{"id":1643,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1643"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"melton, wightman fletcher, 1867-1944  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"MELTON, WIGHTMAN FLETCHER, 1867-1944"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Teacher.  Born&#8211;  September 26, 1867, Ripley, Tenn.  Parents&#8211;  Isaac Quimby  and Fanny Louise (Ellis) Melton.  Married&#8211;  Oliver Kelly, September 19, 1889.  Children&#8211;  Three.  Education&#8211;  George Peabody College, 1889; Blount (Ala.) College, 1890; Troy State Normal School, 1894; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1906.  Employed as a teacher, Blountsville, 1889; examiner of teachers, Blount County, Ala., 1890; president, Florida Conference College, Leesburg, Fla., 1892-1895; vice-president, Nashville College for Young Ladies, 1895-1897; president, Tuscaloosa Female College, 1897-1903; Emory University, 1908-1924; professor, extension division, Oglethorpe University, 1931-1943; Georgia State Department, 1935-1939; curator, State Museum of Georgia, 1943; mayor, Oxford, Ga., 1912-1918; editorial writer, Griffin (Ga.) News, 1924; Poet Laureate, Georgia, 1943. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along Life&#8217;s Road.  Griffin, Ga.;  Southern States Printing, 1961.  <\/p>\n<p>     Chimes of Oglethorpe.  Oglethorpe University, Ga.;  Oglethorpe University Press,      1933. <\/p>\n<p>     The Preacher&#8217;s Son.  Nashville;  Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church,      South, 1894. <\/p>\n<p>     The Rhetoric of John Donne&#8217;s Verse&#8230;  Baltimore;  J.H.  Furst Company, 1906. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frank Lebby Stanton, Georgia&#8217;s First Poet Laureate.  Atlanta;  Georgia.             Department of Education, 1938. <\/p>\n<p>     Lanier Memorial Poems of Trees.  8 vols.  Atlanta;  Banner Press, 1931-1933. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Teacher. Born&#8211; September 26, 1867, Ripley, Tenn. Parents&#8211; Isaac Quimby and Fanny Louise (Ellis) Melton. Married&#8211; Oliver Kelly, September 19, 1889. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; George Peabody College, 1889; Blount (Ala.) College, 1890; Troy State Normal School, 1894; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1906. Employed as a teacher, Blountsville, 1889; examiner of teachers, Blount County, Ala., 1890; [&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-1643","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\/1643","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=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}