See: Lide, Alice Alston
McCAIN, JAMES W., 1934-
Born: Birmingham, 1934. Married: Opal Johnson. Children: One. Member: Civitan Club, board of trustees of Guntersville Public Library; president of the Alabama Library Trustees.
Source: SCRIPSIT.
Joint Author: A Trustee's Manual for Alabama Public Libraries. S.l.: Friends and Trustees, Alabama Library Association, 1970.
Assistant Editor: The Handbook for Library Trustees. (New York: Bowker?), 1955.
McCALL, SIDNEY (Pseudonym)
See: Fenollosa, Mary McNeill
McCAMMON, ROBERT RICK, 1952-
Novelist. Born: July 17, 1952. Parents: Jack and Barbara (Bundy) McCammon, Birmingham. Education: B.A., University of Alabama, 1974; editor, Crimson White. Employed by Loveman's Department Store, 1974-1975; Dalton Booksellers, 1976; editor, Birmingham Post Herald.
Source: Anniston Star, July 3, 1983, page 4E, Contemporary Authors, Vol. 81.
Author: Baal. New York: Avon, 1978.
Bethany's Sin. New York: Avon, 1980.
Blue World. London: Grafton, 1990.
Boy's Life. New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
Mine. New York: Pocket Books, 1990.
Mystery Walk. New York: Avon, 1982.
Night Boat. New York: Pocket Books, 1988.
Stinger. New York: Pocket Books, 1988.
Swan Song. New York: Pocket Books, 1987.
They Thirst. New York: Avon, 1981.
They Thirst. New York: Pocket Books, 1988.
Usher's Passing. New York: Holt, Rhinehart, 1984.
Wolf's Hour. New York: Pocket Books, 1989.
Contributor: Hardshell: All Original Stories. New York: Berkeley Books, 1988.
Night Fears. London?: Headline, 1989.
McCANN, FRANKLIN THRESHER, 1903-1969
Educator. Born: October 19, 1903, Dayton, Ohio. Parents: Judge and Mrs. B.F. McCann. Married: Esther Nelson. Children: Three. Education: B.A., Denison College; M.A., Harvard; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University. Employed by Denison and Columbia; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1947; acting head, English Department, Auburn University, 1953-1954. Member: Alabama College English Teacher's Association; Auburn Board of Education.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: English Discovery of America to 1585. New York: Kings Crown Press, 1952.
Coordinator: Recommendations for Auburn School Program, 1960-70. Auburn, Ala.: Auburn Committee for Better Schools, 1959.
McCLAIN, WILLIAM BOBBY, 1938-
Minister. Born: May 19, 1938, Gadsden, Ala. Married: Jo Ann Mattos. Children: Two. Education: A.B., Clark College, 1960; M. Divinity, Boston University School of Theology, 1962; D. Ministry, Boston University, 1977. Employed as minister, Haven United Methodist Church, Anniston, Ala., 1962-1964; pastor, Union United Methodist Church, Boston, Mass., 1968-1978; executive director, Urban Training Center, Boston, 1966-1979; executive director, Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry, Drew University, 1978; chairman, New England Black Methodists for Church Renewal, 1968-1971; consultant, Lily Foundation, Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church.
Source: Who's Who Among Black Americans, 1980-81.
Author: Black People in the Methodist Church: Whither Thou Goest? Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1984.
The Black Worship Experience in America. Boston: Project Report (D. Min)--Boston University, 1977.
The Soul of Black Worship. Madison, N.J.: Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry, Drew University, 1980.
Strangers at Home. Madison, N.J.: Multi-Ethnic Center for Ministry, Wesley House, Drew University, [between 1978 and 1981].
Traveling Light: Christian Perspectives on Pilgrimage and Pluralism. New York: Friendship Press, 1981.
McCLENDON, JAMES B.
Educator, administrator. Born: Attala, Ala. Education: Jacksonville State College; M.S., George Peabody College, graduate study, Columbia University. Employed by University of Berlin, Freiburg University; assistant to the president, Gulf Park College, Gulfport, Miss.; civilian personnel officer, Smyrna Army Air Force Base, Smyrna, Tenn., World War II; owned and operated a motor freight line; farmer, Sumner County, Tenn., 1966-.
Source: The jacket to Bone and Striffen.
Author: Bone and Striffen. Nashville: Blue and Gray Press, 1972.
McCLUER, LEON, 1893-
Educator. Born: October 1, 1893, Champaign, Ill. Parents: George Washington and Elizabeth (Parrill) McCluer. Married: Mary Moore, February 10, 1921. Children: Three. Education: Millsaps College, 1915-1916; B.S., 1926; M.S., 1927, George Peabody College. Employed as school principal, 1916-1917; U.S. Army, 1917-1918; school principal, Bay Saint Louis, 1921-1925; principal, Jacsonville, Ala. Normal High School, Jacksonville State University. Honors: Chapel, Jacksonville State University.
Source: Following McClure Ancestors.
Author: Following McClure Ancestors: Life in Mississippi in the Teens. Verona, Va.: McClure Printing Co., 1974.
McCONNELL, ANDREW M., 1873-
Born: Blount County, Ala., 1873. Parents: W.T. and A.M. McConnell. Education: Blount College, Blountsville; Southern University, Greensboro. Purchased: ALKAHEST; inaugurated, Alkahest Lyceum system for furnishing educational entertainment; founded, McConnell Library Association; founder of the Consumer's Co-operative Union, a buying union.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.
Author: Echoes from the Heart: Songs Piped During the First Year of Manhood. Atlanta, Ga.: The Foote & Davies Co., 1895.
Human Electricity: Scientific Basis of Life. New York: s.n., 1909.
McCORD, EDGAR OLIVER, 1867-1943
Educator. Born: March 1, 1867, Conyers, Ga. Parents: William H. and Ellen G. (Davis) McCord. Married: Rena B. Hudson. Children: Five. Education: North Georgia Agricultural College. Taught in Marshall County, Ala.; helped establish Blount College; superintendent, Attalla Public Schools; founded the Marshall County News; practiced law, Albertville, 1893; twice mayor, Albertville.
Source: Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography and from SCRIPSIT.
Author: Minneola, the Queen of the Cherokees: a Thrilling Romance of Savage Days in Marshall County. Albertville, Ala.: Thompson Printing Co., 1943? (First appeared serially in the November 8, 15, 2, 29th, and December 6th, 1894 Marshall News.)
McCORD, HOWARD FURMAN, 1888-
Farmer. Born: July 24, 1888, Calera, Ala. Parents: James M. & Florence (Pratt) McCord. Married: Irene Cleveland, 1927. Children: Two. Education: A.B., 1910, Howard College. Employed: farmer; U.S. Department of Agriculture. Honors: award for his contribution to progress in agriculture and agribusiness, honored by the Bibb County Historical Association, 1976.
Source: The jacket on Baptists of Bibb County.
Author: Baptists of Bibb County: a Denominational Salute to the People Called Baptists in Cahawba (Bibb) County, Alabama, 1817-1974. S.l.: s.n., 1979.
McCORD, LEON CLARENCE, 1878-1952
Lawyer, judge. Born: 1878, Conyers, Ga. Parents: Henry and Ellen Grant (Davis) McCord. Education: studied law under Jesse E. Brown, Scottsboro. He began the practice of law in 1900 in Guntersville; also practiced in Scottsboro. In 1913, he moved to Montgomery and became secretary of the Supreme Court of Alabama. He practiced law in Montgomery and was State Railroad Commissioner, Judge of the 15th Judicial Circuit of Alabama, and, for thirteen years was presiding judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals 5th District.
Source: SCRIPSIT and from New York Times, February 12, 1952.
Author: I Believe in Man. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929.
McCORVEY, THOMAS CHALMERS, 1851-1932
University professor. Born: August 18, 1851, Monroe County, Ala. Parents: Murdock and Lydia Jane (Ranaldson) McCorvey. Married: Netta L. Tutwiler, July 22, 1880. Children: Four. Education: Monroe Institute, Erskine College; A.B., B. Laws, 1873; A.M, 1875, University of Alabama. Employed as commandant of cadets, faculty, University of Alabama, 1874; professor of history and political science, 1888-1923. Member: Board of Visitors, U.S. Military Academy, 1886, Alabama Centennial Commission, 1919. Honors: LL.D., University of Alabama, 1906.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1 and from George B. Johnston's Thomas Chalmers McCorvey....
Author: Alabama's Brood and Other Historical Poems. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Pub. Co., 1927.
The Government of the People of the State of Alabama. Philadelphia: Eldredge & brothers, 1895.
McCOWN, JAMES H., 1911-
Priest, educator. Born: February 24, 1911, Mobile, Ala. Parents: James Moore and Rosemary (Hart) McCown. Education: B.S., Spring Hill College, 1932; St. Mary's School of Theology, St. Mary's, Kan. Employed as teacher after entering Society of Jesus; high school counselor, Shreveport, La., 1950-1951.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 89.
Author: Elephants Have the Right of Way: a Year of Content in East Africa, June 21, 1968-June 21, 1969. Liguori, Mo.: Liguori Publications, 1974.
Nicaraguan Diary, April 20-May 7, 1987. Mobile, Ala.: s.n., 1987.
Visit to a Small Alaskan Village. Mobile, Ala.: Brill, 1988.
McCRACKEN, WILLIAM LIONEL, 1915-
Artist, educator. Born: October 13, 1915, Greenville, Ill. Parents: William Arthur and Ruby Glenn (Ehrstine) McCracken. Married: Ruth Louise Malan, February 24, 1939. Children: Four. Education: Greenville College, Greenville, Ill.; D.D.S., 1938, St. Louis University School of Dentistry; M.S., University of Michigan, 1952. Self-employed as dentist, 1938-1943, 1946-1950; U.S. Army Dental Corps, 1943-1946; professor of dentistry, University of Alabama. Member: Phi Kappa Phi, American and Alabama Dental Associations, Southeast Academy of Prosthedontics.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. 1.
Author: Partial Denture Construction: Principles and Techniques. St. Louis: Mosby, 1960. (Later editions were published under the title McCracken's Removable Partial Prosthodontics.)
McDAVID, MITTIE ROSE OWEN
Born: Birmigham, Ala. Parents: Rose Wellington and Sarah Emma (Smith) Owen. Married: Edmund Richardson McDavid, June 30, 1891. Children: Four. Education: Tuscaloosa Episcopal School, Huntsville College. Member: Birmingham Writers Club, (president), National Genealogical Society of America, Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Source: Owen's Story of Alabama, Vol. III and from Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors.
Author: The Children of the Meadows. New York: The Cosmopolitan Press, 1912.
Church of the Advent: Its History and Tradition. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Publishing Co., 1943.
Culinary Crinkles. Birmingham, Ala.: Women's Guild, Church of the Advent, 1919.
John Smith, Esquire: His Ancestors and His Descendants. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Pub. Co., 1948.
Knight of the Knot of Blue: the Legend of a Name. Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Bookfellows at the Torch Press, 1930.
Princess Pocahontas. New York: The Neale Publishing Co., 1907.
Compiler: Malissa's Lyrics. S.l.: s.n., 1976.
McDERMOTT, JOHN CLARK
Attorney, auditor. Born: Spring City, Tenn. Parents: John G. and Clark (Hansell) McDermott. Education: U. S. Naval Academy; LL.B., Chattanooga College of Law. Employed as an attorney, auditor, State of Alabama.
Source: SCRIPSIT.
Author: Probate Judge's Handbook - State of Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Sons, 1958.
McDONALD, CLARABEL ISDELL, 1902-
Missionary, librarian. Born: November 24, 1902, Albertville. Parents: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lusk Isdell. Education: WMU Training School, Louisville, Ky.; B.A., Howard College; M.A., George Peabody College. Employed as Southern Baptist Missionary, China and Hawaii, 1936-1960; director of library services, Solitude Baptist Church, Albertville.
Source: SCRIPSIT.
Author: The Story of Robert Lusk Isdell. Albertville, Ala.: Thompson Printing Co., 1979.
McDONALD, DOROTHY CARTER, 1927-
Artist. Born: December 3, 1927, Florence, Ala. Parents: Edward Lacy and Alma Thora (Hall) Carter. Married: William Lindsey McDonald, November 3, 1945. Children: Two. Education: She received a certificate, Famous Artists School, 1963; B.S., 1971, Florence State University. Employed: private studio, 1963-1968; Florence Recreation Department, 1963-1966; Deschler High School, Tuscumbia, 1970-1971. Member: Tennessee Valley Historical Society, Tennessee Valley Art Association, National Education Association.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. III.
Joint author: Paths in the Brier Patch. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1979.
McDONALD, FORREST, 1927-
University professor. Born: January 7, 1927, Orange, Tex. Parents: Forrest and Myra (McGill) McDonald. Children: Six. Married: Ellen Shapiro, August 1, 1963. Education: B.A. and M.A., University of Texas, 1949; Ph.D., 1955. Employed as a research training fellow, Social Science Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1951-1953; utility research director, Wisconsin Historical Society, 1953-1956; executive secretary, American History Reseach Center, 1956-1958; taught, Brown University, 1958-1967; Wayne State University, 1967-1976; University of Alabama, 1976. At Alabama was a fellow, Center for the Study of Southern History and Culture; Volker Fellow, 1959; Guggenheim fellow, 1962-1963; George Washington Medal of Honor from Freedom Foundation, 1980; Jefferson Lecturer, 1987.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. NR5 and from files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Alexander Hamilton, a Biography. New York: Norton, 1980.
The Anti-Federalist, 1781-1789. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963.
The Boys Were Men. New York: Putnam, 1971.
E Pluribus Unum: the Foundation of the American Republic, 1776-1790. Boston: Houghton, 1965.
Enough Wise Men: the Story of Our Constitution. New York: Putnam, 1970.
Insull. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Let There Be Light: the Electric Utility Industry in Wisconsin, 1881-1955. Madison, Wisc.: American History Research Center, 1957.
Novus Ordo Seclorum: Intellectual Origins of the Constitution. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985.
The Phaeton Ride: the Crisis of American Success. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
The Presidency of George Washington. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1974.
The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1976.
The Torch Is Passed: the United States in the Twentieth Century. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1968. (also published with the title The United States in The Twentieth Century).
We the People: the Economic Origins of the Constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
Joint Author: A Constitutional History of the United States. New York: F. Watts, 1982.
The Last Best Hope: a History of the United States. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1972.
Requiem: Variations of Eighteenth-Century Themes. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1988.
Editor: Confederation and Constitution. New York: Harper, 1968.
Empire and Nation. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice- Hall, 1962.
McDONALD, MARGARET SPAIN, 1919-
Reporter, volunteer worker. Born: February 22, 1919, Chevy Chase, Md. Parents: Frank Edward and Margaret Ketcham (Cameron) Spain. Married: William Clifford McDonald, Jr., August 1, 1944. Children: Two. Education: Goucher College; Sophie Newcomb College; A.B. Birmingham Southern College, 1939. Employed as woman's page editor, Birmingham Age Herald, 1931-1941; club worker, ARC CBI, 1943-1945; volunteer worker, Family Counseling Association; director, the Jefferson County Community Chest; executive director, Greater Birmingham Foundation, 1966. Member: Regional Health Planning Commission, Community Action Committee, Birmingham Beautification Board, and Operation New Birmingham. Honors: Woman of the Year, Birmingham Business and Professional Women's Club, 1971.
Source: Who's Who of American Women, 1977.
Author: Star Witness, Margaret Ketchum Ward: United States Senate Committee on Relations Between Labor and Capital, Relay House in Birmingham, November 15, 1883. S.l.: Historical Activities Committee, National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of Alabama. 1977.
