University Professor. Born: November 23, 1923, Montgomery. Parents: Ivie and Annie (Slocombe) Cadenhead. Married: Margaret Shugart, 1947. Children: Four. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1946, M.S., 1947; University of Missouri, Ph.D., 1950. Part-time instructor in math, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1946 and 1947-1948; assistant editor of the Baldwin Times; taught history at the University of Tulsa beginning in 1950; professor of history, 1963-. Democratic nominee for Congress from Oklahoma, 1966.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 41R.
Author: Benito Juarez. Boston: Twayne, 1973.
Jesus Gonzalez Ortega & Mexican National Politics. Ft. Worth, Tex.: Texas Christian University Press, 1972.
Literature and History. Tulsa, Okla.: University of Tulsa, 1970.
Theodore Roosevelt: the Paradox of Progressivism. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barron's Educational Series, 1974.
CALDWELL, RONALD JAMES, 1943-
University professor. Born: July 2, 1943, Pensacola, Fla. Parents: Drexel Pascal and Gladys Edna (Enfinger) Caldwell. Married: Sandra Moffett Marshell, August 14, 1966. Children: Two. Education: Attended Pensacola Junior College; Florida State University, B.S., 1965, M.A., 1966, Ph.D., 1971. Taught history at Orlando Junior College, 1966-1968, and at Jacksonville State University after 1971.
Source: Ronald Caldwell, Jacksonville, Ala.
Author: The Era of the French Revolution: a Bibliography of the History of Western Civilization, 1789-1799. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1985.
The Napoleon Era: a Bibliography of the History of Western Civilization, 1799-1815. New York: Garland, 1991.
CALLAHAN, ALSTON, 1911-
Physician. Born: Vicksburg, Miss. Parents: Neil and Effie (Alston) Callahan. Married: Eivor Holst, 1941. Children: Six. Education: Mississippi College, A.B., 1929; Tulane University, M.D, 1933, M.S. in Opthalmology, 1936. Served on the staff of the Eye Foundation, Carraway Methodist and University Hospitals. Co-founder and served after 1950 as president of the Eye Foundation, Inc. in Birmingham.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1978.
Author: Reconstructive Surgery of the Eyelids and Ocular Andexa. Springfield, Ill. : Thomas, 1966.
Surgery of the Eye, Diseases. Springfield, Ill. : Thomas, 1956.
Surgery of the Eye, Injuries. Springfield, Ill. : Thomas, 1950.
Joint Author: Opthalmic Plastic and Orbital Surgery. Birmingham, Ala.: Aesculapius Pub. Co., 1979
Opthalmic Plastic Surgery--up-to-date. Birmingham, Ala.: Aesculapius Pub. Co., 1970.
CALLOWAY, ARTHEMUS, 188?
Writer, editor. Born: in the 1880s. Wrote about 400 stories, novelettes, and serials. Some were sold to Hollands, Country Gentlemen, All Story, the Chicago Tribune, and other magazines and newspapers. Wrote more than three thousand stories for a bedtime feature, which ran in the Birmingham News. Wrote feature acts for the Neil O'Brien Minstrels for four years. During the 1920s and 1930s started and headed the Birmingham News-Age-Herald short story department in which he purchased and published stories from young writers. Instructed and encouraged many young writers in that capacity. Worked with oratorical contests in the State and began a book exchange which supplied books to schools throughout the state. Member of the Loafers Club.
Source: Birmingham News-Age-Herald, June 4, 1939.
Author: A.B.C.s of Short Story Writing. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Pub. Co., 1932.
CALVERT, WILLIAM JONATHAN, JR., 1901-1987
University professor, administrator. Born: July 3, 1901, Pittsboro, N.C. Married: Palmer Daugette. Children: One. Education: Virginia Military Institute, A.B., 1920; Harvard University, A.M, 1922, Ph.D., 1929. Taught at Washington & Lee University, 1922-1923, at University of California at Los Angeles, 1924-1926; Williams College, 1928-1930; Jacksonville State University, 1933-1973, where he served as head of the English Department, dean of the School of Humanities, 1972 until his retirement in 1973.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1978.
Author: Byron: Romantic Paradox. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1935.
Saul. Nashville: Blue & Gray Press, 1973.
CAMBRON, JAMES WILLIAM (JACK), 1920-1982
Printer. Born: May 6, 1920, Dellwood, N.C. Parents: John Franklin and Carrie (Campbell) Cambron. Married: Doris Damron, March 9, 1945. Children: Two. Education: Public schools of Buncombe, N.C. Employed in the printing business. Served as president of the local archaelogical society chapter and of the Alabama State Archaelogical Society. Awarded the recognition of master archaeologist by the Guild of American Prehistorians.
Source: Mrs. James W. Cambron, Decatur.
Author: A Field Guide to Southeastern Point Types. Decatur, Ala.: Author, 197-?
Joint Author: Handbook of Alabama Archaeology. Moundville, Ala.: Archaeological Research Association of Alabama, 1964-1967.
Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter Excavations. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1962.
CAMPBELL, C. LAWTON, 1896?-1980
Advertising. Parents: Charles L. and Myrtle (Booth) Campbell. Grew up on Sayre Street in Montgomery. Education: Attended Lanier High School; Princeton University, 1916. Worked as a reporter for the Journal of Commerce; served in the U.S. Army during both World Wars, holding the rank of colonel in World War II; worked for a New York advertising agency; advertising director for U.S. Rubber Company; advertising director of General Foods Corporation. Charter member and became chairman of the Board of the American National Theater and Academy.
Source: Files at Birmingham Public Library and at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: The Bachelor Queen (a play). 1927.
Foolish Sunset (a play). S.l.: s.n., s.d.
Gestures: a Comedy in One Act. New York: s.n., 1925.
The Girl Who Slipped (a play). S.l.: s.n., s.d.
Madam Malissa (a play). S.l.: s.n., s.d.
Isabella (a play). S.l.: s.n., 1927.
Shakespeare Smiles, a Comedy in One Act. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1924.
Solid South, a Play in Three Acts. New York: S. French, 1931.
CAMPBELL, DAVIS WRIGHT, SR., 1889-
Grocer. Parents: Nora and George Campbell. Education: Graduated from Mercer University; attended Eastman Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Manager of the Chattahoochee Grocery Company of Columbia; worked with a wholesale grocery business in Hollywood, Fla., and with Hormel and Company.
Source: Files at the Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Lest We Forget. Columbia, Ala.: s.n., 1952
CAMPBELL, LESLIE CAINE, 1932-
University professor and administrator. Born: June 5, 1932, New Orleans, La. Education: Mississippi State University, B.S., 1954; University of Mississippi, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1967. Taught at the University of Tennessee at Martin and at Arkansas College; Auburn University, assistant dean of the School of Arts and Sciences 1968, associate dean, 1972. Awarded the Commendation Award from the American Institute of Historical Pharmacy, 1977.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1982.
Author: History of the Mississippi State Pharmaceutical Association. Oxford, Miss.: University of Mississippi, 1964.
Two Hundred Years of Pharmacy in Mississippi. Oxford, Miss.: University of Mississippi, 1974.
CAMPBELL, WILLIAM EDWARD MARCH, 1894-1954
Businessman, novelist. Born: September 18, 1894, Mobile. Parents: John and Suzy (March) Campbell. Education: Studied at Valpariso University, 1913-1914; studied law at the University of Alabama, 1915-1916. During World War I served in every major marine engagement of the war. Wounded and gassed and never completely recovered from his wounds. Organized the Waterman Steamship Company and retired in 1938. Became a novelist and short story writer who signed his fiction "William March."
Source: Dictionary of American Biography, Suppl. 5.
Author: The Bad Seed. New York: Rinehart, 1954.
Come In At The Door. New York: Smith & Haas, 1934.
Company K. New York: Random House, 1933.
The First Sunset. Cincinnati: Little Man Press, 1940.
The Little Wife and Other Stories. New York: Smith & Haas, 1935.
The Looking Glass. Cincinnati: Little, 1943.
October Island. Cincinnati: Little, Brown, 1952.
Some Like Them Short. Cincinnati: Little, 1939.
The Tallons. New York: Random House, 1936.
Trial Balance: the Collected Short Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1945.
CANNON, JAMES MONROE, III, 1918-
Reporter, editor. Born: February 26, 1918, Sylacauga. Parents: James M. and Anne (Hollingsworth) Cannon. Married: Cherie Dawson, 1952. Children: Two. University of Alabama, B.S., 1939. Reporter for the Potsdam (N.Y.) Herald Recorder, the Gloverville (N.Y.) Leader Republican, the Baltimore Sun and Time magazine; worked for Newsweek magazine as a general editor, 1956, senior editor, and then vice-president, 1962.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 2R.
Author: Politics USA. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960.
CANNON, LEE FERRARA, 1918-
University professor, home economist, television hostess. Born: October 12, 1918, Morgantown, W.Va. Married: Robert Y. Cannon, June 10, 1948. Children: Three. Education: West Virginia University, B.A., 1940; University of Wisconsin, M.S., 1944, postgraduate work, 1944-1948. High school home economics teacher in Osage, W.Va., 1941-1944; nutrition researcher in the School of Home Economics, University of Wisconsin, 1944-1948; assistant professor in the School of Home Economics, Auburn University, 1948-1970; home economics specialist for the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service beginning in 1970. Associate producer and hostess on Alabama Public Television from Auburn beginning in 1955.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1980.
Author: The Quick and Easy Cookbook. Birmingham, Ala.: Oxmoor House, 1979.
Today's Home Idea Book. 3 vols. S.l.: s.n., 1972-1975.
CANNON, RACHEL DUKE HAMILTON
Book Store proprietor. Born: Mobile. Parents: Peter Joseph and Rachel (Burgett) Hamilton. Operated Colonial Mobile Book Shop; president of the Mobile Branch of the National League of American Pen Women.
Source: Files at the Alabama Public Library Service and Mobile Public Library.
Author: Book Shop Odograph. Mobile, Ala.: David F. Sellers Publisher, 1969.
Higgie, A Birthday Story. Mobile, Ala.: s.n., 1954.
A Little Boy in Confederate Mobile. Mobile, Ala.: Colonial Mobile Book Shop, 1947.
CANNON, WILLIAM SCHLEVOIGHT, 1918-
Clergyman, editor. Born: Dececember 16, 1918, Meridian, Miss. Parents: Willis Street and Angela (Schlevoight) Cannon. Married: Nelwyn Nesmith, November 10, 1943. Children: Three. Education: University of Alabama, B.A., 1942; Baptist Theological Seminary, B.D., 1956. Reporter for the Meridian (Miss.) Star, 1936-1938; retail advertising manager for Sears, Roebuck and Company in Mississippi and North Carolina, 1946-1953; pastor of Southern Baptist churches in North Carolina and Texas, 1954-1965; editor of inspirational books Broadman Press, 1965- 1974; senior editor for Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1974-1977; and a ghostwriter and contract editor after 1977.
Source: W. S. Cannon, Hartsville, Tenn.
Author: Everyday, Five Minutes With God. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1969.
How High Are The Stars! Nashville: Broadman Press, 1970.
The Jesus Revolution. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1970.
One Last Christmas. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1966.
"Tomorrow the World," a drama in one act. University, Ala.: L. Raines, 1942.
CANTRELL, CLYDE HULL, 1906-
Librarian. Born: Sept. 23, 1906, Caroleen, N.C. Parents: James Volney and Sarah Nancy Florence (Hull) Cantrell. Married: Ethel Marie Williams. Children: One. Education: University of North Carolina, A.B., 1933, A.M., 1936, A.B. in Library Science, 1937; post-graduate work at West Virginia University, 1941-1942; University of Illinois, Ph. D., 1960. Worked in various capacities in the libraries of the University of North Carolina and West Virginia University; taught Spanish at Birmingham Southern College, 1943-1944; director of libraries, Auburn University, 1944-1973; from 1973 to 1977, professor of foreign languages and a special library consultant at Auburn University, 1973 until his retirement in 1977.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1980.
Author: Graduate Degrees Awarded and Titles of Theses, 1894- 1940. Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering, 1941.
Southern Literary Culture. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1955.
Editor: A History of the Alabama Academy of Science. Auburn, Ala.: Alabama Academy of Science, 1963.
CAPOTE, TRUMAN, 1924-1984
Novelist. Born: September 30, 1924, New Orleans, La. Parents: Joseph and Nina Capote. Education: Trinity School; St. John's Academy in New York and the schools of Greenwich, Conn. Reared mostly by aunts and grandmothers in Alabama, New York and New England after his mother was divorced. Began work sorting cartoons at the New Yorker at the age of 17. Received O. Henry Memorial Awards for short stories, 1946, 1949, 1951; received the creative writing award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1959. Became known for throwing elaborate parties that drew celebrities from Hollywood, high society, and politics.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 7 and The Anniston Star, August 26, 1984.
Author: Answered Prayers: the Unfinished Novel. New York: Random, 1987.
Breakfast at Tiffany's. New York: Random, 1958.
A Christmas Memory. New York: Random, 1966.
In Cold Blood. New York: Random, 1965.
The Dogs Bark. New York: Random, 1973.
I Remember Grandpa: a Story. Atlanta: Peachtree, 1987.
The Grass Harp. New York: Random, 1951
House of Flowers. New York: Random, 1968.
Jug of Silver. Mankato, Minn.: Creative Education, 1986.
Local Color. New York: Random, 1950.
The Muses are Heard, and Account. New York: Random, 1956.
One Christmas. New York: Random, 1983.
Other Voices, Other Rooms. New York: Random, 1948.
The Thanksgiving Visitor. New York: Random, 1968.
A Tree of Night and Other Stories. New York: Random, 1949.
The White Rose. Newton, Iowa: Tamazunchala Press, 1987.
CARGILE, WAYNE
Bookkeeper. Married: Betty, about 1964. Children: Two. Education: Livingston State College. Farmed until drafted into the Army in 1953 and served for two years; bookkeeper. Living in Tuscaloosa in 1984.
Source: Book jacket of Three Bells Told Again.
Author: Bible Melodies Chosen. Parsons, W.V.: McClain Printing Co., 1971.
Three Bells Told Again. New York: Carleton Press, 1969.
CARGO, ROBERT T., 1933-
University professor. Born: November 20, 1933, Hanceville. Married: Helen McCain. Children: Two. Education: Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1955; University of Alabama, M.A., 1956; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1965. Taught at Snead State Junior College, 1956-1959; Fulbright scholar in France, 1959- 1961, serving on the faculty of the University of Caen, 1960- 1961; and taught at the University of North Carolina, 1963-1965; taught French at the University of Alabama after 1965. Received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, 1971.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 85.
Author: Baudelaire Criticism. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1968.
A Concordance to Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs de Mal". University of North Carolina Press, 1965.
A Concordance to Baudelaire's "Petits Poems en Prose". Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1971.
CARGOE, RICHARD (Pseudonym)
See: Payne, Pierre Stephen Robert
CARLISLE, CECIL ALLEN, 1892-
Public relations, editor. Born: December 3, 1892, Griffin, Ga. Parents: E. and Vara (Hightower) Carlisle. Married: Susan Cecile Bryan, January 15, 1924. Children: One.
Education: Emory University, A.B., 1915. Publicity manager, American Cast Iron Pipe Company, until his retirement in 1957. Editor of the Acipco Pipe Progress and the Acipco News. Member of the Alabama Historical Association, and the Birmingham Historical Society.
Source: Library of Alabama Lives.
Author: Carlisle Family History Particularly as it Pertains to the Descendants of Richard Carlisle: Allied Families. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., 1961.
CARLISLE, HORACE C., 1871-
Teacher. Born: 1871, Brundidge. Taught in Alabama schools; worked in the U.S. Capitol Architect's office; principal of Center Point School; and poet laureate of the U.S. Congress.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Poems of Purpose. Baltimore: Williams and Silkins Co., 1915.
Washington in Poem and Pictures. Washington, D.C.: s.n., 1929.
CARLSON, WARNER W., 1913-
Chemist, educator. Born: November 2, 1913, Lincoln, Neb. Married: Virginia Whiteside. Education: University of Nebraska, B.S., 1933, M.S., 1935; attended Iowa State University, 1935-1936; Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1939. Toulmin fellow at Ohio State University, 1937-1939; fellowship at the Mellon Institute, 1939-1948. Employed by the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Alabama Medical-Dental School, 1948-1957; director of medical education and research at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., after 1957. Published more than thirty articles in journals.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 11th ed. and files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Joint Author: Potassium Metabolism in Health and Disease. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1955.
CARMER, CARL LAMSON, 1893-1976
University professor, folklorist. Born: October 16, 1893, Courtland, N.Y. Parents: Willis Griswold and Mary (Lamson) Carmer. Married: Elizabeth Black, December 24, 1928. Education: Hamilton College, Ph.B., Ph.M.; Harvard University, M.A.; honorary degrees from Elmira College, Hamilton College, Susquehanna University and the University of Buffalo. Won the New York Herald Tribune's Children's Book Festival Award for Windfall Fiddle. Professor of English, at the University of Alabama and other places; columnist for newspapers; editor, full- time writer, and folklorist after 1933.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 7.
Author: The Boy Drummer of Vincennes. New York: Harvey House, 1972.
Dark Trees in the Wind. New York: Sloane, 1949.
Deep South. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930.
Eagle in the Wind. New York: Aladdin, 1948.
The Farm Boy and the Angel. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
A Flag for the Fort. New York: Messner, 1952.
For the Rights of Men. New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, 1947.
French Town, a Book of Poems. New Orleans: Quarter's Book Shop, 1928.
Genessee Fever. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941.
Henry Hudson: Captain of Ice-bound Seas. Champaign, Ill.: Garrard Press, 1960.
The Hudson. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.
Hurricane Luck. New York: Aladdin, 1949.
The Hurricane's Children. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937.
The Jesse James of the Java Sea. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1945.
Listen For A Lonesome Drum. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1936.
My Kind of Country: Favorite Writings About New York. New York: McKay, 1966.
An Outline Course in Contemporary American Poetry. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, Extension Division, 1924.
Pets at the White House. New York: Dutton, 1959.
The Pirate Hero of New Orleans. New York: Harvey House, 1975.
Rebellion at Quaker Hill: a Story of the First Rent War. Minneapolis: Winston, 1954.
The Screaming Ghost & Other Stories. New York: Knopf, 1956.
Stars Fell On Alabama. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.
The Susquehanna. New York: Rinehart, 1955.
Thomas Jefferson and the Mockingbird Motif. Macon, Ga.: Southern Press, 1964.
Too Many Cherries. New York: Viking Press, 1949.
Wildcat Furs to China. New York: Knopf, 1945.
Windfall Fiddle. New York: Knopf, 1950.
The Years of Grace, 1808-1958. New York: Grace Church, 1958.
Joint Author: Captain Abner and Henry Q.. Chamapaign, Ill.: Garrard, 1965.
College English Composition: .... Richmond, Va.: Johnson Publishing Co., 1927.
Francis Marion: Swamp Fox of the Carolinas. Champaign, Ill.: Garrard Pub. Co., 1962.
Mike Fink and the Big Turkey Shoot. Champaign, Ill.: Garrard, 1965.
Pecos Bill and the Long Lasso. Champaign, Ill.: Garrard, 1968.
Tony Beaver: Griddle Skater. Champaign, Ill.: Garrard, 1965.
Editor: A Cavalcade of Young Americans. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1958.
Some University of Alabama Poets. Birmingham, Ala.: Studio Book Shop, 1924.
Songs of the Rivers of America. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942.
The Tavern Lamps are Burning: Literary journeys Through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State. New York: D. McKay, 1964.
The War Against God. New York: Holt & Co., 1943.
Compiler: America Sings: Stories and Songs of our Country's Growing. New York: Knopf, 1942.
CARMICHAEL, DANIEL ERSKINE, 1932-
Physician. Born: May 26, 1932, Birmingham. Parents: John Leslie and Grace Donald Carmichael. Married: Andrea, 1964. Children: Two. Education: Vanderbilt University, A.B., 1952; Duke University, M.D., 1956. Physician in Birmingham. Made an honorary citizen of Kymi, Greece.
Source: Dr. Erskine Carmichael, Birmingham.
Author: The Pap Smear: the Life of George N. Papancolaou. Springfield, Ill.: Thomas, 1973.
CARMICHAEL, EMMETT BRYAN, 1895-
Chemist. Born: September 4, 1895, Shelbyville, Mo. Parents: George Frank and Amelia Grant (Tingle) Carmichael. Married: Lelah Marie Van Hook. Education: University of Colorado, A.B, 1918, M.S., 1922; University of Cincinnati, Ph.D., 1927. Recipient of citations from Central College, 1954, and the University of Alabama, 1966. Received the William Crawford Gorgas Award from the Medical Association of Alabama, 1966. Named to the Alabama Academy of Honor, 1973. Received the American Institute of Chemists' Gold Medal, 1971. Taught at the University of Colorado, 1919-1924; University of Cincinnati, 1926-1927; University of Alabama, 1927-1945, and at the Medical College of the University of Alabama, 1945-1966; also taught at the School of Dentistry of the University of Alabama, 1948-1966; served as assistant dean of that school from 1959 until his retirement in 1966.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1980.
Author: Laboratory Manual of Physiological Chemistry. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, 1932.
Compiler and Editor:
Bibliographies of the Members of the Faculty of the University of Alabama. University, Ala.: s.n., 1935. (annual supplements 1935-1940.)
