{"id":1948,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1948"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"robertson, samuel lowrie  1838-1909  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1948","title":{"rendered":"ROBERTSON, SAMUEL LOWRIE  1838-1909"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer, school superintendent.  Born&#8211;  November 18, 1838, Jackson County.  Education&#8211;  University of Virginia; Richmond Hill Law School in North Carolina.  Practiced law in Charlotte;  superintendent of the county schools in Jefferson County, Ala.  Served in the Civil War Cavalry under Generals Wheeler and Forrest.  Best known poem, &#8220;A School Room Fifty Years Ago,&#8221; portrayed a typical antebellum school day. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dora;  or, On the Border, and Other Poems.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Roberts &#038; Son,                      1894. <\/p>\n<p>     Gulf Songs.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Roberts &#038; Son, 1908. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Lawyer, school superintendent. Born&#8211; November 18, 1838, Jackson County. Education&#8211; University of Virginia; Richmond Hill Law School in North Carolina. Practiced law in Charlotte; superintendent of the county schools in Jefferson County, Ala. Served in the Civil War Cavalry under Generals Wheeler and Forrest. Best known poem, &#8220;A School Room Fifty Years Ago,&#8221; portrayed [&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-1948","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\/1948","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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}