{"id":1843,"date":"2012-07-02T12:10:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2012-07-02T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T19:10:29","slug":"peck-samuel-mintern-1854-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"PECK, SAMUEL MINTURN, 1854-1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physician, writer.  Born&#8211;  November 4, 1854, Tuscaloosa.  Parents&#8211;  Elisha  Wolsey (Alabama Chief Justice)\u00a0and Lucy Lamb (Randall) Peck.  Education&#8211;  University of Alabama, A.B., M.A.,\u00a01876; post-graduate work at Columbia University and the Alliance in Paris; Bellevue Hospital Medical College, M.D., 1879. Free-lance writer for magazines and newspapers. \u00a0First poet laureate of Alabama, filling that post from 1930 to 1938. Died May 3, 1938.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slowe, Betty.\u00a0 &#8220;First State Poet Laureate a Local.&#8221; Tuscaloosa News,\u00a0 June 25, 2012, pp. 1B, 3B.<\/p>\n<p>Owen&#8217;s History of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama sketches.  Chicago;  A. C. McClurg &amp; Co., 1902.<\/p>\n<p>The Autumn Trail.  Cedar Rapids, Iowa;  The Torch Press, 1925.<\/p>\n<p>Cap and Bells.  New York;  White, Stokes &amp; Allen, 1886 (and four subsequent editions).<\/p>\n<p>Fair Women of Today.  New York;  F. A.  Stokes, 1895.<\/p>\n<p>Maybloom and Myrtle.  Boston;  D. Estes &amp; Co., 1910.<\/p>\n<p>Rhymes and Roses.  New York;  F. A. Stokes, 1895.<\/p>\n<p>Rings and Love Knots.  New York;  F. A. Stokes, 1892.<\/p>\n<p>Song Lyrics;  All For You.  Cincinnati, Ohio;  John Church Company,  1899.<\/p>\n<p>Creole Song, Op. 85.  Boston;  W. A. Evans &amp; Bro., 1883.<\/p>\n<p>The Daffodil&#8217;s Secret, Op. 3, No. 2.  New York;  C. Saerchinger, 1904.<\/p>\n<p>Mignon.  New York;  Edward Schuberth, 1893.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of the papers of Samuel Mintern Peck, including correspondence and poems, is held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama,<br \/>\nTuscaloosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Physician, writer. Born&#8211; November 4, 1854, Tuscaloosa. Parents&#8211; Elisha Wolsey (Alabama Chief Justice)\u00a0and Lucy Lamb (Randall) Peck. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., M.A.,\u00a01876; post-graduate work at Columbia University and the Alliance in Paris; Bellevue Hospital Medical College, M.D., 1879. Free-lance writer for magazines and newspapers. \u00a0First poet laureate of Alabama, filling that post from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","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=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3701,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions\/3701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}