CARMICHAEL, JOHN LESLIE, 1897-
Physician. Born: May 22, 1897, Goodwater. Parents: Daniel Monroe and Amanda (Lessley) Carmichael. Married: Grace Donald, April 28, 1928. Children: Five. Education: University of Alabama, A.B., 1916; Tulane University, M.D., 1924. Attending physician at Birmingham Baptist Hospital after 1927, and at St. Vincents from 1934 until his retirement. Professor of clinical surgery in the Medical College of the University of Alabama after 1955. Served on the city council for Fairfield and on the Jefferson County Board of Health. Member of the local, state, regional and national medical societies.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southeast, 1982.
Author: His Many Mansions: a Christian Physician's View of Humanity's Quest For the Divine. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Portals Press, 1977.
CARMICHAEL, OLIVER CROMWELL, 1892-1966
Educator. Born: October 3, 1892, Goodwater. Parents: Daniel and Amanda Delight (Lessley) Carmichael. Married: Mae Crabtree, July 13, 1918. Children: Two. Education: University of Alabama, B.A.; Oxford University, B.S. Served as a teacher and principal in the Birmingham City Schools; Alabama College at Montevallo, assistant to the president until 1935; Vanderbilt University, dean of the graduate school and senior college, then vice chancellor and chancellor; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, president, 1946. Rhodes Scholar. Awarded the Queen's Medal, King Albert's Medal, and the medal of the Belgian National Relief Committee, by the Belgian government; awarded the British Army Service Medal; and the American Service Medal.
Source: Current Biography, 1946 and 1966.
Author: The Changing Role of Higher Education. New York: Macmillan, 1949.
Graduate Education: a Critique and a Program. New York: Harper, 1961.
Universities, Commonwealth and American: a Comparative Study. New York: Harper, 1959.
CARMICHAEL, OMER, 1893-1960
Teacher, school administrator. Born: March 7, 1893, Hollins. Parents: William and Lucy (Wilson) Carmichael. Married: Elnora Reed Blanchard, October 9, 1926. Children: Three. Education: University of Alabama, A.B., 1914; Columbia University, A.M., 1924, Harvard University, A.M., 1957; Yale University, A.M., 1957; Recipient of the Fiorella H. LaGuardia award, 1957; Brotherhood Award from the National Council of Christian and Jews, 1958. Teacher in Tallapoosa County and in Selma, 1911- 1916; principal and superintendent of schools in Talladega (Ala.), Tampa (Fla.), Lynchburg (Va.), and Louisville (Ky.), 1919 until his death. Taught in the summer sessions at Alabama College, University of Florida, University of Alabama, Duke University and the University of Louisville. Served as president of the Alabama Education Association. Honors: Dartmouth College, L.H.D.; University of Kentucky, LL.D., 1957.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.
Joint Author: The Louisville. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957.
CARMICHAEL, PETER ARCHIBALD, 1897-
Philosopher. Born: April 19, 1897, Anniston. Education: Johns Hopkins University, B.S., 1927; Columbia University, A.M., 1928; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1930. Taught at William and Mary; Converse College, 1931-1934; served with the U.S. Department of Labor, 1934-1935; dean of men at Marshall College, 1935-1936; taught at Louisiana State University, 1936 until his retirement. Arbitrator of labor disputes beginning in 1942. Visiting scholar at Clemson University, 1968-1969. Member of the American Philosphical Association, American Arbitration Association, Southern Society of Philosophers and Psychologists, and the Southwestern Philosophical Society.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1974.
Author: The South and Segregation. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1965.
Reasoning: a Textbook of Elementary Logic. New York: Philosophical Library, 1978.
CARMICHAEL, PEYTON HAMILTON, 1940-
Artist, writer. Born: February 1, 1940, Greenville. Parents: Stirling and Edwina (Whiddon) Hamilton. Married: Andy Strickland, February 13, 1960. Children: Two. Married: Glenn Carmichael, May 3, 1975. Education: Graduated from high school in Staunton, Virginia; University of Alabama, B.A., 1963; graduate work at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Self- employed writer, painter and publisher. Published several poetry collections written by Alabama poets; staged an annual poetry contest, The Kudzu Competition; had several art showings of her paintings. Some works were published in Aura, the University of Alabama at Birmingham arts magazine, and in Contemporary Literature in Birmingham.
Source: Peyton Carmichael, Birmingham.
Joint Author: The Moonpeelers. Birmingham, Ala.: Minerva Press, 1973.
CARMICHAEL, WAVERLY TURNER
Poet. Born: Snow Hill. Education: Snow Hill Institute; attended Harvard for one summer. During World War I served in France with the 37th Regiment, "The Buffaloes." His poetry included in several anthologies.
Source: Black American Writers Past and Present.
Author: From the Heart of a Folk: a Book of Songs. Boston: Cornhill Press, 1918.
CARMICHAEL, WILLIAM EDWARD, 1922-
Publicity director, editor. Born: March 22, 1922, Birmingham. Parents: Robert Edward and Annie Louis (Noyes) Carmichael. Education: University of Alabama, B.A., 1942; graduate study at Princeton University. Associate editor for Tricolor Magazine in New York City; Latin American correspondent for Holiday Magazine; director of advertising and public relations for the National Symphony Orchestra; director of advertising and public relations for Philadelphia and Boston symphony orchestras on tour in Washington, D.C.; professional lecturer on collecting and collectors; freelance writer; publicity director for Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Va. Also writes under the pseudonum Adam Best.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 37R.
Author: The Best Years. S.l.: New Athaeneum, 1960.
Incredible Collector, Weird Antiques and Odd Hobbies. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1971.
Spaniel in the Lion's Den. Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, 1947.
CARNEY, MARGARET AUBREY TOULMIN, 1921
Reporter. Born: Jan. 12, 1921, Dayton, Ohio. Parents: Harry Aubrey and Margaret (McCarty) Toulmin. Married: F. B. Carney. Education: Smith College, cum laude in history. Cub reporter for the Dayton Daily News; reporter for the Albuquerque Tribune; research assistant for her father; and an assistant dormitory director at the University of Alabama.
Source: Files at the Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: No Certain Answer. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1974.
No Odds No Victory. New York: Scribner, 1951.
CARR, ARCHIE FAIRLY, 1909-
Biologist. Born: June 16, 1909, Mobile. Education: University of Florida, B.S., 1933, M.S., 1934, Ph.D., 1937. Taught biology at the University of Florida after 1933. Over the years went on a number of expeditions to study the animals of different areas of the world. Awarded Elliott Medal from the National Academy of Science, 1955; Burroughs Award, 1956; Gold Medal from the World Wildlife Fund, 1973; and Edward W. Browning Award, 1975.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1979.
Author: Africa. Westport, Conn.: H. S. Stuttman, 1980.
A Contribution to the Herpetology of Florida. Gainesville, Fla: University of Florida, 1940.
The Everglades. Chicago: Time-Life Books, 1973.
The Green Turtle in the Caribbean Sea. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1978.
The Green Turtle in the Gulf of Aden and the Seychelles Islands. New York: North-Holland, 1970.
Guide to the Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fresh-Water Fishes of Florida. Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida, 1955.
Guideposts of Animal Navigation. Boston: Heath, 1962.
Handbook of Turtles: the Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja, California. Ithaca, New York: Comstock, 1952.
High Jungles and Low. Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 1953.
The Land and Wildlife of Africa. Chicago: Time, 1964.
Outline for a Classification of Animal Habitats in Honduras. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1950.
The Reptiles. Chicago: Time, 1963.
So Excellent a Fishe. Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press, 1967.
The Turtle, A Natural History of the Turtle. London: Cassell, 1968.
Ulendo. New York: Knopf, 1964.
The Windward Road. New York: Knopf, 1956.
Joint Author: The Ecology and Migration of Sea Turtles: the West Caribbean Green Turtle Colony. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1978.
Questions and Answers on Sea Turtle Conservation. Tallahassee, Fla.: The Caribbean Conservation Corporation, 1975.
Surveys of Sea Turtle Populations and Habitats in the Western Atlantic. Panama City, Fla.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1982.
Turtle Farming Project in Northern Austalia. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1973.
CARROLL, MARY TARVER AUSTIN, 1885-
Born: February 16, 1885, Bullock County. Married: M. O. Carroll, 1902. Charter member of the Pen Women of Alabama and of the Ozark Study Club. Vice president of the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs.
Source: Owen's Story of Alabama.
Author: Keep My Flags Flying. Longmans, Green, 1945.
The Man Who Dared to Care: the Story of James Edward Oglethorpe, 1696-1785. New York: Longmans, Green, 1942.
The Man Who Would Not Wait: the Story of Aaron Burr. New York: Longmans Green, 1941.
CARROLL, MERLE TILLERY
Teacher. Born: Ozark. Married: James Yancey Carroll. Children: Two. Education: Randolph-Macon College, A.B. Taught in the public schools of Enterprise. Had stories published in Jack and Jill, Together, and National Scholastic. Honors: Southern Writers Award for Juvenile Literature, 1961.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and This Is Alabama.
Author: This is Alabama. Austin, Tex.: Steck-Vaughn Co., 1981.
CARROLL, SARA NEWTON, 1926-
Born: July 7, 1926, Dothan. Parents: William Franklin and Sara English (Owens) Newton. Married: Kells C. Carroll, June 12, 1947. Children: Two. Education: Attended the University of Alabama; Troy State University, B.A., 1970. Honors: Alabama Library Association Alabama Author's Award, 1975. Lives in Ozark.
Source: The Search and Sara Newton Carroll.
Author: The Search: a Biography of Leo Tolstoy. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
CARTER, FORREST, 1927?-1979
Speechwriter, novelist. Born: About 1927, Tennessee. Raised by his grandfather. Had no more than six months of formal education; worked as a wood chopper and as a cowboy. Married: Ida Thelma Walker. Some say he was Asa "Ace" Carter of Calhoun County, Ala. Brother of Doug Carter who sought the GOP nomination for the governor of Alabama in 1985; was a rabid segregationist during the 1950s and 1960s; served as a speech writer for George Wallance during that time. The novel of Josie Wales was made into a movie, starring Clint Eastwood.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 107 and the Anniston Star, December 1, 1985.
Author: The Education of Little Tree. New York: Delacorte Press, 1976.
Rebel Outlaw: Josie Wales. S.l.: Whipperwill Publishers, 1973. (also published as "Gone To Texas". New York: Delacorte, 1975).
The Vengence Trail of Josey Wales. New York: Delacorte Press, 1976.
Watch For Me On the Mountain. New York: Delacorte Press, 1978.
CARTER, FRANCES TUNNELL, 1922-
Teacher, university professor. Born: May 21, 1922, Springville, Miss. Parents: David and Mary Annie (McCutcheon) Tunnell. Married: John Thomas Carter, March 16, 1946. Children: Two. Education: Attended Blue Mountain College; Wood Junior College, A.A., 1942; University of Southern Mississippi, B.S., 1946; University of Tennessee, M.S., 1948; University of Illinois, Ed.D., 1954; postgraduate study at Ursuline College, 1961, Dayton Uiversity, 1963 and Florida State University, 1970. Taught in elementary and high schools and junior colleges in Mississippi; Samford University faculty, 1956, professor, 1963. Honors: Special Service award from the American Red Cross, 1962.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1973.
Author: Chung Fu and Jim. Birmingham, Ala.: Woman's Missionary Union, Southern Baptist Convention. 1977.
Sammy in the Country. Atlanta: Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convertion, 1960.
Teachers Guide for Mission Books. Nashville: Convention Press, 1969.
'Tween-age Ambassadors. Nashville: Convention Press, 1970.
CARTER, JOHN THOMAS, 1921-
University professor. Born: December 16, 1921, Mantee, Miss. Parents: John amd Mattie (George) Carter. Married: Frances Larraine Tunnell, March 16, 1946. Children: Two. Education: Mississippi State University, B.S.; University of Tennessee, M.S.; University of Illinois, Ed.D. Served in the U.S. Army, 1943-1945; decorated with the Bronze Arrowhead. Principal in Maben, Miss.; taught at Wood Junior College and Clarke Memorial College in Mississippi before going to Samford University in 1956. Served as dean of juvenile literature for the Alabama Writers Conclave, 1969; member of the New York and Alabama Academies of Science, the National Association of College Teachers of Education and International Council of Teachers of Education.
Source: Who's Who In the South and Southwest, 1973.
Author: East is West. Atlanta: Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1965.
Mike & His Four-Star Goal. Atlanta: Home Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention, 1959.
Witness in Israel. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1969.
CARVER, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1864-1943
Teacher, scientist. Born: to slave parents on a farm near Diamond Grove, Mo. In infancy, he lost his father; was stolen and carried into Arkansas with his mother. Bought from his captors for a race horse valued at $300 and returned to his former home in Missouri. Education: Iowa State University of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts, B.S. degree in agriculture, 1894, M.S., 1896; Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa, D.Sc., 1928. Taught at Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts and Tuskegee Institute, 1896-1943. Scientist known for his work with peanuts and sweet potatoes. Honors: Spingarn Medal, 1923; Roosevelt Medal, 1939.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. II.
Author: Help for the Hard Times. Tuskegee, Ala.: Tuskegee Institute, 1910.
How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption. Tuskegee, Ala.: Tuskegee Institute, 1942.
How to Grow the Tomato and 115 Ways to Prepare it for the Table. Tuskegee, Ala.: Tuskegee Institute, 1936.
CASEY, ALBERT EUGENE, 1903-
Pathologist. Born: New York City. Parents: Eugene and Anna Alma (Powell) Casey. Married: Bourdon Veazey, April 19, 1928. Children: Three. Married: Joanne Gunn, November 8, 1952. Education: Spring Hill College, A.B., 1922; St. Louis University, M.D., 1927. Pathologist and teacher of pathology. Worked for the Rockefeller Institute, 1927-1934; University of Virginia, 1934-1938; Louisiana State University, 1938-1942; While at Louisiana State University, served at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Pathologist and the director of laboratories at Birmingham Baptist Hospitals, 1942-1972.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1973.
Author: Biographical Encyclopedia of Pathologists. Birmingham, Ala.: Published for Memorial Institute of Pathology by the Amite and Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1963.
European Mentors of American Pathologists .... Birmingham, Ala.: Published for Memorial Institute of Pathology by Amite and Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1979.
Historical and Genealogical Items Relating to North Cork and East Kerry. Birmingham, Ala.: Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1961.
Historical and Topographical Notes, etc. on Buttevant, Castletownroche, Donerails, Mallow, and Places in Their Vicinity. Birmingham, Ala.: Amite and Knockagree Historical Fund, 1969.
Index of O'Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher, and Upper Blackwater in Ireland. Birmingham, Ala.: Amite and Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1979.
Notes on Travers, Traverse or Travis Families of Southern United States. Birmingham, Ala.: Casey, 1978.
O'Kief, Coshe Mang, Slieve Lougher, and Upper Blackwater in Ireland. Birmingham, Ala.: Privately published for the Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1952.
Southern Taylor Families, 1607-1830. Birmingham, Ala.: The Amite County Historical Fund, 1958.
Southern Travis, Travers, Traverse Families from Lancastershire and Post-Elizabethan Ireland: with Notes on Graham, Cannon, Wilson, Burges, Mills, King, Powell, Casey, Lucey, Easley, Hurst Lea, Farley, Hudnall, West. Birmingham, Ala.: Casey, 1978.
Joint Author: Compilation of Common Physical Measurements of Adult Males of Various Races. Birmingham, Ala.: Published privately for the Amite and Knocknagree Historical Fund, 1969.
CASH, McKINLEY, 1897-
Metallurgist. Born: August 30, 1897, Lamar County. Parents: Brian A. and Sara Virginia (Trull) Cash. Married: Ovella Clara Sherrill, May 4, 1926. Children: Three. Education: State Secondary Argicultural School in Hamilton, 1921; attended Troy State College; graduated from the University of Alabama, 1935. "Ran away" when he was eighteen years old; volunteered for military service and served, 1918-1920, one year on the Mexican border and one year in France; played semi-professional baseball; coached football; and was a metallurgist for United States Steel Corporation. Poems published by Henry Vance in The Coal Bin over a period of about fifty years.
Source: McKinley Cash, Hueytown.
Author: Alabama Folk Testament. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Portals Press, 1986.
The Cadence of Living. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Portals Press, 1976.
Poems of Our Time. Detroit: Harlo Press, 1965.
CASH, WILLIAM McKINLEY, 1930-
University professor. Born: December 9, 1930, Echola. Parents: A. M. and Ovella Clara (Sherrill) Cash. Married: Mary Lou West, December 26, 1952. Children: Two. Education: Mississippi State University, B.A., 1953, M.A., 1957; University of Alabama, Ph.D., 1973. Taught at the University of Alabama, 1959-1960; Alabama College (University of Montevallo), 1960-1962; Delta State University after 1962. Served as a member of the ETV board for nine years; president of the Bolivar County and the Mississippi Historical Societies; chairman of the history department at Delta State University. Editor of the Journal of Bolivar County Historical Society; contributed book reviews to other periodicals.
Source: William McKinley Cash, Cleveland, Miss.
Joint Editor: My Dear Nellie. Oxford, Miss.: University of Mississippi Press, 1977.
Contributor: History of Rosedale, Mississippi, 1876-1976. Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1976.
CASON, CLARENCE, 1898-1935
Reporter, university professor. Born: December 20, 1898, Ragland. Parents: Eugene P. and Sarah Coleman Cason. Married: Louise Elliott Rickerman, 1927. Children: One. Education: Attended the University of Alabama, 1913-1917, where he edited the Crimson-White; elected to Phi Beta Kappa; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1925. Joined the U.S. Army and served as an aerial machine gunner in France during World War I. Worked for the Birmingham News, the Louisville Courier-Journal, Washington Times, and New York Times. Faculty member at the University of Minnesota, 1925-1928; the University of Alabama after 1928.
Source: The introduction to the 1983 reprint of 90 Degrees in the Shade. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
Author: 90 Degrees in the Shade. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1935.
CATCHINGS, WADDILL, 1879-1967
Businessmen. Born: September 6, 1879, Sewanee, Tenn. Parents: Silas Fly and Nora Belle (Waddill) Catchings. Married: Helen Werner, November 7, 1914. Children: Three. Married: May Francis, April 29, 1930. Education: Harvard University, A. B., 1901. Central Foundry in New York, president, 1911-1917; Platt Iron Works Company in Dayton, Ohio, president, 1913-1920; Sloss, Sheffield Steel and Iron Company, president, 1917-1918, chairman of the executive committee, 1918-1947. President or a member of the board of Goldman, Sachs, and Company; Warner Brothers Pictures; Catchings-Denker Corporation; Concord Fund Inc.; and C. B. Advisors, Inc. Served on several councils and commissions for the U.S. government.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4A.
Author: Bias Against Business. New York: s.n., 1956
Do Economists Understand Business? New York: s.n., 1955.
Obvious Facts of Business. New York: Private printing, 1936.
Joint Author: Business Without a Buyer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927.
Money. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923.
Money, Men, and Machines. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1953.
Profits. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1925.
Progress and Plenty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939.
The Road to Plently. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1928.
CATER, SILAS DOUGLASS, 1923-
University professor, college president, government. Born: August 24, 1923, Montgomery. Parents: Silas D. and Nancy (Chesnutt) Cater. Married: Libby Anderson, December 20, 1950. Children: Four. Education: Harvard University, A.B., 1947, M.A., 1948; Guggenheim Fellow, 1955, Eisenhower Exchange Fellow, 1957. Recipient of the George Polk Memorial Award, 1961, and the Newspaper Guild Page One Award, 1961. Worked for Reporter magazine, 1950-1964; special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson, 1964-1968; Regent Professor at the University of California in San Francisco, 1971-1972; professor at Stanford University beginning in 1972; and president of Observer International in London, England beginning in 1976. Honors: Alabama Library Association, Alabama Author's Award, 1966.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1978.
Author: Dana: the Irrevelent Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.
Developing Leadership in Government. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1960.
The Fourth Branch of Government. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1959.
The Intellectual & the Politician. Cambridge, Mass.: s.n., 1961.
Power in Washington. New York: Random House, 1964.
TV Violence & the Child. New York: Russell Sage, 1975.
Joint Author: American Media: Adequate or Not? Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy, 1970.
Ethics in a Business Society. New York: Harper, 1954.
Editor: Television as a Cultural Force. New York: Praeger, 1976.
Television as a Social Force. New York: Praeger, 1975.
Joint Editor: Politics of Health. Melbourne, Fla.: R.E. Krieger, 1972.
CATHER, JAMES PAT, 1947-
Book dealer. Born: May 12, 1947, Birmingham. Parents: William Heath and Virginia (Ritchie) Cather. Education: Jacksonville State University; University of Alabama in Birmingham. Partner in Cather & Brown Books, a firm specializing in out-of-print books about Alabama or by Alabama authors. Articles published in Music Memories Magazine and other periodicals.
Source: James Pat Cather, Birmingham.
Author: My Alabama Almanack Collection. Birmingham, Ala.: Author, 1984.
The Alabama Local History Librarian and "the Out of Print" Problem. Birmingham, Ala.: Cather and Brown, 1989.
The Birmingham Art Association in 1969: Changing of the Guard. Birmingham, Ala.: Cather and Brown, 1991.
