{"id":1881,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1881"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"scroggs, william oscar, 1879-1957  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"SCROGGS, WILLIAM OSCAR, 1879-1957"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Librarian, educator, journalist.  Born&#8211;  Mar. 30, 1879, in Monroe, N.C.  Parents&#8211;   William Junius and Lucy (Persall) Scroggs.  Education&#8211;  Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., M.S.; Harvard University, Ph.D.  Librarian and instructor in English at Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1900-1904; editorial staff member Encyclopaedia Britannica 1907-1908; professor and dean Louisiana State University, 1908-1913 and 1941-1945; trade expert for U.S. Shipping Board; financial writer for New York Evening Post; statistician for Western Electric Co.; member editorial staff New York World; director of information service for Council on Foreign Relations. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Century of Banking Progress.  Garden City, N.Y.;  Doubleday, 1924.  <\/p>\n<p>     Early Trade and Travel in the Lower Mississippi Valley.  Baton Rouge, La.;  Ortlieb Printing      House, 1911. <\/p>\n<p>     Filibusters and Financiers;  the Story of William Walker and His Associates.  New York;       Macmillan, 1916. <\/p>\n<p>     Steamship Fuel Stations in Foreign Countries and Non-contiguous United States Territories.       Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1919. <\/p>\n<p>     The Story of Louisiana;  a Textbook for Schools.  Indianapolis, Ind.;  Bobbs-Merrill, 1924. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States in World Affairs;  an Account of American Foreign Relations.  New                 York;  Simon &#038; Schuster, 1931-1971. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Librarian, educator, journalist. Born&#8211; Mar. 30, 1879, in Monroe, N.C. Parents&#8211; William Junius and Lucy (Persall) Scroggs. Education&#8211; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., M.S.; Harvard University, Ph.D. Librarian and instructor in English at Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1900-1904; editorial staff member Encyclopaedia Britannica 1907-1908; professor and dean Louisiana State University, 1908-1913 and 1941-1945; trade expert for [&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-1881","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\/1881","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=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}