{"id":1918,"date":"2017-09-28T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2017-09-28T10:00:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T17:00:27","slug":"ruth-william-hardwick-1869","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"RUTH, WILLIAM HARDWICK, 1869-1956"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Optician, jeweler. Born&#8211; Sept. 12, 1869, Montgomery, Ala. Parents&#8211; Leonidas and Juliet (Hardwick) Ruth. Married&#8211; Maude Crook. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of the South; Parsons&#8217;s School of Horology; two optician schools, New York. Jeweler and optician, Montgomery. Member social, literary, business clubs; Commercial and Industrial Associations (Chamber of Commerce); Episcopal Church; trustee, University of the South. Died&#8211; October 30, 1956.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Notable Men of Alabama, Vol. I; Owen&#8217;s Story of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My Alabama. New York; Fortuny&#8217;s, 1941.<\/p>\n<p>Eagle&#8217;s Wings. Philadelphia; Dorrance &amp; Co., 1945.<\/p>\n<p>Many Waters. Boston; Christopher Pub. House, 1942.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Optician, jeweler. Born&#8211; Sept. 12, 1869, Montgomery, Ala. Parents&#8211; Leonidas and Juliet (Hardwick) Ruth. Married&#8211; Maude Crook. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; University of the South; Parsons&#8217;s School of Horology; two optician schools, New York. Jeweler and optician, Montgomery. Member social, literary, business clubs; Commercial and Industrial Associations (Chamber of Commerce); Episcopal Church; trustee, University of [&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-1918","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\/1918","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=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}