{"id":2014,"date":"2016-05-19T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2016-08-09T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T21:30:31","slug":"watson-elbert-l-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"WATSON, ELBERT L., 1930-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong> Librarian; clergyman. Born&#8211; May 10, 1930, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Elbert Leslie Watson Sr. and Edith Louise Watson. Married&#8211; Ramona Jo Bennett. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Bethany Nazarene College, A.B., 1952; University of Oklahoma, M.A., 1954; George Peabody College, M.A., 1966. Minister, Church of the Nazarene, Gadsden, 1954-1962. Director, Public Library, Anniston, 1966-1969; director, Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, 1969-1978. Executive Director, Indiana Library Association, 1978-. Member&#8211; Alabama, Southeastern and American Library Associations; Alabama Historical Association. Founding member of Etowah Historical Society. \u00a0Died September 13, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biographical Directory of Librarians in the United States and Canada; Alabama United States Senators; obituary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama United States Senators. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Harrison Lester; Memories of a Gracious Lady. Huntsville, Ala.; Watson, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee at the Battle of New Orleans. New Orleans; Battle of New Orleans, 150th Anniversary Committee of Louisiana, 1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A History of Etowah County, Alabama. Gadsden, Ala.; Etowah County Centennial Committee, 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Librarian; clergyman. Born&#8211; May 10, 1930, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents&#8211; Elbert Leslie Watson Sr. and Edith Louise Watson. Married&#8211; Ramona Jo Bennett. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Bethany Nazarene College, A.B., 1952; University of Oklahoma, M.A., 1954; George Peabody College, M.A., 1966. Minister, Church of the Nazarene, Gadsden, 1954-1962. Director, Public Library, Anniston, 1966-1969; director, Huntsville-Madison [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","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=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5788,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/5788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}