{"id":3537,"date":"2014-07-31T11:59:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3537"},"modified":"2014-07-31T12:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T19:15:27","slug":"townes-samuel-allen-1806-1873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=3537","title":{"rendered":"TOWNES, SAMUEL ALLEN, 1806-1873"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper editor; lawyer.\u00a0 Born&#8211; 1806, Greenville, South Carolina.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;Samuel A. and Rachel Stokes Townes.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Joanna Lois Hall, January 23, 1834. .\u00a0 Children&#8211; eight.\u00a0 Education&#8211;University of Virginia; read law in Abbeville, South Carolina.\u00a0 Admitted to the bar in 1829; opened a partnership with a friend; founded a newspaper called the <em>Whig.\u00a0 <\/em>Moved to Marion, Alabama, in 1833, partly due to ill health.\u00a0 Opened a law partnership with Col. Henry C. Lea in 1834; edited the <em>Alabama Mercury,<\/em> 1835-1837; purchased the Plantation Hotel in 1838.\u00a0 Acquired land in the area.\u00a0 Conducted a newspaper in the mid-1840&#8217;s.\u00a0 Returned to South Carolina in December 1847; edited the Greenville <em>Mountaineer\u00a0 <\/em>and became active in politics.\u00a0 Died 1873.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allen, Lee N.\u00a0 &#8220;Biographical Sketch of Samuel A. Townes,&#8221; <em>The History of Marion, Alabama.\u00a0 <\/em>Samford University Library Research Series, No. 7.\u00a0 Birmingham, Al.: Samford University,1985.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The History of Marion, Alabama.\u00a0 Marion, 1844.\u00a0 Rpt. Samford University Library Research Series, No. 7.\u00a0 Birmingham, AL:\u00a0 Samford, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0collection of letters and papers of Samuel A. Townes is held by the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper editor; lawyer.\u00a0 Born&#8211; 1806, Greenville, South Carolina.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;Samuel A. and Rachel Stokes Townes.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Joanna Lois Hall, January 23, 1834. .\u00a0 Children&#8211; eight.\u00a0 Education&#8211;University of Virginia; read law in Abbeville, South Carolina.\u00a0 Admitted to the bar in 1829; opened a partnership with a friend; founded a newspaper called the Whig.\u00a0 Moved to Marion, Alabama, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3537"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3537\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}