Writer. Parents: Lilla May (Hall) Smith and Mr. Smith. Married: Robert Peddicord; John Albion Dahl. Education: Ward Belmont College, Cincinnati School of Expression. Staff writer for Southern Hotel Journal. Member of the Birmingham Quill Club, the National League of American Penwomen; president of the Alabama Writers Conclave; organizing president of the Mobile branch of the National League of American Pen Women.
Source: Montgomery Advertiser, Dec. 5, 1958, and the files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Belle of Destiny. New York: Greenberg, 1958.
DALAND, ROBERT THEODORE, 1919-
University professor. Born: October 3, 1919, Milton, Wis. Parents: John Norton and Nellie (Furrow) Daland. Married: Dorothy Shaw, June 6, 1942. Children: Two. Education: Milton College, B.A., 1942; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1947; Ph.D. 1952. Taught at the University of Alabama, 1949-1956; the University of Connecticut and University of Southern California; University of North Carolina, 1963-. Appointed: Ford faculty fellow at the University of California, 1954-1955; Metropolitan Region Program fellow at Columbia University, 1958-1959.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 21R.
Author: Brazilian Planning: Development, Politics, and Administration. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.
Bureaucracy in Brazil: Attitudes of Civilian Top Executives Toward Change. Austin, Tex.: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, 1972.
The County Buys Dunwoodie Golf Course. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1961.
Dixie City: a Portrait of Political Leadership. University, Ala.: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1956.
An Evaluation of Annexation Procedures in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama League of Municipalities, 1954.
Exploring Brazilian Bureaucracy: Performance and Pathology. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981.
Government and Health, the Alabama Experience. University, Ala.: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1955.
Municipal Fringe Area Problem in Alabama. University, Ala.: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1953.
Public Recreation as a Municipal Service in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama League of Municipalities, 1953.
Some Aspects of Municipal Utility Administration in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama League of Municipalities, 1954.
A Strategy for Research in Comparative Urban Administration. Bloomington, Ind.: Comparative Administrative Group, American Society for Public Administration, 1966.
The Transfer of the Children's Camps. New York: Inter- University Case Program, 1960.
Joint Author: A Brief Survey of Municipal Auditing Practices in Alabama. University, Ala.: Bureau of Public Administration, University of Alabama, 1954.
Revenues for Alabama's Cities. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama League of Municipalities, 1956.
Editor: Comparative Urban Research: the Administration and politics of Cities. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1969.
Perspectives of Brazilian Public Administration. Los Angeles, Calif.: School of Public Administration, University of Southern California, 1963.
DANGAIX, WILLIAM JOSEPH, 1864-1943
Small banker, real estate and insurance. Born: September 16, 1864, Philadelphia, Pa. Parents: Joseph and Mary (Lasserre) Dangaix. Studied in France and Spain. Worked in the insurance and real estate business in Birmingham, Ala. Organized and served as first president of the Birmingham Savings Bank, which later merged into the First National Bank of Birmingham.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.
Author: How Latin America Affects Our Daily Life. New York: New York Institute for Public Service, 1917.
How We Affect Latin America's Daily Life. New York: New York Institute for Public Service, 1919.
DANIEL, ADRIAN GEORGE, 1921-
Teacher, university instructor. Born: October 13, 1921, Talladega Springs. Parents: James G. and Annie Lee Daniel. Education: Florence State Teachers College, 1940-1941; Abilene Christian College, A.B., 1957; University of Alabama, M.A., 1959. Taught: Huntsville High School, 1959-1960; University of North Alabama, 1960. Member of the Alabama Historical Association.
Source: Library of Alabama Lives by Frank L. Grove.
Author: Formative Period of TVA. New York: Carlton Press, 1973.
DANIEL, THOMAS WALTER, JR., 1922-
Geologist. Born: January 24, 1922, Wetumpka. Parents: T.W. and Anne M. (Thomas) Daniel. Married: Madge Downing Cyr, June 15, 1948. Children: Three. Education: attended Port Arthur College, Tex., 1946-1947; University of Florida, B.S., 1952. Worked for Century Geophysics Corporation in Tulsa, 1952-1954.; radioactivity logging operator for Welex Corporation in Fort Worth, 1954-1955; a radio broadcasting technician in Bessemer, 1955-1956; staff geologist for the Geological Survey of Alabama, 1956-1960; head of the Office of Coal Research and a consultant to Public Service Coal, 1960.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1976.
Author: Mineral Resources Map of Winston County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1969.
Mineral Resources of Bibb County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1976.
Joint Author: Exploring Alabama Caves. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1973.
Geologic Map of Limestone County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1960.
The Geology and Mineral Resources of Limestone-County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1968.
Mineral Resources Map of Choctaw County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1969.
Mineral Resources Map of Marion County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1969.
The Mineral Resources of Limestone County. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1976.
Mineral Resources of Marion County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1972.
Mineral Resources of Wilcox County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1970.
Rock and Minerals of Alabama: a Guidebook for Alabama Rockhounds. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1966.
Strippable Coal in the Fabius Area, Jackson County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1970.
A Strippable Lignite Bed in South Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Geological Survey, 1973.
DANTON, EMILY MILLER, 1888-
Librarian, editor. Born: July 8, 1888, Jackson, Miss. Education: Newcomb College, B.A., 1907; attended Columbia during the summer of 1947. Worked: branch assistant for the Minneapolis Public Library, 1911-1914; reference librarian in Birmingham Public Library, 1914-1920; newspaper worker, 1920; hospital librarian for the U.S. Public Health Service and the U. S. Veteran's Bureau, 1920-1922; editor of the ALA Booklist and other Alabama Library Association Publications, 1923-1925; freelance worker for ALA, 1935-1937; director of the Alabama Public Library Service, 1954.
Source: Who's Who in Library Service, 1955.
Editor: The Library of Tomorrow, a Symposium. Chicago: American Library Association, 1939.
Pioneering Leaders in Librarianship. Chicago: American Library Association, 1953.
DAUGETTE, ANNIE ROWAN FORNEY, 1876-
Civic worker. Born: June 1, 1876, Jacksonville. Parents: John H. and Septima Sextus Middleton (Rutledge) Forney, Married: Dr. Clarence William Daugette, December 27, 1897. Children: Five. Education: Graduate of Jacksonville State Normal School; attended Cooper Union School and National Academy of Design in New York; honorary Doctor of Humanities, Jacksonville State University, 1970. Organized the Civic League of Jacksonville; State Advisory Committee of the Federal Writers Project; worked to have original State Seal restored after Reconstruction; assisted in having Civil War referred to as War Between the States. Compiled biographies of Alabama Civil War Generals; wrote historical articles about Jacksonville and Calhoun County.
Source: Forney Forever, by Lee Forney Crawford.
Author: Historic Jacksonville, Semi Centennial, 1902-1952. Jacksonville, Ala.: General John H. Forney Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1952.
The Life of Major General John H. Forney. Jacksonville, Ala.: (mimeographed), 19--.
DAVIDSON, HENRY DAMON, 1869-
Teacher, principal. Born: December 16, 1869, Centerville. Parents: Damon and Adaline (Woods) Davidson. Married: Lula Julia Davis, February 16, 1899. Married: Elizabeth M. Campbell McClellan, September 4, 1913. Education: high school classes at Selma University, graduated from Payne University, Selma, 1893; attended Tuskegee Institute, Hampton Institute, Columbia University and Fisk University; honorary Masters degree, Selma University. Established and ran the Centerville Industrial Institute, (later Bibb County Training School at Centerville). Served as teacher and principal of that school over a long period of time. Member: Methodist church and the Masons. Served as president of the alumni association for Payne College while it was located in Selma.
Source: Inching Along.
Author: Inching Along: or, the Life and Works of an Alabama Farm Boy, an Autobiography. Nashville: National Publication Company, 1944.
DAVIDSON, WILLIAM H.
Textiles, researcher. Born: West Point, Ga. Worked for West Point Pepperell for forty seven years; title and historical researcher in the office of an attorney. Charter member of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society; later vice president and president of that organization; member of the Alabama Historical Association; Board of Directors of Bradshaw Regional Library as a representative of Cobb Memorial Archives.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Architectural Heritage of West Point-Lanett in the Chattahoochee Valley: in Compliment to Georgia Architectural Seminar and Tour of Georgia College. West Point, Ga.: s.n., 1975.
Brooks of Honey and Butter: Plantations and People of Meriwether County, Georgia. Alexander City, Ala.: Outlook Publishing Co., 1971.
One Hundred Fifty Years of West Point Methodism, 1830-1980. West Point, Ga.: First United Methodist Church, 1980.
Pine Log and Greek Revival: Houses and People of Three Counties in Georgia and Alabama. Alexander City, Ala.: Outlook Publishing Co., 1964.
Proudest Inheritance: a Bicentennial Tribute of the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society. S.l.: s.n., 1975.
Word From Camp Pollard. West Point, Ga.: Hester Printing, 1978.
Young Folks' Primer of Historic West Point, Georgia. West Point, Ga.: Hester's Print Shop, 1960.
DAVIS, ANGELA YVONNE, 1944-
University professor, writer, activist. Born: January 26, 1944, Birmingham. Parents: B. Frank and Sallye E. Davis. Education: attended the Sorbonne; Brandeis University, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1965; graduate study, University of Frankfurt, 1965-1967; University of California at San Diego, M.A., 1968; additional study, 1968-1969; honorary Ph.D., Lenin University. Taught philosophy at U.C.L.A., 1969-1970; dismissed and reinstated by court order, 1970; teaching contract wasn't renewed and U.C.L.A. censured for it's decision. Acquitted of charges of kidnapping, murder, and conspiracy for 1970 escape of George Jackson and others from Marin County (Calif.) Courthouse, 1972.
Source: Contemporary Authors. Vol, 57, and Who's Who of American Women, 1979-1980.
Author: Angela Davis: an Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1974.
The Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves. Somerville, Mass.: New England Free Press, 1970.
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance. New York: Third Press, 1971.
Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism. Latham, N.Y.: Women of Color Press, 1985.
Women, Culture, and Politics. New York: Random House, 1989.
Women, Race, and Class. New York: Random House, 1981.
