{"id":1403,"date":"2014-07-18T12:25:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2014-07-18T12:25:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T19:25:32","slug":"johnston-henry-poellnitz-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"JOHNSTON, HENRY POELLNITZ, 1908-1985"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist, broadcaster; genealogist. Born&#8211; January 26, 1908, Uniontown. Parents&#8211; Charles Poellnitz, Jr. and Eloise Simms (White) Johnston. Married&#8211; Margaret Louise Feagin, December 26, 1948. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Culver Military Academy; Washington and Lee University, A.B., 1929. President and publisher, Huntsville Times; Vice-President and local advertising manager, Birmingham News-Age Herald; Managing Director, WSGN; Executive Vice-President, Birmingham News Co.; President, Alabama Broadcasting System, Inc.; Managing Director, WAPI, WAFM, WABT-TV; President, Alabama Telecasting Corp. Active in civic and welfare organizations; member, advisory committee of Voice of America, fourteen years. Member; National Press Club; Rotary Club; Society of Cincinnati; Sons of American Revolution; and others. His hobby interest in genealogy inspired several of his books. Died February 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grove&#8217;s Library of Alabama Lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around the World in Forty-Two Days. Birmingham, Ala.; Featon Press, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>The Gentle Johnstons and Their Kin. Birmingham, Ala.; Featon Press, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Little Acorns from the Mighty Oak. Birmingham, Ala.; Featon Press, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Me and My Gals. Birmingham, Ala.; Featon Press, 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Pioneers in Their Own Rights. Birmingham, Ala.; Featon Press, 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist, broadcaster; genealogist. Born&#8211; January 26, 1908, Uniontown. Parents&#8211; Charles Poellnitz, Jr. and Eloise Simms (White) Johnston. Married&#8211; Margaret Louise Feagin, December 26, 1948. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Culver Military Academy; Washington and Lee University, A.B., 1929. President and publisher, Huntsville Times; Vice-President and local advertising manager, Birmingham News-Age Herald; Managing Director, WSGN; Executive Vice-President, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","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=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}