My Mobile Collection. Birmingham, Ala.: Cather and Brown, 1991.
Tracking Down a Legend: the Jaybird Coleman Story. Birmingham, Ala.: Cather and Brown, 1990.
Author and Compiler:
A Brief Essay on Collecting Alabama Related Books and Pamphlets. Birmingham, Ala.: A. H. Cather Publishing, 1982.
Compiler: 1963 Musicana Directory. Birmingham, Ala.: Compiler, 1963.
CATHER, WILLIAM HARLOW, 1868-
Born: June 23, 1868, Hillville, Va. Parents: George Roberts and Harriet Hart (Heath) Cather. Married: Mary Presley of Springville; Cora Lee Webb of Center, 1904. Children: Four. His family moved to Ashville about 1872.
Source: Elizabeth Lonnergan, St. Clair County Library, Ashville.
Author: History of St. Clair County, Alabama: a Description of the Land and Its People, Indians and Whites from 1539 to 1846. Ashville, Ala.: St. Clair County Library Board, 1965 (First printed in the Southern-Aegis, 1897).
CATHER, WILLIAM HEATH, 1918-
Publisher. Born: November 2, 1918, Birmingham. Parents: Alonzo Heath and Pearl (Johnson) Cather. Married: Virginia Ritchie. Children: Two. Education: Attended the University of Alabama. Served as president; then chairman of the board of A. H. Cather Publishing Company in Birmingham.
Source: James Pat Cather, Birmingham.
Compiler and Editor:
Gunfight at Rabaul: the True Story of an Unescorted Raid by B-25 Strafers of the 345th Bomber Group on the Japanese Stronghold of the Southwest Pacific at Rabaul, New Britain, on October 18, 1943. Birmingham, Ala.: Cather Publishing Co., 1974.
CATTS, SAMUEL WALKER, 1876-
Farmer, newspaperman. Born: 1876, Pleasent Hill. Parents: John Smyly and Maude Mae (Caffey) Catts. Married: Mary Belle Northington, 1920. Employed in newspaper work, farming, industry, and with N.J. Bell Estates.
Source: Files at the Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: What Call It, You Say. Montgomery, Ala.: The Paragon Press, 1957.
CAYCE, EDGAR, 1877-1945
Psychic healer. Born: March 18, 1877, near Hopkinsville, Ky. Parents: Leslie B. and Carrie Cayce. Married: Gertrude Evans. Children: Three. At times, worked as a reporter for the Anniston Star, for Russell Brothers photographic studios in Anniston, for Tressler photographic studio in Montgomery and at a studio which he later owned in Selma. Was a psychic healer. In 1931, founded the Association for Research and Enlightenment to keep records of his cases. Became known as the "Sleeping Prophet" because he would put himself into a trance to diagnose ailments and prescribe treatments. Several books of his writing were compiled after his death.
Source: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology and Joseph Millard's Edgar Cayce, Man of Miracles. Neville Spearman, 1961.
Author: Atlantis--Fact or Fiction. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1968.
Before the Beginning. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1963.
A Diet/Recipe Guide. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1967.
Dreams, Your Magic Mirror. New York: Dell Books, 1968.
Edgar Cayce on Prophecy. New York: Hawthorn, 1968.
Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation. New York: Hawthorn, 1967.
Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus. New York: Coward McCann, 1968.
Lost Atlantis. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1958.
123 Questions & Answers From the Edgar Cayce Clairvoyant Readings. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1966.
The River of Time. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1965.
A Search for God. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1950.
Story of Attitudes and Emotions: the Two-Edged Sword. New York: Coward McCann, 1972.
Symbols & the Self. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1965.
That Ye May Heal. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1950.
What I Believe. Virginia Beach, Va.: Edgar Cayce Pub. Co., 1946.
CHAMBERS, JEFFERSON A., 1886-1959
Businessman. Born: April 8, 1886, Chambers County. Parents: James Benjamin and Cora Tatum Chambers. Married: Ethel Bennett. Children: One. Education: Attended Bryson Academy. Property owner and manager in Chambers County.
Source: Miss Mattie Lou Cato, Lafayette Pilot Public Library, Lafayette.
Joint Compiler: A Survey of the Older Church Cemeteries in Chambers County, Alabama, Made in 1954. West Point, Ga.: Chattahoochee Valley Historical Association, 1956.
CHAMBERS, JOSEPH VERNON
Probate judge, tax collector. Parents: Joseph Sanders Chambers. Lived in Chambers and Lee Counties. Married: Attie Belle Bonner, December 18, 1912. Children: Two. Married: Mabel Crum Dillard, October 25, 1964. Education: Attended Massey Business College in Columbus, Ga.; studied law by correspondence from La Salle Correspondence School in Chicago. Worked in the cotton mills in Riverview and Langdale. Contractor, insurance agent, Public Work Administration agent, tax collector and probate judge of Chambers County.
Source: Reminescences of Judge Joseph Vernon Chambers.
Author: Reminescences of Judge Joseph Vernon Chambers. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: s.n., 1969.
CHAMBERS, NELLA JEAN, 1913-1959
Born: April 16, 1913, Chambers County. Parents: Jefferson A. and Ethel (Bennett) Chambers. Education: Graduated from Fairfax High School. Worked for West Point-Pepperell Manufacturing Company.
Source: Miss Mattie Lou Cato, Lafayette Pilot Public Library, Lafayette.
Joint Compiler: A Survey of the Older Church Cemeteries in Chambers County, Alabama, Made in 1954. West Point, Ga.: Chattachoochee Valley Historical Association, 1956.
CHAMBERS, WALLACE JEROME, 1842-1954
Photographer. Born: August 13, 1842, Bloomington, Wis. Parents: John Dwight and Jane (Glover) Chambers. Married: Ella Dumas, November 11, 1887. Children: One. Education: Attended Beloit College; studied with the leading photographers in Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. Operated a photographic studio on Dexter Avenue in Montgomery.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History, files at Birmingham Public Library, and Owen's Story of Alabama.
Author: Altzar, the Pirate, a Tale of Reincarnation. Boston: Meador Publishing Co., 1944.
In The Weaving. Boston: Meador Pub. Co., 1942.
The Opal Matrix. Worcester, Mass.: The Salisbury Hill Press, 1937.
Statements of a Master. (unconfirmed)
The Thread of Destiny. (unconfirmed)
CHANDLER, JEROME GREER, 1948-
Broadcaster. Born: July 16, 1948, Dallas Tex. Parents: Lewis and Gwynne Chandler. Married: Kathleen, August 10, 1970. Children: Five. Education: University of Texas, B.A., 1975; Jacksonville State University, M.P.A., 1977. News director at WHMA Radio in Anniston, 1979-1985; correspondent for the Birmingham Post Herald, 1980-1984; contributing editor for Frequent Flyer Magazine after 1984; adjunct instructor of communications at Jacksonville State University after 1987. During the time he was news director, received sixteen Associated Press Broadcast Journalism awards. Contributed to Frequent Flyer, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, American Legion Magazine, Rotarian, Time, and Voice of America. Served on the board of directors of the Alabama Associated Press Broadcasters Association. Served in Vietnam and received the Purple Heart.
Source: Jerry Chandler, Anniston.
Author: Fire and Rain. Austin, Tex.: Texas Monthly Press, 1986.
CHANDLER, WILLIAM TEMPLE HATCHETT, ca. 1881-1967
Custodian, secretary. Born: about 1881, Montgomery. Custodian at Fort Morgan from the time of World War II until 1957; secretary of the Fort Morgan Historical Commission. In his positions as custodian and secretary, he was largely responsible for the development of the park at Fort Morgan.
Source: Files at the Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Fort Morgan and Thoughts Under Seven Flags. S.l.: s.n., s.d.
Little Gems of Fort Morgan. S.l.: s.n., 1953.
The Origin and Nature of a Tropical Hurricane. S.l.: s.n., 1922.
CHAPMAN, ELIZABETH HUMES,-1967
Teacher. Born: Huntsville. Granddaughter of Governor Reuben Chapman. Education: Mount de Chantal in Wheeling, West Virginia; Howard College; the University of Chicago; and Columbia University, M.A. Taught in Huntsville public schools and then at Graymont and Woodlawn in Birmingham.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Changing Huntsville, 1890-1899. Birmingham Ala.: s.n., 1972.
CHAPMAN, HERMAN HOLLIS, 1894-
University professor. Born: May 24, 1894, Lima, Ohio. Parents: Lewis E. and Ella Mae (Faze) Chapman. Married: Lena Blanche McPherson, September 18, 1919. Education: University of Michigan, A.B.; University of Minnesota, graduate study; Columbia University, Ph.D. Taught accounting at the University of Minnesota, 1919 to 1921. Professor of statistics, University of Alabama, 1921 until his retirement in 1959; also served as director of the Bureau of Business Research, University of Alabama, 1930-1951.
Source: Library of Alabama Lives.
Author: Estimate of Probable Yield of a Sales Tax in Alabama, Under Provisions of Proposed Revenue Bill by Mr. Harrison. University, Ala.: Bureau of Business Research, University of Alabama, 1936.
An Introduction to Business: Commerce One, Folder One. University, Ala.: School of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Alabama, 1940.
Iron and Steel Companies in Years of Prosperity and Depression. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Weatherford Printing Co., s.d. (Originally published as thesis at Columbia University, 1935).
The Iron and Steel Industries of the South. University, Ala.: Bureau of Business Research, University of Alabama, 1953.
CHAPMAN, KATHARINE HOPKINS, 1872-
Born: March 4, 1872, Selma. Parents: Thomas Holmes and Mary Elizabeth (Glass) Hopkins. Married: Dr. John Thomas Chapman, October 8, 1891. Education: Shorter College, Rome, Ga., 1889; and Lake Chautauqua, 1904.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.
Author: Fusing Force. Chicago: McClurg, 1911.
Love's Way in Dixie. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1905.
Sketch of Dr. La Fayette Guild, Medical Director and Chief Surgeon of the Army of Northern Virginia. S.l.: s.n., 1909.
CHAPMAN, ROBERT BERRIEN, 1918-
Born: June 12, 1918. Parents: Theodore Robert and Alma Voris (Jordan) Chapman. Married: Thelma Isabelle Light, June 14, 1941. Children: Three. Education: Eastern Michigan University, B.A., 1940; Wayne State University, M.Ed., 1949. Taught school; served as office manager with Chemstrand Corporation in Decatur, 1952-1955; worked with the company that is now the Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Mo. Member of Pi Kappa Delta and Phi Delta Kappa.
Source: Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 1977.
Author: Tell It To the Chaplain. New York: Exposition Press, 1952.
CHAPPELL, CLOVIS GILLHAM, 1882-1972
Minister. Born: January 8, 1882, Flatwoods, Tenn. Parents: William B. and Mary (Gillham) Chappell. Married: Cecil Hart, April 15, 1908. Children: Two. Education: Duke University, 1902-1903; Harvard, 1904-1905. Ordained a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1908; served as pastor of churches in Texas, Oklahoma, Washington, D.C., and Tennessee, 1908-1932, in Birmingham, 1932-1936, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1936- 1941, Jackson, Miss., 1941-1945, and Charlotte, N.C., 1945-1949. Honors: Duke University honorary D.D., 1920; Centenary College of Louisiana, honorary D.D., 1920; Birmingham Southern College, D.Litt., 1936.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 65.
Author: And the Prophets. New York: Abingdon, 1945.
Anointed to Preach. New York: Abingdon, 1951.
Chappell's Special Day Sermons. New York: Abingdon, 1936.
Christ and the New Woman. New York: Abingdon, 1928.
The Cross Before Calvary. New York: Abingdon, 1960.
Evangelistic Sermons of Clovis G. Chappell. New York: Abingdon, 1973.
Faces About the Cross. New York: Abingdon, 1941.
Familiar Failures. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1927.
Feminine Faces. New York: Abingdon, 1942.
Home Folks. New York: Abingdon, 1926.
If I Were Young. New York: Abingdon, 1962.
In Parables. New York: Abingdon, 1953.
A Jarring Question: Will a Man Rob God? Chicago: General Board of Lay Activity, the Methodist Church, 1950.
Living With Royalty. New York: Abingdon, 1962.
Living Zestfully. New York: Abingdon, 1944.
Meet These Men. New York: Abingdon, 1956.
The Modern Dance: Three Sermons. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1923.
More Sermons on Biblical Characters. Dorman, 1923.
Questions Jesus Asked. New York: Abingdon, 1948.
The Road to Certainty. Nashville: Cokesbury, 1940.
The Sermons on the Mount. Nashville: Cokesbury, 1930.
Sermons from Job. Nashville: s.n., 1957.
Sermons from Revelations. New York: Abingdon, 1943.
Sermons from the Miracles. New York: Abingdon, 1937.
Sermons from the Parables. New York: Abingdon, 1933.
Sermons from the Psalms. New York: Abingdon, 1931.
Sermons on Biblical Characters. New York: Harper, 1950.
Sermons on New Testament Characters. New York: Harper, 1924.
Sermons on Old Testament Characters. New York: Harper, 1925.
Sermons on Simon Peter. New York: Abingdon, 1959.
Sermons on the Lord's Prayer and Other Prayers of Jesus. New York: Abingdon, 1934.
The Seven Words. New York: Abingdon, 1952.
Surprises in the Bible. New York: Abingdon, 1967.
Ten Rules for Living. New York: Abingdon, 1938.
Values That Last. Nashville: Cokesbury, 1939.
The Village Tragedy and Other Sermons. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1921.
When The Church Was Young. New York: Abingdon, 1950.
CHAPPELL, GORDON THOMAS, 1911-
University professor. Born: September 10, 1911, Birmingham. Parents: Charles Arthur and Clemmie (Fason) Chappell. Married: Winn Ownbey, August 30, 1939. Children: Two. Education: Birmingham-Southern College, A.B., 1935; Vanderbilt University, A.M., 1936, Ph.D. 1941. Taught at Vanderbilt University, Winthrop College, Newberry College; head of the Department of History and Political Science at Huntingdon College after 1945; served as visiting professor of history during summer sessions at the University of Alabama. Contributed articles to historical journals and encyclopedias. Honors: Outstanding Educator of America Award, 1972.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1978 and Library of Alabama Lives.
Joint Author: Know Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Paul R. Malone, 1955.
CHASE, RICHARD, 1904-
Folklorist. Born: February 15, 1904, Huntsville. Parents: Robert Collier and Emma Florence Chase. Education: Antioch College, B.S., 1929. Lecturer on folklore and storyteller of Appalachian folktales. Honors: Southern California Council on Literature award, 1970; honored by the Governor of Virginia, 1972, and honored at the Los Angeles Renaissance Pleasure Faire, 1973, and honored by the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of Mensa in 1975.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1980-1981 and Contemporary Authors, Vol. 61.
Author: Jack and the Three Sillies. Boston: Houghton, 1950.
Wicked John and the Devil. Boston: Houghton, 1951.
Compiler: Hullabaloo, and Other Singing Folk Games. Boston: Houghton, 1949. (also published as Singing Games and Playparty Games. New York: Dover, 1967).
Editor: American Folk Tales and Songs. New York: New American Library, 1956.
Billy Boy (folk song). San Carlos, Calif.: Golden Gate Junior Books, 1966.
Grandfather Tales. Boston: Houghton, 1943.
The Jack Tales. Boston: Houghton, 1943.
Old Songs and Singing Games. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1938.
CHASTAIN, ELIJAH DENTON, 1925-
University professor. Born: September 26, 1925, Pickens, S.C. Parents: Elijah D. and Ida (Hendricks) Chastain. Married: Marian B. Faulker, August 25, 1956. Children: Two. Education: Clemson University, B.S., 1947; Cornell University, M.S., 1948; Purdue University, Ph.D., 1956. Taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1949-1956; research assistant at Purdue University, 1954-1956; taught and was director of graduate studies of the School of Business at Auburn University after 1956. Editor of the Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science, 1962-1965.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1980-1991.
Joint Author: Farm Business Management. Auburn, Ala.: s.n., 1966.
CHAVEZ, JUDY TAYLOR
In October 1978, claimed she was paid about $40,000 from U.S.Government funds as mistress to a Soviet defector for the period of about six months. In her book, she stated she was raised in Alabama. Parents: Father, an engineer and mother, a floral designer. Married at seventeen and separated from her husband at nineteen. Worked as a chauffeur, cocktail waitress; attended Northern Virginia Community College. Twenty-two years old in 1978. In 1979, lived in the Murray Hills area of New York City.
Source: Newsweek and from Time, both dated October 23, 1978, and from Defector's Mistress.
Author: Defector's Mistress: the Judy Chavez Story. New York: Dell, 1979.
CHENEY, ANNE, 1944-
University professor. Born: November 1, 1944, Birmingham. Parents: Alan Breck and Billie (Gunter) Cheney. Education: Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1966; Florida State University, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1971. Taught English and American literature at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University after 1968.
Sources: Who's Who of American Women, 1979-1980 and Contemporary Authors, Vol. 61.
Author: "The Changing Status of Women" (screenplay). Blacksburg, Va.: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1974.
Lorraine Hansberry. Boston: Twayne, 1982.
Millay in Greenwich Village. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1975.
CHENEY, CORA, 1916-
Born: December 20, 1916, Birmingham. Parents: Franklin C. and Irene (Denny) Cheney. Married: Benjamin Waring Partridge, Jr., September 2, 1939. Children: Four. Education: Florida State College from Women, 1934-1936; University of Georgia, A.B., 1938; Antioch College, M.Ed., 1971.
Source: Who's Who of American Women, 1961-1962, Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R and Something About the Author, Vol. 3.
Author: Alaska. New York: Dodd, 1980.
The Case of the Iceland Dogs. New York: Dodd, 1977.
Christmas Tree Hessian. New York: Holt, 1958.
Crown of the World. New York: Dodd, 1979.
Doll of Lilac Valley. New York: Knopf, 1959.
Fortune Hill. New York: Holt, 1956.
Girl at Jungle's Edge. New York: Knopf, 1962.
Incredible Deborah. New York: Scribner, 1967.
Key of Gold. New York: Holt, 1955.
Mystery of the Disappearing Cars. New York: Knopf, 1964.
Peg-legged Pirate of Sulu. New York: Knopf, 1960.
Plantation Doll. New York: Holt, 1955.
Profiles From the Past: an Uncommon History of Vermont. Taftsville, Vt.: Countryman Press, 1976.
The Rocking Chair Buck. New York: Holt, 1956.
Rumpus on Commodore Hill. New York: Holt, 1957.
Skeleton Cave. New York: Holt, 1954.
Tales From a Taiwan Kitchen. New York: Dodd, 1976.
Treasures of Lin Li-ti. New York: Hawthorn, 1969.
Vermont, the State with a Storybook Past. Brattleboro, Vt.: S. Greene Press, 1976.
Joint Author: China Sea Roundup. New York: Knopf, 1960.
Rendezvous in Singapore. New York: Knopf, 1961.
Underseas!. New York: Coward, 1961.
CHERASKIN, EMANUEL, 1916-
Physician. Born: June 9, 1916, Philadelphia, Pa. Parents: Herman and Celia (Homes) Cheraskin. Married: Caroline Elwood, September 23, 1944. Children: One. Education: St. Joseph's College; Georgetown University; University of Alabama, A.B., 1939, M.A. 1941, D.M.D. 1952; University of Cincinnati, M.D., 1943. Began private practice of medicine in Moundville, Ala., 1947. After 1948 associated with the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham as instructor of anatomy, 1948-1950, assistant professor of physiology, 1950-1952, and a professor of oral medicine after 1953. Has contributed more than 350 articles to dental, medical, nutritional, and educational journals. Honors: Received the Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Sao Paulo in 1961 and an achievement award from the Angiology Research Foundation in 1968.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 53.
Author: Bio-Nutronics: Lower Your Cholesterol in 30 days. New York: Perigee Books, 1986.
Diagnostic Stomatology. New York: McGraw, 1961.
Health and Happiness: Simpler, Safe and Sour Siptems and Solutions. Wichita, Kan.: Bio-Communications, 1989.
The Vitamin C Controversy: Questions and Solutions. Wichita, Kan.: Bio-Communications, 1988.
Joint Author: Diet and Disease. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Books, 1968.
Diet and the Periodontal Patient. Springfield, Ill.: C.C. Thomas, 1970.
Dynamic Anatomy and Physiology. New York: McGraw, 1958.
Dynamics of Oral Diagnosis. Chicago: Year Book Pub., 1956.
New Hope for Incurable Disease. New York: Exposition Press, 1971.
The Physiological Foundation of Dental Practice. St. Louis: Mosby, 1951.
The Physiology of Man. New York: Reinhold, 1954.
Predictive Medicine. Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press Pub. Association, 1973.
Psychodietetics. New York: Stein & Day, 1974.
Contributor: Clinical Pedodontics. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1957.
Complete Denture Prosthodontics. New York: McGraw, 1962.
CHESNUTT, SAMUEL LEE, -1955
University professor. Born: Hawkins, Tenn. Married: Emma Brown. Children: Two. Education: University of Tennessee, 1900; Peabody College, M.S. Taught at Concord and Farragut, Tenn. First agriculture teacher at Alabama College in Montevallo, where he taught for thirteen years; appointed Assistant State Supervisor of Vocational Agriculture, 1918; taught and was head of the Agricultural Education Department at Auburn University, 1919-1950. Retired in 1950 and went to Panama for one year as a specialist in agricultural education under the auspices of the Institute of Inter-American Affairs.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: The Rural South, Background--Problems--Outlook. Montgomery, Ala.: Dixie Book Co., 1939.
