{"id":1882,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1882"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"scruggs, josiah hubert, jr., 1906-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1882","title":{"rendered":"SCRUGGS, JOSIAH HUBERT, JR., 1906-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businessman.  Born&#8211;  Feb. 4, 1906, in Birmingham.  Parents&#8211;  Josiah Herbert and  Willye (Turner) Scruggs.  Married&#8211;  Maude C. Chance, Apr. 10, 1931.  Education&#8211;  University of Alabama, A.B.; Columbia University, B.Litt. In advertising at Alabama Power Co., 1927-1931; sales manager for Gulf Oil Co., 1931-1936; president Southern Culvert Co., 1936-1941; YMCA-USO secretary during World War II; partner in Vulcan Materials Co., 1946-1955. Member National Philatelic Museum, American Philatelic Congress, and British Philatelic Society. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Blue Book and Social Register; Files at Alabama Public Library Service.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Postal History.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Author, c1950.  <\/p>\n<p>     Alabama Postal Roads with Maps, 1818-1845.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Author, c1950. <\/p>\n<p>     Alabama Steamboats 1819-1869.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Author, 1953? <\/p>\n<p>     Postal History of the Confederate States.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Author, 1954. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businessman. Born&#8211; Feb. 4, 1906, in Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Josiah Herbert and Willye (Turner) Scruggs. Married&#8211; Maude C. Chance, Apr. 10, 1931. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B.; Columbia University, B.Litt. In advertising at Alabama Power Co., 1927-1931; sales manager for Gulf Oil Co., 1931-1936; president Southern Culvert Co., 1936-1941; YMCA-USO secretary during World War II; [&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-1882","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\/1882","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=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}