{"id":863,"date":"2017-02-21T08:53:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=863"},"modified":"2017-02-21T09:11:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T16:11:56","slug":"brown-william-garrott-1868-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"BROWN, WILLIAM GARROTT, 1868-1913"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian and essayist. Born&#8211; April 24, 1868, Marion. Parents&#8211; William Richard and Mary Cogswell (Parish) Brown. Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1886; Harvard University, A.B., 1891, A.M., 1892. Taught at Marion Military Institute, 1888-89. Assistant in the Harvard Library, 1893-1901; appointed Deputy Keeper of University Records, 1896; lecturer in American history, 1901-1902; editorial writer for Harper&#8217;s Weekly, 1908. Died October 20, 1913.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Jackson. Boston; Houghton, 1900.<\/p>\n<p>The Foe of Compromise and Other Essays. New York; Macmillan, 1903.<\/p>\n<p>A Gentleman of the South. New York; Macmillan, 1903.<\/p>\n<p>Golf. Boston; Houghton-Mifflin, 1902.<\/p>\n<p>A History of Alabama. New York; University Publishing Co., 1900.<\/p>\n<p>Life of Oliver Ellsworth. New York; Macmillan, 1905.<\/p>\n<p>The Lower South in American History. New York; Macmillan, 1902.<\/p>\n<p>The New Politics &amp; Other Papers. Boston; Houghton, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Official Guide to Harvard University. Cambridge; Harvard University, 1899.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Arnold Douglas. Boston; Houghton, 1902.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia; a History of the People. New York; s.n., 1903.<\/p>\n<p>Prophetic Voices about America.\u00a0 Boston, 1908.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of William Garrott Brown are held by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian and essayist. Born&#8211; April 24, 1868, Marion. Parents&#8211; William Richard and Mary Cogswell (Parish) Brown. Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1886; Harvard University, A.B., 1891, A.M., 1892. Taught at Marion Military Institute, 1888-89. Assistant in the Harvard Library, 1893-1901; appointed Deputy Keeper of University Records, 1896; lecturer in American history, 1901-1902; editorial writer for [&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-863","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\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6417,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/6417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}