{"id":2328,"date":"2017-09-12T11:26:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2018-08-01T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T18:12:28","slug":"kirby-lelias-eugene-1895-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"KIRBY, LELIAS EUGENE, 1895-1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physician. Born&#8211; Oct. 28, 1895, Etowah County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Lasley Stewart and Nannie Lee (Spradley) Kirby. Married&#8211; Jean Harms, Aug. 19, 1927. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1924; Emory University, M.D., 1926.\u00a0 U.S. Army, WWI. Organized the Wesley Foundation; served on the Jefferson County, Alabama Board of Education and the Board of Trustees of Huntingdon College; founded East End Memorial Hospital in Birmingham, 1947. Held most offices in the Methodist Church and taught an adult Sunday School class. Wrote a weekly newspaper column for many years.\u00a0 Died October 5, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grove&#8217;s Library of Alabama Lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Corncobs, Cockleburs and Country Boys. Nashville; Williams, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton Pickin&#8217; Coon Huntin&#8217; Country Boys. Birmingham, Ala.; Cather Pub. Co., 1975.<\/p>\n<p>How Me and Amos Won World War I. Birmingham, Ala.; Commercial Printing Co., 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Physician. Born&#8211; Oct. 28, 1895, Etowah County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Lasley Stewart and Nannie Lee (Spradley) Kirby. Married&#8211; Jean Harms, Aug. 19, 1927. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1924; Emory University, M.D., 1926.\u00a0 U.S. Army, WWI. Organized the Wesley Foundation; served on the Jefferson County, Alabama Board of Education and the Board of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","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=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8532,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/8532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}