{"id":6820,"date":"2017-09-12T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T16:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2017-09-12T10:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:19:53","slug":"wintzell-j-oliver-1905-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6820","title":{"rendered":"WINTZELL, JAMES OLIVER, 1905-1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Restaurant owner.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Coden, December 5, 1905.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;Oliver George and Minnie Isabel Bosarge Wintzell.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Zoe Wilhelmina Schambeau.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Education&#8211; attended Spring Hill College.\u00a0 Worked at Dunbar and Dukate Canning Plant; operated several retail enterprises.\u00a0 Opened an oyster bar on Dauphin Street in Mobile in 1938. Business prospered and expanded over the years into Mobile landmark Wintzell&#8217;s Oyster House.\u00a0 Retired 1977. Unsuccessful candidate for several local offices.\u00a0 Wrote a weekly column for the Mobile Labor\u00a0 News. Member of Bayou la Batre Housing Board and Chamber of Commerce.\u00a0 Died July 25, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oysters and Politics; obituary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bits of Wit and Wisdom:\u00a0 The Signs at Wintzell&#8217;s Oyster House.\u00a0 Wintzell, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oysters and Politics.&#8221;\u00a0 Mobile;\u00a0 American Printing Company, 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Restaurant owner.\u00a0 Born&#8211; Coden, December 5, 1905.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;Oliver George and Minnie Isabel Bosarge Wintzell.\u00a0 Married&#8211;Zoe Wilhelmina Schambeau.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Education&#8211; attended Spring Hill College.\u00a0 Worked at Dunbar and Dukate Canning Plant; operated several retail enterprises.\u00a0 Opened an oyster bar on Dauphin Street in Mobile in 1938. Business prospered and expanded over the years into Mobile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820","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=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6823,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}