DAVIS, CHARLES SHEPARD, 1910-
University professor, college president. Born: August 13, 1910, Mobile. Parents: Matthew and Ruth (Shepard) Davis. Married: Mary G, Merritt, June 6, 1936. Children: Three. Education: Auburn University, B.S., 1931; M.S., 1932; Duke University, Ph.D., 1938. Assistant professor of history, Auburn 1937-1942; Florida State University, 1947-1959; professor of history and president of Winthrop College, 1950-1973.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1978, and from Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1973-1974.
Author: Colin J. McRae: Confederate Financial Agent. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Confederate Publishing Co., 1961.
Cotton Kingdom in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1939.
Editor: Report of Operations of the U.S. Seventh Army, 1945.
DAVIS, DONALD ECHARD, 1916-
University professor. Born: January 12, 1916, Charleston, Ill. Parents: Leonard Ernest and Jessie Allie (Echard) Davis. Married: Dorothy Dale Richey, June 5, 1940. Children: Two. Education: Eastern Illinois State University, B.Ed., 1938; honorary Ped.D., 1956; Ohio State University, M.S., 1940; Ph.D., 1947. Taught at Auburn University, 1952.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1975-1976, and Library of Alabama Lives.
Author: Effects of Herbicides on Submerged Seed Plants. Auburn, Ala.: Auburn University Department of Botany, 1980.
Joint Author: Atrazine Fate and Effects in a Salt Marsh. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1979.
Guide and Key to Alabama Trees. Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown, 1965.
DAVIS, GEORGE JACOB, 1876-1957
University professor, dean, engineer. Born: June 28, 1876, Washington, D.C. Married: Ms. Myers. Children: Two. Education: Attended George Washington University; Cornell University, B.S., 1902; honorary D. Sc., the University of Alabama, 1931. Taught at the University of Wisconsin, 1902-1912; University of Alabama, 1912-1946; dean of the College of Engineering; appointed engineer for the State Advisory Committee for Public Works, 1933. Chosen president of the Research Council, University of Alabama, 1935.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: Family History, With Special Emphasis on the Ancestors of the Brothers, Philip Christopher Davis, George Graham Davis, (and others). Tuscaloosa, Ala.: s.n., 1955.
DAVIS, HARWELL GOODWIN, 1882-1977
State official, tax collector, college president. Born: November 23, 1882. Married: Lena Vail. Children: Three. Education: South Alabama Baptist Institute, A.B., 1899; University of Alabama, B.L., 1903; Honorary degrees: University of Alabama, LL.D.; Birmingham Southern College, D.H.; Mobile College, LL.D. Served as Alabama's first assistant attorney general, 1915-1917; attorney general, 1921-1927; state internal revenue collector, 1933-1939; president, Howard College, 1939- 1958.
Source: Birmingham News, August 6, 1977.
Author: Alabama School Code. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama State Department of Education, 1927.
Holdings of Physical Copies of Newspapers from Jefferson County Courthouse. S.l.: s.n., 1979.
Legends of Landsee. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1976.
The Life and Achievements of Joseph Linyer Bedsole. New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1962.
DAVIS, JIMMIE MORROW
School teacher. Born: Guntersville. Married: Hugh McCrory, Tennessee legislator. Married: George Harding, Nashville physican. Married: Clyde Davis. Education: Attended Howard and Peabody Colleges. Taught school in Birmingham; freelance reporter; clerk, Tennessee legislature.
Source: Alabama Journal, March 23, 1967; Clanton Union Banner, April 13, 1967, and Montgomery Advertiser-Journal, 1974.
Author: Dixie Poetry Tree: a Collection of Verses. New York: Carlton Press, 1974.
Rhymoods: an Accumulation of Rhymes. New York: Exposition Press, 1967.
DAVIS, MARY EVELYN MOORE, 1852-1909
Writer. Born: April 12, 1852. Parents: John and Marian Lucy (Crutchfield) Moore. Married: Thomas Edward Davis, October 20, 1874. Moved to New Orleans in 1879, and maintained a literary salon on Royal Street. Among first to use dialect for literary purposes. War poems appear in Southern newspapers from 1861- 1865.
Source: Dictionary of American Biography, American Authors and Books, and Who Was Who in Alabama.
Author: Antiques: a Rare Collection from Old Creole Families. New Orleans: A. H. Thiberge Printing Co., 1894.
A Bunch of Roses. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1903.
A Christmas Masque of Saint Roch. Chicago: McClurg, 1896.
An Elephant's Track, and Other Stories. New York: Harper, 1897.
In War Times in La Rose Blanche. Boston: D. Lathrop Co., 1888.
Jaconetta and Her Loves. Boston: Houghton, 1901.
The Little Chevalier. Boston: Houghton, 1903.
Minding the Gap, and Other Poems. Houston: Cushing & Cave, 1867.
The Moons of Balbanca. Boston: Houghton, 1908.
Poems. Houston: E. H. Cushing, 1872.
The Price of Silence. Boston: Houghton, 1907.
The Queen's Garden. Boston: Houghton, 1900.
Selected Poems. New Orleans: The Green Shutter Box Shop, 1927.
The Wire Cutters. Boston: Houghton, 1859.
DAVIS, NORAH KNOWLES, 1878-
Teacher, reporter, stenographer. Born: October 20, 1878. Parents: Zebulon Pike and Williametta (Eason) Davis. Education: Private tutors. Taught school in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas, 1893-1900; served as a stenographer and newspaper writer; deputy clerk for U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama, 1901.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 6.
Author: The Northerner. New York: The Century Company, 1905.
The Other Woman. New York: Century, 1920.
Wallace Rhodes. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1909.
The World's Warrant. Boston: Houghton, 1907.
DAVIS, NORMAN DUANE, 1928-
University professor. Born: May 7, 1928, San Diego, Calif. Education: University of Georgia, B.S., 1953; Ohio State University, M.S., 1955; Ph.D. 1957. Taught at the University of Georgia, 1957-1958; Auburn University, 1958. Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society for Microbiology and American Chemical Society.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 14th edition.
Joint Author: Guide and Key to Alabama Trees. Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown, 1965.
DAVIS, POSEY OLIVER, 1890-
Agricultural Extension Service. Born: August 15, 1890, Athens. Parents: Richard Scoggins and Elizabeth (Barker) Davis. Married: Mildred Kilburn, June 19, 1918. Education: Attended Potter College, Bowling Green, Ky.; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1916; later graduate study. Worked with 4-H Clubs, 1918; executive of Alabama Polytechnic Institute; director Auburn Agricultural Extension Service. Founded LAPI radio at Auburn, which later became associated with the National Broadcasting Company. Member of Phi Kappa Phi, Masons, Shriners, and Kiwanis.
Source: Library of Alabama Lives, 1961.
Author: A Century of Science on Alabama Farms. Auburn, Ala.: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1952.
One Man: Edward Asbury O'Neal III, of Alabama. Auburn, Ala.: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1951.
DAVIS, WILLIAM COLUMBUS, 1910-
University professor. Born: August 28, 1910, Birmingham. Parents: William Columbus and Mary (Gray) Davis. Married: Mildred Dorman, July 24, 1948. Education: University of Alabama, A.B., 1931; M.A., 1932; Harvard, Ph.D. 1948. Taught at the University of Georgia, 1948-1951; George Washington University, 1951-1966; National War College, 1963-1974. Member: Phi Beta Kappa and of Pi Kappa Phi.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 7th ed. and from Who's Who in America, 1982.
Author: The Columns of Athens, Georgia's Classic City. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1951.
The Last Conquistadores: the Spanish Intervention in Peru and Chile, 1863-1866. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1950.
Joint Author: Soviet Bloc Latin American Activities and Their Implications for United States Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1960.
DAVIS, WILLIAM HATCHER, 1939-
University professor, Born: January 5, 1939, Frankewing, Tenn. Parents: George B. and Lois Davis. Education: Abilene Christian College, B.A., 1960; M.A., 1961; Rice University, Ph.D., 1965. Taught at the University of Houston, 1964-1966; Auburn University, 1966-. Member of the American, Southwestern, and Alabama Philosophical Association, the C.S. Peirce Society, the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 33R.
Author: The Freewill Question. The Hague, Netherlands: Nijhoff, 1971.
Philosophy of Religion. Abilene, Kan.: Biblical Research Society, 1969.
Peirce's Epistemology. The Hague, Netherlands: Nijhoff, 1972.
Science and Christian Faith. Abilene, Kan.: Biblical Research Society, 1968.
DAVIS, WILLIAM WATSON, 1884-1960
University professor. Born: Pensacola, Fla. Education: Military Academy in Mobile; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S. and M.S.; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1913. Taught the University of Kansas, 1912-1954.
Source: Encyclopedia of Southern History and files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Ante-Bellum Southern Commercial Conventions. Montgomery, Ala.: s.n., 1905.
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida. New York: Columbia University Press, 1913.
DAWKINS, CECIL, 1927-
Writer. Born: October 2, 1927, Birmingham. Parents: James Toliver and Lucile (Thiemonge) Dawkins. Education: University of Alabama B.A. Stanford University, M.A. Taught at Stephens College, 1953-1958; writer-in-residence at Stephens College, 1961-1962. Contributed to the Paris Review, Sewanee Review, McCalls, Redbook, Saturday Review, and to Anthologies; received a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1966.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 5R.
Author: Charleyhorse. New York: Viking, 1985.
The Live Goat. New York: Harper, 1971.
The Quiet Enemy. New York: Atheneum, 1963.
The Displaced Person (Play)
DAWSON, JOHN CHARLES, 1876-1966
College professor. Born: 1876, Huntsville. Parents: Granville J. and Alice (Roberts) Dawson. Education: Georgetown College, A.B., 1901; Howard College, M.A.; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1921. Married: Fletcher Stinson, 1906. Children: One. Taught at Howard College, 1903-1931; University of Alabama, 1930-1947; Howard Payne College, 1947-1948. Also taught at Western State College, 1923, and the University of Toulouse, 1919. Editor of Howard College Studies in History and Literature, 1921-1930. Contributed to Romantic Review and Modern Language Notes. Member of Kappa Phi Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, Authors' Club of London and decorated officer.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 6.
