{"id":758,"date":"2014-01-13T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=758"},"modified":"2017-04-17T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:16:27","slug":"beeson-jasper-luther-1867-1943","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"BEESON, JASPER LUTHER, 1867-1943"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>College president; professor, chemist. Born&#8211; August 31, 1867, Keener. Parents&#8211; Captain W. B. and Mary A. (Sibert) Beeson. Married&#8211;Anna Leola Selman, 1894. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1889; Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., 1893. Instructor in physics at the University of Alabama and chemist with the Geological Survey of Alabama, 1888-1889; research chemist at the Louisiana Experiment Station and a professor of chemistry at Louisiana School of Sugar, 1893-1897. Served as professor, dean, and president, Georgia State College for Women, 1897-1934.\u00a0 Retired in 1934 with status President Emeritus. Beeson Hall at Georgia College is named in his honor. Awarded the LL.D. by Johns Hopkins University, 1929. Died January 10, 1943.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America online; Georgia College website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beeson Genealogy. Macon, Ga.; Burke Co., 1925.<\/p>\n<p>The Sibert Family of South Carolina and Alabama. Mobile, Ala.; Acme Printing Co., 1928.<\/p>\n<p>A Study of the Action of Certain Diazo-compounds on Methyl and Ethyl Alcohols Under Varying Conditions. Baltimore; Gugenheim, Weil and Co., 1893.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: College president; professor, chemist. Born&#8211; August 31, 1867, Keener. Parents&#8211; Captain W. B. and Mary A. (Sibert) Beeson. Married&#8211;Anna Leola Selman, 1894. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, A.B., 1889; Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., 1893. Instructor in physics at the University of Alabama and chemist with the Geological Survey of Alabama, 1888-1889; research chemist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}