{"id":997,"date":"2013-12-03T13:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=997"},"modified":"2017-10-11T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T19:08:42","slug":"clinton-matthew-william-1898-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"CLINTON, MATTHEW WILLIAM, 1898-1977"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; high school history teacher. Born&#8211;January 9, 1898. Parents&#8211; Thomas Patrick and Julia Ann Watkins\u00a0Clinton. \u00a0Married&#8211; Bernice Blackshere, May 29, 1938. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1920, M.A., 1942;\u00a0further study at \u00a0Peabody College and the University of North Carolina. Taught at Tuscaloosa High School, 1920-1963, serving as athletic director for twenty five years. Served as president of the Tuscaloosa Historical Society and the Tuscaloosa Teachers Credit Union, and was a member of Alabama Education Association, National Education Association, and Alabama Historical Association. Honors&#8211; Recipient of the distinguished service award of the Alabama Council for Social Studies. Died July 30, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuscaloosa News, July 31, 1977; Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama; ancestry.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dedication; Tuscaloosa County Courthouse, 1964. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Weatherford Printing Co., 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Historic Tuscaloosa; a Self-conducted Tour. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Tuscaloosa Retired Teachers Association, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Clinton&#8217;s Scrapbook. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Portals Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Its Early Days, 1816-1865. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Zonta Club, 1958.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler_and_editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Invasion of Tuscaloosa, 1865.\u00a0 Northport; American Southern, 1965.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; high school history teacher. Born&#8211;January 9, 1898. Parents&#8211; Thomas Patrick and Julia Ann Watkins\u00a0Clinton. \u00a0Married&#8211; Bernice Blackshere, May 29, 1938. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, B.S., 1920, M.A., 1942;\u00a0further study at \u00a0Peabody College and the University of North Carolina. Taught at Tuscaloosa High School, 1920-1963, serving as athletic director for twenty five [&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-997","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\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6953,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/6953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}