{"id":804,"date":"2013-12-16T15:24:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=804"},"modified":"2013-12-16T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:41:47","slug":"boles-william-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=804","title":{"rendered":"BOLES, WILLIAM J. , 1867-1945."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Journalist. Born October 10, 1866, Piedmont. Parents&#8211; John B. and Elizabeth Savage Boles.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Helen Nelson. \u00a0Education&#8211; Attended a one room school. In 1887, lived over a print shop in Decatur when the owner wanted to start a newspaper and asked Boles to help; became city editor of the Anniston Hot Blast, 1890; was with Birmingham Age Herald, 1893-1895; employed as secretary of the Commercial Club in Birmingham, 1896-1898. During the Spanish American War\u00a0served as a First Lieutenant in the\u00a03rd Alabama Regiment, Company M.. Returned to the Birmingham Age Herald and stayed until 1902; worked with the Cincinnati Enquirer, 1902-1918; political campaign worker for the Mobile Seaport campaign and worked for the Mobile Register, 1920-1924; returned to the Birmingham News-Age Herald, 1924. Beginning in 1932, wrote a daily column, &#8220;This Date in Alabama History&#8221;. Died August 19, 1945.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Birmingham Public Library; ancestry.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Romance and Realty; Story of Real Estate Transactions in Birmingham Since the First Land Sale in 1871. Birmingham, Ala.; Author, 1928.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Journalist. Born October 10, 1866, Piedmont. Parents&#8211; John B. and Elizabeth Savage Boles.\u00a0 Married&#8211; Helen Nelson. \u00a0Education&#8211; Attended a one room school. In 1887, lived over a print shop in Decatur when the owner wanted to start a newspaper and asked Boles to help; became city editor of the Anniston Hot Blast, 1890; was [&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-804","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\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}