{"id":6826,"date":"2017-09-12T11:57:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T18:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2017-09-12T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T19:04:59","slug":"kirby-otis-e-1897-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=6826","title":{"rendered":"KIRBY, OTIS E., 1897-1989."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Methodist clergyman.\u00a0 Born&#8211;St. Clair County, December 31, 1897.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;Lasley Stewart Kirby and Nannie Lee Spradley Kirby.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Catherine Evans.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Married Ida Elizabeth Price Speakes, February 6, 1977.\u00a0 Education&#8211;Attended the University of Alabama; Birmingham-Southern, B.A., 1924; Yale Divinity School; Emory Divinity School.\u00a0 Taught at Birmingham-Southern, 1926-28 ; admitted to the Methodist Conference of North Alabama, 1928. Served Methodist churches in North Alabama for 38 years, including the First United Methodist Church of Decatur.\u00a0 Served as District Superintendent for the Decatur District; on the Board of Trustees of Birmingham-Southern. Died October 30, 1989.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It all Started in Slash-ham.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It All Started in Slash-Ham.\u00a0 Birmingham:\u00a0 Cather Publishing Co., 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Methodist clergyman.\u00a0 Born&#8211;St. Clair County, December 31, 1897.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;Lasley Stewart Kirby and Nannie Lee Spradley Kirby.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Catherine Evans.\u00a0 Children&#8211;two.\u00a0 Married Ida Elizabeth Price Speakes, February 6, 1977.\u00a0 Education&#8211;Attended the University of Alabama; Birmingham-Southern, B.A., 1924; Yale Divinity School; Emory Divinity School.\u00a0 Taught at Birmingham-Southern, 1926-28 ; admitted to the Methodist Conference of North [&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-6826","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\/6826","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=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6829,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}