{"id":1513,"date":"2015-09-17T09:04:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2018-06-07T08:45:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:45:55","slug":"henley-john-charles-jr-1880-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"HENLEY, JOHN CHARLES, JR., 1880-1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist; Publisher. Born&#8211;October 9, 1880.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; John Charles and Antoinette Aurelia (Linn) Matthews Henley. Married&#8211;Lamira Minter Parker, April 26, 1906.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four. \u00a0Education&#8211; Pantops Academy, Charlottesville, Va.; Princeton University, B.A., 1902.\u00a0 Reporter, Birmingham News; founded Birmingham Publishing Company, 1910, served as president until his death in 1949. Founder and president, Birmingham Historical Society. Active in many civic organizations and causes; President of Birmingham chapter of the Rotary Club and Governor of Rotary International. Died April 27, 1949.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s Dictionary of Alabama Biography; This is Birmingham; ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is Birmingham; the Story of the Founding and Growth of an American City. Birmingham, Ala.; Southern University Press, 1960. [published posthumously].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist; Publisher. Born&#8211;October 9, 1880.\u00a0 Parents&#8211; John Charles and Antoinette Aurelia (Linn) Matthews Henley. Married&#8211;Lamira Minter Parker, April 26, 1906.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four. \u00a0Education&#8211; Pantops Academy, Charlottesville, Va.; Princeton University, B.A., 1902.\u00a0 Reporter, Birmingham News; founded Birmingham Publishing Company, 1910, served as president until his death in 1949. Founder and president, Birmingham Historical Society. Active 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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","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\/1513","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=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8215,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/8215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}