McDONALD, THOMAS DENNIS, 1916-
Born: May 18, 1916, Huntsville. Parents: James H. and Ola (Dennis) McDonald. Married: Ethel Cranley, November 27, 1943. Children: One. Education: B.S., George Peabody College, 1940; LL.B., Vanderbilt University, 1948. Employed by Ashville, N.C., 1940-1941; U.S. Army, 1941-1945; reporter, Columbus Enquirer, 1945-1946; attorney, Huntsville, 1949-1962; judge, Madison County Court, 1962; wrote for the Fort Benning Bayonet, editor, army field manuals. Members: president, Alabama Association of Intermediate Court Judges.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama and from files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Next of Kin in Jail. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1978.
Joint Author: The Code of Madison County, Alabama, 1978. Huntsville, Ala.: Madison County Commission, 1980.
McDONALD, WILLIAM LINDSEY, 1927-
Government worker. Born: Florence, Ala., June 7, 1927. Parents: William Ervin and Pauline McRann (Lindsey) McDonald. Married: Dorothy Evelyn Carter, November 3, 1945. Children: Two. Education: B.S., University of North Alabama, 1952; Command and General Staff College, 1974; Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 1975. Employed by U.S. Army, 1945-1947, 1951- 1953; Tennessee Valley Authority, 1953-1964; editor, report writer, 1964-1967; planner, supervisor of scheduling and records, National Fertilizer Development Center, 1967. Member: American Fertilizer Development Center, 1967; American Bicentennial Commission, Florence, Tennessee Valley Historical Society, North Alabama Historical Society, Sons of the Confederacy, Alabama Historical Commission.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1978.
Author: History of the First United Methodist Church, Florence, Alabama, 1822-1984. Birmigham, Ala.: Birmingham Printing and Publishing Co., 1983.
Lore of the River: the Shoals of Long Ago. Florence, Ala.: Florence Historical Board, 1989.
Old North Field. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Printing Co., 1986.
Paths in the Brier Patch. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1979.
Joint Author: Sweetwater, Yesteryears. Florence: Author, 1990.
McDOWELL, MICHAEL, 1950-
Writer. Born: June 1, 1950, Enterprise, Ala. Parents: Thomas Eugene and Marian (Mulkey) McDowell. Education: B.A., 1972, Harvard University; Ph.D., Brandeis University, 1978. Member: National Gay Task Force, Massachusetts Fair Share.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 93.
Author: The Amulet. New York: Avon, 1979.
Blackwater (6 vols. entitled: The Flood, The Levee, The House, The War, The Fortune and The Rain). New York: Avon, 1983.
Clue. New York: Fawcett, 1986.
Cold Moon Over Babylon. New York: Avon, 1980.
The Elementals. New York: Avon, 1981.
Gilded Needles. New York: Avon, 1980.
Jack and Susan in 1913. New York: Ballantine, 1986.
Jack and Susan in 1933. New York: Ballantine, 1987.
Jack and Susan in 1953. New York: Ballantine, 1985.
Katie. New York: Avon, 1982.
Toplin. Santa Cruz, Calif.: Scream Press, 1985.
Joint author: Vermillion: a Mystery. New York: Avon, 1980.
McDUFFIE, JOHN, 1883-1950
Attorney, congressman, judge. Born: September 25, 1883, River Ridge, Monroe County, Ala. Parents: John and Virginia Marion (Lett) McDuffie. Married: Cornelia Hixon, October 20, 1915. Children: One. Married: Mary (Clarke) Maxon, September 18, 1941. Education: Southern University, Greensboro; B.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1904; LL.B., University of Alabama, 1908. Employed as attorney, Monroeville, 1908; Alabama House of Representatives, 1906-1911; prosecuting attorney, 1st Judicial Circuit of Alabama, 1911-1919; U.S. Congress, 1918-1935; Co- author, Tydings-McDuffie Act; Democratic Whip of the House, 1930- 1932 (nominated John Nance Garner for vice president); U.S. Judge, Southern District, Alabama, 1935-1950.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3 and from National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 50.
Author: To Inquiring Friends, If Any: Autobiography. Mobile, Ala.: Azalea City Printers, s.d.
McEACHIN, ARCHIBALD BRUCE, 1910-1978
Attorney. Born: January 19, 1910, Tuscaloosa. Parents: Archibald Bruce and Katie (Melton) McEachin. Education: A.B., University of Alabama, 1931; LL.B., University of Alabama, 1933. Employed as attorney, 1933; practiced in Tuscaloosa; partner, McEachin, Ormond, Fulton and Lake; Captain; practiced before U.S. Army; U.S. Supreme Court. Member: Alabama, Tuscaloosa Bar Associations, Tuscaloosa Historical Society, Warrior Tombigbee Development Association.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 7.
Author: The History of Tuscaloosa, 1816-1880. University, Ala.: Confederate Publishing Co., 1977.
McELROY, JAMES RUSSELL, 1901-
Attorney, judge. James Russell McElroy was born October 1, 1901, McDowell, Ala. Parents: George Roland and Annie Laurie (Harper) McElroy. Married: Edith Ferrell, December 29, 1928. Children: Two. Education: University of Alabama School of Law, 1923-1924; LL.B., 1925 from Birmingham School of Law. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1924; established a private practice and served as Assistant City Attorney in Birmingham. Became member of a legal firm in Birmingham in 1925; judge in the 10th Judicial Circuit in Alabama (serving 1927-1977); presiding judge, 1946-1965; faculty of Birmingham School of Law, 1947-1972; Samford University, Cumberland School of Law after 1965; lecturer in medical jurisprudence at the Medical College of Alabama, 1946-1965.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1978.
Author: The Law of Evidence in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., 1948.
McFARLAND, PHILIP JAMES, 1930-
Teacher. Born: June 20, 1930, Birmingham, Ala. Parents: Thomas Alfred and Lucile (Sylvester) McFarland. Married: Patricia Connors, July 23, 1960. Children: Two. Education: B.A., 1951, Oberlin College; M.A., 1961, St. Catherine's College, Cambridge University. Employed by U.S. Navy, 1951-1954; textbook editor, Houghton Mifflin, 1958-1964; traveled and lived, Europe, 1964-1966; taught English, Concord Academy, Concord, Mass., 1966.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 12NR.
Author: A House Full of Women. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Sea Dangers: the Affairs of the Somers. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.
Seasons of Fear. New York: Schocken Books, 1984.
Sojourners: a Narrative of the Human Adventure .... New York: Atheneum, 1979.
Joint Author: Composition: Models and Exercises. Boston: Harcourt, 1971.
McFARLAND, THOMAS ALFRED, JR., 1926-
University professor. Born: September 13, 1926, Birmingham, Ala. Parents: Thomas Alfred and Lucile (Sylvester) McFarland. Education: A.B., Harvard University, 1949; M.A., 1951; Ph.D., Yale, 1953; Fulbright scholar, University of Tublingen, 1953- 1954. Employed by Oberlin College, 1954-1956, University of Virginia, 1956-1958, Western Reserve University, 1958-1967, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1967-1978; Princeton, 1978; Murray Professor of English Literature, Princeton, 1981; visiting professor, University of Colorado, University of Virginia, Yale; American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1973-1974; National Foundation for the Humanities fellow, 1981-1982.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1982, Who's Who in America, 1982.
Author: Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition. London: Clarendon Press, 1969.
Originality and Imagination. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Romantic Cruxes, the English Essayists and the Spirit of the Age. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Modalities of Fragmentation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Shakespeare's Pastoral Comedy. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.
Shapes of Culture. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987.
Tragic Meaning in Shakespeare. New York: Random, 1966.
McGIFFIN, LEE SHAFFER
Reporter. Born: Delphi, Ind. Education: De Pauw University; Syracuse University; University of Alabama, B.A. Worked as reporter for Syracuse Post Standard, Buffalo Evening News, Herald Tribune. Contributed stories to Saturday Evening Post, other magazines, radio. Received Texas Instructor of Letters Award.
Source: Foremost Women in Communication.
Author: A Coat for Private Patrick. New York: Dutton, 1964
The Fifer of San Jacinto. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1956.
High Whistle Charlie. New York: Dutton, 1962.
The Horse Hunters. New York: Dutton, 1963.
The Mustangers. New York: Dutton, 1965.
Pony Soldier. New York: Dutton, 1961.
Rebel Rider. New York: Dutton, 1959.
Ride for Texas. New York: Dutton, 1960.
Riders of Enchanted Valley. New York: Dutton, 1966.
Swords, Stars, and Bars. New York: Dutton, 1958.
Ten Tall Texans. New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1956.
Yankee Doodle Dandies: Eight Generals of the American Revolution. New York: Dutton, 1967.
Yankee of the Yalu: Philo Norton McGiffin, American Captain in the Chinese Navy, 1885-1895. New York: Dutton, 1968.
McGINTY, BASIL BEASLEY, 1890-
Personnel director, Baptist minister. Born: June 19, 1890, Riverview, Ala. Parents: William Lenin and Laura (Eckles) McGinty. Married: Etta B. Suggs, October 23, 1910. Married: Mary Malissa Hand, January 31, 1924. Children: Four. Education: high school, correspondence courses; ordained Baptist minister. Employed as office employee; personnel director, textile firm; Baptist minister, 1914-1970; director of Valley National Bank, Lanett, 1946; director of Lanier Memorial Hospital, Langdale, 1950-1957. Member: Baptist State Executive Committee, 1926-1946.
Source: Who's Who in America, Vol. III.
Author: A History of Antioch Baptist Church, Chambers County, Alabama, 1835-1960. S.l.: s.n., 1960?
History of East Liberty Baptist Association, Chambers County, Alabama: 125 Years, 1836-1961. Alexander City, Ala.: Outlook Publishing Co., 1963.
McGRAW, EDGAR LEON, 1917-
Editor. Born: July 21, 1917, Anderson, Lauderdale County, Ala. Parents: Lee Andrew and Louisa Idenia (Nix) McGraw. Married: Jonnie Faye Richardson, April 6, 1938. Children: Three. Education: University of North Alabama, 1935-1937; B.S., 1941; M.S., 1949, Auburn University; University of Kentucky, 1952; Auburn University, 1952. Employed as an elementary school teacher, Lauderdale County, 1937-1939; assistant editor, Auburn University's Cooperative Extension Service, 1941-1944; U.S. Army, 1944-1945; taught vocational agriculture, Town Creek, 1944-1948; subject matter specialist in vocational agriculture, Auburn University, 1948-1957; associate editor, Auburn University's Agricultural Experiment Station, 1957-1968; head, Department of Research Information and Editor, Auburn University's Agricultural Experiment Station, 1968-1982; edited, Auburn University Self Study, 1982-1983; Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1984-1986. Member: Phi Delta Kappa, Gamma Sigma Delta, Kappa Delta Pi; served as secretary-treasurer, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists; president, Auburn Lions Club.
Source: Edgar Leon McGraw, Auburn, Ala.
Joint Author: Farm Business Management. Auburn, Ala.: Auburn Printing Co., 1962.
Geography of Alabama: Her Land and People. Montgomery, Ala.: Viewpoint, 1966.
Editor: Vertebrate Wildlife of Alabama. Opelika, Ala.: Craftmaster Printers, 1984.
Vertebrate Animals of Alabama in Need of Special Attention. Opelika, AIa.: Craftmaster Printers, 1986.
McGREGOR, ALBERT ALEXANDER (also listed as Albert G.), 1835-
Farmer, educator. Born: March 1, 1835, Lawrence County, Ala. Parents: William and Elizabeth (Carpenter) McGregor. Married: Celia King, December 23, 1858. Children: Seven. Education: LaGrange College, LaGrange, Ala., 1854. Employed as chair of mathematics, LaGrange College, 1855-1861; Confederate States' Army, 1861-1865; cotton farmer; teaching, LaGrange College, 1870- 1876; Tuscumbia Academy; president, Hartselle College.
Source: Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography.
Author: History of LaGrange College. S.l.: s.n., 190-? (LaGrange Military Academy, LaGrange, Ala.)
McILHENNY, EDWARD AVERY, 1872-1949
Businessman, explorer. Born: March 29, 1872 in Avery Island, La. Parents: Edmund and Mary Eliza (Avery) McIlhenny. Education: Wyman's Institute (Ill.), 1885-1887; Holland School (N.Y.), 1887-1890; Lehigh University, 1890-1892. Married: Mary Matthews on June 9, 1900. Children: Three. Served as president of the McIlhenny Company, Petite Company, Jungle Gardens, Jan Jean Lafitte Company. Joined the Naturalist Peary Relief Expedition, 1893; headed his own Arctic expedition, 1897-1899. Member: National Audubon Society, American Game Protection Society, American Museum of Natural History, American Ornithologists Union, American Society of Mammalogists.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2
Author: The Alligator's Life History. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1935.
The Autobiography of an Egret. New York: Hastings House, 1939.
Bird City. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1933.
The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914.
MACKIN, COOPER RICHERSON, 1933-
Born: April 26, 1933, Selma. Parents: Thomas R. and Muriel (Green) Mackin. Education: B.A., Troy State University, 1956; M.A., Tulane, 1958; Ph.D., Rice University, 1962. Married: Catherine Barragy, February 15, 1958. Children: Three. Employed: Texas Southern University, 1958-1959; North Texas State University, 1962-1963; University of New Orleans, 1963; taught English; dean, College of Liberal Arts; vice chancellor for academic affairs.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1982.
Author: William Styron. Austin, Tex.: Stech-Vaughan, 1969.
McKINNEY, JOHN WILLIAM, 1908-
Born: August 12, 1908, Greenville, S.C. Parents: Scion Blythe and Sue (Smith) McKinney. Married: Adelaide Wigington, 1931. Children: Five. Education: Clemson University, 1926-1928; Iowa State College; University of Southern California, 1929; B.S., Cornell University, 1930. Employed as a vocational education teacher, South Carolina Department of Education, Madison, 1935- 1941; farm supervisor, Farm Security Administration, Spartanburg, 1941-1943; U.S. Soil Conservation Service, Spartanburg, S.C., Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Hartwell, Ga., 1943-1947; Progressive Farmer, Birmingham, Ala., associate editor, 1959; photographic editor, 1959.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R.
Author: The Sheep Book. New York: Wiley, 1957.
Joint Author: The Livestock Book. Memphis: W. R. Thompson, 1952.
McKINNEY, KATE SLAUGHTER, 1859-1939
Writer. Born: February 6, 1859, London, Ky. Parents: James Love Slaughter. Married: James M. McKinney, May 7, 1878. Education: Daughter's College. Lived in Montgomery; elected Poet Laureate, State of Alabama, 1931.
Source: Who's Who of North American Authors and from American Literary Yearbook.
Author: Katydid's Poems. Louisville, Ky.: Courier- Journal Printing Co., 1887.
Palace of Silver (poems). New York: H. Vinal, Ltd., 1927.
The Silent Witness: a Tale of a Kentucky Tragedy. New York: Neale, 1906.
The Weed by the Wall. Boston: R. G. Badger, 1911.
McKOWN, DELOS BANNING, 1930-
University professor. Born: August 30, 1930, Muir, Mich. Parents: Laurel Ellis and Irene Elizabeth (Banning) McKown. Married: Anna Louise Watts, September 4, 1958. Children: Two. Education: B.A., Alma College, 1951; B.D., Lexington Theological Seminary, 1955; M.A., University of Kentucky, 1958; Ecumenical Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, 1958; Ph.D., Florida State University, 1972. Employed as minister, Disciples of Christ, 1951; minister, Muir, Michigan Church of Christ, 1949-1951; Jackson, Ky. Christian Church, 1951-1955; Cynthiana, Ky., 1955- 1958; instructor of religion and philosophy, Berea College, 1958- 1959; University of Idaho, 1960-1961; Little Rock University, 1961-1962; president of the Auburn, Ala. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1973; taught, Auburn University, 1976-.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1974, and from Who's Who in Religion, 1975.
