{"id":790,"date":"2011-07-27T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T19:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=790"},"modified":"2017-01-23T10:02:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:02:36","slug":"blair-algernon-1873-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"BLAIR, ALGERNON, 1873-1952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Building contractor. Born&#8211; August 6, 1873, Brooklyn, N.Y. Parents&#8211; Alexander and Hannah (Farnell) Blair. Married&#8211; Caroline Livingston Singleton, June 15, 1898 (died 1905). Married&#8211; Adele Blue, July 14, 1908. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Macon, Ga. high school, graduated\u00a01888. Contractor in Montgomery; in charge of many government contracts;built over 200 postoffices and numerous military installations. \u00a0Director of First National Bank of Montgomery, member of &#8220;The Thirteen,&#8221; a literary and philosophical society. Died March 14, 1952.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3; obituary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama State Capitol and Grounds; a Paper Read Before the Thirteen, May 13, 1943. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Pub. Co., 1943.<\/p>\n<p>Church of the Advent, Its History and Traditions. Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Pub. Co., 1943.<\/p>\n<p>Digging Wells, a Tribute to General Robert Ernest Noble, Surgeon, United States Army (Retired). Birmingham, Ala.; Birmingham Pub. Co., 1942.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Building contractor. Born&#8211; August 6, 1873, Brooklyn, N.Y. Parents&#8211; Alexander and Hannah (Farnell) Blair. Married&#8211; Caroline Livingston Singleton, June 15, 1898 (died 1905). Married&#8211; Adele Blue, July 14, 1908. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Macon, Ga. high school, graduated\u00a01888. Contractor in Montgomery; in charge of many government contracts;built over 200 postoffices and numerous military installations. \u00a0Director [&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-790","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\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}