{"id":1805,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1805"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"murphy, edgar gardner, 1869-1913 ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1805","title":{"rendered":"MURPHY, EDGAR GARDNER, 1869-1913"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Episcopal priest. Born– August 31, 1869. Fort Smith, Ark. Parents– Samuel W. and Janie (Gardner) Murphy. Married– Maud King, August 31, 1891. Children– Two. Education– University of the South; General Theological Seminary and Columbia University. Ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church, 1890; a priest, 1893. Served as rector of churches in San Antonio and Laredo, Tex.; Chillicothe, Ohio and Montgomery. Helped found a black episcopal church; organized a conference to promote interchange between blacks and whites and among people throughout the United States. Organized and chaired the first Alabama Child Labor Committee; served as first secretary of the first National Child Labor Committee. Withdrew from the ministry to devote more time to reform movements and to the Southern Education Board; secretary of S.E.B., 1903-1908. Wrote under the name of Kelvin McKready. <\/p>\n

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

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1; National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 25, Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 13, and Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors. <\/p>\n

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

Alabama’s First Question. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n. 1904. <\/p>\n

The Basis of Ascendancy. New York; Longmans, 1909. <\/p>\n

A Beginner’s Star-Book, by Kelvin McKready. New York; Putnam, 1912. <\/p>\n

The Case Against Child Labor. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Child Labor Conmittee, 1900. <\/p>\n

Child Labor and Business. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Child Labor Committee, 1902. <\/p>\n

Child Labor and the Public. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Child Labor Committee, 1900. <\/p>\n

Child Labor in Alabama and the South. Montgomery, Ala.; Central Committee on Child Labor in Alabama, 1901. <\/p>\n

Child Labor in the Southern Press. Montgomery, Ala.; Executive Committee on Child Labor in Alabama, 1902. <\/p>\n

Child Labor Legislation. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Child Labor Committee, 1900. <\/p>\n

Child Labor Question in Alabama. New York; National Child Labor Committee, 1907. <\/p>\n

The Church and the Negro Episcopate. S.l.; s.n., 1907. <\/p>\n

The Edgar Gardner Murphy Papers in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina Library. Chapel Hill, N.C.; University of North Carolina, 1966. <\/p>\n

The Federal Regulation of Child Labor. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Child Labor Committee, 1907. <\/p>\n

The Larger Life. New York; Longmans, 1897. <\/p>\n

The Negro and the “Solid South.” Cheyney, Pa.; Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race, 1900. An Open Letter on Suffrage Restriction. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Printing, 1901. <\/p>\n

Problems of fhe Present South. New York; Grossett, 1904. <\/p>\n

The South and Her Children. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Committee on Child Labor, 1902. <\/p>\n

Southern Education. S.l.; s.n., 1902. <\/p>\n

The Task of the South. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1900. <\/p>\n

The White Man and the Negro of the South. Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1900. <\/p>\n

Words for the Church. New York; Whittaker, 1897. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: Episcopal priest. Born– August 31, 1869. Fort Smith, Ark. Parents– Samuel W. and Janie (Gardner) Murphy. Married– Maud King, August 31, 1891. Children– Two. Education– University of the South; General Theological Seminary and Columbia University. Ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church, 1890; a priest, 1893. Served as rector of churches in San Antonio […]<\/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-1805","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\/1805","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=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}