Author: The Classical Marxist Critiques of Religion: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Kautsky. The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975.
With Faith and Fury. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1985.
McKREADY, KELVIN (Pseudonym)
See: Murphy, Edgar Gardner
McLAIN, CATHERINE RODGERS
See: Rodgers, Catherine
McLAURIN, MELTON ALONZA, 1941-
University professor. Born: July 11, 1941, Fayetteville, N.C. Parents: A. Merrill and Thelma (Melton) McLaurin. Married: Sandra Cockrell, November 23, 1961. Children: Two. Education: B.S., East Carolina University, 1962; M.A., 1964; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1967. Employed by University of South Alabama, 1967-1977; University of North Carolina, Wilmington, 1977. Member: Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association, North Carolina Historical Society.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 81.
Author: Celia, a Slave. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1991.
The Knights of Labor in the South. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978.
Paternalism and Protest: Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875-1905. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Corp., 1971.
Separate Pasts: Growing up White in the Segregated South. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
Joint Author: The Image of Progress: Alabama Photographs, 1872-1917. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1980.
Mobile: American River City. Mobile, Ala.: Easter Pub. Co., 1975.
Mobile: the Life and Times of a Great Southern City. Woodland Hills, Calif.: Windsor Publications, 1981.
McLEOD, GROVER STEPHEN, 1923-
Attorney. Born: June 15, 1923, Shelby County, Ala. Parents: Grover C. and Lucile (Meeks) McLeod. Married: Esme Hope, Australia, May 4, 1947. Children: Four. Education: Birmingham Southern College, University of Western Australia, University of Alabama and the University of Texas; Juris Doctorate. Employed as attorney, 1952; U.S. Navy's submarine service, 1941-1946. Member: U.S. Submarine Veteran's of World War II; Alabama and American Bar Associations; Jefferson County Pensions and Securities Board.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. III.
Author: About Women. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1979.
The Bottom Stories. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., 1971.
Civil Actions at Law in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1980.
Equitable Remedies and Extraordinary Writs in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1981.
Ghost of the Chimera. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1988.
Sketches From the Bar. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1966.
Sub Duty. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1986.
Sub Sailor. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1964.
Submarine Stories. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1977.
The Sultan's Gold and Other Fleet Type Submarine Stories. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1988.
Teodoro. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., 1969?
Trial Practice and Procedure in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1983.
The Trials of Fat, an Illustrious Member of the Criminal Bar. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1989.
Worker's (sic.) Compensation in Alabama for On-the-Job Injuries. Birmingham, Ala.: Manchester Press, 1990.
McLESTER, JAMES SOMERVILLE, 1877-1954
Physician, university professor. Born: January 25, 1877, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Parents: Joseph and Nannie (Somerville) McLester. Married: Ada Bowron, 1903. Children: Three. Education: A.B., University of Alabama, 1896; M.D., University of Virginia, 1899; postgraduate, Gottingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Munich. Employed as chief of medicine, Camp Sheridan, 1917; commanding officer, evacuation hospital, 1918; professor of medicine, University of Alabama, 1919-1950. Member: American College of Physicians; Association of American Physicians, American Climatological; Clinical Association, Southern Medical Association and Alabama Medical Associations; president of the Alabama Medical Associations, 1920.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.
Author: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Disorder of Metabolism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1928.
Nutrition and Diet in Health and Disease. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1931.
McMANUS, JOSEPH FORDE ANTHONY, 1911-
Physician, teacher. Born: July 13, 1911, in Blackville, New Brunswick, Canada. Parents: John Patrick Cantwell and Mary Clare Rose (Forde) McManus. Moved to United States, 1938; naturalized, 1947. Education: Fordham University, B.S., 1933; Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, M.D., 1938. Married: Norma Rose Shumway on January 3, 1941. Children: Two. Served as assistant pathologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1938-1940; Beit Memorial Fellow, Oxford, 1945-1946; taught at the University of Alabama, 1946-1950 and 1953-1961; University of Virginia, 1950-1953; Indiana University, 1961-1965; University of South Carolina, 1970; executive director, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; chaired the Department of Pathology at Alabama; dean, College of Medicine, South Carolina.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1976-1977.
Author: The Fundamental Ideas of Medicine: ... Springfield, Ill.: Charles Thomas, 1963.
General Pathology: the Biological Aspects of Disease. Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1966.
McMILLAN, JAMES B., 1907-
University professor. Born: August 24, 1907, Talladega, Ala. Parents: William C. and Celeste (Miller) McMillan. Married: Antoinette Brannon, August 29, 1931. Children: One. Education: Davidson College, 1925-1926; B.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1929; M.A., University of North Carolina, 1930; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1946; Johns Hopkins, Columbia University. Employed: University of Alabama, 1931-1975; free-lance writer, 1975; managing editor, Alabama Review, 1947-1963; Publications of the American Dialect Society, 1964; editoral board, American Speech, National University Extension News, College Composition and Communication, Dictionary of American Regional English, Abstracts of English Studies and Harcourt-Brace School Dictionary.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 85.
Author: Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English. Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miama Press, 1971.
Communicative Arts. Birmingham, Ala.: Colonial Press, 1961.
Joint Author: Writing and Thinking. Boston: Houghton, 1952.
Joint Editor: Dialects in Culture: ... University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1979.
McMILLAN, MALCOLM COOK, 1910-
University professor. Born: Stockton, Ala., August 22, 1910. Parents: Malcolm and Carolyn Kolb (Cook) McMillan. Married: Dorothy Dismuckes, April 6, 1939. Children: Two. Education: Southwestern College, 1928-1931; A.B., University of Alabama, 1935; M.A., 1939; Ph.D., 1949, North Carolina. Employed by Auburn University, 1948; Research Professor, 1954-1963; head, history and political science departments, 1964. Member: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, Alabama Historical Commission, Southern Mississippi Valley Historical Association, Alabama Education Association; board of editors, Alabama Review. Fellow, 1963-1964.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1978.
Author: The Alabama Confederate Reader. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1963.
Auburn University Through the Years, 1856-1973. Auburn, Ala.: Auburn University, 1973.
Constitutional Development in Alabama, 1798-1901: ... Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1955.
The Disintegration of a Confederate State: Three Governors of Alabama's Wartime Home Front, 1861-1865. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1986.
The Land Called Alabama. Austin, Tex.: Steck-Vaughn Co., 1968.
Yesterday's Birmingham. Miami: E.A. Seaman Pub., 1975.
Indexed: The Southern States Since the War, 1870-71. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1965.
McMORRIES, EDWARD YOUNG. 1844-1906
Teacher. Born: March 4, 1844, Pike (now Bullock) County, Ala. Married: Sallie Warren. Education: Perote Institute, Pike County. Served in First Alabama Regiment at Pensacola, Island No. 0, Port Hudson; prisoner, Illinois, 1862; taught, Arcadia (now LaPine), Plantersville and Clanton, Ala.; founded, Clanton University School, 1893. Honors: University of Alabama, honorary Ph.D.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and from Thomas Eugene Wyatt's book, Chilton County and Her People. S.l.: s.n., 1975.
Author: History of the First Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1904.
McMURRAY, J. MAX, 1908-
Born: Roanoke, Ala., September 28, 1908. Education: Auburn University, 1924-1929; University of Virginia, 1929-1930; Delta State College, 1932.
Source: The Alabama Librarian, January 1952.
Author: The Far Bayou. New York: Rinehart, 1951.
McMURRY, LINDA OTT, 1945-
University professor. Born: October 24, 1945, Montgomery. Parents: William B. and Tressie (James) Ott. Married: James W. Hines, January 22, 1967. Children: One. Married: Richard M. McMurry, July 12, 1980. Children: Two. Education: Emory University; B.A., Auburn University, 1968; M.A., 1972; Ph.D., 1976. Employed by Auburn University in Montgomery, 1976; Valdosta State College, 1976-1981; North Carolina State University, 1981. Honors: Alabama Library Association's Author's Award, 1984.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 106.
Author: George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Recorder of the Black Experience: a Biography of Monroe Nathan Work. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1984.
McMURRY, MILDRED FRANKLIN DODSON, 1897-1965
Secretary, administrator. Born: Franklin, Ky., November 8, 1897. Parents: Franklin Pierce and Deliah (Mays) Dodson. Married: William McMurry, 1924. Children: Two. Education: A.B., Tennessee College for Women, 1920; postgraduate work, University of Chicago, 1924. Employed as Mission Study Director of the Woman's Missionary Union, Birmingham 1951-1954; secretary, Department of Missionary Fundamentals, 1954-1957; Director of Promotions for the WMU, 1957-1962. Member: executive board of WMU, 1964; president of the North American Baptist Woman's Union, Baptist World Alliance, 1962. Honors: Citation, Missionary Council of the Southern Baptist Convention; honorary Doctor of Letters degree, Oklahoma Baptist University, 1962.
Source: Who's Who of American Women, 1962 and from Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement.
Author: Constraining Love. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1939.
Educating Youth in Missions. Nashville: Convention Press, 1960.
Spiritual Development. Nashville: Convention Press, 1960.
McNEILL, ROBERT BLAKELY, 1915-
Minister. Born: May 21, 1915, Birmingham, Ala. Parents: Walter Patterson and Mary McLeod McNeill. Married: Jeanne Lancaster, August 25, 1944. Children: Two. Education: A.B., Birmingham Southern College, 1936; B.D., Union Theological Seminary, 1942; M.A. University of Kentucky, 1944; graduate work, University of Alabama, University of North Carolina. Employed as correspondent, Linde Air Products, 1937-1939; minister, Presbyterian Church, 1942; minister, Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church, Charleston, W.V.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 17R.
Author: God Wills Us Free: the Ordeal of a Southern Minister. New York: Hill & Wang, 1965.
Prophet, Speak Now. Richmond, Va.: John Knox, 1961.
MACON, LEON MEERTIEF, 1908-1965
Minister. Born: October 25, 1908, Whatley, Clarke County, Ala. Parents: James William and Martha (Kelly) Macon. Married: Emily May Bodden. Education: A.B., Howard College, 1933; D.D., 1949; Th.M., Southern Baptist Seminary, 1938. Employed as minister, Bay Minette, Athens, Atmore, Bessemer, Ala., West Point, Ga. Member: Alabama Baptist Board, Radio and Television Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the executive committee for the Southern Baptist Encyclopedia; president, Alabama Baptist State Convention; editor and business manager, Alabama Baptist.
Source: Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Vol. III.
Author: Salvation in a Scientific Age. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1955.
The Seven Sayings on the Cross. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1964.
You Choose a Cross. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, 1966.
McQUEEN, JAMES WILLIAM, 1900?-1954
Hospital administrator, physican. Born: Birmingham, 1900. Parents: James W. and Lydia (Edwards) McQueen. Married: Gladys Emmerson. Children: Three. Education: University of Alabama; Rush Medical College, Chicago. Employed as administrator, Hillman-Jefferson Hospital; psychiatry, September 8, 1954. Wrote under pseudonyms James G. Edwards and Jay McHugh.
Source: Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Author: But the Patient Died. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1948.
Death Among Doctors. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.
Death Elects a Mayor. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1939.
F Corridor. New York: Sun Dial Press, 1936.
Murder at Leisure. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
Murder in the Surgery. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1935.
Odor of Bitter Almonds. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1938.
The Private Pavilion. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1935.
Sex is Such Fun. New York: Godwin, 1937.
McWHINEY, GRADY, 1928-
University professor. Born: July 15, 1928, Shreveport, La. Parents: Henry Grady and Mayme (Holland) McWhiney. Married: Sue Baca, December, 1947. Education: B.S., Centenary College, 1950; M.A., Louisiana State University, 1951; Ph.D., Columbia, 1960. Employed by U.S. Marine Corps, 1946-1947; taught, Troy State University, 1952-1954; Millsaps College, 1956-1959; Northwestern University, 1960-1965; University of British Columbia, 1965-1970; Wayne State University, 1970-1975; University of Alabama, 1975; professor of history and chairman of the department, 1975-1979; director, Center for the Study of Southern History and Culture, 1976; visiting teacher, University of California, Tulane University, University of Michigan
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 6NR
Author: Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1986.
Joint Author: Attack and Die: Civil War Military and the Southern Heritage. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1962.
The Southerner as American. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.
Editor: Grant, Lee, Lincoln and the Radicals: Essays on Civil War Leadership. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1964.
Reconstruction and Freedmen. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1963.
Southerners and Other Americans. New York: Basic, 1973.
Historical Vistas: Readings in United States History. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1963-1964.
Joint Editor: Lee's Dispatches to Jefferson Davis. New York: Putnam, 1957.
To Mexico With Taylor and Scott, 1845-1847. New York: Blaisdell, 1969.
McWHORTER, CHARLES COKER, 1904-
Accountant. Born: Waxahatchie, Tex., March 18, 1904. Parents: Charles P. and Iva M. (Coker) McWhorter. Married: Alma R. Stockton, September 2, 1923. Children: Two. Education: Moulton, Ala. High School; courses in banking and real estate. Employed as cashier, Bank of Moulton, 1928-1945; chairman, Board of Revenue, Lawrence County, Ala., 1950-1963; U.S. Department of Commerce, 1964-1965; chairman, Moulton Housing Authority; manager, Moulton Chamber of Commerce; City Council of Moulton; operated an accounting service, Moulton.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. II, and from files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: I Love to Sing. Emory University, Ga.: Banner Press, 1951.
Ragweeds and Daisies From an Alabama Farm. Chicago: Adams Press, 1974.
McWILLIAMS, RICHEBOURG GAILLARD, 1901-
College professor. Born: June 24, 1901, Oak Hill, Ala. Married: Dorothy Schultz, 1937. Education: B.S., 1922; A.M., 1925; A.M., University of Alabama, 1933; University of Wisconsin; University of Puerto Rico; Columbia University; University, Munich, Germany. Employed by Continuation School, Cabo Rojo, P.R., 1922-1923; University of Alabama, 1923-1925; Birmingham Southern College, 1928-1970; head, Department of English; chairman, Humanities Division, Birmingham Southern College. Member: American Council, Learned Societies.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1974; Essays in Honor of Richebourg Gaillard McWilliams. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Southern College Bulletin, May 1970.
Author: History of Beautiful Dauphin Island: Origin of Street Names. Dauphin Island, Ala.: Dauphin Island Park and Beach Board in cooperation with Mobile County Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners, 1956?
Editor and Translator:
Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Penicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana. Baton Rough: Louisiana State University Press, 1953.
Iberville's Gulf Journals. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1981.
McWILLIAMS, TENNANT S., 1943-
University professor, administrator. Born: September 12, 1943, Birmingham. Married: 1975. Children: One. Education: A.B., Birmingham Southern College, 1965; M.A., University of Alabama, 1967; Ph.D., University of Georgia, 1973. Employed as professor at Walker College, 1967-1968; University of Georgia, 1968-1973; Tidewater College, 1973-1974; taught, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1974, chairman, Department of History. Member: Southern Historical Association, American Historical Association.
Source: The Directory of American Scholars, 1982.
Author: Hannis Taylor: the New Southerner as an American. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1978.
A New Day Coming: Alabama and the Problem of Change, 1877-1920. Troy, Ala.: Troy State University Press, 1978.
The New South Faces the World: Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self, 1877-1950. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
MADDOX, ALVA HUGH, 1930-
Attorney, judge. Born: April 17, 1930, Covington County. Parents: Christopher Columbus and Audie L. (Freeman) Maddox. Married: Virginia Roberts, June 14, 1958. Children: Two. Education: A.B., University of Alabama, 1952; LL.B., 1957. Employed as a journalist, Florala News, 1947; law clerk, Alabama Court of Appeals, 1957; field examiner, Veteran's Administration, 1958; law clerk, U.S. District Court, 1959; attorney, Montgomery, 1961-1963; circuit judge, 15th Judicial Circuit, 1963; legal adviser to Governor George Wallace, 1965; Governor Lurlene Wallace, 1967; Governor Brewer, 1968; associate justice on the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1969.