Teaching Field Crops and Horticulture. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Pub. Co., 1922.
Joint Author: Poultry Production in the South. Danville, Ill.: Interstate, 1943.
CHILDERS, JAMES SAXON, 1899-1965
University professor, newspaper editor. Born: April 19, 1899, Birmingham. Parents: Hayden Prior and Pattie Undine (Goldwire) Childers. Married: Maurine White. Education: Oberlin College, B.A., 1920; Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar, B.A., 1923; M.A., 1927. Professor of literature at Birmingham Southern College, 1925-1942; editor, Atlanta Journal, 1951-1957; lecturer, U.S. Department of State in the Far and Middle East, 1958-1959; president of Tupper and Love, Inc., book publishers, after 1959. Honors: Oglethorpe University, Litt.D., 1954; Birmingham Southern College, Litt.D., 1955.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4
Author: The Bookshop Mystery. New York: D. Appleton, 1930.
Enemy Outpost. New York: D. Appleton, 1942.
Erskine Ramsay, His Life and Achievements. S.l.: Cartwright and Ewing, 1942.
From Siam to Suez. New York: D. Appleton, 1923.
God Save the Duke. New York: D. Appleton, 1933.
Hilltop in the Rain. New York: D. Appleton, 1928.
Histories or Tales of Past Times Told by Mother Goose, with Morals. S.l.: Nonesuch, 1925.
Laurel and Straw. New York: D. Appleton, 1941.
Mumbo Jumbo, Esquire. New York: D. Appleton, 1941.
The Nation on the Flying Trapeze: the United States as the People of the East See Us. New York: D. McKay, 1960.
A Novel About a White Man and a Black Man in the Deep South. New York: Farrar, 1936.
Robert McAlpine, a Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1925.
Sailing South American Skies. New York: Farrar, 1936.
Through Oriental Gates. New York: D. Appleton, 1930.
Tomorrow We Reap. New York: Dial, 1949.
War Eagles, the Story of the Eagle Squadron. New York: D. Appleton, 1943.
A Way Home: the Baptists Tell Their Story. Atlanta: Tupper and Love, 1963.
Editor: Listen to Leaders in Business. Atlanta: Tupper and Love, 1963.
Listen to Leaders in Law. Atlanta: Tupper and Love, 1963.
Listen to Leaders in Medicine. Atlanta: Tupper and Love, 1963.
Listen to Leaders in Science. Atlanta: Tupper and Love, 1965.
CHILDRESS, MARK, 1957-
Journalist. Born: September 21, 1957, Monroeville. Parents: Roy and Mary Helen (Gillion) Childress. Education: University of Alabama, B.A., 1978. Worked for the Birmingham News; feature editor for Southern Living; regional editor for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
Source: Anniston Star, November 25, 1984 and Mark Childress, Atlanta, Ga.
Author: A World Made of Fire. New York: Knopf, 1984.
Joshua and Bigtooth. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992.
Tender. New York: Harmony Books, 1989.
V for Victor. New York: Knopf, 1988.
Contributor: Home to Jericho. Birmingham, Ala.: Oxmoor House, 1987.
CHILTON, CLAUDIUS LYSIAS, 1856-
Preacher. Born: April 27, 1856, Tuskegee. Parents: William Parish and Elvira Frances (Morgan) Chilton. Married: Mabel Cecilia Pierce, December 3, 1878. Children: Nine. Education: Received an academic education but left school at the age of fifteen. After studying for the ministry he was licensed to preach in July, 1877, at Court Street Church in Montgomery.
Source: Owen's Story of Alabama.
Author: The Chilton Music for Standard Hymns. New York: s.n., 1923.
Is This Justice? Montgomery, Ala.: privately printed, 1910.
Memorial Address on John T. Morgan. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1913.
Song of the Southland: and Other Poems. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1911.
Pamphlet: Born of God.
Eternal Punishmen.
False Prophet.
How to Pray.
Plain Truth.
Joint Author: (Pamphlet) The Place of Prayer in Redemption.
CHITWOOD, BILL J., 1931-
Minister. Born: September 5, 1931, Franklin, Tenn. Parents: Charles Wilbur and Bertha Angeline Chitwood. Married: Jane Knight, April 3, 1954. Children: Two. Education: Belmont College, B.A., 1957; Middle Tennessee State University, M.A., 1961; Luther Rice Seminary, B.D., 1967, Th.D., 1971. Elementary school principal, Franklin County, Tenn.; served in the U.S. Air Force, 1950-1954; ordained a Southern Baptist Minister, 1954; served as pastor of churches in Estill Springs, Gallatin, Flintville, and Nashville (Tenn.), Harvey, (Ill.), and Huntsville (Ala.).
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 97.
Author: A Faith That Works: an Inspirational Study of James. Nashville: Broadman, 1969.
Meet the Real Jesus. Nashville: Broadman, 1976.
What the Church Needs Now: a Plan for Renewal. Old Tappan, N.J.: Revell, 1973.
CHITWOOD, MARIE DOWNS, 1918-
Born: June 20, 1918, Boaz. Parents: Robert Edward and Minnie (Wills) Downs. Married: James William Chitwood, August 20, 1937. Education: Public schools in Alabama.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 9R.
Author: After the Storm. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1964.
Laughter in the House. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1961.
This Passing Night. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1955.
CHRISTENBERRY, DANIEL PINKNEY
University professor. Married: Annie Hanna. Education: Southern University, Ph.B., 1887, A.M., 1888. Principal, Greenville Collegiate Institute, 1888-1889; president, Greensboro Female College, 1889-1892; professor of English language and literature, Southern University after 1892.
Source: Semi-Centennial History of the Southern University, 1856-1906 and Greensboro Watchman, December 15, 1960.
Author: Masonic Code of Alabama. S.l.: s.n., 1893.
The Semi-Centennial History of the Southern University, 1856- 1906. Greensboro, Ala.: D. P. Christenberry, 1908.
CHRISTENBERRY, WILLIAM A., JR., 1936-
Photographer, teacher. Born: November 1936, Tuscaloosa. Parents: William A. and Ruby Williard (Smith) Christenberry. Education: University of Alabama, B.F.A., M.A. Worked as teaching assistant at the University of Alabama while working on the master's degree. Received fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Worked at Time-Life as a file clerk and was encouraged by Walker Evans to take photography more seriously; taught at Memphis State University for six years; taught at Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., after 1968. Honors: Lyndhurst Foundation prize, 1982.
Source: William Christenberry, Color Photographs.
Author: Southern Photographs. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1983.
Washington Art: William Christenberry. Potsdam, N.Y.: Art Gallery, State University College, 1971?
William Christenberry, Color Photographs: December 21, 1978- February 11, 1979, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.: The Gallery, 1979.
CHRISTOPHER, THOMAS WELDON, 1917-
Attorney, university professor. Born: October 8, 1917, Duncan, S.C. Parents: William Arthur and Ruby (Thomas) Christopher. Married: Evelyn Montez Hawkins, October 25, 1950. Education: Washington and Lee University, A.B., 1939; University of Alabama, LL.B., 1948; New York University, LL.M., 1950; University of Alabama, J.S.D., 1957, LL.D., 1978. Cross Keys School in Union, S.C., principal, 1939-1941; Lorton School, Va., principal, 1941- 1942; Emory University Law School, member of the faculty, 1950- 1961, associate dean, 1954-1961; University of North Carolina Law School, professor, 1961-1965; University of New Mexico School of Law, professor and dean, 1965-1971; University of Alabama School of Law, professor and dean after 1971.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1980-1981 and Directory of American Scholars, 1978.
Author: Cases and Materials on Food and Drug Law. Chicago: Commerce Clearing House, 1966.
Constitutional Questions in Food and Drug Law. Chicago: Commerce Clearing House, 1960.
Georgia Procedure and Practice. Atlanta: Harrison, 1957.
Poems From a Carolina Farm. Prairie City, Ill.: Decker, 1948.
Joint Author: Special Federal Food and Drug Laws. Chicago: Commerce Clearing House, 1954.
CHUNG, CHIN OWYEE, 1938-
Political scientist, university professor. Born: May 15, 1938, Kwangju, Chonnam, Korea. Married. Children: Three. Education: Yonsei University, Korea, B.A., 1961; Wisconsin State University, B.S., 1962; University of Kansas, M.A., 1964; University of Nebraska, Ph.D., 1969. Faculty research grant at the University of Alabama, 1971-1972. Research assistant at the University of Kansas, 1963-1964 and at the University of Nebraska, 1967-1969. Assistant professor at California State University at Humboldt, 1969-1970; taught in the political science department at the University of Alabama after 1970.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1973.
Author: Pyongyang Between Peking and Moscow: North Korea's Involvement in the Sino-Soviet Dispute, 1958-1975. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1978.
CIRLOT, FELIX L., -1956
Episcopal clergyman. Born: Mobile. Parents: Felix A. and Annie (Sibley) Cirlot. Education: Graduate of Spring Hill College.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Apostolic Succession and Anglicanism: a Defense of Anglican Orders and Catholicity. Lexington, Ky.: Author, 1946.
Apostolic Succession at the Bar of Modern Scholarship. West Park, N.Y.: Holy Cross Press, 1946.
Apostolic Succession: Is It True? An Historical and Theological Inquiry. El Paso, Tex.: Author, 1945.
The Early Eucharist. London: Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, 1939.
CLARK, ELMER TALMAGE, 1886-1966
Minister. Born: September 9, 1886, Randolph County, Ark. Parents: Henry Akin and Ellen A. (Kirkpatrick) Clark. Married: Mary Alva Yarbrough, August 15, 1923. Education: Temple University, B.D., S.T.D., 1925; Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1926; George Peabody College for Teachers, M.A., 1927. Ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1911; pastor of churches in Missouri, 1908-1917; editor of the World Outlook, 1927-1952. Held many positions in the Methodist Church. Honors: Recipient of gold medals from the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Brazil and the Methodist Church of Northern Europe; World Outlook Medal, Oslo, Norway; Florida Southern College, honorary LL.D., 1927; Southwestern University, Litt.D., 1940.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 5 and Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.
Author: An Album of Methodist History. New York: Abingdon- Cokesbury Press, 1952.
Arthur James Moore: World Evangelist. New York: Editorial Dept., Joint Section of Education and Cultivation, Board of Missions of the Methodist Church, 1960.
Captain W. W. Martin, Friend of Man. S.l.: s.n, 19-?
The Chiangs of China. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1943.
The Church and the World Parish. Nashville: Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1929.
The Church Efficiency Movement. S.l.: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, South, 1915.
Francis Asbury, Prophet of the Long Road. Lake Junaluska, N.C.: United Methodist Church, Commission of Archives and History, 1976.
Healing Ourselves, the First Task of the Church in America. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1924.
The Last Journey of Francis Asbury. Greensboro, N.C.: North Carolina Christian Advocate, 197?
The Latin Immigrant in the South. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1924.
Methodism in Western North Carolina. S.l.: Western North Carolina Conference, Methodist Church, 1966.
The Methodist Evangel. Nashville: Association of Methodist Historical Societies, 1966.
The New Evangelism. S.l.: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1915.
The Psychology of Religious Awakening. New York: Macmillan, 1929.
The Rebirth of Protestantism in Europe. S.l.: General Sunday School Board, Department of Missionary Education, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1925.
The Small Sect in America. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1937.
Social Studies of the War. New York: Doran, 1919.
The Task Ahead: the Missionary Crisis of the Church. S.l.: Board of Missions, Centenary Commission, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1925.
Thy Kingdom Come, an Historical Study of Stewardship and Missions. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1925.
The Warm Heart of Wesley. New York: Association of Methodist Historical Societies, 1950.
What's the Matter in China? S.l.: Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1927.
Joint Author: Latin America, U.S.A. New York: Joint Division of Education and Cultivation, Board of Missions and Church Extension, the Methodist Church, 1942.
The World Methodist Movement. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1956.
Editor: Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury. New York: Abingdon Press, 1958.
The Journal of the Reverend Jacob Lanius. S.l.: s.n., 1963.
The Missionary Imperative. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1929.
What Happened at Aldersgate. Methodist Publishing House, 1938.
Who's Who in Methodism. Chicago: A. N. Marquis, 1952.
Joint Editor: The Book of Daily Devotion. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1932.
Compiler: Talking Points on Christian Education. S.l.: Christian Education Commission, M.E. Church, South, 1920?
CLARK, GEORGE HUNTINGTON, 1859-1941
Railroad engineer. Born: 1859, Providence, R.I. Married: Rosalie Heutis. Children: Two. Education: Yale University. Worked for the New York and Lackawana Railroad and for several other railroads before he came to Alabama to engineer the location of the Selma and Cahaba Valley Railroad in 1887; chief engineer of the East and West Railroad of Alabama; in 1890 moved to Birmingham and became engineer for Birmingham Realty company; served as general manager of Birmingham Traction Company, Birmingham Belt Railroad, and Frisco Systems; served as Jefferson County Engineer, 1915-1916; assistant geologist for the State of Alabama, 1921-1925.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Mica Deposits of Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1921.
Rock Asphalts of Alabama and Their Use in Paving. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1925.
CLARK, JOHN BUNYAN, 1884-
Administrator. Born: June 6, 1884, Hamilton. Parents: Henry Turner and Missouri Ann (Carpenter) Clark. Married: Lillie Pierce, 1911. Children: One. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1907; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1910; Harvard University, A.M., 1911; New York University, Ph.D., 1926; graduate work at Columbia, Michigan State and University of Chicago. Principal of schools in Union Springs, Nanafalia and Marion County; superintendent of schools in Linden; dean of Mercer University; president of Tennessee College for Women; and head of the department of citizenship at Lincoln Memorial University; visiting professor at Austin Peay State College, 1953-1954. Served as vice president then president of the academic dean's conference of the Southern Colleges and Universities; served as secretary, vice president and president of the Alabama History Teachers' Association. Member of American Association of University Professors, Georgia Education Association, Georgia Society for Archaeology, and Kappa Delta Pi.
Source: Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography and Who Was Who in America, Vol. 7.
Author: Populism in Alabama. Auburn, Ala.: Auburn Publishing Co., 1927.
Contributor: Dictionary of American History. New York: Scribner, 1940.
Sherwood, Adiel. Gazeteer of the State of Georgia. Biographical sketch by Joan B. Clark, President Speight Dowell, Mercer University. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1939.
CLARK, KATE UPSON, 1851-
Born: February 22, 1851, Camden. Parents: Edwin and Priscilla (Maxwell) Upson. Married: Edward Perkins Clark, January 1, 1874. Education: Wheaton Seminary, 1869; Westfield (Mass.) Normal School, 1872. Taught in Cleveland, Ohio, and edited many periodicals.
Source: Owen's Story of Alabama and Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors.
Author: Art and Citizenship. New York: Eaton & Mains, 1907.
Bringing Up Boys. New York: Crowell, 1899.
The Dole Twins: or, Child Life in New England in 1807. Boston: Page, 1907.
Donald's Good Hen: the Nearly True Story of a Real Hen. Salem, Mass.: S.E. Cassino & Son, 1905.
How Dexter Paid His Way. New York: Crowell, 1901.
Move Upward. New York: Crowell, 1902.
Prologue: Poems. Norton, Mass.: s.n. (handwritten manuscript), 1900.
Susan Hayes Ward: an Appreciation. New York: s.n. (manuscript), 1916.
Up the Witch Brook Road. New York: J. F. Taylor & Co., 1902.
White Butterflies. New York: J. F. Taylor & Co., 1900.
CLARKE, JACQUELYN JOHNSON
See: Jackson, Jacquelyn Mary Johnson
CLARKE, JOHN HENRIK, 1915-
Teacher, editor. Born: January 1, 1915, Union Springs. Parents: John and Willella (Mays) Clarke. Married: Eugenia Evans, December 24, 1961. Children: Two. Education: New York University, 1948-1952; New School for Social Research, 1956-1958. Feature writer for the Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh, and for the Ghana Evening News, Accra, Ghana, 1957-1958; associate editor of Freedomways, a magazine, after 1962. Consultant on black history and heritage to several publishers and a television network; lectured on these subjects for special programs at several universities, including Hunter College, Columbia University, Cornell University, and New York University. Contributed articles to Negro History Bulletin, Chicago Defender, Journal of Negro Education, Phylon, Presence Africaine, and other periodicals. Honors: Carter G. Woodson Award for excellence in teaching, 1958 and 1971; University of Denver, L.H.D., 1970.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 53.
Author: Black Americans, Immigrants Against Their Will. Atlanta: Atlanta University, 1974.
Black-White Alliances, 1970. S.l.: s.n., 197?
Dimensions of the Struggle Against Apartheid. New York: African Heritage Studies Association, 1979.
The Influence of African Cultural Continuity on the Slave Revolts in South America and in the Caribbean Islands. Atlanta: Atlanta University, 1974.
Rebellion in Rhyme. Prairie City, Ill.: Decker Press, 1948.
Editor: American Negro Short Stories. New York: Hill & Wang, 1966.
Harlem. New York: New American Library, 1970.
Harlem, a Community in Transition. New York: Citadel, 1965.
Harlem, U.S.A. Berlin: Seven Seas Books, 1964.
Malcolm X. New York: Macmillan, 1969.
Pan-Africanism and the Liberation of Southern Africa. New York: African Heritage Studies Association, 1978.
William Styron's Nat Turner. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.
Joint Editor: Black Titan. Boston: Beacon Press, 1970.
Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa. New York: Random House, 1974.
Slave Trade and Slavery. New York: Holt, 1970.
What's it All About? New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969.
CLAY-CLOPTON, VIRGINIA CAROLINE TUNSTALL, 1825-1915
Born: January 16, 1825, Nash County, N.C. Parents: Dr. Peyton Randolph and Ann (Arrington) Tunstall. Married: Clement Claiborne Clay, February 1, 1843. Married: David Clopton, November 29, 1887. Education: Attended a private school in Tuscaloosa and graduated from the Nashville Female Academy in 1840. Husband elected to the U.S. Senate, 1853, and Mrs. Clay became a well-known figure in Washington, D.C. society. After the succession of Alabama, the Clays left Washington in January 1861. In the 1890s Virginia Clay-Clopton became a pioneer advocate of woman suffrage in Alabama. Served as president of the Alabama Equal Rights Association from 1896 until 1900.
Source: Notable American Women, Vol. 1 and Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.
Author: A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1905.
CLAYTON, LAWRENCE ANTHONY, 1942-
University professor. Born: October 5, 1942, Summit, N.J. Education: Duke University, B.A., 1964; Tulane University, M.A., 1969, Ph.D., 1972. Taught history and served as director of the Latin American Studies Program, University of Alabama after 1972. Member of the Conference of Latin American Historians and of the Latin American Studies Association. Contributed articles to periodicals, including the Hispanic American History Review and Journal of Latin American Studies.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1982.
Author: The Andean World. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Forum Press, 1984.
The Bolivian Nations of Latin America. Arlington Heights, Ill.: Forum Press, 1984.
Caulkers and Carpenters in a New World: the Shipyards of Colonial Guayaquil. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University, Center for International Studies, 1980.
The Formative Years, 1850-1930. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1985.
Grace: W. R. Grace & Company, 1850-1930. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1985.
Los Astilleros and Guayaquil Colonial. Guayaquil, Ecuador: Archive Historics Dee Guayas, 1978.
Contributor: Dependency Unbends: Case Studies in Inter-American Relations. Carrollton, Ga.: West Georgia College, 1978.
Joint Editor: Alabama and the Borderlands, from Prehistory to Statehood. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
CLEERE, WILLIAM W., 1884-
Physician. Born: 1884, Franklin County. Parents: Dr. and Mrs. William Wadkins Cleere. Married: Virginia Temple. Children: Two. Education: Vanderbilt Medical School, M.D. Served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War I. Practiced medicine in Franklin County for more than forty years.
Source: Hello, Hello, Hello, Doc.
Author: Hello, Hello, Hello, Doc: Amusing Recollection and Anecdotes of a Country Physician. New York: Exposition Press, 1958.
CLEM, PAUL LIVINGSTONE, 1913-
Methodist minister. Born: February 17, 1913, Athens. Parents: Robert Mason and Cora (Holland) Clem. Married: Nelle Echols, August 5, 1936. Children: Three. Education: Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1937; Emory University, B.D. Served pastorates in churches in Mountain Brook, Fayette, Talladega, Birmingham, and Huntsville; served as district superintendent of the Anniston District of the Methodist Church, 1959-1963. Active in the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church and a delegate to many world conventions. Honors: Birmingham Southern, honorary D.D., 1955.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. 2 and Library of Alabama Lives.
Author: Filing Your Sermon Ideas. New York: Abingdon Press, 1964.
CLEMMONS, GERTRUDE, 1903-
Teacher. Born: Millport. Education: Livingston State College; University of Alabama, B.S.and M.A. Taught at Gordo in Pickens County for several years.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Pictures of Silver. Birmingham, Ala.: Banner Press, 1965.
