{"id":2172,"date":"2018-02-20T12:17:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2018-02-20T12:23:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T19:23:40","slug":"simmons-edward-n-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2172","title":{"rendered":"SIMMONS, EDWARD N., 1914-2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aviator, airlines employee. Born&#8211;November 25,\u00a01914, Birmingham. Parents&#8211;Herbert and Ossie Coley Simmons. Married&#8211;Martha Mae Terry. Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; graduated from Southern Airways Flying School. Flying instructor at Birmingham Southern College; flight instructor during World War II for Army Air Forces; worked for Transcontinental, Western, and Trans-World Airlines. Retired from TWA after 30 years as a pilot. Member&#8211; American Society of Arms Collectors and Southern California Arms Collectors. Died April 21, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Public Library Service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Confederate Arms. Harrisburg, Pa.; s.n., 1957.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederate Brass-framed Colt &amp; Whitney. Falls Church, Va.; Albaugh and Simmons, 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Aviator, airlines employee. Born&#8211;November 25,\u00a01914, Birmingham. Parents&#8211;Herbert and Ossie Coley Simmons. Married&#8211;Martha Mae Terry. Children&#8211;two. Education&#8211; graduated from Southern Airways Flying School. Flying instructor at Birmingham Southern College; flight instructor during World War II for Army Air Forces; worked for Transcontinental, Western, and Trans-World Airlines. Retired from TWA after 30 years as a pilot. [&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-2172","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\/2172","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=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7630,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/7630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}