Source: Who's Who in Government, 1972.
Author: Billy Boll Weavil: a Pest Becomes a Hero. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1976.
Joint Editor: Alabama Appellate Courts, 4th. ed. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Supreme Court Library, 1975.
MADRIGAL, JOSE A., 1945-
University professor. Born: July 18, 1945, Ciego de Avila, Cuba. Parents: Antonio and Maria I. Madrigal. Married: Angelia, July 22, 1968. Children: Three. Education: B.A., Michigan State University, 1964; M.A., 1968; Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1973. Employed as graduate teaching assistant, Michigan State University, 1966-1968; University of Kentucky, 1968-1970; taught, Auburn University, 1978. Honors: National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Duke University, 1975.
Source: Jose A. Madrigal, Auburn, Ala.
Author: Bibliografia Sombre el Pundonor: Teatro del Siglo de Oro. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1977.
El Salvaje y la Mitologia, el Arte y la Religion. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1975.
Joint Author: Critical Perspectives on Calderon de la Barca. Lincoln, Neb.: SSSAS, University of Nebraska, 1981.
Diez Cuentos Hispanicos. Miami: Spanish Textbook Corporation, 1976.
Estudios en Honor a Everett Hesse. Lincoln, Neb.: SSSAS, University of Nebraska, 1981.
Lazarillo de Tormes. (Clasicos Comentados Playor). Madrid: Playor, 1982.
Miguel de Cervantes Novelas Ejemplares. (Clasicos Comentados Playor). Madrid: Playor, 1982.
Studies in the Spanish Golden Age: Cervantes and Lope de Vega. Miami: Ediciones Universal, 1978.
MAEHL, WILLIAM HARVEY, 1915-
University professor. Born: May 28, 1915, Brooklyn, N.Y. Parents: William Henry and Antoinette (Salamone) Maehl. Married: Josephine Scholl McAllister, December 29, 1941. Children: Two. Education: B.S., M.A., Northwestern University, 1937-1939; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1946. Employed as instructor, St. Louis University, Centenary College; DePaul University, 1942-1950; U.S. Army military historian, European Headquarters, Karlsruhe and Frankfort, Germany; Fort Sill, Okla., 1951-1955; civilian war plans officer, Burtonwood Lance, England, 1955-1956; taught, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1956-1962 and 1964-1968; University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1963-1964; Auburn University, 1968.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 89.
Author: August Bebel: Shadow Emperor of the German Workers. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1980.
Bebel's Fight Against the Schlactflotte: .... Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1977.
German Militarism and Socialism. Lincoln, Neb.: Nebraska Wesleyan Press, 1963.
The German Socialist Party: Champion of the Republic, 1918-1933. Independence Square: American Philosophical Society, 1986.
Germany in Western Civilization. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1979.
World History Syllabus, Ancient and Medieval Times: .... Auburn, Ala.: s.n., 1970.
World History Syllabus: Early Modern Times. Winston- Salem, N.C.: Hunter Publishing Co., 1980.
World History Syllabus: Modern Times: .... Auburn, Ala.: Auburn University Press, 1977.
Contributor: Some Twentieth Century Historians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Historians of Modern Europe. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1971.
MALLON, JOHN H., JR., 1910-1976
Harbor pilot. Born: May 21, 1910, Mobile. Parents: John H. and Rachel Eldora (Previto) Mallon. Married: Lucile Simms. Children: Three. Employed by U.S. Corps of Engineers; master and pilot, Mobile Harbor, Mobile Towing Company, October 2, 1972.
Source: Beverly Mallon Taylor, Mobile, Ala.
Joint Compiler: Bay and Bayou Burials, Vols. 1-2. Mrs. Lester E. Taylor, 1974-
Neshoba County, Mississippi Marriages. Mobile, Ala.: John H. and Lucile S. Mallon, 19--.
Noxube County, Mississippi Marriages. Mobile, Ala.: John H. and Lucile S. Mallon, 19--.
Winston County, Mississippi Marriages. Mobile, Ala.: John H. and Lucile S. Mallon, 19--.
MALLON, LUCILLE SIMMS, 1917-
Genealogist. Born: March 14, 1917, Pascagoula, Miss. Parents: Joseph and Nannie Ruth (Eiland) Simms. Married: John H. Mallon, Jr. Children: Three. Married: John P. Connick, July 12, 1980. Employed as editor, The Deep South Genealogical Quarterly.
Source: Beverly Mallon Taylor, Mobile, Ala.
Compiler: 1840 Index to Florida Census. Mobile, Ala.: Beverly M. Taylor, 1974.
Missing Files in Probate Court of Mobile County, Alabama: November 27, 1889. Mobile, Ala.: Beverly M. Taylor, 19--.
Mobile, Ala. Directory, 1837-1839. Mobile, Ala.: Beverly M. Taylor, 19-
Mobile, Ala. Directory, 1842. Mobile, Ala.: Beverly M. Taylor, 19--
Washington County, Alabama Marriages. Mobile, Ala.: Mrs. Lester E. Taylor, s.d.
Joint Compiler: Bay and Bayou Burials, Vols. 1-2. Mobile, Ala.: Mrs. Lester E. Taylor, 1974-
Neshoba County, Mississippi Marriages. Mobile, Ala.: John H. and Lucile S. Mallon, 19--.
Noxube County, Mississippi Marriages. Mobile, Ala.: John H. and Lucile S. Mallon, 19--.
Winston County, Mississippi Marriages. Mobile, Ala.: John H. and Lucile S. Mallon, 19--.
MALLON, PAUL RAYMOND, 1901 or 1903-
Political writer, columnist. Born: 1901 or 1903 in Matton, Ill. Moved to Birmingham as child; later lived in Louisiana. Education: Louisville and Notre Dame. Married: Viola J. Wingreene. Writer for Louisville Courier Journal, Brooklyn Eagle, Louisville Post, South Bend News-Herald. Political writer for President Calvin Coolidge; chief, Capitol Staff, United Press, 1929. Wrote column, "News Behind the News," 1930-.
Source: Files at Birmingham Public Library.
Author: The Ease Era: the Juvenile Oligarchy and the Educational Trust. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1945.
Practical Idealism. Boston: B. Humphries, Inc., 1946.
MALLORY, KATHLEEN MOORE, 1879-1954
Born: January 24, 1879, Summerfield, Dallas County, Ala. Parents: Hugh Shepherd Darby and Jacqueline Louisa (Moore) Mallory. Education: A.B., Goucher College, 1902; Selma University, 1946; Louisiana College, 1948, honorary LLD. Employed as teacher, Demopolis; superintendent, Women's Missionary Union work, Selma Association, 1907; corresponding secretary of Woman's Missionary Union, Southern Baptist Convention, Baltimore, 1912- 1921; Executive Secretary, 1937-1948; assistant editor, Royal Service; editor, 1920. Honors: Baptist Convention named a hospital, Laichowfu, China, a chapel, Kokura, Japan; Women's Missionary Union Building, Birmingham in her honor.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 6. and from Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists.
Author: Manual of Woman's Missionary Union Methods. S.l.: s.n., s.d.
Editor: Woman's Missionary Union Year Book. S.l: s.n., s.d.
MALONE, DAVID HENRY, 1919-
University professor, administrator. Born: August 9, 1919, Washington, D.C. Parents: Maurice Drummond and Clara (Hanna) Malone. Married: Alice Bond Wells, August 15, 1942. Children: Three. Education: A.B., 1940; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1948; Louisiana State University, 1940-1941. Employed by Auburn University, 1948-1962; University of Southern California, 1962; chairman of the English Department, dean of humanities, acting dean, College of Arts and Sciences; president, Auburn City Board of Education, 1961-1962; chairman, editorial board, University of Southern California Studies, Comparative Literature, 1968.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1982, Directory of American Scholars, 1982.
Joint Author: Outline of Comparative Literature. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1954.
Editor: The Frontiers of Literary Criticism. Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1974.
MALONEY, SALLY WOODALL
See: Woodall, Sally Lee
MANCILL, JULIAN DOSSY, -1971
University professor. Born: Bradley Dam, Escambia County, Ala. Education: B.A., University of Alabama, 1926; M.A., 1927; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1934. Employed by University of Alabama, 1927-1966; director, Redstone Arsenal Graduate Institute, Huntsville, 1951-1954; head, Mathematics Department, University of Alabama, 1955.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: Contemporary Mathematics. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1960.
Elementos de Mathematica Moderna. Buenos Aires: Kapelusz, 1969.
Introductory College Mathematics. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1958.
Joint Author: Algebra Elemental Moderna. Habana: Editorial Selecta, 1955.
Basic College Algebra. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1962.
Modern Analytical Trigonometry. New York: Dodd Mead, 1960.
Modern College Algebra. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1960.
Editor: Summer Institute for Teachers of Science and Mathematics: June 5-August 18, 1961 report. University, Ala.: The University, 1961.
MANLY, JOHN MATTHEWS, 1865-1940
University Professor. Born: Sumter County, Ala., September 2, 1865. Parents: Charles and Mary (Matthews) Manly. Education: Furman University, 1883; A.M., 1889; Ph.D., 1900, Harvard University. Employed by Brown University, 1884-1898; University of Chicago, 1898-1933; military intelligence service, U.S. Army, World War I; exchange professor or visiting lecturer, University of Gottingen, Lowell Institute, British Academy, Royal Society of Literature; editor, 1908-1930.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1, and from the National Cyclopedia of Amerian Biography, Vol. 48.
Author: Chaucer and the Rhetoricians. London: Oxford University Press, 1926.
Contemporary British Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines. New York: Harcourt, 1921.
English Poetry (1170-1892). Boston: Ginn, 1916.
Good Reading. New York: Scribner, 1926.
Junior High School English. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1916.
Marco Polo and the Squire's Tale. Baltimore: Publication of the Modern Language Association, 1896.
The Piers Plowman Controversy .... London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1910.
Piers the Plowman and Its Sequence, .... Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908.
Some New Light on Chaucer. New York: Holt, 1926.
Joint Author: The Bailey-Manly Spelling Book. Boston: Houghton, 1908.
Better Advertising: a Practical Manual of the Principles of Advertising. Chicago: F. J. Drake Co., 1921.
Better Business English: a Working Manual .... Chicago: J. F. Drake, 1921.
Contemporary American Authors: a Critical Survey and 219 Bio-bibliographies. New York: Harcourt, 1922.
Contemporary American Literature: Bibliographies and Study Outlines. New York: Harcourt, 1935.
Contemporary British Literature: a Critical Survey and 232 Author-bibliographies. New York: Harcourt, 1935.
Contemporary British Literature: Outlines for Study, Indexes, Bibliographies. New York: Harcourt, 1928.
Lessons in the Speaking and Writing of English .... Boston: D.C. Heath, 1912.
A Manual for Writers: Covering the Needs of Authors for Information on Rules of Writing and Practices in Printing. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1915.
The Writer's Index of Good Form and Good English. New York: Holt, 1923.
The Writing of English. New York: Holt, 1919.
Editor: Canterbury Tales. New York: Holt, 1928.
English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892). New York: Ginn, 1916.
The Poems and Plays of William Vaughn Moody. New York: Scribner, 1887.
... Shakespeare's MacBeth. New York: Longmans, Green, 1896.
Specimens of the Pre-Shakespearean Drama.... Boston: Ginn, 1897.
Joint Editor: La Seinte Resureccion from the Paris and Canterbury mss. Oxford, Miss.: B. Blackwell, 1943.
The Text of the Canterbury Tales... . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1940.
Contributor: Cambridge History of English Literature, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 ed.
MANLY, LOUISE, 1857-1936
Teacher. Born: Richmond, Va., July 10, 1857. Parents: Basil Manly, Jr. and Charlotte (Whitfield) Manly. Education: United States and abroad. Employed as teacher in various parts of the South.
Source: Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors and from Dictionary of North American Authors.
Author: A History of Alabama for Children. S.l.: s.n., s.d.
History of Judson College. Atlanta, Ga.: Foote & Davis, 1913.
Lee's Advanced School History of the United States. Richmond: B.F. Johnson, 1897.
The Manly Family: an Account of the Descendants of Captain Basil Manly of the Revolution, and Related Families. Greenville, S.C.: Keys Printing Co., 1930.
A School History of the United States. Richmond: B.F. Johnson, 1895.
Southern Literature from 1479-1895: a Comprehensive Review, .... Richmond: B.F. Johnson, 1895.
Joint Author: Johnson's First-Fifth Reader. Richmond: B. F. Johnson, 1899. (She wrote the fourth grade reader in this series.)
Joint Editor: English Poets. S.l.: s.n., s.d.
MANN, MALCENA CATHERINE CLEEK, 1921-
Civil Servant. Born: May 1, 1921, Cleek's Mill, Bath County, Va. Parents: George Washington and Seraphine Catherine (Ritenour) Cleek. Married: Robert Neville Mann, May 14, 1949. Children: One. Education: Mary Washington College; graduate work, American University. Employed by War Department, 1940- 1949. Member: Daughters of the American Revolution, Huguenot Society of Tennessee.
Source: Catherine Cleek Mann, Cedar Bluff, Ala.
Compiler: Marriage Record "A" Floyd County, Georgia, 1834- 1848. Cedar Bluff, Ala.: Mann, 1970.
Marriage Record, 1834-1850, Benton County ... Alabama. Gadsden, Ala.: Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society, 1976.
Marriages, 1836-1854, DeKalb County, Alabama. Cedar Bluff, Ala.: Mann, 1970.
Old Records of Estates and Administrations, Benton County. Gadsden, Ala.: Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society, 1976.
Joint Author: Camp-Kemp Family History, Vols. I & II. Cedar Bluff, Ala.: Mann, 1967-1969.
Middlesex, Virginia Daniel Descendants. Cedar Bluff, Ala.: Mann, 1959.
Editor: Cherokee County Heritage. 5 vols. Cedar Bluff, Ala.: Cherokee County Historical Society, 1972-1978.
Northeast Alabama Settlers. Gadsden, Ala.: Northeast Alabama Genealogical Society.
MANN, ROBERT NEVILLE, 1904-1977
Telephone company executive. Born: November 3, 1904, Battelle, DeKalb County, Ala. Parents: Eugene Turner and Lola Josephine (Williamson) Mann. Married: Anna Barstow Nollen, July 14, 1931. Married: Malcena Catherine Cleek, May 14, 1949. Children: One. Education: B.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1926; graduate study, Columbia University. Employed by New York Telephone Company; lieutenant colonel, U.S. Army, World War II. Awards: Legion of Merit, 1945; New York State Conspicuous Service Cross, 1946. Member: Alabama Society of Colonial Wars, Georgia Society of Sons of the American Revolution, Alabama Society of the War, 1812.
Source: Catherine Cleek Mann, Cedar Bluff, Ala.
Joint Author: Camp-Kemp Family History. Cedar Bluff, Ala.: Mann, 1967-1969.
Middlesex, Virginia Daniel Descendants. Cedar Bluff, Ala.: Mann, 1959.
