{"id":1640,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1640"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"mell, patrick hues, 1850-1918  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"MELL, PATRICK HUES, 1850-1918"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Agriculturist, university professor.  Born&#8211;  May 24, 1850, Penfield, Ga.   Parents&#8211;  Patrick Hues and Lurene Howard (Cooper) Mell.  Married&#8211;  Annie R. White, June 15, 1875.  Education&#8211;  A.B., 1871; M.E., 1872; Ph.D., University of Georgia.  Employed as a state chemist, Georgia, 1874-1877; taught geology and botany, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1878-1902; president, South Carolina A. &#038; M. College (Clemson), 1902-1910; director, Alabama Weather Service, API, 1884-1893; director, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1898; invented, weather signals used by the U.S. Weather Bureau.  Member&#8211;  treasurer, Board of Missions, Southern Baptist Convention, 1913; president, College Section, American Association of Colleges and Stations, 1909; Commander, Alabama Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, 1898. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biological Laboratory Methods.  New York;  Macmillan, 1902.  <\/p>\n<p>     Gardening for the South;  or, How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits.  Richmond;  B.F.       Johnson Pub.  Co., 1901. <\/p>\n<p>     The Genealogy of the Mell Family in the Southern States.  Albany, N.Y.;  J. Munsell&#8217;s      sons, 1897. <\/p>\n<p>     Report on the Climatology of the Cotton Plant.  Washington, D.C.;  Weather Bureau,      1893. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Manual of Parliamentary Practice, rev.  ed.  Louisville, Ky.;  Baptist Book            Concern, 1893. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Agriculturist, university professor. Born&#8211; May 24, 1850, Penfield, Ga. Parents&#8211; Patrick Hues and Lurene Howard (Cooper) Mell. Married&#8211; Annie R. White, June 15, 1875. Education&#8211; A.B., 1871; M.E., 1872; Ph.D., University of Georgia. Employed as a state chemist, Georgia, 1874-1877; taught geology and botany, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1878-1902; president, South Carolina A. &#038; M. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640","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=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}