{"id":1864,"date":"2012-09-12T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:50:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T20:50:24","slug":"palmer-thomas-waverly-1860-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"PALMER, THOMAS WAVERLY, 1860-1926"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor, college president. Born&#8211; May 19, 1860, Snow Hill. Parents&#8211; Dabney and Martha A. (Simpson) Palmer. Married&#8211; Lulu Ranier, December 22, 1886. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Howard College (then located in\u00a0Marion), 1877-1878; University of Alabama, A.M., 1881; B.E., 1882. Taught math at the University of Alabama, 1881-1907; served as dean of academic faculty, 1905-1907.\u00a0 President of the Alabama Girls Industrial School (Montevallo), 1907-1926.\u00a0Led in the\u00a0expansion of the curriculum at the School to include teacher training, \u00a0home economics, and social work; under his leadership\u00a0the school awarded its first degree (1922) and was accredited (1926).\u00a0 Member and chairman of State Textbook Commission (1913-1918) and the State Board of Vocational Education (1917-1919); president of the Alabama Education Association, 1920-1921. Awarded LL. D. degree by the University of Chicago, 1906.\u00a0 Thomas Waverly Palmer Hall on the University of Montevallo campus was named in his honor. Died January 7, 1926.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 20 and Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama, 1831-1901. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; The University Press, 1901.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A collection of papers related to Thomas Waverly Palmer&#8217;s research for _A Register of the Officers and Students of the University of Alabama_ is held by Hoole Special Collections at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor, college president. Born&#8211; May 19, 1860, Snow Hill. Parents&#8211; Dabney and Martha A. (Simpson) Palmer. Married&#8211; Lulu Ranier, December 22, 1886. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Howard College (then located in\u00a0Marion), 1877-1878; University of Alabama, A.M., 1881; B.E., 1882. Taught math at the University of Alabama, 1881-1907; served as dean of academic faculty, 1905-1907.\u00a0 [&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-1864","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\/1864","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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5225,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/5225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}