MARCH, WILLIAM (Pseudonym)
See: Campbell, William Edward March
MARKS, HENRY SEYMOUR, 1933-
Born: May 26, 1933, Greensboro, N.C. Parents: Benjamin and Florence (Hirsh) Marks. Married: Marsha Kass, June 8, 1965. Children: One. Education: B.A., University of Miami (Florida), 1955; M.A., University of Alabama, 1956; postgraduate work, University of Alabama, 1960-1964. Employed as teacher, University of Miami, Jacksonville State University, University of Alabama, Florida State University, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama A & M University. Member: President, Southern Region Popular Culture Association of the South; Florida, Alabama, Southern and American History Associations, Organization of American Historians, Hakluyt Society and American Society of Public Administration.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1980, and from Alabama's Distinguished.
Author: Alabama Past Leaders. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1982.
The Failure of the United States to Maintain the Independence of Korea and the Effect of the Failure Upon the Koreans. Florence, Ala.: Florence State College, 1962.
Sketches of the Tennessee Valley in Antebellum Days: People, Places, Things. Huntsville, Ala.: Southern Press, 1976.
Who Was Who in Alabama. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1972.
Who Was Who in Florida. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1973.
Joint Author: Rivers of Florida. Atlanta: Southern Press, 1974.
MARKS, MARSHA KASS, 1935-
College instructor. Born: May 6, 1935, New York City. Parents: Aaron Z. and Edith (Malkin) Kass. Married: Henry Seymour Marks, June 8, 1965. Children: One. Education: B.A., Hunter College, 1956; M.A., Yale, 1957, postgraduate work, 1957-1959. Employed as teacher, Georgia State College, 1960-1965, Calhoun Junior College, 1965-1967, Alabama A & M University, 1967. Member: Huntsville, Alabama, Florida, Southern, and American Historical Associations; Hakluyt Society, American Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, and Phi Beta Kappa.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1980.
Joint Author: Alabama Past Leaders. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1982.
MARSHALL, BENNY H. DAVIS, 1919-1969
Sports writer. Born: 1919, Vincent, Ala. Married: Ruth Tucker. Children: Four. Education: Howard College. Employed as sports writer. Honors: Alumnus of the Year for Journalism, Samford University, 1964; Sports Writer of the Year (7 times); Alabama Associated Press Sportworthy Award (11 times).
Source: Birmingham News, Sept. 26, 1969.
Author: Twenty Grand. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1968.
Winning Isn't Everything, But It Beats Anything That Comes in Second. Nashville: Parthenon Press, 1965.
MARSHALL, JAMES WILLIAMS, 1882-1964
Minister. Born: Perdue Hill, Ala., May 29, 1882. Married: Marion Cannon. Education: B.A., B.D., M.A., Southwestern Presbyterian University; McCormick Seminary, Chicago. Ordained by the East Alabama Presbytery, October 1907. Employed as pastor of churches, Scotland, Junction City, Mt. Holly, and Camden, Ark.; Tuskegee and Montgomery, Florida, Chattahoochee, Panama City; superintendent of home missions, Mobile Presbytery, 1921- 1929.
Source: The Presbyterian Church in Alabama.
Author: The Presbyterian Church in Alabama: a record of the growth of the Presbyterian Church from its beginning in 1811 in the Eastern portion of Mississippi Territory to the centennial of the Synod of Alabama in 1936. Montgomery, Ala.: Presbyterian Historical Society of Alabama, 1977.
MARSHALL, WALLACE, 1904-
Physician. Born: Appleton, Wis., July 19, 1904. Parents: Victor F. and Fanny (Levy) Marshall. Married: Louise Marjorie Clayton, August 14, 1953. Children: One. Education: B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1930; B.M., 1932; M.D., 1933, Northwestern University. Employed as an intern, Cook County Hospital, 1932-1933; psychiatric fellow, LSU Medical School, Charity Hospital, New Orleans, 1936-1937; taught, University of Alabama School of Medicine, 1936-1937, Spring Hill College, 1947; Norbert College, 1953; practiced medicine, Two Rivers, Wis.; Watertown, Wis.; Central State Hospital, Pineville, La.; Heflin and Anniston, Ala. Discovered and produced Kutapressin, a microcirculatory constrictor; co-discoverer of the Marshall-White syndrome; and originated the theory of psychoallergy.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1971-1972 and from Immunologic Psychology and Psychiatry.
Author: Essentials of Medical Research. New York: Vantage Press, 1953.
Immunologic Psychology and Psychiatry. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1977.
Noise of Great Water. S.l.: s.n, (lst prize American Physicians Literary Guild), 1947.
MARTIN, BESSIE, 1891-1959
Professor. Born: 1891. Parents: Minnie (Gordon) Martin. Education: Judson College, A.B. 1911; University of Alabama, A.B.; Columbia University, M.A., Ph.D. Taught at Judson College, 1913-1940; librarian, Thomasville (Ala.) High School, 1940-1959. Honored with an endowment in her name by Judson Alumnae; history section of Judson's Bowling Library named the Bessie Martin Memorial Collection.
Source: Staff of Bowling Library, Judson College.
Author: Desertion of Alabama Troops from the Confederate Army: a Study in Sectionalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932.
MARTIN, CARTER W., 1933-
University professor. Born: Jan. 3, 1935. Parents: Carter H. and Martha (Williams) Martin, Clover, S.C., January 13, 1933. Married: Jane Douglas, York, S.C., August 25, 1955. Children: Two. Education: A.B., Presbyterian College, 1955; Vanderbilt University; M.A., 1958; Ph.D., 1967. Employed as teacher, North Carolina State University, 1958-1964, University of Alabama, Huntsville, 1964.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, 1969-1970.
Author: The True Country: Themes in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
Editor: The Presence of Grace, and Other Book Reviews. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1983.
MARTIN, DAVID LINCOLN, 1947-
University Professor. Born: May 6, 1947, Los Angeles. Education: B.A., Redlands University, 1968; M.A., Claremont Graduate School, 1969; Ph.D., 1973. Employed as an analyst, University of California, Los Angeles; taught political science, Auburn University, 1973; consultant, Alabama Law Enforcement Planning Agency, Alabama Development Office, Alabama Public Television Network, National Science Foundation, and Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company.
Source: Men and Women of Science, 13th edition.
Author: Alabama County Debt. Montgomery, Ala.: State Planning Division, Alabama Development Office, 1977.
Alabama's State and Local Governments. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1975.
Capitol, Courthouse, and City Hall: Readings in American State and Local Politics and Government. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co., 1981.
A Guide to Selected Planning Powers of Alabama Counties, Land Use, Housing, and Economic Development. Montgomery, Ala.: Office of Public Service and Research, Auburn University, 1977.
Home Rule for Local Governments. Auburn, Ala.: Office of Public Service and Research, School of Arts and Sciences, Auburn University, 1978.
Running City Hall: Municipal Administration in America. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1982.
Joint Author: Revenue Sharing: Improving Local Government Reporting. Auburn, Ala.: Office of Public Service and Research, School of Arts and Sciences, Auburn University, 1977.
MARTIN, HERBERT WOODWARD, 1933-
University professor. Born: October 4, 1933, Birmingham, Ala. Parents: David Nathaniel and Willie Mae (Woodward) Martin. Education: B.A., University of Toledo, 1964; M.A., State University of New York, Buffalo, 1967; M. Litt., Middlebury College, 1972. Employed as teacher, State University of New York, Buffalo, University of Dayton; visiting distinguished professor of poetry, Central Michigan University, 1973; consultant for the Contemporary Black Writers' Collection, University of Toledo, 1974.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 73
Author: The Forms of Silence. Detroit: Lotus, 1980.
New York, the Nine Million and other poems. S.l.: Abracadabra, 1969.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Singer of Songs. Columbus, Ohio: State Library of Ohio, 1979.
The Persistence of the Flesh. Detroit: Lotus, 1976.
The Shit-Storm Poems. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Pilot Press, 1973.
Three Black Writers--Plus: Catalogue of an exhibition at the Ward M. Canaday Center, March 28-June 30. Toledo, Ohio: William S. Carlson Library, University of Toledo, 1980.
MARTIN, ROSCOE COLEMAN, 1903-
University Professor. Born: November 18, 1903, Silsbee, Tex. Parents: Benjamin Wiley and Clara Lee (Mayo) Martin. Married: Mildred Ellis, September 2, 1926. Children: One. Education: B.A., University of Texas, 1924; M.A., University of Chicago, 1925; Ph.D., 1932. Employed as teacher, University of Texas, Austin, 1933-1937; professor and chairman, Department of Political Science, University of Alabama, 1937-1949; other universities; chief research technician, National Resources Planning Board. Member: U.S. National commission, UNESCO and United Nations Public Administration Mission to Brazil; U.S. Department of State Specialist in nine foreign countries; and consultant to the Tennessee Valley Authority, Federal Civil Defense Administration, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, and Ford Foundation; Social Science Council Research professor during 1959-1960.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 19-20.
Author: A Budget Manual for Texas Cities. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1934.
The Cities and the Federal System. New York: Atherton Press, 1965.
The Defendant and Criminal Justice. Austin, Tex.: Texas University, 1934.
From Forest to Front Page .... University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1956.
Government and the Suburban School. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1962.
Grass Roots: Essays. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1957.
The Growth of State Administration in Alabama. University, Ala.: Bureau of Public Adminsistration, University of Alabama, 1942.
The People's Party in Texas. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas, Bureau of Research in the Social Sciences, 1933.
TVA: the First Twenty Years. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1956.
Urban Local Government in Texas. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas, 1936.
Water for New York: a Study in State Administration of Water Resources. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1960.
Joint Author: Decisions in Syracuse. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1961.
The Metropolis and Its Problems: .... Syracuse, N.Y.: Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1960.
River Basin Administration and the Delaware. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1960.
Editor: Public Administration and Democracy: Essays in Honor of Paul H. Appleby. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1965.
MARTIN, THOMAS WESLEY, 1881-1964
Born: Scottsboro, Ala., August 13, 1881. Parents: William Logan and Margaret (Ledbetter) Martin. Married: Mary Evelyn Tyson, June 4, 1919. Education: Starke University School, Montgomery; law student, University of Alabama, 1898-1900. Employed as an attorney and junior partner, Martin and Martin, 1901-1907; Assistant Attorney General, State of Alabama, 1903- 1911; general counsel, Alabama Power Company; vice president, 1915; president, 1920-1949. Honors: South's "Man of the Year," 1946, Forbes Magazine's fifty foremost business leaders; "Humanitarian of the Year," 1964.
Source: Owen's Story of Alabama and from Who's Who in America, 1952-1953.
Author: Doctor William Crawford Gorgas of Alabama and the Panama Canal. New York: The Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1947.
French Military Adventurers in Alabama, 1818-1828. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1937.
Forty Years of Alabama Power Company, 1911-1951. New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1952.
The Story of Electricity in Alabama Since the Turn of the Century, 1900-1952. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., 1952.
The Story of Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1960.
MARTIN, WILL IRVING, 1871-1955
Reporter, editor. Born: October 5, 1871, Peek's Hill, Calhoun County, Ala. Parents: John T. and Emma C. (Finch) Martin. Education: University of Alabama, 1892. Employed by Gadsden Leader; Gadsden Times, 1895; cast iron soil pipe company, Gadsden for two years, Chattanooga for one year; insurance company, Atlanta; managing editor, Gadsden Evening Journal, 1920-1924; established, Gadsden Evening Star, 1925; combined with Times, 1927-1955.
Source: Forward of If Memory Serves.
Author: If Memory Serves. (Cleveland, Tenn.: Banner Print, 1951?)
MASON, AUGUST HOWARD, 1895-
Professor. Born: Columbus Grove, Okla., August 4, 1895. Parents: Franklin R. and Anna L. Campbell. Married: Bennie Hope Spinks, July 11, 1927. Children: One. Education: A.B., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1919; Ph.D., Universite de Paris, 1924. Employed by Williamsport-Dickinson Seminary, Wilbraham Academy, Syracuse University, Howard College, University of Alabama.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1960-1961.
Author: Rockport, Ohio: About the Year 1906. Blacksburg, Va.: White Rhinoceros Press, 1977.
Winter Balance. University: Ala.: University of Alabama, 1946.
Editor: A Poetry Miscellany. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Publishing Co., 1938.
Second Poetry Miscellany. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University Supply Store, 1939.
These Unmusical Days: a Book of Poems. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1951.
MASON, DAVID PIERCE, 1919-
University Professor. Born: November 19, 1919, Stockton, Baldwin County, Ala. Education: B.A., University of Alabama, 1941; graduate work, Vanderbilt University; M.Ed., Emory, 1950; Ed.D., University of Georgia, 1957. Employed as intelligence officer; teacher; principal, Stockton School, 1946-1956; University of Georgia, 1956-1962; Tift College, 1962-1967; University of South Alabama, 1967.
Source: Leaders in Education, 1974 and from Five Dollars a Scalp.
Author: Five Dollars a Scalp: the Last Mighty War Whoop of the Creek Indians. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode Publishers, 1975.
The Oaks of Fort Mims. Mobile, Ala.: University of South Alabama, 1974.
MASON, SARA ELIZABETH, 1908?-
Librarian. Born: Demopolis, 1908. Education: Agnes Scott College, two years; B.A., University of Alabama; M.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Library Science, Peabody College. Employed as a teacher, Gadsden High School, Frankfort, Germany; assistant director, Gadsden Public Library; cataloger, University of Alabama; Birmingham Public Library; map curator, Rucker Agee Cartographical Collection, latter library. Member: Etowah County Historical Society.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: The Crimson Feather. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1945.
Glovers of Marengo County, Ala. Linden, Ala.? 1960?
The House that Hate Built. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1944.
A List of Nineteenth Century Maps of the State of Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Public Library, 1973.
Murder Rents a Room. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1943.
The Whip. New York: W. Morrow, 1948.
Compiler: Confederate Imprints in the University of Alabama Library. University, Ala. s.n., 1961.
MASON, WILLIAM HICKMAN, 1936-
University professor. Born: Bradford, Ark., June 16, 1936. Married: 1955. Children: Three. Education: B.S., Arkansas Polytechnic College, 1958; M.Ed., University of Georgia, 1964; D.Ed., 1966. Employed as teacher, Auburn University, 1966. Member: American Institute for Biological Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1982.
Author: The Human Side of Biology. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
Perspective in Biology, Laboratory Manual. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 1988.
Joint Compiler: Environmental Problems: Principles, Readings and Comments. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Co., 1973.
MASSEY, JOHN, 1834-
Teacher. Born: December 16, 1834, Choctaw County, Ala. Parents: Drury and Vashti (Gorham) Massey. Education: University of Alabama, A.B., 1862; A.M., 1875; honorary LL.D., University of Alabama, 1879. Served as adjutant, 1st Battalion, Hilliard's Legion, CSA. Taught at University of Alabama, 1864- 1865; Choctaw County, 1865-1866; president, Centenary Institute, 1864-1875; Mobile, 1874-1876; president, Alabama Conference Female College, Tuskegee, 1876-. Served as member of the Board of Education, Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Board of Education of the Alabama Conference; member of the National and Southern Education Associations; president, Alabama Education Association, 1894-1895.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4; Memorial Record of Alabama, Vol. 2.
Author: Reminiscences, Giving Sketches of Scenes Through Which the Author Has Passed and Pen Portraits of People Who Have Modified His Life. Nashville: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, Smith & Lamar, Agents, 1916.
MATHEWS, MARY LOU CHAPMAN, 1938-
Born: November 3, 1938, Jackson, Ala. Parents: Jansen Chapman. Married: Forest David Mathews, January 24, 1960. Children: Two. Education: Judson College, 1957-1959; University of Alabama, 1960. Husband was president of University of Alabama, 1969-1980; Secretary, United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1975-1976. Member: Women's Committee of the President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, 1975. Honors: Citizen of the Year, Alabama Cable TV, 1976; Alumna of the Year, University of Alabama, 1980.
Source: Jacket of A Mansion's Memories and from Alabama's Distinguished.