CLEVENGER, ERNEST ALLEN, JR., 1929-
Teacher, school administrator. Born: October 30, 1929, Chattanooga, Tenn. Parents: Ernest Allen and Mary Ellen (Fridell) Clevenger. Married: Glenda Willoughby, December 17, 1950. Children: Two. Education: David Lipscomb College, B.A., 1951; McKensie College, graduate study, 1953; Harding Graduate School of Bible and Religion, M.A., 1967; Alabama Christian College of Biblical Studies, B.Th., 1975. Became a minister of the Church of Christ, 1959; served pastorates in Russellville, 1957-1963, and Birmingham after 1963; professor of Bible at Alabama Christian School of Religion in Montgomery, 1968-1973; president of the Alabama Christian College of Biblical Studies in Birmingham after 1975; owner and manager of Parchment Press after 1963. Wrote a weekly column for the Ledger and Times (Murray, Ky.), 1954-1959, and under the pseudonym, Ben Rovin, for the Franklin County Times, 1958-1963. Honors: Berean Christian College and Seminary, honorary S.L.D., 1972.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57.
Author: The Bible. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1968.
Bible Characters. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1970.
Bible Doctrine. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1967.
Bible Evidence. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1968.
Bible Geography. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1968.
The Church Ushers Guide. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1967. (Also published as The Art of Greeting and Seating, 1970).
Comprehensive Topical and Textual Lesson Commentary Index.... Russellville, Ala.: E. Clevenger, 1963.
A Condensed Harmony of the Gospels. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1964.
The History of God's People. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1963.
History of the Bible Church. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1971.
Jesus of the Bible. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1965.
Leadership Training Course. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1964.
Men's Leadership Training course. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1975.
Pocket Bible Ready Reference. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1965.
Psychology of Jesus. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1975.
Wisdom Books of the Bible. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1966.
Editor: Bible Surveys. Birmingham, Ala.: Parchment Press, 1969.
CLIFTON, DIXIE
See: Miller, Dixie Lee
CLINE, CHARLES TERRY, JR., 1935-
Writer. Born: July 14, 1935, Birmingham. Parents: Charles Terry and Mildred (Vann) Cline. Married: Linda Street, October 23, 1959. Married: Judith Richards, June 30, 1979. Children: Four. Education: Florida State University, 1957. Has held a variety of positions in radio and television in the Southeastern United States. Owner of Colonial Educational Exhibits in Dothan, 1964-1969; executive director of Land Alive Foundation in Mobile, 1970-1972.
Source: Contemporary Author, Vol. CANR-8.
Author: The Attorney Conspiracy. New York: Arbor House, 1983.
Cross Current. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.
Damon. New York: Putnam, 1975.
Death Knell. New York: Putnam, 1979.
Mindreader. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1981.
Missing Persons. New York: Arbor House, 1981.
Prey. New York: New American Library, 1985.
Quarry. New York: New American Library, 1987.
Reaper. New York: D. I. Five, 1989.
CLINE, LINDA, 1941-
Writer. Born: February 11, 1941, New York City, N.Y. Parents: Eleanor Fellers. Married: C. Terry Cline, October 23, 1959. Children: Four. Education: Public Schools of Thomasville, Georgia. President and owner of Land Alive of America, Thomasville, Ga. Editor of Land Alive, 1969-1970. Co-author of "Switchwitch: a Children's Musical Drama," first produced at the Mobile Theatre Guild on February 20, 1974.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 65.
Author: Miracle Season. New York: Berkeley Publishers, 1976.
Weakfoot. New York: Lothrop, 1975.
CLINTON, MATTHEW WILLIAM, 1898?-1977
Born: 1898?. Parents: Thomas P. Clinton. Married: Bernice Blackshere. Children: Two. Education: University of Alabama, B.S., 1920, M.A., 1942; attended Peabody 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: Recipient of the distinguished service award of the Alabama Council for Social Studies.
Source: Tuscaloosa News, July 31, 1977 and Who's Who in Alabama.
Author: Dedication: Tuscaloosa County Courthouse, 1964. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Weatherford Printing Co., 1964.
The Federal Invasion of Tuscaloosa, 1865. Northport, Ala.: American Southern, 1965.
Historic Tuscaloosa: a Self-conducted Tour. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Tuscaloosa Retired Teachers Association, 1966.
Matt Clinton's Scrapbook. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Portals Press, 1979.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Its Early Days, 1816-1865. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Zonta Club, 1958.
CLINTON, THOMAS PATRICK, 1859-
Born: September 1, 1859, Tuscaloosa. Parents: Patrick and Catherine (Boyle) Clinton. Married: Julia Watkins, January 7, 1892. Children: Three. Wrote historical sketches for the Alabama Historical Society and for the Tuscaloosa paper for fifty years. Active in the Catholic Church.
Source: Moore's History of Alabama, Vol. 3; files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; and the introduction to The Federal Invasion of Tuscaloosa, 1865.
Author: "The Closing Days of the War of Secession in Tuscaloosa" in the Federal Invasion of Tuscaloosa, 1895. Northport, Ala.: American Southern, 1965.
The Military Operations of Gen. John T. Croxton in West Alabama, 1965. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Historical Society, 1904.
A Century of Catholicity in Tuscaloosa. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: s.n., s.d.
COATS, FLORINE
Hotel manager. Born: Alabama. Married: Royal M. Coats. Children: One. They managed hotels in Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Florida. After Mr. Coats died she lived at Harpersville.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service and at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: The Old Rocking Chair. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1967.
COBB, BUELL E., JR., 1944-
Phone company representative. Born: June 25, 1944, Cullman. Parents: Buell E. and Kathryn (McDaniel) Cobb. Married: Mary Wilson Elliot, August, 1968. Education: University of Montevallo, B.A., 1966; further study at Auburn University. Taught at West Georgia College. Articles appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review and in Louisiana Studies.
Source: Gene Geiger, Auburn University and jacket to The Sacred Harp.
Author: The Sacred Harp: a Tradition and Its Music. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
COBB, NED (Nate Shaw, Pseudonym), ca. 1885-
Farmer. Born: About 1885. Parents: Hayes and Liza (Culver) Cobb. Married: Hannah Ramsey. Children: Nine. An illiterate Black tenant farmer in Tallapoosa County. In 1932 he was involved in the Alabama Sharecroppers' Union. In December of that same year he was involved in a shooting with a deputy sheriff who had been sent to foreclose on one of Cobb's neighbors. Served twelve years in prison. In 1971, Theodore Rosengarten tape recorded Cobb telling his life story and published the autobiographical book on Cobb's life as All God's Dangers: the Life of Nate Shaw.
Source: All God's Dangers.
Author: All God's Dangers: the Life of Nate Shaw. New York: Knopf, 1974.
COBB, WILLIAM S., 1937-
University professor. Born: October 20, 1937, Greene County. Parents: Sledge and Inez (Land) Cobb. Married: Loretta, August 15, 1965. Children: One. Education: Livingston State University, A.B., 1961; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1963; fellowship in creative writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1970. Had short stories and essays published in many periodicals and anthologies. Taught at the University of Montevallo, after 1963.
Source: William S. Cobb, Montevallo.
Author: Coming of Age at the Y. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Portals Press, 1984.
The Hermit King. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Portals Press, 1986.
A Walk Through Fire. New York: Morrow, 1992.
Plays: At Home. A One-act play. Produced by Shelby County Community Theater, 1977.
Early Rains: a Play. Montevallo, Ala.: W. Cobb, 1988.
A Place of Springs: a Play In Two Acts. Montevallo, Ala.: W. Cobb, 1987.
Sunday's Child: a Play In Two Acts. Montevallo, Ala.: W. Cobb, 1985.
The Vine and the Olive. Book and Lyrics to Musical Comedy. Produced at Livingston University, 1960.
COBBS, ALEATHEA THOMPSON, ca. 1860-1953
Born: About 1860, Bolivar, Tennessee. Parents: Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Thompson. Married: Daniel Boone Cobbs, a lawyer. Children: One. Moved to Mobile in 1884 and lived there until 1937. Contributed to religious periodicals.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Presbyterian Women of the Synod of Alabama. Mobile, Ala.: Women's Auxiliary of the Synod of Alabama, 1936.
Joint Author: Around the Year in Mobile (1702-1924). Mobile, Ala.: Cobbs, Howard & Watkins, 1923.
COCKE, SARAH COBB JOHNSON, 1865-
Writer. Born: February 7, 1865, Selma. Parents: John M. and Mary Willis (Cobb) Johnson. Married: Hugh Hagan, October 26, 1887. Children: Two. Married: Lucian H. Cocke, 1903. Education: Lucy Cobb Institute. She often wrote in Negro and "cracker" dialect. Contributed to magazines and newspapers, often under the name of "Mammy Phyllis's Sketches."
Source: Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors and from Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-1918.
Author: Bypaths in Dixie. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1911.
The Master of the Hills. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1917.
Old Mammy Tales from Dixie Land. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1926.
COCKE, ZITELLA, 1840-1929
Music teacher, composer. Born: November 10, 1840, Marion, Ala. Parents: Woodson St. George and Mary Elizabeth (Binyon) Cocke. Education: Graduated from Judson College, 1856. Beginning in 1869 she was for several years principal of the Music Department at Judson; director of the Music Department in the University of the Northwest in Lake Forest, Illinois for some time; then for three decades lived in Boston and taught music to students from Harvard College. About 1915 her portrait was hung in the State House of Representatives in Montgomery as an expression of appreciation for her achievements as an Alabama author and musician. Known primarily as an author of poetry and as a contributor of articles to magazines, but she also composed songs and piano music.
Source: Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors; Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-1915; Who Was Who in Alabama; and Musical Alabama, Vol. 1.
Author: Cherokee Rose and Other Southern Poems. Boston: Gorham Press, 1970.
A Doric Reed. Boston: Copeland & Day, 1895.
The Mimosa Tree. S.l.: s.n. (manuscript), s.d.
When Grasshoppers Hop and Other Poems. S.l.: s.n., 1904.
Songs: Farewell. Cincinnati: Root & Co., s.d.
Flow Down Cold Rivulet to the Sea. Cincinnati: Root & Co., s.d.
If I Had Thought Thou Coulds't Have Died I Might Not Weep for Thee. Cincinnati: Root & Co., s.d.
Lullaby. Cincinnati: Louis H. Ross & Co.
Thou Has the Words of Eternal Life. Cincinnati: Root & Co., s.d.
To Whom! Oh Blessed Savior, Can We Go? Richmond, Va.: F. A. North & Co., s.d.
Waltz Song. Cincinnati: Root & Co., s.d.
Two Cradle Songs. S.l.: s.n., s.d.
What Baby Must Do. Cincinnati: Ross & Co., s.d.
Where the Sandman Gets His Sand. Cincinnati: Ross & Co., s.d.
Piano Compositions:
Beau of Virginia. Cincinnati: Ross & Co., s.d.
Tyrolienne. Cincinnati: Ross & Co., s.d.
COCKRELL, MARIAN BROWN, 1909-
Writer. Born: March 15, 1909, Birmingham. Parents: George Summers and Lucy May (Bradford) Brown. Married: Francis Marion Cockrell, November 3, 1931. Children: One. Education: Attended Sophie Newcomb College, 1926-1929; Metropolitan Art School in New York City, 1929-1930.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Permanent Series, Vol. 2.
Author: Lillian Harley. New York: Harper, 1944.
The Misadventures of Bethany Price. New York: Times Books, 1979.
Mixed Blessings. New York: Times Books, 1978.
The Revolt of Sarah Perkins. New York: McKay. 1965.
Shadow Castle. New York: Whittlesey House, 1945.
Something Between. New York: Harper, 1946.
Yesterday's Madness. New York: Harper, 1943.
Joint Author: Dark Waters, a novel. Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1944. (The same title was adapted to a screenplay.)
Professor, Beware! a screenplay. S.l.: s.n., 1937.
COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY, 1891-1959
Editor, writer. Born: June 26, 1891, Charleston, S.C. Parents: Octavus and Rebecca Ottolengui Cohen. Married: Inez Lopez of Bessemer. Children: One. Education: Graduated from Porter Military Academy, 1908; Clemson College, B.S., 1911; Birmingham Southern College, honorary Litt.D., 1927, for his services to Southern literature. Between 1910 and 1912 he worked in the editorial departments of the Birmingham Ledger, the Charleston News and Courier, the Bayonne Times, and the Newark Morning Star; admitted to the South Carolina bar, 1913; practiced law in Charleston for two years. Between 1917 and his death he published 56 books, works that included humorous and detective novels, plays, and collections of short stories. Wrote successful Broadway plays and radio, film, and television scripts. Published hundreds of short stories and serials in the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and other popular magazines.
Source: Dictionary of American Biography, Suppl. 6, and from Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.
Author: Assorted Chocolates. New York: Dodd, 1922.
The Backstage Mystery. New York: D. Appleton, 1930.
Bigger and Blacker. Cincinnati: Little, 1926
Black to Nature. New York: D. Appleton, 1935.
Borrasca. New York: Macmillan, 1953.
A Bullet for My Love, a Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1950.
Cameos. New York: D. Appleton, 1932.
Carbon Copies. New York: D. Appleton, 1932.
Child of Evil. New York: D. Appleton, 1936.
Come Seven. New York: Dodd, 1920.
The Corpse That Walked. New York: Fawcett, 1950.
The Crimson Alibi. New York: Dodd, 1919.
Damaged Good. Philadelphia: Saturday Evening Post, 1925.
Danger in Paradise. New York: Macmillan, 1945.
Dangerous Lady, a Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1946.
Dark Days and Black Knights. New York: Dodd, 1923.
Detours. Cincinnati: Little, 1927.
Don't Ever Love Me, a Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1946.
East of Broadway. New York: D. Appleton, 1938.
Epic Peters, Pullman Porter. New York: D. Appleton, s.d.
Florian Slappey Goes Abroad. Cincinnati: Little, 1928.
Gray Dusk. New York: Dodd, 1920.
Highly Colored. New York: Dodd, 1921.
I Love You Again. New York: D. Appleton, 1937.
The Iron Chalice. New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1925.
Jim Hanvey, Detective. New York: Dodd, 1923.
Kid Tinsel. New York: Appleton Century, 1941.
Lady in Armor. New York: D. Appleton, 1941.
The Light Shines Through. Cincinnati: Little, 1928.
Lillies of the Alley. New York: D. Appleton, 1931.
Lost Lady. New York: Fawcett, 1951.
Love Can Be Dangerous, a Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1955.
Love Has No Alibi. New York: Macmillan, 1946.
The May Day Mystery. New York: D. Appleton, 1929.
Midnight. New York: Dodd, 1922.
More Beautiful Than Murder, a Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1948.
My Love Wears Black, a Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1947.
The Other Tomorrow. New York: D. Appleton, 1927.
The Outer Gate. Cincinnati: Little, 1927.
The Other Woman. New York: Macaulay, 1917.
Polished Ebony. New York: Dodd, 1919.
Romance in Crimson. New York: D. Appleton, 1940.
Romance in the First Degree: a Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1943.
Scarlet Woman. New York: D. Appleton, 1934.
Scrambled Yeggs. New York: D. Appleton, 1934.
Six Seconds of Darkness. New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1918.
Sounds of Revelry. New York: Macmillan, 1943.
Spring Tide. New York: Appleton, 1928.
Star of Earth. New York: D. Appleton, 1932.
Strange Honeymoon. New York: D. Appleton, 1939.
Sunclouds. New York: Dodd, 1924.
The Townsend Murder Mystery. New York: D. Appleton, 1933.
The Valley of Olympus. New York: D. Appleton, 1934.
With Benefit of Clergy. New York: D. Appleton, 1935.
COLCORD, BRADFORD CLAUDE, 1897-1953
Steel executive. Born: March 14, 1897, Pennsylvania. Came to Birmingham in 1933 to work as superintendent of the blast furnaces of the Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron Company; from 1935 to 1937 he worked on the same job for the Woodward Iron Company; in 1948 he was appointed president and a director of this company.
Source: Who Was Who in Alabama.
Author: The History of Pig Iron Manufacture in Alabama. Woodward, Ala.: Woodward Iron Company, 1950.
COLEMAN, ELIZABETH TYLER
Teacher. Born: Montgomery. Parents: Charles A. and Virginia (Scott) Coleman. Education: University of Alabama, A.B.; Swarthmore College, M.A., 1923. Taught at Lanier High School, 1912-1918; head of the English department at Swarthmore College; taught in the English department at the University of Alabama for thirty five years after 1927.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service
Author: Priscilla Cooper Tyler and the American Scene, 1816- 1889. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1955.
Theme Assignments and Models. University, Ala.: s.n., 1933.
COLEMAN, JOHN SHIELDS, 1894-1972
Lawyer, banker. Born: November 13, 1894, Jasper. Parents: E. W. and Nancy (Shields) Coleman. Married: Gertrude Davidson, July 7, 1921. Married: May Steiner, April 28, 1928. Married: Dorothy H. Morrow, July 14, 1970. Education: University of Alabama, LL.B., 1915. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1915; in 1937 he entered the banking business; served as president of Birmingham Trust National Bank, 1937-1958. Director of the Birmingham Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Served as president of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 1941.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5 and Library of Alabama Lives.
Author: Josiah Morris, 1818-1891: Montgomery Banker Whose Faith Built Birmingham. New York: Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1948.
COLEMAN, WADE HAMPTON, JR., 1904-
University professor. Born: June 10, 1904, Livingston. Parents: Wade Hampton and Lillian (Jackson) Coleman. Married: Margaret Pauline James, June 3, 1930. Children: Three. Education: University of Alabama, B.S., 1925, M.A., 1927; graduate study at the Sorbonne, Paris, and at the University of Chicago. Professor of Romance Language at the University of Alabama after 1928.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. 2, and from Library of Alabama Lives.
Project Coordinator:
Learning Aural-oral Spanish Skills by Television .... S.l.: s.n., 1960.
COLEMAN, WILLIAM LAURENCE, 1920-1982
Editor, writer. Born: August 2, 1920, Bartow, Georgia. Parents: John Aldine and Delle Coleman. Education: University of Alabama, A.B., 1942. Served as associate editor of Ladies Home Journal, Collier's, Good Housekeeping, and McCall's. Also a playwright and a novelist.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 77 and 107.
Author: Adams Way. New York: Dutton, 1953.
Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973.
Clara. New York: Dutton, 1952.
Escape the Thunder. New York: Dutton, 1944.
The Golden Vanity, a Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
King. New York: McGraw, 1967.
"---I Cat Hattie, and Kingdom Come," a Burlesque Melodrama in Three Acts. University, Ala.: L. Raines, 1942.
The Legacy of Beulah Land. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980.
Look Away, Beulah Land: a Novel. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.
Orphan Jim, a Novel. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
Sam: a Novel. New York: D. McKay, 1959.
Ship's Company. Cincinnati: Little, 1955.
The Sound of Spanish Voices. New York: Dutton, 1951.
The Southern Lady, a Novel. Cincinnati: Little, 1958.
Time Moving West. New York: Dutton, 1947.
"Wreath Without Laurel": an Anti-war Fantasy. University, Ala.: L. Raines, 1940.
COLES, SAMUEL B., ca. 1888-1957
Missionary. Born: About 1888, Tilden, Dallas County. Education: Snow Hill Industrial and Normal School; Talladega College, A.B. Spent a year and half laying steel rails, five years in a logging camp handling oxen, four years in dairying, and three years as a blacksmith. Served in the Military during World War I. Beginning in 1923, spent thirty years as a missionary in Africa for the American Board of congregational Christian Churches. His efforts increased the agricultural knowledge of people in several areas of Africa.
Source: Preacher With a Plow.
Author: Preacher With a Plow. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
COLLEY, JAMES OSCAR, -1958
Baptist minister. Born: Coosa County, but moved to near Verbena in Elmore county. Children: Six. Education: Howard College; Southern Baptist Seminary. Served as pastor of several Baptist churches including ones at Enterprise. Superintendent of Alabama Baptist Children's Home at Troy, 1922-1942.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Joint Author: The Story of Alabama Baptist Children's Home. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1945-1955.
COLLIER, TARLETON
Reporter, information officer. Education: Auburn University, B.A., 1907, M.A., 1911. On staff of the Selma Times Journal, Montgomery Advertiser, Atlanta Georgian, New York American, Chicago Herald Examiner, and Chicago American. Taught for two years at Auburn University; lecturer in political science and public affairs at Emory University. Assistant Director of Information for the regional office for the Farm Security Administration in Montgomery.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Fire in the Sky. Boston: Houghton, 1941.
COLLINS, CHARLES WALLACE, 1879-
Born: April 4, 1879, Callion. Parents: Robert Wood and Ann Bates (Allen) Collins. Married: Sue Steele Spencer, July 12, 1933. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1899; University of Chicago, Ph.B., 1908, A.M., 1909; studied at Harvard University, 1910-1911. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1901; admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, 1917; practiced law in Birmingham, 1901-1906; librarian at the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court for many years; worked with the Bureau of the Budget at the Treasury Department for many years.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 6.
Author: Branch Banking Question. New York: Macmillan, 1926.
Fourteenth Amendment and the States. Boston: Little Brown, 1912.
Investment Securities Legal for National Banks: Opinions of .... Washington, D.C.: Babson & Jacobs, 1927.
National Budget System. New York: Macmillan, 1917.
Plan for National Budget System. House Document 1006, 65th Congress, 1918.
The Race Integration Cases. Birmingham, Ala.: American States Right Association, 1954.
Rural Banking Reform. New York: Macmillan, 1931.
Whither Solid South. New York: Pelican, 1948.