Author: A French Regicide in Alabama. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1939.
Lakanal the Regicide. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1948.
Poems. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., 1919.
Toulouse in the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1921.
DAWSON, LEMUEL ORAH, 1865-1938
Baptist minister, college professor. Born: April 24, 1865, Chambers County. Parents: Andrew Jackson and Marie Antoinette (Bailey) Dawson. Married: Margaret Samuel Lewis, October 30, 1890. Children: Two. Education: Howard College, A.B., 1886; graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1889; studied at Columbia University (George Washington University), University of Alabama, and Germany; honorary D.D.: from Howard College, 1897. Entered Baptist ministry, 1884; pastored churches in Kentucky, 1888-1892; Tuscaloosa, 1892-1924; taught at Howard College, 1924. Served as president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, Southern Baptist Young People's Union, and Rotary International. Member of the Alabama Baptist State Executive Committee and Southern Baptist Educational Association.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.
Author: After Fifty Years: a State Father and a Son. Nashville: Broadman, 1965.
Light Spots. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: Weatherford, 1933.
DAY, MILDRED LEAKE, 1929-
College instructor. Born: January 25, 1929, Birmingham. Parents: Howard and Marjory Leake. Married: Jim Day, 1950. Children: Five. Education: Northwestern University, B.S., 1950; Samford University, M.A., 1970; University of Alabama, Ph.D., 1975. Taught at Southern Benedictine College, 1975-1979; adjunct professor at Birmingham Southern College, 1979. Edited Quondam Et Futurus, Newsletter of Arthurian Studies, 1979. Contributed to the Proceedings of the Colloquium of Ghent, 1981.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1982 and The Rise of Gawain.
Editor and Translator:
The Rise of Gawain: Nephew of Arthur. New York: Garland Publishers, 1984.
Joint Editor: King Arthur Through the Ages. New York: Garland, 1990.
Translator: The Story of Meriadoc, King of Cambria. S.l.: Garland, 1988.
DEAGON, ANN FLEMING, 1930-
College professor. Born: January 19, 1930, Birmingham. Parents: Robert and Alice (Webb) Fleming. Married: Donald Deagon, June 29, 1951. Children: Two. Education: Birmingham-Southern College, B.A., 1950; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1951; Ph.D., 1954. Taught at Furman University, 1954-1956; Guilford College, 1956-. Member of the Academy of American Poets, American Philological Association, American Classical Association, Vergilian Society, North Carolina Writers Conference, Alabama State Poetry Society, Alabama Writers Conclave, Greensboro Writers Club, and Phi Beta Kappa.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57.
Author: Carbon 14. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1974.
Habitats. University Center, Mich.: Green River Press, 1982.
Indian Summer. Greensboro, N.C.: Unicorn Press, 1975.
The Pentekontaetia (The Great Fifty Years). Huntington, N.Y.: Water Mark Press, 1985.
Diver's Tomb. New York: St. Martins, 1984.
Indian Summer. Greensboro, N.C.: Unicorn Press, 1975.
Poetic South. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Blair, 1974.
There is No Balm in Birmingham. Boston: Godine Press, 1976.
Women and Children First. Emory, Va.: Iron Mountain Press, 1976.
DEAL, BABS HODGES, 1929-
Writer. Born: June 23, 1929, Scottsboro. Parents: Hilburn Tyson and Evelyn (Coffey) Hodges. Married: Borden Deal, 1952. Children: Three. Education: University of Alabama, B.A., 1952. Employed by Jackson County School System, 1950; typist for U.S. Army, Washington, D.C., Birmingham Brass Company, 1951-1952. Received awards from Mystery Writers of America, 1967; Alabama Library Association. Member of the Author's Guild.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R and from the files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Acres of Afternoon. New York: McKay, 1959.
The Crystal Mouse. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973.
Fancy's Knell. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966.
Friendships, Secrets and Lies. New York: Fawcett, 1979.
Goodnight Ladies. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978.
The Grail. New York: McKay, 1964.
High Lonesome World. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969.
It's Always Three O'Clock. New York: McKay, 1961.
Night Story. New York: McKay, 1962.
The Reason for Roses. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, 1974.
Summer Games. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969.
Waiting to Hear from William. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
The Walls Came Tumbling Down. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968.
DEAL, BORDEN, 1922-1985
Various positions, writer. Born: October 12, 1922, Pontotoc, Mississippi. Parents: Borden Lee and Jimmie Anne (Smith) Deal. Married: Babs Hodges, 1952. Education: University of Alabama, B.A., 1949; graduate study at Mexico City College 1950. Employed by U.S. Labor Department; correspondent for Associated Films, 1950-1955; tracer for auto finance company in Birmingham; telephone solicitor in New Orleans; copywriter for two radio stations in Mobile. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, 1967; Literary Award by the Alabama Library Association, 1963. Designated "Sesquicentennial Scholar", during the University of Alabama's 150th Anniversary, 1981. Member of the Author's Guild.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R, Alabama Alumni News, Vol. 65, Number 4, and files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Adventure. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978.
The Advocate. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968.
Bluegrass. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976.
The Devil's Whisper. New York: Avon, 1961.
Dragon's Wine. New York: Scribner, 1960.
Dunbar's Cove. New York: Scribner, 1957.
The Insolent Breed. New York: Scribner, 1959.
Interstate. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
Killer in the House. New York: New American Library, 1957.
The Least One. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967.
A Long Way to Go. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965.
The Loser. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964.
A Neo-Socratic Dialogue on the Reluctant Empire. Baldwyn, Miss.: Outlaw Press, 1971.
Search for Surrender. Greenwich, Conn.: Gold Medal, 1957.
The Secret of Sylvia. Greenwich, Conn.: Gold Medal, 1958.
The Spangled Road. New York: Scribner, 1962.
There Were Also Strangers. Far Hills, N.J.: New Horizon Press, 1985.
The Tobacco Men. New York: Holt, 1965.
Walk Through the Valley. New York: Scribner, 1950.
DEAN, BLANCHE EVANS, 1892-1974
Teacher. Born: Clay County. Education: Attended Jacksonville State University; graduated from Valparaiso University and the University of Alabama. Taught school in Jefferson County for thirty-two years; directed the Alabama Outdoor Nature Camp for thirteen years; leader of Nature Lore at the American Youth Foundation camp in Michigan fourteen years. Member of the Alabama Academy of Science, National Association of Biology Teachers, National Wildlife Federation, American Fern Society, National Audubon Society, and Delta Kappa Gamma. Inducted into Alabama Women's Hall of Fame, Judson College, 1985.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Birds. Birmingham, Ala.: Southern University Press, 1969.
Ferns of Alabama and Fern Allies. Northport, Ala.: American Southern Publishers, 1964.
Happy Trails. Birmingham, Ala.: Southern University Press, 1972.
Let's Learn the Birds in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: AAA Letter Service, 1958.
Trees and Shrubs in the Heart of Dixie. Birmingham, Ala.: Coxe Publishing, 1961.
Wildflowers of Alabama and Adjoining States. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
DEAVER, MARY JO, 1938-
Music teacher. Born: June 14, 1938, Coleman, Texas. Parents: Elmer Joe and Edna Erle (McCorkle) Blair. Married: Frank Deaver, August 22, 1957. Children: Two. Education: Sam Houston State University, B.S., 1959; M.A., 1960; University of Alabama, Ed.S., 1974; additional graduate study at the Universities of Oklahoma and Oregon. Taught voice and piano privately in Texas; public schools of Texas and Alabama, including Partlow State School and Tuscaloosa City Schools. Hosted a music series on Alabama Education Television, 1971-1972; worked with continuing education at Druid City Hospital, 1979-.
Source: Mary Jo Deaver, Northport, Ala.
Author: From Here to There... and Back: a Sketch of the Ancestory [sic] of Robert Edmund McCorkle and Oma Pearl Owen McCorkle. Northport, Ala.: Deaver, 1976.
In Tune With The Times. University, Ala.: Alabama Educational Television Commission, 1978.
Rhythms and Rhymes for Remedial Learning. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama State Department of Education, Division of Exceptional Children and Youth, 1973.
Sing a Song of Yesterday. S.l.: Media Consultants, 1980.
Sound and Silence: Developmental Learning for Children Through Music. Pikeville, Ky.: Curriculum Development and Research, Inc., s.d.
Songs: the Comforter. S.l.: Lorenz Music Publishers.
For Everything, a Season. Oklahoma City, Okla.: Melody House Records, s.d.
I Can Trust His Love. S.l.: Ad Libitum Records, 1977.
I Have Touched the Hand of Jesus. Atlanta, Ga.: LeFevre, s.d.
DE COTTES, NINA BROWNE, 1858-1936
Editor, writer. Born: February 23, 1858, Montevallo. Parents: William Phineas and Margaret Elizabeth Warwick (Stevens) Browne. Married: John MacMurphy de Cottes, February 8, 1877. Education: Attended Ursuline Convent in Tuscaloosa; graduated from Saybrook Hall, Montreal, Canada. Editor of Montgomery Advertiser, 1890- 1908; published Social World for many years. First woman to work for Advertiser.
Source: Owen's The Story of Alabama, Vol. 3.
Author: A Social Directory of Montgomery, Alabama, 1900-1901. S.l.: s.n., 1900.
DEDERER, JOHN MORGAN, 1951-
Writer, editor. Born: January 14, 1951, Fort Meade, Md. Parents: Douglas Morgan and Evelyn (Mueller) Dederer. Married: Melissa. Children: Two. Education: University of South Florida, B.A., 1980; M.A., 1982; University of Alabama, Ph.D. candidate. Employed by PanAmerican Airways, Aerospace Division, British West Indies, 1968-1969; Surfside Slant Islander Weekly, Cocoa Beach, Florida, 1970-1975; U.S. Army, 1974-1977; editor of The Southern Historian; Graduate Council Fellow at the University of Alabama; visiting scholar at Brown University. Received a Colonial Dames Award, a University of Alabama Graduate Research Fellowship, Southern History Award, the A.B. Moore History Award; U.S. Army Center of Military History Fellowship.
Source: John Morgan Dederer, University, Ala.