Author: A Mansion's Memories: the Story of the University of Alabama President's Mansion. Huntsville, Ala.: Strode, 1981.
MATHEWS, MITFORD McLEOD, 1891-
Editor, lecturer. Born: Jackson, Ala., February 12, 1891. Parents: James Waldrum and Frances Isabella McLeod. Married: Georgia Jane Garrett, August 7, 1919. Children: Two. Education: A.B., Southern University, 1915; A.M., University of Alabama, 1917; Ph.D., Harvard, 1936. Employed as instructor, Scarritt-Morrisville (Mo.) College, 1915-1916; high school principal, Ala., 1919-1927; instructor, University of Chicago, 1926-1931; staff, Dictionary of American English, 1925-1944; lecturer, Department of Linguistics, 1951-1957; editor, Dictionary Department, 1944-1956. Member: editorial staff, Webster New World Dictionary. Honors: Loubat Award, 1953.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1964-1965.
Author: American Words. Cleveland: World, 1959.
The Beginning of American English. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.
A Dictionary of Americanism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951.
Dictionary of Selected Americanisms. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.
Some Sources of Southernism. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1948.
A Survey of English Dictionaries. London: Oxford University Press, 1933.
Teaching to Read Historically Considered. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.
Words: How to Know Them. New York: Holt, 1956.
MATHIS, GERALD RAY, 1937-
University Professor. Born: April 2, 1937, Sanford, Miss. Parents: Paul M. and LaVerne (Morris) Mathis. Married: Mary Katherine Pugh, December 28, 1958. Children: Two. Education: A.A., Snead Junior College, 1957; B.A., Birmingham Southern College, 1958; M.Div., Duke University, 1962; University of Georgia; M.A., 1963; Ph.D., 1967. Employed as teacher, Snead Junior College, 1964-1965; Georgia Southern College, 1966-1969; Troy State University, 1969.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 37.
Author: Introduction and Index to the John Horry Dent Farm Journals and Account Books, 1840-1892. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1977.
John Horry Dent: South Carolina Aristocrat on the Alabama Frontier. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1979.
Editor: College Life in the Reconstruction South: Walter B. Hill's Student Correspondence, University of Georgia, 1869- 1871. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Libraries, 1974.
In the Land of the Living: Wartime Letters by Confederates from the Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia. Troy, Ala.: Troy State University Press, 1981.
Joint Editor: John Horry Dent Farm Journals and Account Books, 1840-1892. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1977.
Pilgrimage to Madison Correspondence Concerning the Georgia Party's Inspection of the University of Wisconsin, November 22-23, 1904. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1971.
"Uncle Tom" Reed's Memoir of the University of Georgia. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Libraries, 1974.
MATTE, JACQUELINE ANDERSON, 1935-
Teacher. Born: June 24, 1935, Chatom, Ala. Parents: Forrest Lee, Jr. and Marie (Bailey) Anderson. Married: John Stephen Matte, August 6, 1955. Children: Four. Education: B.S., B.A., Samford University, 1971; M.Ed., 1976; C.A.S.E., Gifted Education, 1980; M.A., 1985, University of Alabama, Birmingham. Employed as teacher, Mountain Brook Junior High School, 1971; Social Studies Department Head. Member: Phi Chi Theta, Pi Gamma Mu, and Phi Alpha Theta.
Source: Jacqueline A. Matte, Birmingham, Ala.
Author: The History of Washington County: the First County in Alabama. Chatom, Ala.: Washington County Historical Society, 1982.
Workbook for The Story of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Viewpoint Publications, Inc., 1980.
Teachers Guide for The Story of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Viewpoint Publications, Inc., 1980.
MATTHEWS, JOHN L., 1899-
Postal employee. Born: May 30, 1899, Montgomery, Ala. Married: Julia Goss. Children: One. Education: Alabama State Normal School, Montgomery; Oakland College, Huntsville. Employed as postal clerk, 1937-1968.
Source: Living Black American Authors.
Author: A Layman Looks at the Gods of the Bible. Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1970.
Sex and the Garden of Eden. New York: Vantage Press, 1975.
MATTHEWS, L. LAMAR (Pseudonym)
See: Matthews, Lovemma Eastburn
MATTHEWS, LOUEMMA EASTBURN, 1892-1957
Writer. Born: Aberdeen, Miss., 1892. Married: Pitt Lamar Matthews. Children: Two. Employed as a writer, Montgomery Advertiser, 1914; editor, children's page; society editor; wrote syndicated feature article, ("Child Training,"); staff member, Birmingham News; public information representative, NRA, Social Security Administration. Member: Pen Women, D.A.R., U.D.C.
Source: Advertiser Journal, December 8, 1957.
Author: History Stories of Alabama. Dallas, Tex.: Southern Publishing Co., 1920.
MAULDIN, WILLIAM B.
Born: August 7, 1899, Etowah County, Ala. Parents: Joseph M. and Delia L. (Moody) Mauldin. Married: Elsie Holland, July 31, 1926. Education: high school, 1923; junior college, Athens, Tenn., 1925; B.S., University of Alabama, 1940. Employed as teacher, Winston and Cullman County schools, 1925-1964; editor "The Mauldin News"; wrote for Cullman Times, 1974. Honors: Merit for Preservation of Alabama's Heritage, Alabama Historical Commission.
Source: Reminiscing.
Author: Reminiscing, Vol. 1. Cullman, Ala.: The Gregath Company, 1982.
MAUND, ALFRED THOMAS, JR., 1923-
Editor, writer. Born: June 26, 1923, Jennings, La. Parents: Alfred Thomas and Edna (Caffall) Maund. Married: Dorothy Dodson, 1948. Children: One. Education: B.A., Tulane University, 1944; M.A., 1948. Employed as teacher, Livingston State Teachers College, 1953-1955; editorial posts, New Orleans Times-Picayune, New Orleans Item, Louisville Courier-Journal, Montgomery (Ala.) Nation, Bettendorf (Iowa) Labor's Daily; editor, International Chemical Workers Union, Akron, Ohio; public relations director; Projects writer, 1957-1963; Washington correspondent, Madison (Wis.) Capital Times, 1963.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4.
Author: The Big Boxcar. Boston: Houghton, 1957.
The International. New York: McGraw, 1961.
The Untouchables. New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1952.
The Worthy Termites. London: Longmans, 1961.
MAXWELL, JAMES ROBERT, 1844-
Born: Tuscaloosa, Ala., August 29, 1844. Parents: Thomas and Susan Charlotte (Farley) Maxwell. Married: Eugenia E. Harris, June 5, 1867. Children: Two. Education: Auburndale, Mass.; University of Alabama, 1861. Served with the 34th Alabama Regiment, Loachapoka, Ala.; Lumsden's Battery, Tuscaloosa; discharged, May 4, 1865; farmer; county commission, Tuscaloosa County.
Source: Autobiography.
Author: Autobiography of James Robert Maxwell of Tuskaloosa, Alabama. New York: Greenberg, 1926.
Joint Author: A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: R.E. Rhodes Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1905.
MAY, AGNES, 1903-
Born: October 17, 1903. Parents: Dr. Olin May. Early days lived in Marshall County; later, Snyder, Tex. Education: Kidd-Key College and Conservatory.
Source: SCRIPSIT.
Author: Bloody Creek. New York: Pageant Press, 1963.
MAYER, ARTHUR LOEB, 1886-
Film executive. Born: Demopolis, Ala., May 28, 1886. Parents: Simon and Rachel (Bernheim) Mayer. Married: Lillie Stein, May 16, 1916. Children: Three. Education: A.B., Harvard University, 1907. Employed as director of publicity, advertising and exploitation, Paramount Pictures, 1930-1933; operated the Rialto Theater, New York City, 1933-1950; president, Mayer- Burstyn Film Corporation, 1933-1950; president, Mayer-Kingsley Company, 1950-1954; president, Independent Motion Pictures Distributors Association, 1951-1957; assistant coordinating treasurer, World War II, war activities, motion picture industries, 1942-1946; film consultant, Secretary of War, 1943- 1946; executive vice president, Council of Motion Picture Organizations, 1950-1972; chairman, executive committee, Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, 1953-1974. Honors: L.H.D., Harvard, 1972; LL.D., Clark University, 1977. Producer: Forgotten Village, High Hell and Lights Out in Europe.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1978.
Author: Merely Colossal: the Story of the Movies .... New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953.
Joint Author: The Movies. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957.
The Movie Stars. New York: Doubleday, 1970.
MAYFIELD, JAMES JEFFERSON, 1861-1927
Attorney, judge. Born: March 22, 1861, Moore's Bridge, Ala. Parents: James Jefferson and Amanda (South) Mayfield. Married: Susie Martin, June 30, 1897. Children: Two. Education: A.B., 1885; LL.B., 1888, University of Alabama. Employed as a attorney, Tuscaloosa, 1888; Alabama House of Representatives, 1894-1896; judge of the City Court, Tuscaloosa, 1896-1903; Code Commissioner, Alabama; Associate Justice, Alabama Supreme Court, 1908-1919; counselor, Governors Kirby and Brandon.
Source: Who Was Who in Alabama, Vol. 1 and from Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography.
Author: Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama .... Nashville: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1901.
Mayfield's Alabama Form Book Legal and Business Forms .... Nashville: Marshall and Bruce Co., 1924.
A Scrapbook on Constitutional Government. Atlanta: Foote & Davies Co., 1925.
Prepared: Code of Alabama .... Nashville: Marshall and Bruce, 1907.
Joint preparer: The Code of Alabama .... Atlanta: The Foote and Davis Co., 1897.
Paralled, Annotated and Indexed: Annotations of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Alabama. Nashville: Marshall & Bruce Co., 1904.
MAYFIELD, SARA, 1905-
Born: Tuscaloosa, Ala., September 10, 1905. Parents: James Jefferson and Susan Fitts (Martin) Mayfield. Married: John Allen Sellers, November 12, 1924. Education: University of Paris, 1926; University of Chicago, 1927; A.B., Goucher College, 1928; M.A., University of Alabama, 1938; graduate work, Tulane University, 1943. Employed as a play reader, casting director, New York City, 1931-1932; Rockland County Theater, 1932; special correspondent, Baltimore Sun, 1928-1929; Paris Herald, 1929; New York Herald Tribune, 1931; Transradio Press, New York City, 1938- 1945; Birmingham News, 1945-1946; assistant editor, University of Alabama Press, 1967-1969; contributing editor, 1969-1972. Honors: Alabama Library Association, 1970.
Source: Who's Who of American Women, 1977.
Author: The Constant Circle: H.L. Mencken and His Friends. New York: Delacorte Press, 1968.
Exiles from Paradise: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Delacorte Press, 1971.
Mona Lisa, the Woman in the Portrait: a Fictional Biography. New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1974.
MAYS, WILLIE HOWARD, 1931-
Baseball player. Born: May 6, 1931, Westfield, Ala. Parents: William Howard and Ann Mays. Married: Mae Louise Allen, November 27, 1971. Children: One. Education: Fairfield High School. Employed by Birmingham Black Barons Baseball Team, 1948- 1950; New York Giants Baseball, Trenton, N.J., 1950-1951, Minneapolis, 1951, New York; San Francisco Giants, 1951-1972; New York Mets, 1972-1973; U.S. Army, 1952-1954. Honors: National League's Most Valuable Player, 1954, 1965; Baseball's Player of the Year in 1954 and Player of the Decade, 1970; Hickok Belt, 1954; Male Athlete of the Year, Associated Press, 1954.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1978.
Author: Say Hey: the Autobiography of Willie Mays. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1988.
Joint Author: Born to Play Ball. New York: Putnam, 1955.
Danger in Center Field. Larchmont, N.Y.: Argonaut Books, 1963.
My Secrets of Playing Baseball. New York: Viking, 1967.
Willie Mays: My Life in and Out of Baseball. New York: Dutton, 1966.
MEADOR, DANIEL JOHN, 1926-
Attorney. Born: Selma, Ala., December 7, 1926. Parents: Daniel John and Mabel (Kirkpatrick) Meador. Married: Janet Caroline Heimann, November 19, 1955. Children: Four. Education: B.S., Auburn University, 1949; LL.B., University of Alabama, 1951; LL.M., Harvard University, 1954. Employed as a attorney, 1951; Judge Advocate General Corps, Korean War, 1951- 1953; law clerk, Alabama Supreme Court, 1953-1955; law clerk, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, Birmingham, 1955-1957; faculty, University of Virginia Law School, 1966; dean of the University of Alabama Law School, 1970; faculty, University of Virginia, 1970; Assistant Attorney General, United States, 1977- 1979; Fulbright lecturer, United Kingdom, 1965-1966. Member: American Law Institute, Virginia Bar Association, Society of Public Teachers of Law, American Society of Legal History.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1978-1979.
Author: Appellate Courts: Staff and Process .... St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1974.
Consumers of Justice: How the Public Views the Federal Judicial Process. Washington, D.C.: Alabama Law Institute, 1977.
Criminal Appeals: English Practices and the American Reforms. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1973.
Habeas Corpus and Magna Carta: Dualism of Power and Liberty. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1966.
Impressions of Law in East Germany .... Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1986.
Mr. Justice Black and His Books. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1974.
Preludes to Gideon: Notes on Appellate Advocacy .... Charlottesville, Va.: Michie, 1967.
The President, the Attorney General, and the Department of Justice. Charlottesville, Va.: White Birkett Miller Center of Public Affairs, 1980.
Recommendations for Utilizing Three Central Staff Attorneys in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. Washington, D.C.: Alabama Law Institute, 1974.
Joint Author: Justice on Appeal. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1976.
Reporter: Criminal Review Procedures: Proposed Statutory Revisions: Final Report. University, Ala.: Alabama Law Institute, 1971.
MEADOWS, THOMAS BURTON, 1882-
Writer, teacher. Born: Bowdon, Ga., February 19, 1882. Parents: James Henry and Anna Lee (Thurman) Meadows. Education: Hanceville, Ala. High School; Alabama Polytechnic Institute; B.S., University of Alabama, 1911; M.S., Peabody, 1912; M.A., Cornell, 1916; Ph.D., Columbia, 1923; Ed.D., New York University, 1932; University of California, Indiana University. Employed as an instructor, University of Alabama; Agricultural College of Mississippi; Winthrop College; Athens College; Milligan College; State Teachers College of Radford, Va.; Georgia State College for Women and at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Ark..
Source: Who's Who of North American Authors.
Author: Guidance in the Study of the New Testament: an Objective Approach. New York: Vantage Press, 1955.
Guidance in the Study of the Old Testament: an Objective Approach. New York: Vantage Press, 1954.
Psychology of Learning and Teaching Christian Education: Psychology for Christian Workers. New York: Pageant Press, 1958.
MEEKS, LILLIAN FORT, 1905-
Teacher. Born: September 17, 1905, Dallas County, Ala. Married: John H. Meeks. Education: Mississippi State University. Employed as English teacher for thirty-one years.
Source: SCRIPSIT.
Author: New Soil. S.l.: Anderson Printery, 1935.
Pendrifts. (3 vols. entitled: Lute Songs, Metamorphis, and Lighted Candles. S.l.: Delta Branch National League, American Pen Women, 1968.
Wind and Hearthstone. Los Angeles: National Poetry Press, 1972.
MELL, ANNIE REBECCA WHITE
Born: Athens, Ga. Parents: William Nathaniel and Rebecca (Benedict) White. Married: Patrick Hues Mell, June 15, 1875. Member: Colonial Dames; state historian, Alabama Daughters of the American Revolution; state treasurer, Alabama United Daughters of the Confederacy; vice-president, Alabama Federation of Women's Clubs.
Source: Owen's Story of Alabama, Vol. III.
Author: Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Historical Society, 1904.
Joint Author: The Genealogy of the Mell Family in the Southern States. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell's Sons, 1897.
