{"id":1511,"date":"2018-05-30T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2018-06-04T12:25:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T19:25:42","slug":"henry-waights-gibbs-1879-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1511","title":{"rendered":"HENRY, WAIGHTS GIBBS, 1879-1960"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Methodist clergyman, professor. Born&#8211; January 13, 1879, at Palm in Pickens Co. Parents&#8211; Robert Fillmore and Rebecca Catherine (Morris) Henry. Married&#8211; Mary Elizabeth Davis, June 18, 1903. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Southern University, A.B., 1900; Vanderbilt University, B.D., 1902; University of Alabama, A.M., 1912; Boston University, Ph.D., 1915; further graduate work at University of Chicago, Millsaps College, and Harvard University. Ordained to Methodist ministry, 1903; pastorates in Trinity, Pratt City, Tuscaloosa, Brookhaven, Huntsville, and Birmingham; professor of religious education, Emory University, 1924-1929; professor of Bible, Athens College, after 1951. Member of many councils and conferences of the Methodist Church; District Superintendent, Anniston district. Died August 25, 1960.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. 3; Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Needful Knowledge for Worthful Living. Birmingham, Ala.; W.G. Henry, 1930.<\/p>\n<p>The Negro as an Economic Factor in Alabama.\u00a0 Nashville:\u00a0 M.E. Church South Publishing House, 1918.<\/p>\n<p>The Organization of Personality. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Printing Co., 1922.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Methodist clergyman, professor. Born&#8211; January 13, 1879, at Palm in Pickens Co. Parents&#8211; Robert Fillmore and Rebecca Catherine (Morris) Henry. Married&#8211; Mary Elizabeth Davis, June 18, 1903. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Southern University, A.B., 1900; Vanderbilt University, B.D., 1902; University of Alabama, A.M., 1912; Boston University, Ph.D., 1915; further graduate work at University of Chicago, [&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-1511","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\/1511","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=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}