{"id":1285,"date":"2014-07-30T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2018-05-14T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:42:41","slug":"harris-william-stuart-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"HARRIS, WILLIAM STUART, 1933-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; teacher. Born&#8211; October 4, 1933, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; William Guy and Frances Elizabeth (Stuart) Harris. Married&#8211; Barbara King Cooper. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1957; M.A., 1966; Ed.\u00a0 D., 1970.\u00a0 Taught in Mountain Brook school system and Birmingham University School; chairman of History Department, Marion Military Institute; professor, Judson College. Storyteller and historical researcher. Colonial Wars Teacher Award, 1979. Member, Alabama and Mississippi Historical Societies, Alabama Genealogical Society, and National Speleological Society. Died October 3, 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacket information, Alabama Place Names; Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. 1; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Place Names. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>A History of Alabama; a Secondary Course. Montgomery, Ala.; Clairmont Press, 1986?<\/p>\n<p>Dead Towns of Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Perry County Heritage.\u00a0 Marion, Al.: Perry County Historical and Preservation Society, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>A Short History of Marion, Perry County, Alabama; Its Homes and Its Buildings. Marion, Ala.; s.n., 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Things That Go Bump in the Night. Marion, Ala.; W. S. Harris, 1970.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haunted Southland Tales.\u00a0 2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eyes on Europe. London; Hodder and Stoughton and the European Christian Mission, 1970.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; teacher. Born&#8211; October 4, 1933, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; William Guy and Frances Elizabeth (Stuart) Harris. Married&#8211; Barbara King Cooper. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1957; M.A., 1966; Ed.\u00a0 D., 1970.\u00a0 Taught in Mountain Brook school system and Birmingham University School; chairman of History Department, Marion Military Institute; professor, Judson College. Storyteller and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","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=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8047,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/8047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}