COLLINS, HENRY BASCOM, 1899-
Anthropologist. Born: April 9, 1899, Geneva. Parents: Henry Bascom and Anna Sophie (Neville) Collins. Married: Carolyn Walker, November 26, 1931. Children: One. Education: Millsaps College, A.B., 1922, honorary Sc.D., 1940; George Washington University, A.M., 1925. Worked with National Geographic Society and the Mississippi Department of Archives History; Senior ethnologist and senior anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution after 1939. Led many Smithsonian and National Geographic expeditions to various parts of the world. Received a gold medal from the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, 1936.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1980-1981.
Author: Archaeology of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1937.
Arctic Area. Mexico: Instituto Panamericano de Geografia e Historia, 1954.
Excavations at a Prehistoric Indian Village Site in Mississippi. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1932.
The Origin and Antiquity of the Eskimo. Washington, D.C.: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1951.
Prehistoric Art of the Alaskan Eskimo. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1929.
Joint Author: The Aleutian Islands: Their People and Natural History. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1945.
The Far North: 2000 Years of American Eskimo and Indian Art. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1973.
Inua: Spirit World of the Bering Sea Eskimo. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.
Editor: Science in Alaska. S.l.: Arctic Institute of North America, 1950.
COLLINS, MARVA DELOISE NETTLES, 1936-
Teacher. Born: August 31, 1936, Monroeville. Parents: Alex L. and Bessis Maye (Knight) Nettles. Married: Clarence Collins, September 2, 1961. Children: Three. Education: Clark College in Atlanta, B.A.; attended Chicago Teachers College and Columbia College, 1965-1967. Taught at Monroeville, 1957-1959; taught in the Chicago Public Schools, 1960-1975. Founded the Westside Prep School in Chicago, 1975, and operated it after that date. Conducted workshops in the U.S. and Europe. Member of the International Platform Association, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and the Baptist Church. Awarded honorary degrees by Howard University, Wilberforce University, and Amherst College and was the subject of the film, "The Marva Collins Story". Given several major awards including the Educator of the Year Award, 1981.
Source: Who's Who of American Women, 1983.
Author: Marva Collins' Way. Boston: Houghton, 1982.
COLLINS, WILLARD ANDREW
Born: Guntersville. Parents: Mr. & Mrs. Willard Collins. Married: Carolyn Strom. Children: Two. Education: Guntersville High School, 1963; Samford College, B.A.; Stanford University, M.A, Ph.D. On the faculty at the University of Minnesota after 1971 and was director of the Institute of Child Development at the University.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Developmental Aspects of Understanding and Evaluating Television Content. Washington, D.C.: Educational Resources Information Center, 1973?
Joint Author: Adolescent Psychology: a Developmental View. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1984.
COMBS, ELISHA TRAMMEL, 1924-
Chemist, bookstore owner. Born: September 25, 1924, Riverview. Parents: Elisha Trammel and LaFaye (Hunt) Combs. Education: Attended the University of Washington, 1943-1944; attended the University of Chicago during 1945; University of California, A.B., 1948; further study at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meteorologist in the U.S. Air Force, 1943-1946; chemist with Tidewater-Associated Oil Company, 1948- 1951; photography studio owner and manager on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, 1951-1952; owned a book shop on St. Thomas after 1952. Trustee and founder of the Virgin Islands Museum beginning in 1955. He traveled extensively.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 13R.
Author: Briefs: Poems. Franklin, N.H.: Hillside Press, 1960.
But Never Mind: Poems, etc., 1946-50. S.l.: Golden Mountain Press, 1961.
Ceremonies in Mind: Artists, Boys, Cats, Lovers, Judges, Priests. St. Thomas, V.I.: Author, 1959.
The Christmas Clutch. St. Thomas V.I.?: Author, 1957.
Pilgrims' Terrace: Poems, American, West Indian. St. Germoan: Editoral La Neuva Salamca, 1957.
Saint-Thomas: Poems. Millertown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1965.
Saint Thomas's and Francis' Cities Song O'Tram. St. Thomas, V.I.: s.n., 1958.
COMER, JAMES McDONALD, 1877-1963
Textile executive. Born: October 14, 1877, Comer. Parents: former governor of Alabama, Braxton Bragg Comer, and Eva Jane (Harris) Comer. Married: Gertrude Miller, 1904. Children: Four. Education: Graduated from Bingham Military Academy, Asheville, N.C. in 1897. Became associated with Avondale Mills in 1907 and became chairman of the executive board of that company in 1935. Awarded the LL.D. degree by Birmingham Southern College.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4 and Library of Alabama Lives.
Author: Braxton Bragg Comer, 1848-1927. New York: Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1947.
COMINGS, LYDIA JANE NEWCOMB, 1850-1946
Teacher. Born: July 25, 1850, Spring Lake, Mich. Parents: John H. and Frances (Sinclair) Newcomb. Married: S. Huntington Comings, 1902. He died in 1907. Education: Graduated from Mrs. L. H. Stone's Seminary in Kalamazoo, Mich. Taught at the Ravenswood (Chicago) Public School, 1876-1885; taught at the Moravian Seminary, Bethlehem, Pa., 1895-1898; lecturer on physical culture, dress, voice and kindred subjects, after 1899. Cofounder of the School of Organic Education in Fairhope, Ala., and president of its Board of Trustees.
Source: Woman's Who's Who of America, 1914-1915.
Author: A Brief History of Baldwin County. Fairhope, Ala.: Baldwin County Historical Society, 1928.
Industrial and Vocational Education, Universal and Self Sustaining. Boston: Christopher Publishing Co., 1915.
Muscular Exercises for Health and Grace. New York: E. S. Werner, 1893.
CONNELL, LUTHER ALLEN, 1869-1939
Baptist minister. Born: September 7, 1869, Coopers, Chilton County. Parents: James Gilford and Rachel (Gray) Connell. The family moved to Jefferson County when Luther was eight years old. Married: Vesta M. Shirley, November 20, 1890. Children: Ten. Education: Ordained a minister in Baptist Church in 1898; attended the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Pastored churches in Fayette county for eleven years then moved to North Carolina and served several churches there from 1919 until 1930. In 1930 returned to Fayette County, Ala., where he served churches until 1938. Started a history of the Fayette County Baptist Association which was combined with later writings for publication.
Source: A History of Fayette County Baptist Association.
Joint Author: A History of Fayette County Baptist Association. Birmingham, Ala.: Banner Press, 1968.
CONNICK, LUCILLE SIMMS
See: Mallon, Lucille Simms
CONSTANCE, KATE W.
Realtor, editor. Born: in either Meridian, Miss. or Mobile. Married: Samuel J. Constance and they lived in Alabama, California, New York, Missouri and Florida. They lived in Montgomery in 1945 and 1946. Worked as a secretary to the manager of a newspaper, as an editor with an Atlanta publisher of business magazines and for a real estate firm in Miami, Fla.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: How to Get and Keep a Husband: a Christian Business- Woman's Answer to One of the Most Perplexing Problems of Our Time. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1957.
CONWELL, HUGH EARLE, 1893-1973
Physician. Born: December 29, 1893, Oakman. Parents: Thomas and Catherine (Williams) Conwell. Married: Mary Lou Perry Hooper, January 16, 1949. Education: University of Alabama Medical School, M.D., 1915. Practiced medicine in Birmingham as an orthopaedic surgeon; served as associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Alabama Medical School.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 6 and Library of Alabama Lives.
Joint Author: The Injured Back and Its Treatment. Springfield, Ill.: C. C. Thomas, 1940.
The Management of Fractures, Dislocations, and Sprains. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1934. (and six later editions).
COOK, BEN, 1945-
Reporter. Born: November 6, 1945, Birmingham. Parents: Barney B. and Marion N. Cook. Education: University of Alabama; University of Alabama in Birmingham; Birmingham Southern College, B.S., 1972. Worked for the Birmingham News, 1967-1970; Marietta Journal, 1973-1975; the SEC Sports Journal, 1977-1983; and Southsports Magazine from 1984-. Writings appeared in the Sporting News, Event, and Sports Illustrated. Won awards from several organizations for his writing.
Source: The Office of the Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.
Author: Legend in Crimson. Oxford, Miss.: Sports Yearbook Co., 1982.
The Road to No. 1. Birmingham, Ala.: The Sports Page, 1977.
Year of the Tide. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1980.
COOK, ELLA BOOKER
Born: Reared in the Black Belt of Alabama. Education: Rural education was supplemented by teachers her parents brought to the farm from time to time.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Captain Sam's Daughter. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1957.
Enchanted Acres. New York: Fortnay's, 1940.
It Could be Heaven. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1948.
A Magnolia for Joan. New York: Pelican Press, 1951.
The Signal of Promise. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1954.
These Are My Jewels. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1945.
COOK, FESTUS MALACHI, 1895-
Born: January, 1895, Birmingham. Married: Delene Mims, August 28, 1924. Children: One. Education: Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1925; University of Alabama, M.A., 1931. Served as principal of Fairfield High School then later became professor of economics and sociology at the State Teachers' College in Florence. Appointed president of Snead Junior College, 1942. In 1938, Athens College awarded him the degree of Doctor of Letters and Humanities.
Source: Owen's The Story of Alabama.
Author: Selected Writings. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1956.
COOK, JAMES GRAHAM, 1925-
Reporter. Born: February 23, 1925, Fayette. Parents: Alfred McKelvey and Bess (Graham) Cook. Married: Betsy Blanton, 1957. Education: University of Southern California, A.B.; San Francisco State College, M.S. Worked as a reporter for the United Press in Miami; the Commercial Appeal in Memphis; the New York Post, and the San Francisco Examiner.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R.
Author: Remedies and Rackets. New York: Norton, 1958.
The Segregationists. New York: Appleton, 1962.
COOK, ROBERT DANE
Methodist minister. Born: Near Gardendale. Education: Birmingham Southern College. Methodist minister at First United Methodist Church in Fort Payne, Northport, and Tuscumbia.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Cabin Lore. Dallas, Tex.: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1947.
Curtains Aside. Dallas, Tex.: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1949.
Glimpses of the Southland: (poems). Vulcan Press, 1956.
The Heavenly City: a Devotional Exposition of the Christian Hope. Dallas, Tex.: Mathis, Van Nort & Co., 1953.
Southern Echoes. Northport, Ala.: American Southern, 1965.
COOK, THOMAS H., 1947-
Teacher, writer. Born: September 19, 1947, Fort Payne. Parents: Virgil Richard and Myrick (Harper) Cook. Married: Susan Greenfield, March 17, 1978. Children: One. Education: Georgia State College, B.A., 1969; Hunter College of the City University of New York, M.A. 1972; Columbia University, M.Phil., 1976. Advertising executive for U.S. Industrial Chemicals in New York City, 1970 to 1972; clerk typist for the Association for Help of Retarded Adults in New York City, 1973-1975; teacher of English and history at Dekalb Community College in Georgia, 1978- 1981; full time writer after 1981.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 111.
Author: Blood Innocents. New York: Playboy Press, 1980.
The City When it Rains. New York: Putnam, 1991.
Early Graves: a Shocking True-Crime Story of the Youngest Ever Sent to Death Row. New York: Dalton, 1990.
Elena. Boston: Houghton, 1984.
Evidence of Blood. New York: Putnam, 1991.
Flesh and Blood. New York: Putnam, 1989.
Night Secrets. New York: Putnam, 1990.
The Orchids. Boston: Houghton, 1982.
Sacrificial Ground. New York: Putnam, 1988.
Streets of Fire. New York: Putnam, 1989.
Tabernacle. Boston: Houghton, 1982.
COOK, WILLIAM JESSE, JR., 1938-
Teacher, pastor. Born: July 22, 1938, Piedmont. Parents: William Jesse and Genevieve (Putnam) Cook. Married: Judy M. Wallace, February 21, 1959. Children: Three. Education: Jacksonville State University, A.B., 1960; Auburn University, M.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1968. Taught English at Auburn University, Jacksonville State University and Auburn University in Montgomery. In 1963 he was ordained a minister in the Church of Christ. Served as minister of the Highland Church of Christ at Carriage Hills in Montgomery, 1969-1976.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 29R.
Author: Confidence in Fact. Abilene, Tex.: Quality Printing Co., 1970.
The Eckleburg Perspective: the Best of Bill Cook Comments. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1980.
Masks, Modes and Morals: the Art of Evelyn Waugh. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 1971.
(Booklet) The Bible Chair and The Great Commission. Abilene, Tex.: Quality Printing Co., 1968.
(Booklet) The Church and Her Responsibility to the Young. St. Louis: Christian Pub. Co., 1967.
COOMBS, DAVID W., 1939-
University professor. Born: Marc 19, 1939, Indianapolis, Ind. Parents: David S. and Jeanette (Walsh) Coombs. Married: Joan, May 12, 1973. Children: Two. Education: University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1961; University of Florida, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1971. Served in the Peace Corps, 1961-1963; taught at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Columbia, 1966-1967, at Spring Hill College 1969-1970, at the University of Alabama, 1970-1983, and at the University of Alabama in Birmingham after 1983. Awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, a State of Florida scholarship, and several research grants. Co-founder of a pioneering employee assistance program for business and industry in Guatemala. His articles have been published in several journals.
Source: David W. Coombs, Birmingham.
Joint Author: Map Abstract of Mortality Factors Affecting the Elderly. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1979.
Contributor: Problems of Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy, and Epilepsy in Alabama: a Sociological Analysis. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1978.
COOPER, (Mrs) DAVIS C., JR., -1972
Born: Montgomery. Married: Davis Cooper, Jr., 1911. Education: Graduated from Judson College, 1909; attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Teacher of training of Bible teachers for more than thirty-three years and a Sunday school teacher for forty-nine years. Awarded the Judson College Alumnae Association Award for work in religious teaching, 1957. Wrote articles for the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board's periodicals.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Not Your Own. (a textbook on stewardship used for twenty years in Southern Baptist churches) S.l.: s.n., s.d.
COOPER, HERSTON, 1901-
Criminologist. Born: 1901. Married: Claire Virginia Averyt. Children: Three. Education: Birmingham Southern College, A.B., M.A. Taught at Phillips High School in Birmingham; member of the Bar of the State of Alabama; criminologist after 1933. Served as chancellor of the National Law Enforcement Standards and executive vice president of the International Academy of Criminology. Member of the American Society of Criminology and the Retired Officers Association.
Source: International Yearbook and Statesman's Who's Who, 1977.
Author: Crossville. Chicago: Adams, 1965.
Investigator's Manual on Drugs and Narcotics. North Miami, Fla.: National Law Enforcement Academy, 1970.
It's About Phillipians. Birmingham, Ala.: Trade Type, 1973.
Lab Cop. London: Cooper, 1975.
Over My Shoulder. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1948.
Third Person Singular. Chicago: Adams Press, 1969.
COOPER, WELDON, 1906-
University professor, administrator. Born: November 12, 1906. Parents: Robert Jackson and Eliza Jane (Bean) Cooper. Married: Julia Allen, June 6, 1930. Education: Abilene Christian College, A.B., 1926; University of Texas, A.M., 1932; University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1939. Worked at the University of Texas as a research assistant, assistant director, then acting director of the Bureau of Municipal Research, and as an instructor, 1933- 1936; worked at the University of Alabama, teaching in the Department of Political Science and serving as an assistant director of the Bureau of Public Administration, 1936-1947; worked at the University of Virginia as professor of government, director of the Bureau of Public Administration, director of the Institution on Government, and administrative assistant to the President, 1947 until his retirement in 1977; served as an executive assistant to the governor of Virginia, 1950-1951; editor of the University of Virginia Newsletter, 1957-1973.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1980-1981.
Author: Metropolitan County, a Survey of Government in the Birmingham Area. University, Ala.: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1949.
Municipal Government and Administration in Alabama. University, Ala.: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1949.
COPELAND, CHARLES WESLEY, JR., 1932-
Geologist. Born: October 1, 1932, Hueytown. Married: 1957. Children: Two. Education: Birmingham Southern College, B.S., 1954; University of North Carolina, M.S., 1961. Was Chief of the Geology Division, Geological Survey of Alabama after 1974.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1979.
Author: Cretaceous and Tertiary Faults in Southwestern Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1976.
Curious Creatures in Alabama Rocks: a Guidebook for Amateur Fossil Collectors. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1963.
Delineation of Linear Feature and Applications to Reservoir Engineering Using Apollo 9 Multispectral Photography. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1970.
Ecocene and Miocene Foraminifera from Two Localities in Duplin County, North Carolina. Ithaca, N.Y.: Paleontological Research Institution, 1964.
Facies Changes in the Alabama Tertiary. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1966.
Geology of the Alabama Coastal Plain: a Guidebook. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1968.
Geology of the Birmingham, Gadsden, and Montgomery 10 x 20 NTMS Quadrangles, Alabama. Aiken, S.C.: Department of Energy, Savannah River Laboratory, 1979.
Joint Author: Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary Lithostratigraphy and Biostratigraphy of West-Central Alabama. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1989.
Sinkhole Problem Along Proposed Route of Interstate Highway 459 near Greenwood, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1973.
Stratigraphic Profiles of Jurassic Strata in the Western Part of the Alabama Coastal Plain. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1982.
COPELAND, MILES AXE, JR., 1916-
Consultant. Born: July 16, 1916, Birmingham. Parents: Miles Axe and Leonore (Armstrong) Copeland. Married: Elizabeth Lorraine Adie, September 25, 1942. Children: Four. Beginning in 1945, he worked for the U.S. Defense Department as a specialist in intelligence matters, a political attache and a management consultant. Later worked for a private consulting firm.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 29R.
Author: Beyond Cloak and Dagger. S.l.: Pinacle Books, 1976.
The Game of Nations. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969.
The Game Player: the Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative. London: Aurum Press, 1989.
The Real Spy World. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1976.
Staffs and Staff Work. S.l.: U. S. Army, 1950.
Without Cloak and Dagger. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975.
Joint Author: Coloquial Damasene Arabic Dictionary. S.l.: s.n., 1952.
CORLEY, ROBERT GAINES, 1948-
Professor, university administrator. Born: February 5, 1948, Birmingham. Parents: Robert A. and Edith Marie (Gaines) Corley. Married: Catherine Fievet, November 25, 1972. Children: Two. Education: Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1970; University of Virginia, M.A, 1971, Ph.D., 1979. Worked for the Birmingham Post-Herald, 1971-1973; assistant archivist at Birmingham Public Library, 1977-1980 and 1981-1983; regional director for the National Conference of Christians and Jews after 1984; associated with the University of Alabama in Birmingham in various ways after 1973 including assistant to the Dean for Public Relations in the School of Public and Allied Health, a part-time instructor, visiting professor, and adjunct professor. Contributed articles to periodicals and books; was co-editor of the Journal of the Birmingham Historical Society, 1977-1980; and was a member of Alabama Historical Association, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa and the board and executive committee of the Greater Birmingham Ministries. Named one of the Outstanding Young Men of America, 1984.
Source: Robert G. Corley, Birmingham.
Author: Paying "Civic Rent": the Jews of Emanu-El and the Birmingham Community. Birmingham, Ala.: A. H. Cother, 1982.
Joint Author: View from the Hilltop: the First 125 Years of Birmingham-Southern College. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Publishing Co., 1981.
CORNELIUS, MARY CHILTON CHASE
Born: North Carolina. Parents: George Franklin and Emma (Pearson) Chase. Married: Jesse Nelson Cornelius. Education: Private schools. Member of the American Literary Association and the Verse Writers Guild of America. Contributed poems and essays to magazines and newspapers. Between 1912 and 1926, she won fourteen literary prizes and, between 1913 and 1920, she won four prizes from the State of Alabama for proficiency in Home Arts. Helped edit the Gammadion. In 1926 she was living in Birmingham.
Source: Anthology of Magazine Verse, 1926.
Author: Flowers From the Foothills. S.l.: s.n., 1923.
CORUM, BETTY JO, 1927-1970
Born: February 11, 1927, Knoxville, Tenn. Parents: W. W. and Mary Elizabeth (Brewer) Corum. Education: Graduated from Carson Newman College, 1949; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, M.R.E., 1954. Served as education director of Robertsville Baptist Church in Oak Ridge, Tenn.; director of the Junior- Intermediate works for the Training Union Department of the Tennessee Baptist State Convention, 1954-1960; director of the Editorial Service Department of Women's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention in Birmingham after 1965. She wrote lesson materials, articles, and poems.
Source: Encyclopedia of Southern Baptist, Supplement.
Author: A Corner of Today. Nashville: Broadman, 1969.
Joint Author: Hello, World! A Musical Drama. Nashville: Broadman, 1971.
CORY, MARIELOU ARMSTRONG
Music teacher. Born: Greensboro. Parents: Thomas and Martha Louise (DuBois) Armstrong. Married: Chappell Cory, December 26, 1890. Children: Four. Education: Mansfield Female College in Louisiana, M.A. Taught music in Birmingham and music and art in Decatur. Organist in churches and for evangelist Sam Jones. Instrumental in getting established the Boys Industrial School at Roebuck near where she lived at Roebuck Springs near Birmingham. Member of the committee for Preservation of the White House of the Confederacy.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: The Ladies Memorial Association of Montgomery, Alabama: Its Origin and Organization, 1860-1870. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Printing Co., 1902.