Author: Making Bricks Without Straw: Nathanael Greene's Southern Campaigns and Mao Tse-Tung's Mobile War. Manhattan, Kan.: Sunflower University Press, 1983.
War In America to 1775: Before Yankee Doodle. New York: New York University Press, 1990.
DeFOREST, LEE, 1873-1961
Inventor. Born: August 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Parents: Henry Swift and Anna Margaret (Robbins) DeForest. Married: Nora Staton Blatch, 1908. Married: Mary Mayo, 1912. Married: Marie Mosquinti, 1930. Children: Three. Education: Yale University, Ph.B., 1893; Ph.D., 1899. Worked for Western Electric in Chicago on detecting wireless sound. Established the first wireless station (radio) in Jersey City, transmitting Caruso's voice, 1902; experimented with audion tube for better transmission, 1903; successful transmission using audion tube, 1907; installed transmitters atop the Eiffel Tower and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building; presented the first sound- on-film program in a theatre, 1923. Patented over 300 inventions; later known as "father of radio". Awarded a gold medal at the St. Louis World's Fair, 1904; Medal of Honor of the Institute of Radio Engineers; Edison Medal, 1946.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4, from Current Biography, 1941, and files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: The Audion. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1920.
Father of Radio: the Autobiography of Lee DeForest. Chicago: Wilcox and Follett, 1950.
How to Set Up an Amateur Radio Receiving Station. New York: De Forest Radio and Telegraph, 1920.
Television, Today and Tomorrow. New York: Dial, 1942.
Wireless in the Home. New York: De Forest Radio and Telegraph, 1922.
DeJARNETTE, DAVID LLOYD, 1907-
Archaeologist, curator, university professor. Born: Bessemer. Married. Children: One. Education: University of Alabama, B.S., 1929; M.A., 1959. Served as curator for the Alabama Museum of Natural History, 1930-1948; Chairman, Museum Division, Oak Ridge Insititute for Nuclear Studies, 1948-1953; archaeologist at the Mound State Monument, 1953-1954; professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Alabama, 1955-. Member of the Society of American Archaeology and the American Anthropological Association.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 13th edition.
Author: Archaeological Excavations at Gaineswood, Demopolis, Alabama. S.l.: s.n. (typescript), 1973.
Archaeological Salvage Excavations at Two French Colonial Period Indian Sites on Mobile Bay, Alabama. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1976.
An Archaeological Survey of Pickwick Basin. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1942.
The Archaeology of the Childersburg Site, Alabama. Tallahassee, Fla.: Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, 1960.
The Bessemer Site. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1942.
Blue Eye Creek Watershed Archaeological Site Survey. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, 1974.
Cypress Creek Watershed Archaeological Site Survey. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, 1974.
Highway Salvage Excavations at Two French Colonial Period Indian Sites Mobile Bay, Alabama. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Museum, 1976.
An Inventory and Evaluation of Archaeological Resources in and around the proposed Alabama Enrichment Plant Site in Houston County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, 1976.
Little Bear Creek Site. University, Ala.: Alabama Museum of Natural History, 1948.
Mud Creek Watershed Archaeological Survey. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, 1974.
The Perry Site. University, Ala.: Alabama Museum of Natural History, 1948.
Preliminary Archaeological Investigations, Second Field Season at the X-Kukican Zone, Yucatan, Mexico. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, 1948.
A Selected Bibliography of Alabama Archaeology. University, Ala.: Alabama Archaeological Society, 1970.
Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter Excavations. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, 1962.
Upper Bushy Creek Watershed Archaeological Site Survey. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, 1974.
The Whitesburg Bridge Site. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Museum of Natural History, 1948.
Joint Author: The Flint River Site, Ma 48. University, Ala.: Alabama Museum of Natural History, 1948.
Handbook of Alabama Archaeology. Moundville, Ala.: Archaeological Research Association of Alabama, 1964.
Editor: Point Types. Moundville, Ala.: Archaeological Research Association of Alabama, 1975.
Unifare Blade and Flake Tools. Decatur: J. W. Cambron, 1967.
DELANEY, THOMAS CALDWELL, JR., 1918-
Dean, school superintendent, museum director. Born: January 1, 1918, Danville, Va. Parents: Thomas C. and Ethel (Loving) Delaney. Married: Lois Jean Fitzsimmons, July 20, 1960. Education: Spring Hill College, B.S., 1941; University of Alabama, M.A., 1952. Served as dean of the University Military School, 1941-1956; founder and superintendent of Julius T. Wright School for Girls, 1956-1965; museum director for City of Mobile, 1965-. Member of the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1958- 1965; Historic Mobile Preservation Society, Alabama Historical Association, International Institute of Arts and Letters, Phi Delta Kappa, and Phi Theta Kappa. Received the Alabama Penwomen Scroll, 1962.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1978, and Who's Who in Alabama, 1972.
Author: Craighead's Mobile. Mobile, Ala.: Haunted Bookshop, 1968.
Deep South. Mobile, Ala.: Haunted Book Shop, 1942.
Madame Octavia Walton LeVert. Mobile, Ala.: Historic Mobile Preservation Society, 1961.
A Mobile Sextet: Papers .... Mobile, Ala.: The Haunted Book Shop, 1981.
The Phoenix Volunteer Fire Company of Mobile, 1838-1888. Mobile, Ala.: Phoenix Museum, 1967.
Remember Mobile. Mobile : s.n., 1948.
The Story of Mobile. Mobile, Ala.: Gill Printing, 1953.
Joint Author: Infant Mystics. Mobile, Ala.: s.n., 1968.
DELBENE, RONALD NORMAN, 1942-
Episcopal priest, consultant. Born: September 18, 1942, Warren, Ohio. Parents: Donald James and Virginia Louise (Murberger) DelBene. Married: Eleanor Ann McKenzie, July 6, 1968. Children: Two. Education: Marquette University, B.A., 1963; Mankato State University, M.A., 1969; the University of the South, M.A., 1978. Taught at Mary Manse College, 1965-1967; director of campus ministry at Newman Center, Oshkosh, Wis., 1967-1968; consultant to Winston Press-CBS, 1968-1976; director, The Hermitage, Trussville, 1977-; rector of the Church of the Holy Cross, Trussville, 1980.
Source: Episcopal Clerical Directory, 1983.
Author: Alone With God. Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1984.
The Breath of Life. Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1981.
Hunger of the Heart. Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1983.
Into The Light: the Simple Way To Pray With The Sick and The Dying. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1988.
Near Life's End: What Family and Friends Can Do. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1988.
A Time To Mourn: Recovering From The Death Of A Loved One. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1988.
When I'm Alone: Thoughts and Prayers That Comfort. Nashville: The Upper Room, 1988.
De LEON, THOMAS COOPER, 1839-1914
Editor, writer. Born: May 21, 1839, Columbia, S.C. Parents: Mardici Heninrich and Rebecca (Lopez y Nunez) De Leon, Education: Attended Rugby Academy and Georgetown College, Washington, D.C. Employed as a clerk for the Topographical Engineering Bureau, 1858-1861; served in the Confederate Army, 1861-1865; edited Cosmopolite Magazine, 1865-1866; wrote for various New York newspapers, magazines, and translated French novels, 1866-1867; managing editor of Mobile Register, 1868-1876; editor, 1877-; edited The Gossip and The Gulf Citizen, 1873-1896. Organized and managed the Mobile Mardi Gras Carnival for 25 years, produced political writings under the name, Dunne Browne. Blind last eleven years of his life.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1, and the Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 5.
Author: Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60s. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1907.
Coqsurcus: a Lay of a Very Late Encampment .... Chicago: The Hanscom Printing Co., 1887.
Crag-Nest. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Printing, 1897.
Creole and Puritan. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1889.
Creole Carnivals. Atlanta: Author, 1899.
Cross Purposes. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1871.
East, West and South. Mobile, Ala.: The Gossip Printing Co., 1891.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Printing, 1890.
An Innocent Cheat: or, Episodes of the Everlasting Comedy. New York: F. T. Neely, 1898.
F. John Holden, Unionist. St. Paul, Minn.: Price-McGill, 1893.
Joseph Wheeler: the Man, The Statesman, The Soldier. Atlanta: Byrd Printing, 1899.
Juny: or, Only One Octoroon's Story. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Printing Co., 1889.
A Novelette Trilogy. London: F. T. Neely, 1897.
Our Creole Carnivals. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Press, 1890.
The Pride of the Mercers. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1898.
The Puritan's Daughter. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Printing, 1891.
The Rending of the Solid South. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Printing Co., 1895.
The Rock or the Rye. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Printing, 1888.
Schooners That Bump on the Bar. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Printing, 1894.
Society as I Have Foundered It. Mobile, Ala.: Gossip Printing, 1890.
Sybilla: a Romaunt of the Town. Mobile, Ala.: The Gossip Press, 1891.
Editor: South Songs. New York: Bleilock & Co., 1860.
DeLOACH, ALTHA THOMPSON, 1915-
Teacher. Born: May 18, 1915, Cleburne County. Parents: George Henry and Naomi (Hicks) Thompson. Married: Thomas Earl DeLoach, June 25, 1938. Children: Three. Education: Attended Livingston State Teachers College, 1934-1936; Jacksonville State University; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1954; the University of Alabama in Birmingham, M.A., 1973. Served as secretary for national defense classes for Randolph County Board of Education, 1941-1942; taught school in Autauga County, 1936- 1938; Etowah County, 1950-1975. Edited State Kappan. Member and president of Etowah Classroom Teachers and of Etowah County Retired Teachers. Member of the Advisory Councils for Walnut Grove's Nutrition Programs and for East Alabama Commission on Aging. Delegate to England for the John Wesley Tour and for the 13th World Methodist Conference, Dublin, Ireland. Named Walnut Groves's Senior Citizen of the Year.
Source: Altha DeLoach, Walnut Grove, Ala.
Author: Facts and Fancy. Rainsville, Ala.: Sand Mountain Printing Co., 1984.
Out of the Mouths of Grandkids... Happenings Across the Generations. Rainsville, Ala.: Sand Mountain Printing Co., 1985.
Things Round About. Rainsville, Ala.: Sand Mountain Printing Co., 1983.
