{"id":1648,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1648"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"mertins, gustave frederick, 1872-1926  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"MERTINS, GUSTAVE FREDERICK, 1872-1926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born&#8211;  Evergreen, Ala., August 19, 1872.  Parents&#8211;  Gustave Ferdinand and  Jennie A.L.W. (Stahl) Mertins.  Married&#8211;  Bessie P. Screws, February 26, 1908.  Education&#8211;  private tutelage; College of St. Anthony, Geneva, Switzerland; Kolmar, Posen, Germany; studied law, Washington and Lee University.  Employed as an attorney, Montgomery, Ala., 1893; special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, 1910. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Storm Signal. Indianapolis, Ind.;  Bobbs-Merrill, 1905.  <\/p>\n<p>     The Twilight Soul.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1920. <\/p>\n<p>     A Watcher of the Skies.  New York;  Crowell, 1911. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Born&#8211; Evergreen, Ala., August 19, 1872. Parents&#8211; Gustave Ferdinand and Jennie A.L.W. (Stahl) Mertins. Married&#8211; Bessie P. Screws, February 26, 1908. Education&#8211; private tutelage; College of St. Anthony, Geneva, Switzerland; Kolmar, Posen, Germany; studied law, Washington and Lee University. Employed as an attorney, Montgomery, Ala., 1893; special assistant to the Attorney General of the [&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-1648","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\/1648","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=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}