{"id":1786,"date":"2018-11-01T11:29:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T18:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2018-11-27T11:57:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:57:58","slug":"mccorvey-thomas-chalmers-1851-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"McCORVEY, THOMAS CHALMERS, 1851-1932"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor; journalist, poet. Born&#8211; August 18, 1851, Monroe County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Murdock and Lydia Jane (Ranaldson) McCorvey. Married&#8211; Netta L. Tutwiler, July 22, 1880. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Monroe Institute, Erskine College; University of Alabama, \u00a0A.B.,1873; B. Laws, 1875; A.M, 1878. Employed as commandant of cadets, University of Alabama, 1874; professor of history and political science at UA, 1888-1923. Contributed articles and columns to local newspapers; published poetry. Member&#8211; Board of Visitors, U.S. Military Academy, 1886, Alabama Centennial Commission, 1919. Honors&#8211; LL.D., University of Alabama, 1906. Died April 2, 1932.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online and\u00a0George B. Johnston&#8217;s Thomas Chalmers McCorvey, Teacher, Poet, Historian.\u00a0 Blacksburg, VA: White Rhinoceros Press, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Historical Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Pub. Co., 1927.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama Historical Sketches.\u00a0 Charlottesville:\u00a0 University of Virginia Press, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The Civil Government of Alabama.\u00a0 Revised edition. Philadelphia:\u00a0 Eldredge &amp; Brothers, 1903.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of the People of the State of Alabama. Philadelphia; Eldredge &amp; brothers, 1895.<\/p>\n<p>Introduction to the History of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa: Rotary Club, 1925.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Compiler;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Register of the Officers and Graduates of the University of Alabama.\u00a0 Tuscaloosa: George A. Searcy, 1878.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, holds several collections of the papers of Thomas Chalmers McCorvey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Biography: University professor; journalist, poet. Born&#8211; August 18, 1851, Monroe County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Murdock and Lydia Jane (Ranaldson) McCorvey. Married&#8211; Netta L. Tutwiler, July 22, 1880. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Monroe Institute, Erskine College; University of Alabama, \u00a0A.B.,1873; B. Laws, 1875; A.M, 1878. Employed as commandant of cadets, University of Alabama, 1874; professor of history and [&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-1786","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\/1786","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=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}