DELPAR, HELEN VICTORIA, 1936-
University professor. Born: May 10, 1936, New York, N.Y. Parents: Nicholas and Delores (Ricaurte) Delpar. Education: Rutgers University, B.A., 1957; New York University, M.A., 1961; Columbia University, Ph.D., 1967. Taught at Indiana State University, 1967-1969; Florida State University's Canal Zone Branch, 1969-1973; visiting professor at Ohio Wesleyan University, 1973-1974; Univerity of Alabama, 1974.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 53.
Author: The Discoverers: an Encyclopedia of Explorers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.
Instructor's Manual for Hubert Herring's A History of Latin America. New York: Knopf, 1964.
The Liberal Party of Columbia, 1863-1903. New York: s.n., 1967.
Red Against Blue: the Liberal Party In Columbian Politics, 1863-1899. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1981.
Editor: Borzoi Reader in Latin American History. New York: Knopf, 1972.
Encyclopedia of Latin America. New York: McGraw, 1974.
DENSON, JOHN VERNON, 1885-
Lawyer, banker. Born: June 10, 1885, LaFayette. Parents: Nimrod Davis and Carrie (Vernon) Denson. Married: Clara Ellen Forbes Owens, December 10, 1940. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1905; M.S., 1906; University of Alabama, LL.B, 1908. Practiced law in LaFayette, 1908; Opelika until 1940; president of Farmers National Bank. Member of the Board of Directors, West Point Manufacturing Company; Board of Trustees of Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Was a Rotarian, Mason, and a Knight of Pythias.
Source: Owen's The Story of Alabama, Vol. 5.
Author: Slavery Laws in Alabama. Auburn, Ala.: Auburn University Historical Studies, 1908.
DENTON, JEREMIAH ANDREW, JR., 1924-
Naval officer, U.S. Senator. Born: July 15, 1924, Mobile. Parents: Jeremiah Andrew and Irene (Steele) Denton. Married: Kathryn Jane Maury, June 6, 1946. Children: Seven. Education: Attended Spring Hill College, 1942-1943; U.S. Naval Academy, B.S., 1946; George Washington University, M.A., 1964; Spring Hill College, honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, 1973. Entered the U.S. Navy in 1946, serving aboard the USS Valley Forge until 1947; involved in testing airships, 1948-1952; worked on airborne early warning systems, 1952-1956; aboard USS Independence, 1964- 1965; prisoner of war in North Vietnam, 1965-1973; Commandant Armed Forces Staff College, 1974-1977; retired from U.S. Navy in 1977; executive assistant to president of Spring Hill College, 1977-1980; elected to U.S. Senate, 1980. Member of the Senate's Armed Services, Judicial, Labor and Human Resources, and Veteran's Affairs Committees. Founded the Coalition for Decency. Honored by resolution by the Alabama State Legislature and received two awards from the Freedom Foundation.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 69, and Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1982.
Author: The Meaning of Freedom. West Point, N.Y.: United States Military Academy, 1975.
Joint Author: When Hell Was in Session. New York: Readers Digest Press, 1976.
DEVON, JOHN ANTHONY (Pseudonym)
See: Payne, Pierre Stephen Robert
DICKINSON, ARTHUR TAYLOR, JR., 1929-1977
Librarian. Born: December 9, 1929. Montgomery. Parents: Arthur Taylor and Ruby Marie (Brown) Dickinson. Married: Marjorie Faye Sutton, June 14, 1954. Children: Two. Education: Huntingdon College, B.A., 1953; University of Chicago, M.A., 1957. Worked as clerk for the Midwest Inter-Library Center in Chicago, 1953-1954; Mansfield, Ohio Public Library, 1954-1977, serving as a reference librarian, head of the county department, assistant librarian; head librarian, 1964. Member of the American and Ohio Library Associations and the Ohio Genealogical Society.
Source: Who's Who in the Midwest, 1976, and the files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: American Historical Fiction. New York: Scarecrow, 1958.
DICKINSON, CHARLES HENRY, 1857-1938
Congregational minister. Born: December 21, 1857, West Springfield, Mass. Parents: Henry Kirke White and Angeline (Dunham) Dickinson. Married: Mary Lord Thorn, January 20, 1886. Children: Two. Education: Amherst College, B.A., 1881; Yale Divinity School, B.D., 1884; graduate work at Yale, 1884-1889; an honorary D.D., 1903. Organized a Congregational ministry in 1885 and served as pastor, Wallingford, Conn., until 1893; Canadaigua, N.Y. until 1901; Fargo, N.D. until 1905; Middlebury, Vt. until 1911; Boston until 1913. In charge of religious and extension work in Calhoun, Ala., 1913-1924 and 1932-1935. Member of the Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.
Author: The Christian Reconstruction of Modern Life. New York: Macmillan, 1913.
The Religion of the Social Passion. Chicago: Christian Century, 1923.
The Social Aims of Jesus. New York: R. R. Smith, 1930.
DICKMAN, BYRON A., 1916-
Engineer, businessman. Born: January 22, 1916, Defiance, Ohio. Parents: Blaine and Grace (Burkett) Dickman. Married: Nell Chester, December 24, 1941. Children: One. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1943. Worked for York Corporation, 1943-1945; Nolin Manufacturing Corporation, 1948-1970. Founded Summit Equipment Corporation and sold it in 1975. Member of the Gideons, Optimists, and Professional Engineers.
Source: Byron A. Dickman, and You're Fired.
Author: You're Fired. Montgomery, Ala.: Gracelaine Publications, 1978.
DICKSON, THOMAS INCHES, JR., 1923-
University professor, foreign service officer. Born: October 17, 1923, New York, N.Y. Married: 1948. Education: University of Texas, B.A., 1943; M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1951. Worked as research associate in tax administration for the Texas Legislative Council, 1951-1952; U.S. State Department, 1952- 1968; Auburn University, 1968. Served as member of the U.S. Marine Corps Command and General Staff College, 1969-1973; N.S.F. Participant in Math Applications in Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1971; project director, training/education master plan for criminal justice personnel, Alabama Law Enforcement Planning Agency, 1973-1974; research director for the Alabama Development Office's County Finance Study, 1976-1977.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1976.
Author: Land Use in Alabama's Counties. Auburn, Ala.: Office of Public Service and Research, School of Arts and Sciences, Auburn University, 1977.
Joint Author: Expenditures of Alabama Counties. Montgomery, Ala.: State Planning Division, Alabama Development Office, 1977.
Income to Alabama Counties. Montgomery, Ala.: State Planning Division, Alabama Development Office, 1977.
A Summary of County Finance Trends in Alabama, 1950-1975. Auburn, Ala.: Office of Public Service and Research, School of Arts and Sciences, Auburn University, 1977.
Trends in Legal Authority to Raise Revenue: Alabama Counties. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Development Office, 1977.
DINOFF, MICHAEL, 1933-
Psychologist. Born: April 30, 1933, New York. Parents: David and Dorothy (Schwartz) Dinoff. Married: Sondra Miselson, June 27, 1953. Children: Three. Education: Indiana University, B.A., 1955; University of Alabama, M.S., 1957; University of Tennessee, Ph.D., 1960. Served in various assistant teaching and training positions in Knoxville, Birmingham, Bristol, 1955-1961; research psychologist for the Veteran's Administration and visiting lecturer at the University of Alabama, 1961-1963; full- time, University of Alabama, 1963; director of the Psychology Clinic, 1965.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. III.
Joint Author: Aspects of Community Psychiatry. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1978.
Behavior Modification in Children. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1974.
Psychotherapy--The Promised Land? University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1977.
Joint Editor: Neglected Problems in Community Mental Health. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1981.
Outpatient Psychiatry: Progress, Treatment, Prevention. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1985.
DI ORIO, DOROTHY MAY, 1932-
University professor. Born: November 17, 1932, York Pa. Education: Bucknell University, B.A., 1954; Middlebury College, M.A., 1960; University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1971. Taught at Neshaminy High School, 1954-1958; La Chatelaine, St. Blaise, Switzerland, 1956-1957; the Paris American School, 1957-1962; Munich American School, 1962-1965; University of Maryland Overseas Division in Munich, 1965-1967; College of William and Mary, 1967-1968; West Virginia University, 1971-1972; Auburn University, 1972. At Auburn, served as Castanoli Professor of Italian (1977); head of Foreign Language Department, 1972. Member of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, ASUP, and the American Association of Teachers of French. Awarded a Chevalier and L'Ordre des Plumes Academiques.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 7th edition.
Author: Leconte de Lisle. Oxford, Miss.: University of Mississippi Press, 1972.
DIXON, FRANK MURRAY, 1892-1965
Governor, lawyer. Born: July 25, 1892, Oakland, Calif. Parents: Frank and Launa (Murry) Dixon. Married: Juliet Jolly Perry, November 3, 1920. Children: Two. Education: studied Columbia University; University of Virginia, LL.B., 1916; Birmingham-Southern College, honorary LL.D., 1940; University of Alabama, honorary LL.D., 1946; admitted to the bar and practiced law in Birmingham, 1917; served as governor of Alabama, 1939- 1943; returned to law practice, 1943. Member of the American and Alabama Bar Associations, Kappa Alpha, and Phi Delta Phi.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.
Author: The Public Life of Frank M. Dixon: Sketches and Speeches. Montgomery, Ala.: Skinner Printing, 1979.
DOBBINS, AUSTIN CHARLES, 1919-
University professor. Born: October 14, 1919, Nashville, Tenn. Parents: Gaines Stanley and May (Riley) Dobbins. Married: Mary Denmead Willis, 1947. Children: Two. Education: Mississippi College, B.A., 1941; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1948; Ph.D., 1950. Taught at Samford University, serving as head of the Department of English and Journalism, 1950-; Distinguished Visiting Professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1964. Member of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Renaissance Society of America, American Education Association, National Council of Teachers of English, American Theatre Association, Sigma Tau Delta and Kappa Phi Kappa.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57, and Directory of American Scholars, 1978.
Author: Gaines S. Dobbins. Nashville: Broadman, 1981.
Grandfather's Journal: Company B, Sixteenth Mississippi Infantry Volunteers, Harris' Brigade, Mahone's Division, Hill's Corps, A.N.V. May 27, 1861-July 15, 1865. Dayton, Ohio: Morningside, 1988.
