.<\/p>\n<p>The Life and Times of William Lowndes Yancey. Birmingham, Ala.; Roberts &amp; Sons, 1892.<\/p>\n<p>The Mineral Wealth of Alabama and Birmingham Illustrated. Birmingham, Ala.; N. T. Green, 1886.<\/p>\n<p>The Witherspoons of Society Hill. Hartsville, S.C.; Hartsville Pub. Co., 1910.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama&#8217;s First Towns:\u00a0 Nine Alabama Towns in 1816-1817.\u00a0 University:\u00a0 Confederate Publishing Co., 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Collection of the papers of John Witherspoon DuBose is held by the W.S.Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Cotton planter, historian, newspaper journalist, editor. Born&#8211; March 5, 1836, Society Hill, Darlington County, S.C.; moved to Marengo County with his family in 1850. \u00a0Parents&#8211; Kimbrough Cassels and Elizabeth Boykin (Witherspoon) DuBose. Never married. Education&#8211; Dayton Classical Academy; one term at South Carolina College, 1854; studied at home with private tutors.\u00a0Successful cotton planter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","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=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7464,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/7464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}