{"id":1595,"date":"2014-06-13T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2018-08-10T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:34:08","slug":"lancaster-edwin-bragg-1898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"LANCASTER, EDWIN BRAGG, 1898-1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Architect. Born&#8211; Dec. 7, 1898, York, Ala. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Washington and Mary Emma (Bragg) Lancaster. Married&#8211; Minnie Lucile Morgan, June 30, 1922. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1920; class poet and art editor, 1919-1920, awarded several gold medals for scholarship. Worked as a practicing architect; taught, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1942-1945; acting dean, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, 1943-1944; served on state boards and commissions; joined the firm of Sherlock, Smith, and Adams in Montgomery and served as chief architect for the firm, 1951-1957, as well as representing the firm doing defense work in Europe; established his own firm with his son in 1960. Member&#8211; several professional organizations; Georgia Writers Association; Alabama Writers Conclave. Died June 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grove&#8217;s Alabama Lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Applesauce in Season; Poems, Lyrics, Verse. Montgomery, Ala.; Walker Printing Co., 1946.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ante-Bellum Mansions of Alabama.\u00a0 New York: Bonanza Books, 1951.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Architect. Born&#8211; Dec. 7, 1898, York, Ala. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Washington and Mary Emma (Bragg) Lancaster. Married&#8211; Minnie Lucile Morgan, June 30, 1922. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1920; class poet and art editor, 1919-1920, awarded several gold medals for scholarship. Worked as a practicing architect; taught, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1942-1945; acting dean, [&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-1595","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\/1595","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=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8607,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}