{"id":2158,"date":"2014-07-09T11:35:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2014-07-09T11:41:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:41:40","slug":"smith-algernon-lundy-1868","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2158","title":{"rendered":"SMITH, ALGERNON LUNDY, 1868-1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businessman. Born&#8211; Jan. 9, 1868, in Prattville, Ala. Parents&#8211; Benjamin\u00a0F. and Sarah Holt Smith.\u00a0Married&#8211; Carrie J. Brown at Anniston, Ala., June 20, 1893. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; attended Howard College in Marion. Joined brother in business and established agencies in Texas and Louisiana for Daniel Pratt Gin Co.; purchased controlling interest in Barbour Machine Works, Anniston; became president in 1898 of Texas Machine Co.; in 1901 became purchasing agent for Continental Gin Co. and in 1904 put in charge of sales east of Mississippi River, in 1910 for all sales; made vice president; in 1934 became president of Continental Gin; resigned 1938 to become vice chairman of board of directors. A Baptist and trustee of Judson College.\u00a0 Died October 27, 1964.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Blue Book and Social Register; Continental Gin Company and Its Fifty-two Years of Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Continental Gin Company and Its Fifty-two Years of Service. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Pub. Co., 1952.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businessman. Born&#8211; Jan. 9, 1868, in Prattville, Ala. Parents&#8211; Benjamin\u00a0F. and Sarah Holt Smith.\u00a0Married&#8211; Carrie J. Brown at Anniston, Ala., June 20, 1893. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; attended Howard College in Marion. Joined brother in business and established agencies in Texas and Louisiana for Daniel Pratt Gin Co.; purchased controlling interest in Barbour Machine Works, [&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-2158","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\/2158","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=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}