{"id":1790,"date":"2014-03-18T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:22:30","slug":"mcconnell-andrew-m-1873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1790","title":{"rendered":"McCONNELL, ANDREW M., 1873-1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneur; lecturer; magazine editor; founder of a cult of human electricty as a universal cure.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Blount County, Ala., April\u00a01873. Parents&#8211; William T. and Araminta\u00a0 Matilda Adams McConnell. Married&#8211;\u00a0 Marion D. Daniel.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. Education&#8211; Blount College, Blountsville; Southern University, Greensboro. Purchased and edited\u00a0magazine <em>Alkahest<\/em>; inaugurated Alkahest Lyceum system for\u00a0promoting and booking\u00a0educational entertainment; founded McConnell Library Association, to establish \u00a0public libraries; founder of the Consumer&#8217;s Co-operative Union, a buying union for workingmen.\u00a0 Spent many years institutionalized after an attempt to murder his wife. Died November 24, 1950.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Echoes from the Heart; Songs Piped During the First Year of Manhood. Atlanta, Ga.; The Foote &amp; Davies Co., 1895.<\/p>\n<p>Human Electricity; Scientific Basis of Life. New York; s.n., 1909.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Entrepreneur; lecturer; magazine editor; founder of a cult of human electricty as a universal cure.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Blount County, Ala., April\u00a01873. Parents&#8211; William T. and Araminta\u00a0 Matilda Adams McConnell. Married&#8211;\u00a0 Marion D. Daniel.\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. Education&#8211; Blount College, Blountsville; Southern University, Greensboro. Purchased and edited\u00a0magazine Alkahest; inaugurated Alkahest Lyceum system for\u00a0promoting and booking\u00a0educational entertainment; founded McConnell [&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-1790","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\/1790","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=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9020,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/9020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}