{"id":2279,"date":"2013-05-22T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2013-05-22T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T18:41:00","slug":"yerby-william-edward-wadsworth-1864","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2279","title":{"rendered":"YERBY, WILLIAM EDWARD WADSWORTH, 1864-1940."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lawyer, legislator. Born&#8211; October 10, 1864, in Greensboro, Ala. Parents&#8211; Miles Hassell and Susan Callie (Gibson) Yerby. Married&#8211; Mabel Taylor. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Southern University, Greensboro; studied printing, law. Published Greensboro Watchman, 1886-; president, Alabama Press Association 1901-1904. Admitted to bar, 1893; city attorney, councilman and mayor, Greensboro; state legislator. Died November 15, 1940.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Past Leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of Greensboro, Alabama, From Its Earliest Settlement. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1908.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Lawyer, legislator. Born&#8211; October 10, 1864, in Greensboro, Ala. Parents&#8211; Miles Hassell and Susan Callie (Gibson) Yerby. Married&#8211; Mabel Taylor. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Southern University, Greensboro; studied printing, law. Published Greensboro Watchman, 1886-; president, Alabama Press Association 1901-1904. Admitted to bar, 1893; city attorney, councilman and mayor, Greensboro; state legislator. Died November 15, 1940. [&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-2279","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\/2279","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=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4326,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/4326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}