{"id":1776,"date":"2018-11-15T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T21:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:43:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:43:36","slug":"mcdonald-william-lindsey-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"McDONALD, WILLIAM LINDSEY, 1927-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

U. S. Army officer; historian; writer. Born– Florence, Ala., June 7, 1927. Parents– William Ervin and Pauline McRann (Lindsey) McDonald. Married– Dorothy Evelyn Carter, November 3, 1945. Children– Two. Education– B.S., University of North Alabama, 1952; Command and General Staff College, 1974; Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1975. Employed by U.S. Army, 1945-1947, 1951-1953; served in the Army Reserves for 38 years; retired with rank of Colonel. Worked for the National Fertilizer Development Center, a division of the\u00a0Tennessee Valley Authority 35 years;\u00a0held several positions, retiring in 1988 as Chief of the Budget Staff.\u00a0\u00a0Ordained United Methodist minister; served as pastor of several small churches. Florence City Historian, 1989-2009.\u00a0Member of various historical organizations including the \u00a0American Bicentennial Commission, Florence, Tennessee Valley Historical Society, North Alabama Historical Society, Sons of the Confederacy, and\u00a0Alabama Historical Commission. Awarded the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of North Alabama, 2006. Died June 20, 2009.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1978; obituary<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beginnings of the University of North Alabama:\u00a0 The Story of Florence Wesleyan University.\u00a0 Birmingham Printing and Publishing Co., 1991.<\/p>\n

Civil War Tales of the Tennessee Valley. Killen, AL: Heart of Dixie Publishing, 2003.<\/p>\n

Following the Vision: 1822-21st Century–A History of the First Methodist Church of Florence, Alabama.\u00a0 Florence: Country Lane Printing, 2001.<\/p>\n

History of the First United Methodist Church, Florence, Alabama, 1822-1984. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Printing and Publishing Co., 1983.<\/p>\n

Legacy of our Lindseys.\u00a0 Florence: Mitchell Printing Co., 1993.<\/p>\n

Lore of the River; the Shoals of Long Ago. Florence, Ala.; Florence Historical Board, 1989.<\/p>\n

Old North Field. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Printing Co., 1986.<\/p>\n

Paths in the Brier Patch. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1979; rpt. Florence; Bluewater Publications, 2007.<\/p>\n

The Story of Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital.\u00a0 W. L. McDonald, 1989.<\/p>\n

A Walk through the Past:\u00a0 People and Places of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama.\u00a0 Florence:\u00a0 Country Lane Printing, 1997; rpt. Bluewater Publications, 2003..<\/p>\n

Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Follow the River:\u00a0 A History of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama.\u00a0 Florence:\u00a0 Heritage Preservation, Inc., 2004.<\/p>\n

Heritage of American Methodism.\u00a0 Nashville:\u00a0 Abingdon Press,\u00a01999.<\/p>\n

Judi Letters.\u00a0 Bluewater Publications, 2008.<\/p>\n

Remembering Sweetwater: The Mills, The Mansions, The People.\u00a0 Killen, AL:\u00a0 Heart of Dixie Publishing, 2002.<\/p>\n

Sweetwater:\u00a0 The Story of East Florence, 1818-1940. Florence Historical Board, 1989.<\/p>\n

Sweetwater: Yesteryears. Florence; Mitchell Printing Co., 1990.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The William Lindsey McDonald Collection is held by the Collier Library at the University of North Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: U. S. Army officer; historian; writer. Born– Florence, Ala., June 7, 1927. Parents– William Ervin and Pauline McRann (Lindsey) McDonald. Married– Dorothy Evelyn Carter, November 3, 1945. Children– Two. Education– B.S., University of North Alabama, 1952; Command and General Staff College, 1974; Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1975. Employed by U.S. Army, 1945-1947, […]<\/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-1776","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\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9070,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/9070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}