MELL, PATRICK HUES, 1850-1918
Agriculturist, university professor. Born: May 24, 1850, Penfield, Ga. Parents: Patrick Hues and Lurene Howard (Cooper) Mell. Married: Annie R. White, June 15, 1875. Education: A.B., 1871; M.E., 1872; Ph.D., University of Georgia. Employed as a state chemist, Georgia, 1874-1877; taught geology and botany, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1878-1902; president, South Carolina A. & M. College (Clemson), 1902-1910; director, Alabama Weather Service, API, 1884-1893; director, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1898; invented, weather signals used by the U.S. Weather Bureau. Member: treasurer, Board of Missions, Southern Baptist Convention, 1913; president, College Section, American Association of Colleges and Stations, 1909; Commander, Alabama Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, 1898.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.
Author: Biological Laboratory Methods. New York: Macmillan, 1902.
Gardening for the South: or, How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits. Richmond: B.F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1901.
The Genealogy of the Mell Family in the Southern States. Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell's sons, 1897.
Report on the Climatology of the Cotton Plant. Washington, D.C.: Weather Bureau, 1893.
Editor: A Manual of Parliamentary Practice, rev. ed. Louisville, Ky.: Baptist Book Concern, 1893.
MELLOWN, BENNIE CATHERINE, 1906-
Teacher. Born: 1906, Birmingham, Ala. Parents: Luther Smith and Sudie (Crumly) Mellown. Education: Florence State Teachers College; B.S., Howard College; M.A., University of Alabama. Employed as teacher, Hillview, 1928-1935; Crumly, 1935-1939; Sayre, 1939-1944; Sandusky, 1944. Member: Jefferson County Classroom Teachers Association, Jefferson County Elementary Teachers, N.E.A., A.E.A., Alpha Delta Kappa. Honors: Freedom Foundation, 1962-1964.
Source: Who's Who of American Women, 1970.
Author: Memoirs of a Pre-Civil War Community. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., 1950.
MELLOWN, ROBERT OLIVER, 1945-
University Professor. Born: May 8, 1945, York, Ala. Parents: Elgin W. and Georgia (Clay) Mellown. Education: B.A., University of Alabama, 1967; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1975. Employed as an art instructor, University of Alabama, 1971.
Source: Robert W. Mellown.
Author: The University of Alabama: a Guide to the Campus. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1988.
Compiler and editor of catalogs of exhibits:
The Art of the Alabama Indians. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Moody Gallery of Art, 1976.
William Nichols, Architect. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Moody Gallery of Art, 1979.
MELTON, WIGHTMAN FLETCHER, 1867-1944
Teacher. Born: September 26, 1867, Ripley, Tenn. Parents: Isaac Quimby and Fanny Louise (Ellis) Melton. Married: Oliver Kelly, September 19, 1889. Children: Three. Education: George Peabody College, 1889; Blount (Ala.) College, 1890; Troy State Normal School, 1894; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1906. Employed as a teacher, Blountsville, 1889; examiner of teachers, Blount County, Ala., 1890; president, Florida Conference College, Leesburg, Fla., 1892-1895; vice-president, Nashville College for Young Ladies, 1895-1897; president, Tuscaloosa Female College, 1897- 1903; Emory University, 1908-1924; professor, extension division, Oglethorpe University, 1931-1943; Georgia State Department, 1935- 1939; curator, State Museum of Georgia, 1943; mayor, Oxford, Ga., 1912-1918; editorial writer, Griffin (Ga.) News, 1924; Poet Laureate, Georgia, 1943.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.
Author: Along Life's Road. Griffin, Ga.: Southern States Printing, 1961.
Chimes of Oglethorpe. Oglethorpe University, Ga.: Oglethorpe University Press, 1933.
The Preacher's Son. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1894.
The Rhetoric of John Donne's Verse... Baltimore: J.H. Furst Company, 1906.
Editor: Frank Lebby Stanton, Georgia's First Poet Laureate. Atlanta: Georgia. Department of Education, 1938.
Lanier Memorial Poems of Trees. 8 vols. Atlanta: Banner Press, 1931-1933.
MELZER, JOHN HENRY, 1908-1967
University Professor. Born: Effingham, Ill., July 10, 1908. Parents: Emil Frederick and R. Laura (Linn) Melzer. Married: Dorothy Garrett, July 4, 1936. Children: Two. Education: Concordia College, Fort Wayne, Ind., 1928; C.R.M, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., 1931; A.M., 1934; Ph.D., 1937, Vanderbilt University. Employed by Ashland College, 1937-1939; Citadel, 1939-1940; Jamestown Junior College Extension, Alfred University, 1940-1941; Lambuth College, 1945-1946; University of Missouri, 1946-1947; University of Kentucky, 1947-1958; Auburn University, 1958; established the Deparment of Philosophy, Citadel; dean, director, Jamestown Junior College Extension; head, Philosophy Department, Auburn. Member: American Philosophical Association, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Alabama Philosophical Society; Pi Kappa Alpha.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Permanent Series, Vol. 1.
Author: An Examination of Critical Monism. Ashland, Ohio: University Post Pub., 1937.
Functional Logic. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown, 1957.
Functionalism: an Outline of a Philosophy for Today. New York: Philosophical Library, 1965.
A Guide to Philosophical Terminology. Ashland, Ohio: University Post Pub. 1938.
Modern Functional Logic. Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown, 1961.
Philosophy in the Classroom. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1955.
MERONEY, ELOISE WHITLOW, 1898-
Teacher. Born: Montevallo, April 4, 1898. Parents: Charles Lloyd and Ellen (Nelson) Meroney. Education: Alabama Girls Technical Institute (The University of Montevallo), 1917; A.B., University of Alabama, 1920; A.M., Columbia University, 1922; further study at Chicago, Duke, and Northwestern Universities. Employed as English teacher, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N.C., 1922-1926, Ward-Belmont College, 1926-1928, Memphis Technical High School, 1929; University of Montevallo, 1930-1965.
Source: Eloise Merony, Montevallo, Ala.
Author: Montevallo, the First One Hundred Years. Montevallo, Ala.: Times Printing Co., 1977.
MERRIWETHER, JAMES LEWIS, 1914-
Farmer, minister. Born: Atmore, February 28, 1914. Parents: Jacob and Claudia V. (Robinson) Merriwether. Married: Olivia Beatrice Verell, May 29, 1938. Children: Five. Education: B.S., Agricultural Administration, Auburn University, 1939; M. Divinity, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1964; M. Rel., same institution, 1966; M.S., University of Southern Mississippi, 1971; Ed.D., Luther Rice Seminary, 1974. Employed as a farm supervisor, Farm Security Administration, Butler and Cullman Counties, 1939-1942; proprietor and manager, J. Meriweather Livestock and Wagons, Atmore, 1943-1947; farmer, 1943-1958; tractor dealer, Atmore, 1948-1958; minister, Southern Baptist Church, 1958; pastor of churches, Atmore area, 1958-1968; Pleasant View Baptist and Manor Baptist churches, Mobile, 1968- 1979.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1982.
Author: A Quest for Abundant Living. New York: Carlton Press, 1977.
MERSMANN, JAMES FREDERICK, 1938-
University Professor. Born: Richmond, Kan., December 25, 1938. Parents: Fred and Regina (Lickteig) Mersmann. Married: Karolyn Decker, September 29, 1959. Children: Four. Education: B.A., University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1965; M.A., 1967; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1972. Employed as U.S. Marine Corps, 1956- 1958; taught, Mt. St. Scholastica College, 1969-1971; Benedictine College, 1971; University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1973. Member: Modern Language Association of America, American Association of University Professors, South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Honors: Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, University of Kansas, 1965-1966; National Endowment, Humanities Seminar, 1973.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 61 and from Contemporary Literature in Birmingham.
Author: The Isis Poems. Birmingham, Ala.: Thunder City Press, 1977.
Out of the Vietnam Vortex: a Study of Poets and Poetry Against the War. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1974.
MERTINS, GUSTAVE FREDERICK, 1872-1926
Born: Evergreen, Ala., August 19, 1872. Parents: Gustave Ferdinand and Jennie A.L.W. (Stahl) Mertins. Married: Bessie P. Screws, February 26, 1908. Education: private tutelage; College of St. Anthony, Geneva, Switzerland; Kolmar, Posen, Germany; studied law, Washington and Lee University. Employed as an attorney, Montgomery, Ala., 1893; special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, 1910.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.
Author: The Storm Signal. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs- Merrill, 1905.
The Twilight Soul. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1920.
A Watcher of the Skies. New York: Crowell, 1911.
METCALF, CLAYTON GILLIS, 1920-
Merchant. Born: Brinson, Ga., October 10, 1920. Parents: Roderick Anthony and Thelma Bessie (Gillis) Metcalf. Married: Helen Josephine Smith, April 6, 1947. Children: Three. Education: Associate of Arts, 1941; B.S., University of Florida, 1946 . Employed by U.S. Army, World War II; officer training, Ft. Benning; Command and General Staff College. Employed with family's farm equipment business, Enterprise, 1980; president, Enterprise Chamber of Commerce, Member: Enterprise chapter of Jaycees; president, Pea River Historical and Genealogical Society; editor, Pea River Magazine.
Source: Clayton G. Metcalf, Enterprise, Ala.
Author: The Gillis Family in the South. Enterprise, Ala.: Metcalf, 1975.
Kriegsgefangen. Enterprise, Ala.: Metcalf, 1984.
Scots and Their Kin, Volume I. Enterprise, Ala.: Metcalf, 1984-
A Study of Metcalf, Andrews and Smith. Enterprise, Ala.: Metcalf, 1979.
METTEE, MAURICE F., 1943-
Biologist. Born: Mobile, April 28, 1943. Education: B.S., Spring Hill College, 1965; M.A., University of Alabama, 1967; M.S., 1970; Ph.D., 1974. Employed as an instructor, University of Alabama, 1974; chief of the Environmental Division, Geological Survey of Alabama, 1977; aquatic biologist, U.S. Air Force Academy, 1974; consultant, Okaloosa Darter, Fla., 1975-1978. Awards: Grant, U.S. Forest Service, 1974; grant; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1975-1978.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1979.
Author: The Fishes of the Birmingham-Jefferson County Region of Alabama With Ecologic and Taxonomic Notes. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1978.
Fishes of the Black Warrior River System in Alabama. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1989.
Fishes of the Lower Tombigbee System in Alabama and Mississippi. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1987.
Joint Author: Benthic Invertebrate Fauna Inhabiting the Island Area of Coosa River Below Jordan Dam, Elmore County, Alabama, 1986-1987. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1989.
Biological Diversity and Water Quality of Streams Draining the Gilbertown Oil Field Area, Choctaw County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1986.
Biological Diversity and Water Quality of Streams Draining the Blowhorn Oil Field Area, Lamar County, Alabama. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1986.
A Biological Inventory of Streams Draining the Citronelle, Pollard and Gilbertown Oil Fields in Alabama. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, Environmental Division, 1983.
Biological Monitoring in Four Tributaries to Lake Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, 1986-88. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1990.
Coalbed Methane Development in Alabama, Biological and Hydrological Conditions of Streams Draining the Cedar Cove Degasification Field. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1987.
An Environmental Assessment of Areas Favorable to Lignite Mining in Southwestern Alabama. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1981.
Preliminary Map of Wetland and Habitats in Upper Mobile Bay, 1955. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1984?
Sensitivity of Alabama Coastal Shoreline Habitats to Spilled Hydrocarbons. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1983.
A Study of the Fishes in Selected Streams That Drain Lands of Federal Minerals Ownership: Tuscaloosa, Fayette and Walker Counties, Alabama. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1981.
A Study of the Lignite Resources in the Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers Region of Southwestern Alabama. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1978.
Use of Water in Alabama, 1975, With Projections to 2020. University, Ala.: Geological Survey of Alabama, 1978.
Joint Editor: Alabama Coastal Region Ecological Characterization: Vol. 2: A Synthesis of Environmental Data. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1982.
MICHAEL, MARILYN ANNE LOSCO, 1947-
Social Worker. Born: Jacksonville, Fla., July 26, 1947. Parents: Francis Joseph and -----(Zerwes) Losco. Married: Max Michael, III, June 22, 1970. Children: Two. Education: B.S., University of Florida, 1970; M.A., University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1983. Employed as director, Reach Out to Children Clinic, Birmingham.
Source: Marilyn Michael, Birmingham, Ala.
Joint Author: The Moon Peelers: Poems. Birmingham, Ala.: Minerva Press, 1973.
Nothing Silent: Poems. Birmingham, Ala.: U.A.B. Printing, 1979.
Persimmon Dry: Poems. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., s.d.
MILES, EDWIN ARTHUR, 1926-
Born: Birmingham, Ala., February 2, 1926. Parents: Ernest Percy and Ida (Duke) Miles. Education: B.A., Birmingham Southern College, 1948; M.A., 1949; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1954. Employed by U.S. Navy, 1944-1946; researcher, North Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1952-1954; taught, University of Houston, 1954. Member: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association and Phi Beta Kappa.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 1R and from Directory of American Scholars, 1982.
Author: Jacksonian Democracy in Mississippi. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1960.
Joint Author: The Era of Good Feelings and the Age of Jackson, 1816-1841. Arlington Heights, Ill.: AHM Publishing Co., 1979.
MILEY, L. DON, 1905-
Minister. Born: Hillsborough County, Fla., June 10, 1905. Married: Ruth Hobbs, August 1, 1934. Children: Two. Education: Samford University, one year; Th.G., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky.; Th.M., Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Tex.; ordained, Baptist Church, August 2, 1925. Employed as pastor, Plant City, Fla., Dallas, Tex.; pastor, Ozark (Alabama) Baptist Church.
Source: Jacket on History of Ozark Baptist Church.
Author: History of Ozark Baptist Church. Lakemont, Ga.: CSA Press, 1970.
MILLER, DIXIE CLIFTON
Reporter. Born: Cedar Bluff, Ala. Parents: William Milton and Leila (Tatum) Clifton. Married: Dewey Frank Miller, Sr., 1924. Children: Four. Education: Cedar Bluff High School, 1924; University Center, Gadsden. Employed as a reporter, correspondent, feature writer, Gadsden Times; feature writer, The Summerville News, The Fort Payne Times Journal; reporter, feature writer, The Cherokee County Herald; correspondent, Birmingham News. Member: Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, Cedar Bluff Garden Club; Cherokee County Historical Society, Cedar Bluff Woman's Club, Business and Professional Women's Club.
Source: Mrs. Dixie C. Miller, Cedar Bluff, Ala.
Author: Mary George Jordan Waite. S.l.: s.n., 1966.
Stories of Cherokee County and of Some of the Men and Boys that Served in The War Between the States Sometimes Called the Civil War. S.l.: s.d., 1975.
The Story of Lillie Harris. Northport, Ala.: American Southern, 1965.
MILLER, ERNEST L., 1913-
Dentist, professor. Born: Howard Lake, Minn., August 31, 1913. Married: 1935. Children: Four. Education: Dd.S., University of Detroit, 1940 and the M.S. from Ohio State University in 1952. Employed as professor, Dental School, University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1966. Member: American Dental Association, American Prosthodontic Society and American College of Dentistry.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1979.
Author: Removable Partial Prosthodontics. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1972.
MILLER, LAWRENCE DEAN, 1850-
Teacher. Born: February 3, 1850, Pine Grove, S.C. Parents: Joel W. and Eivira (Orr) Miller. Married: Mattie Crook, October 22, 1871. Children: One. Married: Lizzie Vernon. Children: Two. Education: Wofford College. Employed as principal, Reidsville Male High School; principal, Alexandria High School; superintendent, education, Calhoun County; farmer, Jacksonville.
