{"id":1880,"date":"2015-10-08T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2016-09-22T17:25:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T00:25:34","slug":"screws-william-wallace-1839-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"SCREWS, WILLIAM WALLACE, 1839-1913"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, journalist. Born&#8211; Feb. 25, 1839 in Barbour (now Russell) Co. Parents&#8211; Benjamin and Morning (Drake) Screws. Married&#8211; Emily F. Holton Apr. 25, 1867. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; studied law in Montgomery law offices; admitted to bar in 1859. Practiced law until 1861; served in Confederate Army, 1861-65; purchased Montgomery Advertiser in\u00a0 1865, becoming president and editor-in-chief; used paper to expose corruption in state Reconstruction government and to oppose Farmer&#8217;s Alliances and issuance of Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad bonds; Alabama secretary of state 1878-1882; employed at Library of Congress in President Cleveland&#8217;s first term; postmaster at Montgomery 1893-1897.<\/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>&#8220;Alabama Journalism&#8221; in Memorial Records of Alabama. Madison, Wisc.; Brant &amp; Fuller, 1893.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, journalist. Born&#8211; Feb. 25, 1839 in Barbour (now Russell) Co. Parents&#8211; Benjamin and Morning (Drake) Screws. Married&#8211; Emily F. Holton Apr. 25, 1867. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; studied law in Montgomery law offices; admitted to bar in 1859. Practiced law until 1861; served in Confederate Army, 1861-65; purchased Montgomery Advertiser in\u00a0 1865, becoming president [&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-1880","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\/1880","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=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5874,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/5874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}