COTTEN, NELL WYLLIE, 1908-
Teacher. Born: October 16, 1908, Yonkers, N.Y. Parents: Alfred and Nellie (Forrester) Wyllie. Married: Lee Cotten, December 30, 1949. Education: Florida State University, A.B., 1930. Taught elementary school in Clearwater, Fla., 1932-1949. Last home: Mobile, Ala.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R.
Author: Piney Woods. New York: Vanguard Press, 1962.
COUCH, ROBERT HILL, 1937-
University professor, counselor. Born: March 20, 1937, Winfield, Marion County. Parents: Ferman Hill and Bertha (Milner) Couch. Married: Helen Gibbs Daniel, March 11, 1959. Children: Three. Education: Attended University of North Alabama, 1955-1957; University of Montevallo, A.B., 1960, M.A.T., 1962; attended New York University and the University of North Carolina; Auburn University, Ed.D., 1973. Taught at Montevallo High School, 1960-1962; supervised a rehabilitation research and demonstration project at the Darden Rehabilitation Center at Alabama School of Trades in Gadsden, 1962-1964; rehabilitation counselor in the Vocational Rehabilitation Services at Montgomery, 1964-1967; and was at Auburn University after 1967, serving in the later times as head of the Department of Rehabilitation and Special Education. Served as state and national president of the division for Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Association of the National Rehabilitation Association. Recipient of the the Alabama Society for Crippled Children and Adult's Professional Award and the National Paul Hoffman Award by the Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Association.
Source: Every Day is Easter in Alabama, and library at Jacksonville State University.
Author: Every Day is Easter in Alabama: the History of the Alabama Society for Crippled Children and Adults, 1926-1976. Troy, Ala.: Troy State University Press, 1976.
Fifty Five at Twenty Five: the History of Winfield High School's Class of 1955, 1942-1980. Auburn, Ala.: Author, 1980.
Joint Author: Out of Silence and Darkness: the History of Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, 1858-1983. Troy, Ala.: Troy State University Press, 1983.
COULTER, HAROLD S., 1914-1977
Newspaper columnist. Born: August 12, 1914, Phenix City. Parents: Harrison T. and Vera Coulter. Married: Barbara Mary Stewart. Children: Two. After 1968 wrote a column, "Good Old Days", for the Phenix Citizen. Awarded the Alabama Award of Merit for historical preservation; the Cross of Military Service, U. S. Navy, World War II. Served as official Russell County historian.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: A People Courageous: a History of Phenix City, Alabama. Columbus, Ga.: Howard Printing Co., 1976.
COUNCILL, WILLIAM HOOPER, 1848-1909
Teacher, university president. Born: July 12, 1848, Fayetteville, N.C. Parents: William and Mary Jane Councill. Married: Maria H. Weeden, September 5, 1885. Education: schools of Stevenson from 1865 through 1867; Morris Brown College, Ph.D. Taught school, 1867; enrolling clerk Alabama House of Representatives, 1872-1874; organized and served as first president, Alabama A & M University; founder and editor of Huntsville Herald, 1877-1884. Studied law and admitted to the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1883.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1 and Who Was Who in Alabama.
Author: Bright Side of the Southern Question. Speech Delivered at Corona, Ala., August 25, 1903. Huntsville, Ala.: Hay Printing Co., 1978.
Lamp of Wisdom: or, Race History Illuminated .... Nashville: Haley, 1898.
The Servant Problem in the South. Extracts from Speeches. Normal, Ala.: s.n., 1901.
COUNSELMAN, MARY ELIZABETH, 1911-
Writer. Born: November 19, 1911, Birmingham. Parents: John Saunders and Nettie Young (McCrory) Counselman. Married: Horace B. Vinyard. Children: One. Education: Alabama College for Women for one year; University of Alabama for two summers; correspondence courses in journalism from the Newspaper Institute. Granted a fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts for 1976-1977; wrote more than four hundred poems and stories; 68 published in the Saturday Evening Post; contributed stories to Weird Tales, Ladies Home Journal, and Good Housekeeping. Writings translated in at least eighteen languages. Best known story, "Three Marked Pennies", written at age fifteen.
Source: Mrs. Horace Vinyard, Gadsden, Ala.
Author: The Eye and the Hand. S.l.: s.n., 1978.
The Face of Fear and other poems. Pensacola, Fla.: Edilon Press, 1984.
Half in Shadow. Sauk City, Wis.: Arkham House, 1978.
Move Over--It's Only Me. S.l.: s.n., 1975.
CONTESS, MARY BIVENS GERON, 1913-
Genealogist. Born: February 1, 1913, Huntsville. Parents: Claiborne T. and Mabel (Landers) Geron. Married: Jackson E. Contess in 1933. Children: Three. Education: Huntsville High School graduate, 1929; studied at the Nashville Conservatory of Music. Awarded second place in the Parker Genealogical Contest in 1971 for "They Passed This Way".
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. 3.
Author: The Ancestry and Some of the Descendants of Theodorick Matthews Hereford, Sr. of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: s.n., 1961.
The Ancestry of Preston Yeatman of Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: s.n., 1960.
The Family of Charles McCartney of Madison County, Alabama, in Madison County by 1809. Huntsville, Ala.: s.n., 1960.
The Family of Stephen Chambless of Madison County, Alabama, in Madison County by 1810. Huntsville, Ala.: s.n., 1960.
The Family of Thomas Stewart of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: s.n., 196-?
They Passed This Way. Huntsville Ala.: s.n., 1969.
They Passed This Way, Errata (and Supplement). Huntsville, Ala.: s.n., 1969.
COVIN, THERON MICHAEL, 1947-
University professor, therapist. Born: February 27, 1947, Repton. Parents: Fisher Bert and Doris (Knight) Covin. Married: June Nolin on August 21, 1971. Education: Jefferson Davis Junior College, A.A, 1968; Troy State University, B.S., 1969; M.S., 1971; further study at the University of Alabama and Troy Sate University, 1972-1973, the University of Utah, 1974; University of Sarasota, Ed.D., 1975. After 1971, instructor of psychology at Troy State University, consulting psychologist and private therapist.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57.
Author: Basic Statistics for Educators. Troy, Ala.: Troy State University Press, 1973.
Basic Statistics for Teachers. Troy, Ala.: Troy State University Press, 1973.
The Psychological Case Study. Troy, Ala.: Troy State University Press, 1974.
Editor: Classroom Construction. New York: MSS Educational Pub., 1974.
Readings in Human Development. New York: MSS Educational Pub., 1974.
Readings in the Psychology of Early Childhood. New York: MSS Educational Pub., 1975.
COWART, MARGAET IRENE MATTEWS, 1925-
Genealogist. Born: June 7, 1925, Russellville, Ark. Parents: Edward E. and Mabel Louise (Cook) Matthews. Married: Eugene Guyland Cowart, June 24, 1946. Children: Two. Education: University of Alabama three years, Edited: Valley Leaves, the Tennessee Valley Genealogical Society Quarterly for two years; lecturer on Federal Land Records. Awarded the Richard S. Lackey Memorial Award in 1983 by the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research at Samford University.
Source: Margaret M. Cowart, Huntsville, Ala..
Compiler: Old Land Records of Colbert County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: Cowart, 1985.
Old Land Records of Franklin County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: Cowart, 1986.
Old Land Records of Jackson County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: Cowart, 1980.
Old Land Records of Lawrence County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: Cowart, 1991.
Old Land Records of Limestone County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: Cowart, 1984.
Old Land Records of Madison County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: Cowart, 1979.
Old Land Records of Morgan County, Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: Cowart, 1981.
COWART, RALPH WALDO, 1890-
Teacher, school principal. Born: January 7, 1890, Luverne. Parents: James Hausford and Mary Jane (Larkin) Cowart. Education: Luverne and Goshen public schools, graduated Troy State Normal School in 1910, University of Alabama, B.S., 1914, attended Columbia University. Taught: Andalusia 1910-1911, Castleberry 1911-1912; principal: New Decatur High School after 1914.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History,
Author: A Citizen's Catechism on the Public Schools of Alabama: Being a Compendium of Information in the Form of Eighty-six Questions and Answers. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Education Association, 1926.
COWLES, MILLY, 1932-
Teacher, university professor. Born: May 29, 1932, Ramer. Parents: Russell Fail and Sara (Mills) Cowles. Education: Troy State University, B.S., 1952, University of Alabama, M.A., 1958, Ph.D., 1962. Taught in public schools of Montgomery from 1952- 1959; professor: Rutgers University, University of Georgia, University of South Carolina; professor and associate dean School of Education, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1973-. Awarded: Outstanding Public Educator from the Capstone College of Education Society at the University of Alabama, 1977.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1980-1981.
Author: Developmental Discipline. Birmingham, Ala.: Religious Education Press 1982.
Joint Author: Taming the Young Savage. Birmingham, Ala.: Development Press, 1980.
Editor and Contributor:
Perspectives in the Education of Disadvantaged Children. Scranton, Pa.: International Textbook Co., 1967.
Contributor: School Begins With Kindergarten. Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina Department of Education, 1978.
COX, LUTHER
Engineer. Born: Roberts Community, Brewton. Parents: Orren G. and Bettie Cox. Married: Allene. Children: Five. Education: Auburn University, B.S.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser-Journal, February 11, 1968.
Author: The Earth is Mine. New York: Exposition Press, 1968.
COX, NORMAN WADE, 1888-1968
Baptist minister. Born: October 28, 1888, Climax, Ga. Parents: Barkley Wade and Alice Louise (Brock) Cox. Married: Osye Lee Mathews, 1910. Children: Two. Education: Mercer University, B.A., 1914, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.D., 1918. Ordained: 1910. Student pastor: Georgia and Kentucky. Pastor: Barnesville, Savannah, Ga.; Portsmouth, Va.; Meridian, Miss.; Huntingdon, W.Va.; Mobile, Ala. (1931-1932). Executive secretary: Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. Instrumental in getting 6.6 million pages of rare Baptist books, periodicals, and church records microfilmed. Editor: Baptist paper in West Virginia; associate editor: The Quarterly Review, 1951-1959.
Source: Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement.
Author: Dreams, Dungeons, Diadems: in New England, in Virginia, Today and Tomorrow. Nashville: s.n., 1954.
God and Ourselves. Nashville: Broadman, 1960.
We Southern Baptists. Nashville: Covention Press, 1961.
Youth's Return to Faith. Philadelphia: Judson Press, 1938.
Responsible for publication of The Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, 2 vols., 1958.
COX, OLIVER CROMWELL, 1901-
University professor. Born: August 25, 1901, Trinidad, British West Indies. Parents: William Raphael and Virginia (Austin) Cox. Education: Northwestern University, B.S.L., 1928, University of Chicago, M.A., 1932; Ph.D. 1938. Professor: Wiley College, Marshall, Tex., 1938-1944; Tuskegee Institute, 1944- 1949; Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo., 1949-. Awarded: LL.D. from Wiley College, 1945; George Washington Carver award in 1948 for Caste, Class, and Race.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R.
Author: Capitalism and American Leadership. New York: Philosophical Library, 1962.
Capitalism as a System. New York: Monthly Review, 1964.
Caste, Class, and Race: a Study in Social Dynamics. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1948.
The Foundations of Capitalism. New York: Philosophical Library, 1959.
Origin of Direct-Action Protest Among Negroes. New York: Bell and Howell, 1973.
Race Relations: Elements and Social Dynamics. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1976.
COYLE, JAMES EDWIN, 1873-1921
Priest, editor. Born: March 23, 1873, Westpark Drum, Ireland. Parents: Owen and Margaret Laetitia (Durney) Coyle. Education: Royal University of Ireland, A.B., graduated from Collegio Americano del Nord in Rome, Italy. Ordained Roman Catholic priest, 1896. Missionary: Mobile, Ala., 1896-1899. Rector of McGill Institute from 1899-1904. Pastor: St. Paul's Church, Birmingham, 1904-.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.
Author: Rosemary and Violets. Birmingham, Ala.: Dispatch Printing and Stationary Co., 1922.
Editor: The Catholic Monthly.
COZART, TOCCOA PAGE, 1855-1939
Teacher. Born: August 31, 1855, Atlanta, Ga. Parents: Wiley Person Mangum and Hannah Page (MacIntyre) Cozart. Education: Florence Normal College, 1893; Cook County Normal, Chicago, 1893; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, 1901. Taught in public schools of Troy and Montgomery, Ala.; Aberdeen, Mississippi. Newspaper work: Montgomery Times from 1910-1913.
Source: Owen's Story of Alabama.
Author: "Sketch of Henry Billard" in Volume IV of Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society.
Historical Society. Montgomery, Ala.: The Society, 1904.
(Song) The Bonnie Flag.
CRADDOCK, PATRICIA BLAND, 1938-
University professor. Born: October 28, 1938, New Orleans, La. Parents: French Hood, Jr. and Jane (Bland) Craddock. Education: Stephens College, A.A., 1957; Indiana University, B.A., 1959; Stanford University, M.A., 1960; Yale University, M.A., 1963; Yale University, Ph.D,, 1964. Taught at Alabama College, 1960- 1961, Connecticut College and Goucher College, Boston University, 1972-1975. Director of graduate studies at Boston University, 1975-. Awarded: Woodrow Wilson fellowship, 1959-1960; Guggenheim fellowship, 1971-1972.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 53 and from Directory of American Scholars, 1978.
Author: Edward Gibbon, a Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987.
Edward Gibbon, Luminous Historian, 1772-1794. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1989.
Young Edward Gibbon, Gentleman of Letters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Editor: English Essays of Edward Gibbon. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1972.
CRAIG, COLA AMANDA BARR, 1861-
Writer. Born: March 17, 1861, Jackson, Miss. Parents: James and Frances (Donnell) Barr. Married: Benjamin H. Craig. Children: Two. Education: Fair Law Institute, Jackson, Mississippi, 1879, Member: Ossian Club, a literary organization; secretary-treasurer: Scriblers, the first organized writers club in Alabama. Published several short stories, poems and two books.
Source: Owen's The Story of Alabama.
Author: The Contrast. S.l.: s.n., s.d.
Was She?: a Novel. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1906.
CRAIGHEAD, ERWIN, 1852-1932
Newspaper editor, writer. Born: April 14, 1852, Nashville, Tenn. Parents: James B. and Ellen Kirkman (Erwin) Craighead. Married: Lura Harris, December 12, 1878. Children: One. Education: University of Nashville, B.Litt., 1872. Admitted to the Tennessee bar, 1876. Editorial work for New Orleans newspapers; editor of the Mobile Register, 1882. Editor emeritus in 1926.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.
Author: From Mobile's Past. Mobile, Ala.: Powers Printing Co., 1925.
The Literary History of Mobile. Mobile, Ala.: s.n., 1914.
Mobile: Facts, Traditions, Noteworthy People and Events. Mobile, Ala.: Powers Printing Co., 1930.
Mobile, the Gulf City of Alabama. Mobile, Ala.: Mobile Board of Trade, 1883.
CRAIGHEAD, LURA HARRIS
Housewife, committee worker. Born: Nashville, Tenn. Parents: William Hooper Harris. Married: Dr. Erwin Craighead, 1878. Education: Mary Sharpe College, Winchester, Tennessee. Instrumental in organizing the Shakespeare Club. Member of the Alabama Child Labor Committee, Alabama Child Welfare Committee, and Mobile County Juvenile Court Commission. President: Board of the Benevolent Home for the Aged. Vice president of the Board for the Alabama Boys Industrial School. Officer of the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs.
Source: History of the Alabama Federation of Women's Club.
Author: History of the Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs, 1895-1918. Vol. 1. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1936.
Lessons in Parliamentary Law, with Tables, .... Mobile, Ala.: Delchamps Printing Co., 1914.
CRAMER, DALE LEWIS, 1924-
University professor. Born: June 25, 1924, Dixon, Ill. Parents,: Ray C. and Rebecca (Levan) Cramer. Married: Hula Jean Bond, August 30, 1946. Children: Three. Education: Bradley University, B.S., 1949; M.A., 1951; Louisiana State University, Ph.D., 1958, Taught: Louisiana State, 1953-1954; University of Texas, El Paso, 1955-1958; began teaching economics at University of Alabama, 1958.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1982-1983, and from Library of Alabama Lives.
Joint Author: Economics: Principles of Income, Prices, and Growth. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
Instructor's Manual for Economics: Principles of Income, Prices, and Growth. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
Workbook and Study Guide to Accompany Economics: Principles of Income, Prices, and Growth. New York: Macmillan, 1960.
CRANE, MARY POWELL, 1860-
Writer. Born: February 19, 1860, Montgomery. Parents: James R. and Mary (Smythe) Powell. She lived in Montgomery until June 1866 after which she and her mother spent several years in Europe before returning to the United States and living in Baltimore and New York. Mary apparently had come to the South to gather material for her book but was living in New Jersey when the book was published in 1930.
Source: The Life of James R. Powell.
Author: The Life of James R. Powell, and Early History of Alabama and Birmingham. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Braunworth & Co., 1930.
CRANE, WALTER RICHARD, 1870-
Engineer. Born: February 5, 1870, Grafton, Mass. Parents: Richard Reed and Arethusa Thorndyke (Barret) Crane. Married: Margaret M. Gray, December 28, 1898. Children: Three. Education: University of Kansas, A.B., 1895; A.M., 1896; Columbia University, Ph.D. 1901. Appointed superintendent of the Southern Mining Station, U.S. Bureau of Mines in Birmingham, Ala., 1921; supervising research engineer, U.S. Bureau of Mines until 1933.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.
Author: Deposit of Manganese Ore in the Batesville District, Arkansas. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1922.
Gold and Silver: Comprising an Economic History of Mining in the United States, .... New York: John Wiley and Son, 1908.
Index of Mining Engineering Literature, .... New York: John Wiley, 1909.
Iron Ore (Hematite) Minino Practice in the Birmingham District, Alabama. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1926.
Ore Mining Methods, Comprising Descriptions of Methods of Support in Extaction of Ore, .... New York: John Wiley, 1910.
Report on the Manganese Deposits of Georgia (Second Report on Manganese). Atlanta: Index Printing Co., 1919.
Joint Author: Special Report on Coal. Lawrence, Kan.: Kansas Geological Survey, 1898.
Contributor: Manganese: Uses, Preparation, Mining Costs and the Production of Ferro-alloys. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1920.
CRAVNER, MARIE ALDREDGE
Writer. Married: William Charles Cravner. Lived: Alexander City.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Zither of Many Strings. Asheville, N.C.: Stephens Press, 1949.
CRAVNER, WILLIAM CHARLES, 1883-1955
Minister. Born: 1883, Atwood, Pa. Married: Marie Aldredge. Ordained Episcopal clergymen, 1916. Clergyman in New York, Florida, Paris, Geneva, North Carolina, and Alexander City.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: The Daystar at Midnight. New York: Vantage, 1962.
The Dreamer In Galilee. New York: Vantage, 1960.
The Faith Magnificent. New York: Vantage, 1961.
The Fruitful Bough. New York: Vantage, 1959.
God's Heartbreak Hill. New York: Vantage, 1957.
God's Ultimate Victory. New York: Vantage, 1964.
A Life In My Hands. New York: Vantage, 1957.
The Reality of the Unseen. New York: Vantage, 1959.
Thinking Samaritan. New York: Vantage, 1957.
The Third Day Comes. New York: Vantage, 1958.
Treasures of Darkness. New York: Vantage, 1957.
We Live In Two Worlds. New York: Vantage, 1958.
CRAWFORD, ANN CADDELL
Writer. Born: Birmingham. Parents: Carl Larmar "Sale" Caddell, Sr. Married: William R. Crawford. Children: Three. Education: Samford University, University of Alabama Extension Center in Birmingham, and Auburn University. Writer for Stars and Stripes and for Copley News Service.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Customs and Culture of Vietnam. Rutland, Vt.: C. E. Tuttle, 1966.
Military Living's Temporary Military Lodging Around the World: Travel on Less Per Day--the Military Way. Arlington, Va.: Military Living Publications, 1981.
Joint Author: Military Living's Military Camping & Rec Areas Around the World. Arlington, Va.: Military Living Publication, 1983.
Military RV, Camping and Recreation Areas Around the World. Falls Church, Md.: Military Living, 1990.
U. S. Forces' Travel and Transfer Guide. Falls Church, Md.: Military Living, 1989.
CRAWFORD, ANNIE MELL FAULK, 1911-
Teacher. Born: December 3, 1911, Troy. Parents: Onis Austin and Magnolia Bay (Powell) Faulk. Married: William Samuel Crawford, August 5, 1933. Education: Troy State University, two years; George Peabody College, B.S., 1931; graduate study at Clemson University and Furman University; correspondence courses: University of Oklahoma in library science. Taught: Good Hope Elementary School, Troy; Georgiana High School. Analyst: Clemson College Extension Service and Tennessee Extension Service. Secretary for governmental bureau. Taught: South Carolina schools until 1967. Librarian: Anderson County Schools until 1977.
Source: Annie F. Crawford, Troy, Ala.
Author: Shut Yo' Mouth. Montgomery, Ala.: Pioneer Press, 1985.
CRAWFORD, CAROLINE
See: McLean, Carolyn Crawford
CRENSHAW, HENRY FILES, JR., -1970
Attorney. Parents: Henry Files and Pauline (Smith) Crenshaw. Married: Gladys Sessions, December 26, 1945. Education: University of Alabama; Harvard Law School, 1926. Counsel: Scottsboro Boys case; attorney for State Board of Adjustments, 1935-1952. President of the Montgomery Bar Association. Vice president of Brown Printing Co.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Joint Author: Scottsboro: the Firebrand of Communism. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1936.
