{"id":1255,"date":"2018-01-25T11:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2018-01-25T11:15:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T18:15:20","slug":"dozier-orion-t-1848-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1255","title":{"rendered":"DOZIER, ORION THEOPHILUS, 1848-1925"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physican, inventor; poet.\u00a0Born&#8211; August 18, 1848, Glenalter, Ga. Parents&#8211; Thomas Henry and Martha Stearns (Davie) Dozier. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Powers, April 30, 1874. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211;Eufaula Male Academy; \u00a0Atlanta Medical College, M.D., 1874; further study in the medical department of Illinois University. Member Company A., 2nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, CSA. \u00a0Began the practice of medicine in Attalla, 1874; practiced successively\u00a0in\u00a0Cherokee County; Portageville, Mo.; Rome, Ga.;\u00a0opened a practice in Birmingham, 1890. One of the first physicians in the South to use x-ray in the treatment of cancer and other diseases.\u00a0 Patented various inventions including a hame for harness, a portable elevator, and a mailing machine. Founded the Knights of the White Shield, 1899. Died February 25, 1925.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obituary; Marquis who&#8217;s who online;\u00a0 National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 22; and\u00a0 files at Alabama Public Library Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chips and Whetstones of Verses and Prose. Birmingham, Ala.; Dispatch Printing, 1916.<\/p>\n<p>Foibles of Fancy and Rhymes of the Times. Birmingham, Ala.; Dispatch Printing, 1894.<\/p>\n<p>A Galaxy of Southern Heroes and Other Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Dispatch Printing, 1905.<\/p>\n<p>Just A-Thinking. Birmingham, Ala.; Dispatch Printing, 1920.<\/p>\n<p>Poems and Prose of Orion T. Dozier. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Publishing Co., 1927.<\/p>\n<p>Poems of Orion T. Dozier. New York; Neale, 1905.<\/p>\n<p>Response of Dr. O. T. Dozier to Priest James E. Coyle.\u00a0 Birmingham, 1917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Physican, inventor; poet.\u00a0Born&#8211; August 18, 1848, Glenalter, Ga. Parents&#8211; Thomas Henry and Martha Stearns (Davie) Dozier. Married&#8211; Elizabeth Powers, April 30, 1874. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211;Eufaula Male Academy; \u00a0Atlanta Medical College, M.D., 1874; further study in the medical department of Illinois University. Member Company A., 2nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, CSA. \u00a0Began the practice of medicine [&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-1255","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\/1255","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=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7445,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/7445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}