{"id":2124,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2124"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"spencer, william micajah, jr., 1890-1979  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2124","title":{"rendered":"SPENCER, WILLIAM MICAJAH, JR., 1890-1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, farmer, businessman.  Born&#8211;  June 10, 1890 in Gallion,   Ala.  Parents&#8211;  William Micajah and Bertha Gracy (Steele) Spencer.    Married&#8211;  Margaret Woodward Evins in 1915.  Children&#8211;  Three. Education&#8211;  graduated Marion Institute; University of Alabama, B.S.;  Harvard University Law School, J.D.  Practiced law in Birmingham until  retirement in 1950; owned farms near Gallion and in Marengo Co.; directed  Robertson Banking Co., and the Blackhawk Electric Corp. (Demopolis);  board member Owens-Richard Co. and Metalplate and Coating, Inc.; board  member Birmingham Botanical Society, Birmingham Children&#8217;s Hospital, and  Birmingham Museum.  Birmingham&#8217;s &#8220;Man of the Year&#8221; 1968; registrar for Diocese of Alabama, 1937-1971. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Spencer&#8217;s son.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Stained Glass Windows in St. Mary&#8217;s-on-the-Highlands Episcopal Church,                      Birmingham, Alabama.  S.l.;  s.n., 1955. <\/p>\n<p>     &#8220;X,&#8221; Symbol of Independence and Progress.  New York;  Newcomen Society in North America, 1956. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, farmer, businessman. Born&#8211; June 10, 1890 in Gallion, Ala. Parents&#8211; William Micajah and Bertha Gracy (Steele) Spencer. Married&#8211; Margaret Woodward Evins in 1915. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; graduated Marion Institute; University of Alabama, B.S.; Harvard University Law School, J.D. Practiced law in Birmingham until retirement in 1950; owned farms near Gallion and in Marengo [&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-2124","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\/2124","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=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5306,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/5306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}