CRENSHAW, MARY ANN, 1929-
Writer. Born: April 18, 1929, Montgomery. Parents: Jack and Catherine (Westcott) Crenshaw. Education: Vanderbilt University, B.A. 1951; University of Havana (Cuba), Parsons School of Design. Fashion industry, New York after 1958. Staff writer for Vogue magazine, 1959-1962. Fashion and beauty reporter for the New York Times.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57, Vol. CANR-8, and Who's Who of American Women, 1979-1980.
Author: The End of the Rainbow. New York: McMillan, 1981.
The Natural Way to Super Beauty. New York: McKay, 1974.
Prescription Junkie. New York: C. H. Potter, 1980.
Shape-Up for Super Sex. New York: Delacorte, 1977.
The Super Foods Diet. New York: MacMillan, 1983.
CRENSHAW, PAULINE SMITH, 1878-1956
Housewife. Born: November 6, 1878, Montgomery. Parents: Lester Chauncey and Annie (Jackson) Smith. Married: Henry Files Crenshaw, December 26, 1900. Children: Three. Founder and president: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: From Then Until Now. S.l.: s.n., 1932.
CRISPENS, CHARLES GANGLOFF, JR., 1930-
University professor. Born: August 3, 1930, Bellevue, Pa. Married. Children: One. Education: Pennsylvania State University, B.S., 1953; Ohio State University, M.S., 1955; Washington State University, Ph.D., 1959, Professor: University of Alabama, Birmingham. Awarded: Lederle Medical Faculty Award.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1979.
Author: Essentials of Medical Genetics. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
Handbook on the Laboratory Mouse. Springfield, Ill.: C. C. Thomas, 1975.
Quails and Partridges of North America. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960.
The Vertebrates: Their Forms and Functions. Springfield, Ill.: C. C. Thomas, 1978.
CROMMELIN, QUENTIN, JR., 1946-
Attorney. Born: October 11, 1946, Montgomery. Parents: Quentin Claiborne and Priscilla Tyler (Scott) Crommelin. Education: Rice University, B.A., 1966; University of Virginia, LL.B., 1969. Served: Legislative aide to Senator James B. Allen, 1978 until Allen's death. Chief counsel and staff director of the Subcommittee on Separation of Powers of the Senate Judicial Committee 1979-1981. Served as legislative aide to Senators Harry Byrd, Strom Thurmond, and John East. Member: American, New York, and Alabama Bar Association.
Source: Alabama Magazine, August 1985 and from Congressional Staff Directory, 1983.
Joint Author: Soviet Military Supremacy: the Untold Facts about the New Danger to America. S.l.: Authors, 1985.
CROSS, RANDY KEITH, 1950-
University professor, writer. Born: August 2, 1950, Florence. Parents: Johnny C. and Anna Marie (Cooper) Cross. Education: University of North Alabama, B.S., 1973; M.A., 1976; University of Mississippi, Ph.D., 1982. Taught: Lawrence County, Tenn.; Florence City Schools, University of Mississippi, and John C. Calhoun State Community College. Wrote articles for the Mark Twain Journal, introductions to the reissued editions of T.S. Stribling's novels.
Source: Randy K. Cross, Athens, Ala.
Joint Editor: Laughing Stock: the Autobiography of T.S. Stribling. Memphis: St. Luke's Press, 1982.
CROSSFIELD, RICHARD HENRY, 1868-
Minister. Born: October 22, 1868, Lawrenceburg, Ky. Parents: Richard and Elizabeth (Jackson) Crossfield. Married: Annie Ritchie Terry, February 5, 1895. Children: Two. Education: Kentucky University (now Transylvania College), A.B., 1889; College of Bible, Lexington, Ky., 1892; University of Wooster, M.A., Ph.D., 1900; Georgetown College, 1915; University of Kentucky, 1917; and Transylvania College, 1930, LL.D. Ordained: Minister, Disciples of Christ, 1894. President of Transylvania College, 13 years, College of the Bible for eight and one half years, William Woods College, three years. Pastor: First Christian Church, Birmingham, Ala., 1927-1937.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.
Author: Christian Principles of Sociology and Their Application to Present-Day Problems. S.l.: s.n., s.d.
Pilgrimages of a Parson. Owensboro, Ky.: s.n., 1901.
CROW, MATTIE LOU TEAGUE, 1903-
Teacher, librarian. Born: 1903, Ashville. Married: Ab Crow. Children: Two. Education: Alabama College; Jacksonville State University, A.B., 1949; University of Alabama, A.M., 1951. Taught at Ashville High School. Librarian for St. Clair County Schools, Jacksonville State University, Birmingham Southern College, Judson College, University of Alabama in Birmingham, and Gadsden State Junior College.
Source: Who's Who in Library Service, 1966,
Author: Ashville Baptist Church and its Beginnings. Birmingham, Ala.: Banner Press, 1903.
History of St. Clair County (Alabama). Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1973.
Roster of Men Serving in the Confederate Army from St. Clair County, Alabama. S.l.: s.n., 19--?
Editor: The Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John Washington Inzer, 1834-1928. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1977.
CROW, PAUL ABERNATHY, JR., 1931-
Minister, teacher. Born: November 17, 1931, Birmingham. Parents: Paul Abernathy and Beulah Elizabeth (Parker) Crow. Married: Mary Evelyn Matthews, September 11, 1955. Children: Three. Education: University of Alabama, B.S., 1954; Lexington Theological Seminary, B.D., 1957; Hartford Seminary, S.T.M., 1957, Ph.D., 1958. Campus minister at the University of Alabama, 1953-1954. Minister in Alabama and Kentucky, 1955-1957. Ordained: Christian Church, 1957. Minister in Hadley, Massachusetts, 1961-1966. Taught at Lexington Theological Seminary, 1961-1968. Visiting fellow at Oxford University, 1967- 1968. Secretary: Consultation on Church Union, Princeton, 1968- 1974. President for the Council on Christian Unity, 1974-. He had a Jacobus Fellowship at Oxford University.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1980, and Paul A. Crow, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind.
Author: The Anatomy of a Nineteenth Century United Church. Lexington, Ky.: Lexington Theological Seminary, 1983.
Christian Unity: Matrix for Mission. New York: Fellowship Press, 1982.
The Ecumenical Movement in Bibliographical Outline. New York: National Council of Churches, 1965.
No Greater Love: the Gospel and Its Imperative. St. Louis: Christian Board of Publications, 1967.
Editor: Digest of the Proceedings of the Consultation on Church Union. Princeton: The Consultation, 1965-1973. (published annually.)
The History of the Ecumenical Movement, Vol. 3. New York: Westminister Press, 1987.
Joint Editor: Church Union at Midpoint. New York: Association Press, 1972.
Where We Are in Church Union. New York: Association Press, 1965.
CROWE, MILDRED REGINA, 1914-
Librarian. Born: July 30, 1914, Chattanooga, Tenn. Education: University of Chattanooga, B.A., 1933; George Peabody College, B.L.S., 1945. Served as head of cataloging and acquisition for the Negro Branches of Chattanooga, Tennessee libraries, 1935- 1939; medical librarian from 1940-1944; intern and library assistant, Vanderbilt University, 1944-1945; chief librarian and assistant professor of bibliography at the Alabama Medical Center, 1945. Member of the Medical Library Association, Special Libraries Association, and Alabama Library Association.
Source: Who's Who in Library Service, 1955.
Author: A History of the Medical College of Alabama. S.l.: Medical College of Alabama Library, 1951.
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE MARCUS, 1852-
Teacher, lawyer, editor. Born: March 15, 1852, Lexington, Ky. Parents: Marcus Henderson and Matilda Washington (Chrisman) Cruikshank. Married: Mary Rachel Smith. Children: Two. Education: Peabody Institute, Talladega; Southwood Academy, and Synodial College. Taught at Talladega; principal of State Institute for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind for six years. Editor for Talladega Reporter, 1881-1883; admitted to the bar in 1882; appointed general administrator of Talladega County in 1883; bought an interest in and became editor of the Chronicle; co- founder of the Evening Chronicle, 1889. Served as superintendent of the House folding room at the U.S. Congress in Washington, D.C., 1891-1895; assistant postmaster in Birmingham, 1893-1897; editor of the Birmingham Ledger, 1897.
Source: Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography.
Author: A History of Birmingham and Its Environs: a Narrative Account of Their Historical Progress, Their People, and Their Principal Interests. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1920.
CRUMPTON, ETHEL HOWARD, 1883-
School administrator, teacher. Born: January 13, 1883, near Tuskegee. Parents: John Perry and Harriet Blanche (Parkinson) Howard. Married: Howard Ulmer Crumpton. Children: Two. Education: Graduated from Alabama Conference Female College, 1900; Peabody College, A.B., 1924; M.A., 1925. Supervisor of Walker County Schools, 1925-1935; supervisor Marengo County Schools, 1935-1938; taught Carlowville High School, 1935-1947.
Source: Library of Alabama Lives.
Author: From Campfire to Cahaba. Montgomery, Ala.: Dixie Book Co., 1936.
Than Silver and Gold. S.l.: s.n., 1964.
Joint Author: Fundamentals of Citizenship. Chicago: Laidlaw Brothers, 1952.
CRUMPTON, WASHINGTON BRYAN, 1842-
Baptist minister. Born: February 24, 1842, Camden. Parents: Henry Tally and Matilda Smith (Bryan) Crumpton. Married: Ellen Cochran, 1872; Florence Harris, 1910. Education: Georgetown College, Kentucky, for two years. Ordained into the Baptist ministry, 1870; Corresponding secretary: Baptist Mission Board of Alabama for twenty eight years; editor of the Alabama Baptist, 1895. President of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, 1917.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1,
Author: A Book of Memories, 1842-1920. Montgomery, Ala.: Baptist Mission Board, 1921.
A Story: How Alabama Became Dry. Birmingham, Ala.: Alabama Anti Saloon League, 1925.
Joint Author: The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1912.
A Book of Daily Devotions. Nashville: Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1923.
CRUSE, IRMA BELLE RUSSELL, 1911-
Public relations, rate supervisor, editor. Born: May 3, 1911, Hackneyville. Parents: Charles Henry and Nellie Dunn (Ledbetter) Russell. Married: Jesse Clyde Cruse, December 22, 1931. Children: Two. Education: Birmingham Southern College, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin, and University of Minnesota; University of Alabama, A.B. in Journalism; Samford, M.A. Worked for Southern Bell, 1928-1944, 1954-1976; public relations supervisor from 1965-1968; rate supervisor, 1968-1976; free-lance writer, 1958-. Edited BAMA Bulletin for South Central Bell Telephone Company; edited the Muse Messenger for the Alabama State Poetry Society, 1977. Served as president and vice president of the Birmingham Association of Industrial Editors. Nominated Woman of the Year in Birmingham three times. Earned three Freedom Foundation awards.
Source: Foremost Women in Communications, 1970; Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1982,
Author: A Centennial Reminiscence. S.l.: s.n., 1982.
The First Ten Years: an Informal History of Metropolitan Business and Professional Women's Club of Birmlngham. Birmingham, Ala.: Cruse, 1973.
To Bear the Message: a Dramatic Presentation for the Christmas Season. Franklin, Ohio: Eldridge Pub. Co., 1953.
CULLENS, FREDERIC BACON, 1863-1938
Physician. Born: August 2, 1863, Ft. Gaines, Ga. Parents: Francis Tenneille and Harriet Emma (Coachman) Cullens. Married: Annie Laura Davis, September 17, 1891. Children: Six. Education: Tulane University, 1895-1896; Memphis Hospital Medical College, 1896-1897 and 1899. Licensed to practice medicine, 1897; established practice at Ozark; served as coroner, 1913-. Member of the Democratic Party, Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Woodmen of the World. Wrote shortstories and articles for professional journals and newspapers.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: "Luce the Foundling": an Anglo-American Tale. Richmond, Va.: Lewis Printing Co., 1925.
The Serpent's Trail. New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1909.
Where the Magnolia Bloom. S.l.: s.n., s.d.
CUMMING, KATE, 1835-1909
Nurse, teacher. Born: Scotland, 1835. Parents: David and Jessie Cummings. Without training, volunteered, along with forty other women, to help in Confederate Hospitals in Northern Mississippi; nurse to wounded soldiers after the Battle at Shiloh; appointed hospital supervisor in the Confederate Medical Department, 1862; served at Confederate hospitals in Georgia after 1863; taught school in Birmingham, 1874.
Source: Notable American Women, Vol, 1, Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors, and from Living Female Authors of the South.
Author: Gleanings from Southland. Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, 1895.
(The same material has been reprinted under three different titles: A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, The Journal of Kate Cumming, and Kate: the Journal of a Confederate Nurse.)
CUMMINGS, JOHN PALMER, 1893-1932
Editor. Born: Birmingham, 1893. Parents: Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Cummings. Served in the Rainbow Division during World War I; editor of the Alabama Christian Advocate and financial agent for Birmingham Southern College.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Me,--an' War Goin' On. Boston: The Cornhill Publishing Co., 1921.
CUNNINGHAM, ROBERT LOUIS, 1926-
University professor. Born: March 22, 1926, Birmingham. Parents: Louis John and Marie Virginia (Schillinger) Cunningham. Married: Margery Ann Winters, August 20, 1949. Children: Eight. Education: St. Gregory Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, A.B., 1947; Laval University, Ph.D., 1951; Taught philosophy at Xavier University and San Francisco College for Women (now Lone Mountain College); professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, 1958-.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 41R, and from Who's Who in America, 1980-1981.
Compiler: Situationism and the New Morality. New York: Appleton, 1970.
Compiler and Contributor:
Liberty and the Rule of Law. College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University, 1979.
Contributor: New Themes in Christian Philosophy. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968.
Toward Liberty, Vol. 2. Menlo Park, Calif.: Institute for Humane Studies, 1971.
CURRENT-GARCIA, EUGENE, 1908-
University professor. Born: July 8, 1908, New Orleans. Parents: Joseph Robustiano and Bertha (Ehrhardt) Current-Garcia. Married: Alva Garrett, June 18, 1935. Children: Three. Education: Tulane University, A.B., 1930; M.A., 1932; Harvard, A.M., 1942, Ph.D,, 1947. Taught at the University of Nebraska, 1936 to 1939; Suffolk University, 1939-1942; Louisiana State University, 1944-1947; Auburn University, 1947. Fulbright lecturer at the University of Salonika, Greece, 1956-1958. Editor of the Southern Humanities Review, 1967-1979.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 17R, and from Who's Who in America, 1980-1981.
Author: O. Henry. New York: Twayne, 1965.
Joint Author: American Short Stories: 1820 to the Present. Chicago: Scott Foresman, 1952.
Realism and Romanticism in Fiction. Chicago: Scott Foresman, 1962.
What is the Short Story? Chicago: Scott Foresman, 1961.
Editor: Short Stories of the Western World. Glenview, Ill.: Scott Foresman, 1969.
Joint Editor: Shem, Ham, and Japeth: the Papers of W. O. Tuggle. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1973.
Contributor: A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1969.
CURRIE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1885-
High school principal, university professor. Born: March 22, 1885, Jasonville, Ind. Parents: Lawrence and Martha Mitten Currie. Married: Rose Blanche Bryan, December 28, 1918. Children: Five. Education: Indiana University, A.B., 1908, A.M., 1911, Ph.D., 1924. Served as principal in Indiana schools; instructor at the University of Wyoming, 1913-1915; Hendrix College, Conway, Ark.; taught at Birmingham-Southern College, 1920-1939; Millsaps College, 1939-1946; Louisiana College, 1946- 1961; Whitworth College in Mississippi, 1961-.
Source: Who Was Who in American, Vol. 7 and from Dictionary of American Scholars, 1969.
Author: Breezes from Helicon. Dallas: Story Book Press, 1950.
Essentials of General and Scientific Latin. Boston: Chapman, 1945.
The Military Discipline of the Romans From the Founding of the City to the Close of the Republic. Bloomington, Ind.: Graduate Council, Indiana University, 1928.
Sentiments, Sermons, and Songs: Collected Poems. New York: Exposition Press, 1954.
CURRY, ADRIAN R.
Miscellaneous positions. Born: Toinette, Ala. Parents: Mr. and Mrs J. E. Curry. Married: Clara Elizabeth Duffee. Children: Three. Education: Business school. Worked for a sawmill, railroad clerk, fisherman, merchant seaman, truck driver, scale mechanic, and in civilian personnel work for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Mobile, 1941-.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: The Fairies: Poems. New York: Vantage, 1952.
CURRY, JABEZ LAMAR MONROE, 1825-1903
Lawyer, legislator, U.S. Congressman, Confederate Congress, college president. Born: June 5, 1825, Georgia. Admitted to the bar in Talladega, 1846; sat in the Alabama legislature in 1847, 1855, and 1857; U.S. Congressman, 1852-1861; Confederate Congressman, 1861-1863; president: Howard College (Samford University). Left Alabama in 1868 and later became U.S. Minister to Spain.
Source: Who Was Who in Alabama.
Author: A Baptist Church Radically Different from Pedobaptist Churches. Phildelphia: American Baptist Publications Society, 1900.
A Brief Sketch of George Peabody, and a History of the Peabody Education Fund Through Thirty Years. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1898.
The Cherokee Indians in Georgia. University, Ala.: Confederate Publishing Co., 1980.
Civil History of the Government of the Confederate States, with Some Personal Reminiscences. Richmond, Va.: B. F. Johnson Publishing Co., 1900.
Constitutional Government in Spain: a Sketch. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1889.
Difficulties, Complications, and Limitations Connected with the Education of the Negro. Baltimore: Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, 1895.
Diplomatic Services of George William Erving. Cambridge, Mass.: J. Wilson, 1890.
Education of the Negro Since 1860. Baltimore: Trustees of the John F. Slater Fund, 1894.
Hon. Francis Strother Lyon as Commissioner and Trustee of Alabama: a Sketch. New York: Putnam, 1889.
National Peril Remedy. Richmond, Va.: Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1884.
National Problem of Southern Education. Richmond, Va.: Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1882
North American Colonization, with Particular Reference to Virginia and the Carolinas. Washington, D.C.: s.n., 1896.
Papers and Addresses. S.l.: s.n., 1847.
Perils and Duty of the South. Washington, D.C.: L. Tower Printer, 1860.
The Present Condition of Religious Liberty Throughout the World. S.l.: s.n., 1893.
Principles, Acts, and Utterances of John C. Calhoun, Promotive of the True Union of the States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1898.
The Southern States of the American Union Considered in Their Relations to the Constitution of the United States and to the Resulting Union. New York: Putnam, 1894.
Struggles and Triumphs of Virginia Baptists. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publications Society, 1873.
William Ewart Gladstone. Richnond, Va.: B. F. Johnson, 1891.
Speeches and Addresses: Address before the Virginia State Agricultural Society. Richmond, Va.: Fergusson, 1875.
Address Delivered December 13th, 1888. Atlanta: W. J. Campbell, 1889.
Address Delivered February 6th, 1885. Montgomery, Ala.: s.n., 1885.
Address of Hon. J. L. M. Curry delivered before the Association of Confederate Veterans, Richmond, Va., July 1, 1896. Richmond, Va.: Brown Printing Co., 1896.
Admission of Kansas. Speech of Mr. J. L. M. Curry, of Alabama, in the House of Representatives, February 23, 1858, on the Admission of Kansas as a State .... Washington, D.C.: Congressional Globe Office, 1858.
Causes of the Power and Prosperity of the United State. An address delivered at the annual commencement of the University of Michigan, Thursday, June 27, 1889. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Board of Regents, University of Michigan, 1889.
The Constitutional Rights of the States. Speech of J. L. M. Curry of Alabama, in the House of Representatives, March 14, 1860. Washington, D.C.: McGill Printing Co., 1860.
Lessons of the Yorktown Centennial. Address of the Hon. J. L. M. Curry, LL.D. Richmond, Va.: Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1881.
Proceedings of the Winthrop Training School, Memorial Day, May 12, 1889, with the memorial address of Hon. J. L. M. Curry. Columbia, S.C.: Bryan Printing Co., 1898.
Speech of Hon. J. L. M. Curry, general agent of the Peabody Education Fund, delivered before the North Carolina legislature, January 21, 1891. Raleigh, N.C.: J. Daniels Printer, 1891.
Speech of J. L. M. Curry of Alabama, on the bill granting pensions to the soldiers of the war of 1812. Washington, D.C.: L. Towers, 1858.
Speech of J. L. M. Curry of Alabama, on the selection of speaker, and the progress of anti-slaveryism, delivered in the House of Representatives, December 10, 1859. Washington, D.C.: L. Towers, 1859.
Speech of Jabez L. M. Curry of Alabama, on the Expenditure and the Tariff, delivered in the House of Representatives, February 24th, 1859. S.l.: T. McGill, 1859.
CURZON, GRACE ELVINA TRILLIA HINDS
Writer. Born: Decatur. Parents: J. Monroe Hinds, U.S. Minister to Brazil. Married: Alfred Duggan. Children: Three. Married: Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, February 2, 1917.
Source: Hesketh Pearson's Marrying Americans. New York: Coward McCann, 1961.
Author: Reminiscences. New York: Coward McCann, 1955.