Milton and the Book of Revelation. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, 1975.
Joint Author: A Research Paper Manual. S.l.: s.n., 1967.
DOBBINS, GAINES STANLEY, 1886-
Baptist minister, seminary professor. Born: July 29, 1886, Langsdale, Miss. Parents: Charles Wesley and Letita (Gaines) Dobbins. Married: May Riley Dobbins. Children: Three. Education: Mississippi College, B.A., 1908; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.D., 1914; Columbia University, M.A., 1915; Mississippi College, honorary D.D. and LL.D., 1915 and 1947. Ordained a Baptist minister in 1914. Served as church pastor in Gloster and New Albany, Mississippi; editorial staff of Baptist Sunday School Board, 1915-1920; faculty member of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1920-1956; distinguished professional church administrator of Golden State Theological Seminary, 1956-1966; lecturer at Samford University, 1967. Received the Golden Arrow Award from Mississippi College, 1973. Member of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences and the International Council for Religious Education.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 7th edition, and Who's Who in America, 1978.
Author: Baptist Churches in Action. Nashville: Southern Baptist Convention, 1929.
The Bible and the Bible School. Nashville: Broadman, 1935.
Building a Better School. Nashville: Convention Press, 1957.
Building Better Churches. Nashville: Broadman, 1947.
Can a Religious Democracy Survive? New York: F. H. Revell, 1941.
The Church at Worship. Nashville: Broadman, 1962.
The Churchbook: a Treasury of Materials and Methods. Nashville: Broadman, 1951.
The Efficient Church. Nashville: Southern Baptist Convention, 1923.
Good News to Change Lives. Nashville: Broadman, 1977.
Great Teachers Make a Difference. Nashville: Broadman, 1965.
Guiding Adults in Bible Study. Nashville: Broadman, 1968.
How to Teach Young People and Adults in the Sunday School. Nashville: Southern Baptist Convention, 1930.
The Improvement of Teaching in the Sunday School. Nashville: Southern Baptist Convention, 1943.
Learning to Lead. Nashville: Broadman, 1968.
A Ministering Church. Nashville: Broadman, 1960.
The School in Which We Teach. Nashville: Southern Baptist Convention, 1934.
Teaching Adults in the Sunday School. Nashville: Broadman, 1936.
Understanding Adults. Nashville: Broadman, 1948.
Vitalizing the Church Program. Nashville: Broadman, 1933.
A Winning Witness. Nashville: Southern Baptist Convention, 1938.
Winning the Children. Nashville: Broadman, 1953.
Working Together in a Spiritual Democracy. Nashville: Southern Baptist Convention, 1935.
Working With Intermediates. Nashville: Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1926.
Zest for Living. Waco, Tex.: Word Books, 1977.
DOBBINS, WILLIAM RAY, 1861-1932
Presbyterian minister. Born: May 17, 1861. Parents: Benjamin Franklin and Margaret Ruth (Morrow) Dobbins. Married: Mary Triplette Buckland, 1889. Children: Two. Education: McCormick Theological Seminary, 1889; Westminister College, honorary D.D., 1901; Austin College, honorary LL.D., 1924. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1889. Organized and served the Immanuel Church in Chicago, 1886-1890; financial secretary of Westminister College, 1890-91; pastor of churches in Marshall and St. Joseph, Mo., 1891-1920; pastor of South Highland Church in Birmingham, 1920-. Served as chairman of the executive committee of the Y.M.C.A. of Missouri; founder and president of the trustees of the School of the Ozarks; trustee of Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville; director of Agnes Scott College. Member of the World's Council of Presbyterians, Liverpool, England, 1904; chairman of the executive committee of the Synod of Alabama; moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.
Author: The Book in the Light of Its Books. New York: F. H. Revell, 1929.
DODD, DONALD BRADFORD, 1940-
University professor. Born: February 6, 1940, Manchester. Parents: Ben G. and Alta (Weaver) Dodd. Married: Sandra Whitten, June 18, 1961. Children: Two. Education: University of North Alabama, B.S., 1961; Auburn University, M. A., 1966; University of Georgia, Ph.D., 1969. Taught at Troy State University, 1968-1969; Auburn University at Montgomery, 1969. Member of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57.
Author: Historical Atlas of Alabama. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1974.
History of Alabama Transportation: a Bibliography. Montecello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, 1979.
History of Alabama's Cities: a Bibliography. Monticello,Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, 1979.
History of Alabama's Road System: a Bibliography. Montecello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, 1979.
The History of Black Politics in Alabama: a Preliminary Bibliography. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, 1979.
The History of Industrialization in Alabama: a Bibliography. Montecello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, 1979.
Joint Author: Annals of Northwest Alabama. Northport, Ala.: Hermitage Press, 1965.
Historical Statistics of the South, 1790-1970. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
Historical Statistics of the United States, 1790-1970. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
History of Alabama Urbanization: a Selective Bibliography. Monticello, Ill.: Vance Bibliographies, 1981.
State and Local Government Administration. New York: M. Dekker, 1985.
DODD, WYNELLE S.
Researcher. Born: Atlanta, Ga. Married: Lee P. Dodd. Children: Two. Employed by federal government in Washington. Moved to Montgomery, 1959.
Source: The Birmingham News, October 21, 1979.
Joint Author: Annals of Northwest Alabama, Vol. 4.
Winston, an Antebellum and Civil War History of North Alabama. Northport, Ala.: Hermitage, 1965.
Historical Statictics of the South, 1790-1970. University Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
Historical Statistics of the United States, 1790-1970. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1973.
DOOLEY, VINCENT JOSEPH, 1932-
Football coach. Born: September 4, 1932, Mobile. Parents: William Vincent and Nellie Agnes (Stauter) Dooley, Married: Barbara Anne Meshad, 1960. Children: Three. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.A., 1954; M.A. Served as assistant football coach, Auburn, 1956-1963; head coach at the University of Georgia, 1963. Received the National Defense Medal. Member of Omicron Delta Kappa.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1978.
Author: Developing a Superior Football-Control Attack. West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker, 1969.
Dooley's Dawgs: 25 Years of Winning Football at the University of Georgia. Atlanta: Longstreet Press, 1989.
DORMAN, LEWY, 1887-
College teacher. Born: September 12, 1887, Clayton. Parents: Alpheus Alexander and Martha Slaughter Dorman. Education: University of Alabama, M.A.; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D. Taught at Huntingdon College and Athens College.
Source: Owen's The Story of Alabama, Vol. III, and Party Politics in Alabama.
Author: Party Politics in Alabama from 1850 throught 1860. Wetumpka, Ala.: Wetumpka Printing Co., 1935. (also published as his Ph.D. thesis).
DOSTER, JAMES FLETCHER, 1912-
University professor. Born: December 8, 1912, Tuscaloosa. Parents: James Jarvis and Mabel (Cowart) Doster. Married: Nina Hall, December 22, 1936. Children: Two. Education: University of Alabama, A.B., 1932; University of Chicago, M.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1948. Taught at the University of Alabama, 1936-1939, 1940-1944, 1948-; Howard College, 1944-1945; worked for Danforth Foundation Association, 1950-1953; Consultant to Creek Nation on claims pending before Indian Claims Commission, 1957-1967 and 1968-1973. Member of the Southern History Association, American Economic Association, Economic History Association, Orginal American Historians, Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Chi, Phi Delta Kappa, and Kappa Delta Pi.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1978 and 1980; Directory of American Scholars, 7th edition, and the files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Alabama's First Railroad Commission, 1881-1885. Chicago: Privately published, 1949.
The Creek Indians and Their Lands. New York: Garland Press, 1974.
The Creek Nation, Plaintiff, and the Creed [sic] Nation, .... New York: Clearwater Pub. Co., 1974.
Railroads in Alabama Politics, 1875-1914. University, Ala.: s.n., 1957.
Joint Author: Historic Settlement in the Upper Tombigbee Valley, 1981. University, Ala.: Center for the Study of Southern History and Culture, University of Alabama, 1981.
Historical Geography of the Upper Tombigbee Valley. University, Ala.: Center for the Study of Southern History and Culture, University of Alabama, 1982.
Materials for Research in Southern Industrial History. University, Ala., s.n., 1951.
Tennessee Tom Country. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1987.
DOUGLAS, JAMES McM. (Pseudonym)
See: Butterworth, William Edmund, III
DOUGLASS, MARGARET SIZEMORE
See: Sizemore, Margaret
DOUGLASS, HIRAM KENNEDY, 1893-
Episcopal priest. Born: August 21, 1893, Lauderdale County. Parents: James Josephus and Mary Sue (Brooks) Douglass. Education: Attended Florence State College, 1913; Columbia University, 1913-1915; University of the South, B.A., 1919; Keble College, Oxford University, B. Litt., 1921. Ordained a deacon in Episcopal Church, 1921; and a priest, 1923. Served as rector of churches in Columbus and Atlanta, Ga.; Columbia and Memphis, Tenn., and Detroit, Mich. Member of several heraldic and genealogical organizations.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. 1.
Author: My Southern Families. S.l.: Gillingham, Dorset: Blackmore Press, 1967.
DOWELL, SPRIGHT, 1878-1963
School teacher and administrator, college and university president. Born: January 2, 1878, Wake County, N.C. Parents: George James and Trannia (Yates) Dowell. Married: Camille Early, December 28, 1898. Children: Four. Education: Wake Forest College, A.B., 1896; Teacher's College of Columbia University, 1911; studied at the University or Tennessee, Harvard College and Baylor University; University of Alabama, honorary LL.D., 1920, Served as elementary school principal in Shelby County, 1898-1900; high school principal at Columbiana, 1900- 1906; school superintendent at East Lake, 1906-1909; principal of Burrett School in Birmingham, 1909-1913; chief clerk, Alabama Department of Education, 1915-1917; State Superintendent of Education, 1917-1920; president of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1920-1928; president of Mercer University, 1929-1953. Served as secretary and president of the Conference of Church-Related Colleges of the Southwest; vice president of the Georgia Education Association; president of the Georgia Association of Colleges.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4, and the files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Columbus Roberts. Nashville: Broadman, 1951.
A History of Mercer University, 1833-1953. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University, 1958.
DOWLING, HERNDON GLENN, 1921-
University professor, editor, museum curator. Born: April 2, 1921, Cullman. Education: University of Alabama, B.S., 1942; University of Florida, M.S., 1948; University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1951. Taught at the University of Florida, 1947-1948; Haverford College, 1951-1952; University of Arkansas, 1952-1959; New York University, 1973. Served as museum assistant at the University of Michigan, 1948-1951; assistant curator then curator of reptiles at New York Zoological Park, 1959-1967; director, Herpilology Information System at the American Museum of Natural History, 1968-1973; adjunct professor at Rhode Island University, 1964; adjunct professor at New York University, 1965-1973. Edited the Herpetological Review. 1969-1973; editor of amphibian and reptile section of Biological Abstracts, 1968-1973; general editor of the Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles, 1966-1973.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1982.
Author: A Bibliography on Albinism in Amphibians and Reptiles, 1849-1972. New York: Herpetological Information Search Systems, American Museum of Natural History, 1974.
A Bibliography on the Chromosomes of the Amphibians and Reptiles, 1891-1971. New York: Herpetological Information Search Systems, American Museum of Natural History, 1972.
A Bibliography on the Green Turtle, Chelonia Mydas, 1743-1971. New York: Herpetological Information Search Systems, American Museum of Natural History, 1972.
A Bibliography on the Reproductive System of Reptiles, 1822- 1972: a Bibliographic Service. New York: Herpetological Information Search Systems, American Museum of Natural History, 1973.
A Review of the Amphibians and Reptiles in Arkansas. Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas, 1957.
A Taxonomic Study of the Ratsnakes, Genus Elaphe Fitzinger, vol. II. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1952.
A Taxonomic Study of the Ratsnakes, Genus Elaphe Fitzinger: vol. IV. a Checklist of the American Forms. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952.
A Taxonomic Study of the Ratsnakes, Genus Elaphe Fitzinger, vol. V. (the Rosalie section). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1952.
Joint Author: Systematic Herpetology: a Synopsis of Families and Higher Categories. New York: HISS Publications, 1978.
DOZIER, ORION T., 1848-1925
Physican, inventor. Born: August 18, 1848, Glenalter, Ga. Parents: Thomas Henry and Martha Stearns (Davie) Dozier. Married: Elizabeth Powers, April 30, 1874. Children: Five. Education: Atlanta Medical College, M.D., 1874. Practiced medicine in Attalla, Cherokee County, and Birmingham; Portageville, Mo.; Rome, Ga. Originated and organized the Regents of the White Shield, 1892. Invented and patented a hame for harness, a portable elevator, and a mailing machine.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4; from National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 22; and from the files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Chips and Whetstones of Verses and Prose. Birmingham, Ala.: Dispatch Printing, 1916.
Foibles of Fancy and Rhymes of the Times. Birmingham, Ala.: Dispatch Printing, 1894.
A Galaxy of Southern Heroes and Other Poems. Birmingham, Ala.: Dispatch Printing, 1905.
Just A-Thinking. Birmingham, Ala.: Dispatch Printing, 1920.
Poems and Prose of Orion T. Dozier. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Publishing Co., 1927.
Poems of Orion T. Dozier. New York: Neale, 1905.
DRAUGHON, RALPH BROWN, 1899-1968
School teacher, college teacher, college president. Born: September 1, 1899, Hartford. Parents: John William and Vashti (Roney) Draughon. Married: Caroline Marshall, 1931. Children: Two. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1921; M.S., 1929; studied at the University of Chicago, summers of 1923 and 1939; honorary LL.Ds from Birmingham-Southern College, 1948; University of Alabama, 1963; Auburn University, 1966. Taught high school in Choctaw County, 1922-1923; school principal in Sumter County, 1925-1927; Louisville, 1927-1928; Orrville, 1928- 1931; taught history at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1931-1937; secretary to the Board of Trustees, 1937-1944; director of instruction, 1944-1947; acting president, 1947-1948; president, 1948-1965. Directed state survey of rural tax delinquency, 1934; regional supervisor for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1936, Member of the Southern Regional Educational Board of Control, 1957-1960; American Academy of Political and Social Services.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.
Author: Alabama Polytechnic Institute. New York: Newcomen Society of North America, 1954.
Legislative Trends Affecting Higher Education in the Southern States. Auburn, Ala.?: s.n., 1959.
DUBOIS, ALAN (Pseudonym)
See: Wood, Clement Richardson
DUBOIS, ROCHELLE LYNN HOLT, 1946-
College instructor, artist, editor, publisher. Born: March 17, 1946, Chicago. Parents: Russell Thomas and Olga (Kochink) Holt. Education: University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, B.A., 1967; University of Iowa, M.F.A., 1970; Columbia Pacific University, Ph.D., 1980. Taught at Morningside College, 1970-1973; Rust College, 1973-1974; Mississippi Industrial College, 1974-1975; Daniel Payne College, 1975. Co-owner and operator of Ragnarok Press; editor of Valhalla magazine, 1970-1981. Real estate agent, 1982.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57, and the cover of Timesharing.
Author: The Bare Tissue of Her Soul: Poems. New York: Folder Editions, 1972.
From One Bird. Birmingham, Ala.: Ragnarok Press, 1978.
The Human Omelette: Poems. Sioux City, Iowa: Ragnarok Press, 1971.
Love in Spring. Holly Springs, Miss.: Ragnarok Press, 1975.
Pangs: a Novella. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Lawton Press, 1980.
A Peaceful Intent: Haiku. Sioux City, Iowa: Ragnarok Press, 1973.
Serendipity-- the Phoenix & the Lotus. Birmingham, Ala.: Ragnarok Press, 1978.
The Song of A Robin. Birmingham, Ala.: Ragnarok Press, 1976.
A Summer of the Heart: Poems for La Poloma. Birmingham, Ala.: Ragnarok Press, 1977.
Pointe Farms. Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.: Lunchroom Press, 1983.
Timesharing: a Consumer's Guide to a New Vacation Concept. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Somrie Press, 1982.
To Make a Bear Dance: Poems. Iowa City, Iowa: Ragnarok Press, 1970.
The Train in the Rain. Fulton, Mo.: Timberline Press, 1982.
Wing Span of an Albatross: Poems. Sioux City, Iowa: Ragnarok Press, 1972.
Yellow Pears, Smooth as Silk: Poems. Holly Springs, Miss.: Ragnarok Press, 1975.
Joint Author: A Dialogue of Days. Westfield, N.J.: Merging Media, 1984.
Gold Fantasy: Haiku. Holly Springs, Miss.: Ragnarok Press, 1975.
Editor: Children of the Moon. Sioux City, Iowa: Ragnarok Press, 1973.
Eid'olons. Sioux City, Iowa: Ragnarok Press, 1972.
Networks. Westfield, N.J.: Ragnarok Press, 1978.
Du BOSE, HORACE MELLARD, 1858-1941
Methodist minister. Born: November 7, 1858, Choctaw County. Parents: Hezekiah and Amanda (Hawkins) Du Bose. Married: Rosa Chaney, December 6, 1882. Married: Gertrude Vaughn Amis, 1899. Children: Six. Education: Attended Waynesboro Academy in Mississippi; languages and classics tutors: Emory and Henry College, honorary D.D., 1892. Licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1876; ordained, 1879. Served as pastor of churches in Mississippi; Galveston, Huntsville, Houston, and Tyler, Tex.; Los Angeles, Calif., 1876-1898; secretary of the Epworth League and editor of the Epworth Era, Nashville, 1898-1910; served as pastor in Augusta and Atlanta, Ga. Edited the Methodist Review, 1916-1918; elected a bishop and stationed in Berkeley, Calif. Member of 1901 Ecumenical Conference and of the World Sunday School Convention.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1., and the National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 18.
Author: The Bible and the Ages. New York: F. H. Revell, 1930.
The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1924.
The Consciousness of Jesus. Nashville: Smith and Lamar, 1917.
The Crisis of Criticism. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1923.
Francis Asbury. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1909.
The Gang of Six. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1906.
A History of Methodism. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1916.
The Law and the Prophets. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1924.
The Life and Memories of Reverend J. D. Barbee. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1906.
Life at Its Best. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1908.
Life of Joshua Soule. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1911.
Margaret, a Poetic Idyll. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1906.
The Men of Sapio Ranch. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1909.
The Planting of the Cross. San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray, 1903.
Rupert Wise. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1889.
The Symbol of Methodism. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1907.
Through Two Generations. New York: F. H. Revell, 1934.
Unto the Dawn. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1896.
DuBOSE, JOEL CAMPBELL, 1855-
School principal. Born: December 17, 1855, Gaston. Parents: Benjamin Eusebius and Sarah Elizabeth (Horn) DuBose. Married: Alice Vivian Horn, August 8, 1883. Education: University of Alabama, B.A., 1872; M.A., 1878. Served as principal of Pushmataha High School, 1878-1883; Snow Hill Academy, 1883-1886; Livinston Military Academy, 1886-1888; South Highland Academy in Birmingham, 1888-1898; DuBose's School for Boys in Birmingham, 1900-1917; special literary researcher at the Library of Congress and government departments in Washington. Contributed to The Monthly (University of Alabama), 1879; The Methodist Review, 1899. Served in the Alabama Legislature, 1903-1907.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4, and Marks' Who Was Who in Alabama.
Author: Alabama History. Richmond, Va.: B. F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1908.
Sketches of Alabama History. Philadelphia: Eldredge & Bro., 1901.
Editor: Notable Men of Alabama: Personal and Genealogical. Atlanta: Southern Historical Association, 1904.
Du BOSE, JOHN WITHERSPOON, 1836-1918
Farmer, newspaper columnist, and editor. Born: March 5, 1836, Darlington County, S.C. Parents: Kinbrough Cassels and Elizabeth Boykin (Witherspoon) DuBose. Education: one term at South Carolina College; private tutors. Became cotton farmer, Marengo County; served in Confederate Army; became newspaper columnist in Birmingham, 1866; member of editorial staff of The Birmingham Age-Herald. Worked as an assistant at the Alabama State Department of Archives and History.
Source: Owen's The Story of Alabama and Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4,
Author: Alabama's Tragic Decade. Birmingham, Ala.: Webb Book Co. 1940 (First published as a series of articles in the Birmingham Age-Herald).
General Joseph Wheeler and the Army of Tennessee. New York: Neale, 1912.
Jefferson County and Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Teeples & Smith, 1887.
The Life and Times of William Lowndes Yancey. Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Sons, 1892.
The Mineral Wealth of Alabama and Birmingham Illustrated. Birmingham, Ala.: N. T. Green, 1886.
The Witherspoons of Society Hill. Hartsville, S.C.: Hartsville Pub. Co., 1910.
DUFFEE, MARY GORDON, 1844-1930
Writer. Born: 1844, Tuscaloosa. Parents: Matthew and Martha (Gillespie) Duffee. Education: Attended schools in Tuscaloosa and New York City. Served as a Confederate spy. Honorary member of the National Geographic Society. Retired to Duffee's Mountain near Blount Springs.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Sketches of Alabama. University, Ala.: University of Alabama, 1970 (based on a series of articles published in 1885 through 1887 in the Weekly Iron Age in Birmingham).
DUGGAR, BENJAMIN MINGE, 1872-1950
Botanist, university professor. Born: September 1, 1872, Gallion. Parents: Reuben Henry and Margaret Louisa (Minge) Duggar. Married: Marie L. Robertson, October 16, 1901. Children: Five. Married: Elsie Rest, June 6, 1927. Children: One. Education: University of Alabama; Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, B.S. (First Honors), 1891; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, M.S., 1892; Harvard University, A.B., 1894; M.A., 1895; Cornell University, Ph.S., 1898; studied in botanical laboratories in Germany and France, 1905-1906; University of Missouri, honorary LL.D., 1944; Washington University, honorary D.Sc., 1953. Served as assistant director of the Alabama Experimental Station in Union, 1892-1893; assistant botanist at the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, 1895-1896; instructor at Cornell University, 1896-1901; plant physiologist at the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1901-1902; professor at the University of Missouri, 1902-1905; Cornell University, 1907-1912; Washington University and Missouri Botanical Garden, 1912-1927; University of Wisconsin, 1929-1943. Worked as a consultant in mycological research for Lederle Laboratories. Edited Botanical Abstracts, 1917-1933. Awarded the Medal of Honor of Public Education by Venezuela, 1951.
Source: Who Was Who in America, vol. 3; Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 6, and files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: The Cultivation of Mushrooms. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904.
Fungus Diseases of Plants. New York: Ginn, 1909.
Mushroom Growing. New York: Orange Judd Co., 1915.
Plant Physiology. New York: Macmillan, 1911.
The Principles of Mushroom Growing and Mushroom Spawn Making. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905.
Joint Author: A Textbook of General Botany. New York: Macmillan, 1942.
Editor: Biological Abstracts of Radiation. New York: McGraw, 1936.
DUGGAR, JOHN FREDERICK, 1868-1945
College professor, editor, agriculture extension director. Born: August 24, 1868, Faunsdale. Parents: Reuben Henry and Margaret Louisa (Minge) Duggar. Married: Frances Ambrose Camp, June 17, 1891. Children: Six. Education: Southern University at Greensboro, B.S., 1887; Mississippi A & M College, M.S., 1888; attended Columbia University (George Washington University), Cornell, and the University of Colorado. Taught at Texas A & M College, 1887-1889; edited Southern Live Stock Journal, 1890; assistant director of the Ag. Experiment station at Clemson College, 1890-1892; crop editor for U.S.D.A. Publications, The Experiment Station Record, 1893-1895; professor of agriculture at Alabama Polytechnic Institute and assistant director Alabama Experiment Station, 1903-1921; director of Alabama Extension Service, 1914-1924. Member of Phi Kappa Phi. Awarded medal for distinguished service by the Association of Southern Agricultural Workers, 1939.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.
Author: Agriculture for Southern Schools. New York: Macmillan, 1908.
Experiments in Beef Production in Alabama. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1908.
Local Fertilizer Experiments with Cotton in North Alabama in 1913. Opelika, Ala.: Post Pub. Co., 1914.
Potato Culture. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1896.
Southern Field Crops. New York: Macmillan, 1911.
Southern Forage Crops. New York: Macmillan, 1925.
Sweet Potatoes. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1897.
DUNCAN, BENJAMIN DILLARD, 1927-
Businessman, theatrical director, editor. Born: November 8, 1927. Education: University of New Mexico, B.A.; Christ Church College (Henry Fellowship), Oxford University, M.A. Served in the U.S. Army, 1946; director of Collett, Dickenson, Pearce and Partners in London, -1967; director of Cambridge (England) Theatre Company; publications editor for the National Theatre, London.
Source: John Bainbridge's Another Way of Living, Holt, 1968, International Authors and Writer's Who's Who 1976, and Writer's Directory, 1984.
Author: Little Friends. London: Faber, 1965.
The Same Language. London: Faber, 1962.
Soothing Foods. London: Faber, 1972.
Joint Author: Calman Cards, Cartoon Cards for Language Practice. London: Longman Group, 1979.
DUNCAN, JULIA COLEY
Advertising, writer. Children: Two. Education: Agnes Scott College; University of Minnesota, M.A., and Ed.S.; Coursework at University of Oklahoma and Central Oklahoma State University. President of Group IV Advertising in Birmingham. School psychologist.
Source: Jacket to Alabama.
Author: Alabama. Portland, Ore.: Graphic Arts Center Pub. Co., 1983.
Halfway Home. New York: St. Martins, 1979.
DUNCAN, KATHERINE McKINSTRY, 1904-
Teacher. Born: October 23, 1904, Vaiden, Miss. Parents: Thomas Alston and Mattie (Wright) McKinstry. Education: Jacksonville State University and the University of Alabama. At fifteen, taught school in Marshall County, 1921-1925; taught learning disabled in later years; wrote column, "Chatter", for Advertiser-Gleam, 1944-; social editor, 1945-1963.
Source: SCRIPSIT and Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. III.
Author: History of the First Baptist Church (Guntersville), 1907-1957. Guntersville, Ala.: Advertiser-Gleam, 1957.
Joint Author: The History of Marshall County, Alabama. Albertville, Ala.: Thompson Printing Co., 1969.
DUNCAN, LUTHER NOBLE, 1875-1947
High school teacher, agriculture extension director, college president. Born: October 14, 1875, Russellville. Parents: Thomas Fulford and Margaret S. (Hargett) Duncan. Married: Annie Elizabeth Smith, February 26, 1902. Children: Three. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1900; M.S., 1907; graduate study at the University of Tennessee and the University of Illinois, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, honorary LL.D., 1933. Taught agriculture in high schools, 1900-1905; instructor and supervisor of agronomy research at the Alabama Experiment Station, 1905-1909; 4-H work and extension work in home economics, 1909-1920; director of agriculture extension service at API, 1920-1937; president of API, 1935-1947. Member of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities, Alabama Farmers Bureau Federation, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, and Kappa Sigma.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2, and Owen's The Story of Alabama.
Joint Author: Farm Life Readers. Boston: Silver Burdett & Co., 1913.
DUNN, FLOYD R., 1906-
Accountant. Born: March 14, 1906, Winston County. Parents: Jim E. and Laura Gertrude (Buchanan) Dunn. Married: Chlora Curtis, June 8, 1936. Children: Two. Education: Pan American College, 1928; University of Alabama, 1933-1935; studied at La Salle Extension University, 1940-1944; certified public accountant. Worked various gas companies in North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Alabama, 1929-1932; accountant in Chattanooga, 1948-1973. Organized and directed the Arley Community Historical Association. Compiled a volume of photographs of and personal letters from governors of each of the fifty states and presented it to the University of Alabama.
Source: Floyd B. Dunn, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Author: Swimmin' Holes 'n' Fishing Poles. Chattanooga, Tenn.: Brushy Creek Press, 1979.
DURHAM, FRANCES GILDART RUFFIN, 1889-1972
Newspaper correspondent. Born: Mobile. Parents: Francis G. and M. E. (Henry) Ruffin. Education: St. Joseph's College, Enmitsburg, Md., B.A. Employed as Mobile correspondent for the Birmingham News and Age Herald. Member and president of Alabama Writers Conclave; chairman of the Alabama Anthology Committee; League of American Penwomen.
Source: Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928.
Author: Dungi Speaks. St. Louis, Mo.: Charles E. Luntz Pub., 1958.
Sea Women: Poems. Portland, Me.: House of Falmouth, 1964.
Swallows in the Air: Certain Haiku. Charleston, Ill.: Prairie Press, 1969.
Compiler: The Anthology of Alabama Poetry, 1928. Atlanta: E. Hartsock, The Bozart Press, 1928.
DURR, VIRGINIA HEARD FOSTER, 1903-
Civil Rights activist. Born: 1903, Birmingham. Parents: Sterling and Josephine (Rice) Foster. Married: Clifford Judkins Durr, March 5, 1926. Children: Five. Member of the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax; active in Henry Wallace Campaign for the presidency. After many years in Washington, moved to Montgomery in 1952 and became active in civil rights activities. Sister-in-law to Hugo L. Black.
Source: Outside the Magic Circle.
Author: Outside the Magic Circle: the Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1965.
DYER, JOHN PERCY, 1902-
University professor, federal employee, Born: June 24, 1902, New Albany, Miss. Parents: Walker Wadell and Clementine (Snipes) Dyer. Married: Frances Thaxton, 1925. Education: B.A., 1925; Peabody College, B.S., 1926; M.A., 1930; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1932. Taught at Florence State College, 1926-1932; University of Georgia in Atlanta, 1934-1936; Armstrong College, 1936-1939; Tulane University, professor of history and later dean, 1948-; radio executive and Office of Price Administration employee, 1929-1948. Member of the Southern Historical Association and the Association of University Evening Colleges.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R.
Author: "Fightin' Joe" Wheeler. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1941.
From Shiloh to San Juan. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1961.
The Gallant Hood. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs, 1950.
Ivory Towers in the Market Place. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs, 1956.
Tulane: the Biography of a University. New York: Harper, 1966.
Joint Author: The Education of American Businessmen. New York: McGraw, 1959.