Source: Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography.
Author: History of Alabama, Adapted to the Use of Schools and for General Reading. Birmingham, Ala.: Author, 1901.
MILLER, REX, 1929-
Teacher. Born: May 18, 1929, Jacksonville, Ala. Parents: James Otho and Leila Beatrice (Thompson) Miller. Married: Patricia Ann Navara, August 22, 1953. Children: Three. Education: B.A., University of Northern Iowa, 1953; M.A., Northern Colorado University, 1956; Ed.D., State University of New York College, Buffalo, 1961. Employed as a radio engineer, announcer, Waterloo, Iowa, 1951-1953; teacher, Allison, Iowa, 1953-1954; teacher, Ankeny, Iowa, 1954-1957; teacher, University of New York College, Buffalo, 1957; taught, Seneca Vocational School, Old Dominion University, Washington State University, Bemidji State College; State University of New York, Buffalo; director, teacher workshops, United States, West Germany, England, Spain, Belgium, Turkey and Canada; editor, McKnight Publishing Company.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 110.
Author: Air Conditioning: Home and Commercial. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1984.
Basic Electricity. Peoria, Ill.: Bennett, 1978.
Carpentry Fundamentals. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Communications, Electricity and Electronics. Bloomington, Ill.: McKnight, 1971.
Communications: Industry and Careers. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1976.
Croxton's Raid. Fort Collins, Col.: Old Army Press, 1979.
Electric Motors. Indianapolis, Ind.: Audel, 1977.
Electricity for Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1988.
Electrician--Electrician's Helper. New York: Arco, 1991.
Energy, Electricity and Electronics: Applied Activities. Bloomington, Ill.: McKnight, 1963.
Experiences With Electrons. Bloomington, Ill.: McKnight, 1966.
Experiments for Electricity and Electronics. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1979.
Fractional Horsepower Electric Motors. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1984.
Home Appliance Servicing. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs- Merrill, 1983.
Industrial Electricity. Peoria, Ill.: Bennett, 1978.
Let's Communicate. Buffalo, N.Y.: Tarot Publishing, 1971.
Machinist's Library: Basic Machine Shop. Indianapolis, Ind.: Audel, 1978.
Machinist's Library: Machine Shop. Indianapolis, Ind.: Audel, 1978.
Machinist's Library: Toolmaker's Handy Book. Indianapolis, Ind.: Audel, 1978.
Mathematics for Electricity and Electronics. Glencoe, Ill.: Glencoe Pub. Co., 1980.
Metal Technology. Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams, 1975.
Outboard Motors and Boating. Indianapolis, Ind.: Audel, 1977.
Painting and Decorating. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs- Merrill, 1984.
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. Peoria, Ill.: Bennett, 1983.
Refrigeration: Home and Commercial. Indianapolis, Ind.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1984.
Residential Electrical Wiring. Peoria, Ill.: Bennett, 1981.
Selected Readings for Industrial Arts, Bloomington, Ill.: McKnight, 1963.
Small Gasoline Engines. Indianapolis, Ind.: Audel, 1984.
Joint Author: Carpentry and Construction. Blue Ridge Summit: Tab Books, 1991.
MILTON, HILARY H., 1920-
Born: Jasper, Ala., April 2, 1920. Parents: Hilary Herbert and Erline (Moore) Milton. Married: Patty Sanders, September 26, 1952. Children: Two. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1938; Birmingham Southern College, 1939-1940; A.B., 1948; M.A., University of Alabama, 1949. Employed by U.S. Air Force, 1942-1945; taught, University of Alabama, 1948-1951; civilian specialist, Montgomery, 1951-1952; information specialist, St. Louis, 1952-1955; editorial director, 1955-1956; speech writer, Washington, D.C., 1956-1962; report writer, NASA, Washington, 1962-1970; researcher and writer, 1970-1971; writer- in-residence, Samford University, 1971.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 6NR.
Author: Blind Flight. New York: F. Watts, 1980.
The Brats and Mr. Jack. New York: Beaufort Books, 1980.
Craven House Horrors. New York: Wanderer Books, 1982.
Dungeon Demons. New York: Wanderer Books, 1985.
Dognappers. New York: Wanderer Books, 1982.
Escape From High Doom. New York: Wanderer Books, 1984.
Emergency! 10-33 on Channel 11! New York: F. Watts, 1977.
Fun House Horrors. New York: Wanderer Books, 1984.
The Gitaway Box. Washington, D.C.: R. B. Luce, 1968.
The House of God and Minnie May. Washington, D.C.: R. B. Luce, 1969.
The Longest Highway. Elgin, Ill.: David C. Cook, 1979.
Mayday! Mayday! New York: F. Watts, 1979.
Museum of the Living Dead. New York: Wanderer Books, 1985.
Nightmare Store. New York: Wanderer Books, 1952.
November Wheels. New York: Abelard, 1976.
Nowhere to Run. New York: F. Watts, 1978.
Shutterbugs and Car Thieves. New York: Wanderer Books, 1980.
Space Age Terror! New York: Wanderer Books, 1983.
Steps to Better Writing. New York: Spartan Books, 1962.
The Tipple Bell. Washington, D.C.: R. B. Luce, 1970.
Tornado. New York: F. Watts, 1983.
Two From the Dead. Boston: Houghton, 1983.
MIMS, LAMBERT C., 1930-
Born: Uriah, Ala., April 20, 1930. Married: Reecie Phillips. Children: Two. Education: public schools, Uriah. Employed as retail and wholesale food business, 1948-1965; owner, Mims Brokerage Company, Mobile; Public Works Commissioner, Mobile, 1965; under Mobile's system, rotating the office; mayor, Mobile, 1968-1969, 1972-1973, 1976-1977; trustee, Judson College. Member: board of directors, Mobile Rescue Squad; Alabama League of Municipalities; National League of Cities. Honors: Mobile's Outstanding Young Man, 1965.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 29R.
Author: For Christ and Country. Old Tappan, N.J.: F.H. Revel, 1969.
MIXON, WINFIELD HENRY, 1859-
Born: Dallas County, Ala., April 25, 1859. Parents: Andrew J. and Maria A. Mixon. Education: tutors; Selma University. Employed as a clergyman, African Methodist Episcopal Church; Alabama, presiding elder, Selma District; teacher-principal, Decatur; editor, Dallas Post.
Source: Irwin Garland's The Afro American Press and Its Editors. Springfield, Mass.: Willey & Co., 1891.
Author: History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Alabama. Nashville: A.M.E. Church Sunday School Union, 1902.
A Methodist Luminary. Selma, Ala.: Selma Printing Co., 1891.
MIXSON, JOHN LESLIE, 1897-
Born: Coffee County, Ala., April 2, 1897. Parents: William Thomas and Coral (Fuller) Mixson. Married: Grace Swanson, April 23, 1928. Children: Two. Education: Emory College, 1917-1918; University of Alabama, 1919. Employed, Elba Bank & Trust, 1920- 1929; Bank of Thorsby, 1929-1938; Bank of Commerce, Clayton, 1938-1942; Bank of Ozark, 1942-1947; Bank of Dadeville, 1947. Member: Kiwanis.
Source: Grove's Library of Alabama Lives.
Author: The Mixon-Mixson Family. 3 vols. Ft. Worth, Tex.: American Reference Publishers, 1969-1975.
MIZE, SHIRLEY JOHNSTON
Born: Jacksonville, Ala. Parents: Z.A. and Emily (Burgess) Johnston. Married: Howard Mize. Children: Three. Education: Jacksonville High School, 1935. Employed as librarian; store clerk; instructor, state school.
Source: Shirley J. Mize, Decatur, Ala.
Author: Time Changes Everything. Bear Creek, Ala.: Legacy Editions, 1979.
MOATES, MARIANNE MERRILL, 1942-
Born: Andalusia, Ala., July 12, 1942. Parents: Walter Oliver and Mary Jim (Hilson) Merrill. Married: James Thomas Moates, Jr., June 2, 1959. Children: Four. Education: B.S., University of Alabama, 1975; graduate study, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Samford University. Employed by Steeley Enterprises, Birmingham, 1983; Power of Positive Students Foundation, 1983-1984; McDonnell Douglas Corporation, 1984-1985; University of Alabama Special Studies, 1986. Member: president, Alabama Writers' Conclave; National State Poetry Society, Writing Today, Alabama Academy of Distinguished Authors; Magic City Writers.
Source: Marianne M. Moates, Birmingham, Ala.
Author: A Summer's Sadness. New York: Vantage Press, 1968.
A Bridge of Childhood: Truman Capote's Southern Years. New York: H. Holt, 1989.
MOFFETT, MARTHA LEATHERWOOD, 1934-
Born: Pell City, Ala., January 3, 1934. Parents: William E. and Martha (Funderburk) Leatherwood. Married: Robert Knight Moffett, January 31, 1955. Children: Three. Education: B.S., University of Alabama, 1954; M.S., Columbia University, 1972. Employed as head of the proof deparment, New Book of Knowledge, 1964-1966; senior copy editor, American Heritage Dictionary, 1966-1968.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 37R.
Author: The Common Garden. New York: Berkeley, 1977.
A Flower Pot is Not a Hat. New York: Dutton, 1972.
Joint Author: The First Book of Dolphins. New York: Watt, 1971.
The Whale in Fact and in Fiction. New York: Quist, 1967.
Compiler: Love Poems of John Donne: Selections. New York: World Pub. Co., 1971.
Love Poems of the Troubadours: Selections. New York: World Pub. Co., 1971.
Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selections. New York: World Pub. Co., 1971.
MOHR, CHARLES THEODORE, 1824-1901
Botanist. Born: Esslingen, Germany, December 28, 1824. Parents: Louis M. and Dorothea Mohr. Married: Sophia Roemer, 1852. Children: Five. Education: Polytechnic School, Stuttgart, 1845. Employed as a chemist, Brunn, Austria, 1847- 1848; Cincinnati, Ohio, 1848; gold rush, California, 1849; farmer, Indiana, 1850; pharmaceutical business, Louisville, Ky., 1852; Mobile, Ala., 1857; survey of forests, Gulf States, 1880; botanist, Geological Survey of Alabana, 1884; University of Alabama, 1880; Division of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1892; Baltimore Herbarium, Ashville, N.C., 1900.
Source: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 26, Biographical Dictionary of American Scientists, 17th through 19th Centuries.
Author: The Lands of the Louisville and Nashville R.R. in Alabama, as Homesteads for the Settler. Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts & Son, 1884.
The Natural Resources of Alabama, Displayed in the Exhibit of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company at the Southern Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky. Mobile, Ala.: Daily Register office, 1883.
Notes on the Red Cedar. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901.
Plant Life of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1901.
The Timber Pines of the Southern United States. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1896.
Contributor: The Ferns of North America. Salem: S.E. Cassino & Co., 1879-1880.
The Handbook of Alabama, by Saffold Berney. Mobile: Mobile Register Print, 1878.
Manual of the Mosses of N. America. Boston: S.E. Cassino, 1884.
MONTGOMERY, THERON EARLE, III, 1952-
University professor. Born: Jacksonville, Ala., October 12, 1952. Parents: Theron Earle, Jr. and Ada Kathleen (Bounds) Montgomery. Education: B.A., English, Birmingham Southern College, 1975; M.A., Jacksonville State University, 1977; Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi, 1982. Employed as an assistant professor, Troy State University, 1982; formed, The Alabama Literacy Review, 1987.
Source: To Cry Is Not a Sin and from Dr. & Mrs Theron Montgomery, Jacksonville, Ala.
Author: To Cry Is Not a Sin. San Diego, Calif.: Grossmont Press, 1978.
MOODY, ROBERT NEILL, 1851-
Farmer. Born: Georgia, 1851. Employed as a farmer, Albertville, Ala., 1889; Church of Christ, Albertville (now the North Broad Church of Christ).
Source: SCRIPSIT.
Author: Eunice Loyd. Cincinnatti: F. L. Rowe, 1909.
The Language of the Two Ordinances: Reply to a Tract by R. S. Gavin. Cincinnati: F. L. Rowe, 19--?
MOORE, ALBERT BURTON, 1887-1967
University professor. Born: Belk, Fayette County, Ala., November 22, 1887. Parents: James David and Sarah Frances (Estes) Moore. Married: Ruby Mason Myrick, February 21, 1918. Children: Two. Education: B.S., 1911; M.S., Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1912; A.M., University of Chicago, 1915; Ph.D., 1921. Employed as an instructor, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1911-1914; teaching fellow, University of Chicago, 1915-1919; Iowa State University, 1919-1923; University of Alabama, 1923-1958; professor of history; dean, Graduate School, 1925-1958; president, Southern Historical Association, 1942; executive director, Alabama Civil War Centennial Committee.
Source: Who Was Who in Alabama, 1972, National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 53.
Author: A Brief Story of Women's Role in the Confederacy. University, Ala.: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964.
Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy. New York: Macmillan, 1924.
History of Alabama. University, Ala.: University Supply Store, 1934.
History of Alabama and Her People. Chicago: The American Historical Society, 1927.
History of the Conference of Deans of Southern Graduate Schools 1925-1963. S.l.: Conference of Deans of Southern Graduate Schools, 196?
A New Nation, A War, A Young Hero, and a Surrender. University, Ala.: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1965.
Prologue to the Great American Tragedy. University, Ala.: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1964.
Reasons for the National Centennial Commemoration of the Civil War: Its Basic Objectives and Potential Values. University, Ala.: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963.
A Survey of the Civil War Centennial Commemoration in Alabama. University, Ala.: Alabama Civil War Centennial Commission, 1965.
MOORE, GERALDINE HAMILTON, 1918-
Born: Birmingham, Ala., September 19, 1918. Parents: Henderson Abrams and Willie Bell (Roberts) Hamilton. Married: Josephus Moore, Sr., Selma, Ala., August 19, 1955. Children: Four. Education: A.B., Miles College, 1940; M.A., Atlanta University, 1945. Employed as a teacher, Sumter County, Bibb County; Miles College; teacher, principal, Eureka Elementary School; reporter, Birmingham News, 1964. Honors: Teacher of the Year, Birmingham Progressive Association, 1961-1962; Periclean Club Merit Award, Woman of the Year, Southern Beauty Congress, 1967; Certificate of Award, B'Nai B'rith, 1971.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. 3.
Author: Behind the Ebony Mask. Birmingham, Ala.: Southern University Press, 1961.
The Help-One-Another Club, Inc.: People Helping People. Birmingham, Ala.: Printing, 1976.
The Story of One Little House: Help-One-Another Club, Inc. Birmingham: the Club, 1975.
MOORE, GLOVER, 1911-
University professor. Born: Birmingham, September 22, 1911. Parents: Glover and Maud (Mims) Moore. Education: B.A., Birmingham Southern College, 1932; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1933; Ph.D., 1936. Employed as an instructor, Vanderbilt, 1935- 1936; Mississippi State University, 1936-1977; Adjutant General's Department, U.S. Army, 1942-1946. Member: president, Mississippi Historical Society; Organization of American Historians. Honors: Collection of essays, Southern Miscellany, 1981.
Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1982-1983.
Author: The Afro-American Story. State College, Miss.: s.n., 1970.
The Missouri Controversy, 1819-1821. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1966.
William Jemison Mims, Soldier and Squire. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., 1966.
Editor: A Calhoun County, Alabama Boy in the 1860s. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1978.
MOORE, IDORA McCLELLAN PLOWMAN, 1843-1929
Born: Talladega, Ala., October 31, 1843. Parents: General William B. and Martha (Robey) McClellan. Married: Albert W. Plowman. Married: M. V. Moore. Children: One.
Source: American Authors and Books and from Southern Character Sketches.
Author: Christmas on the Old Time Plantation. S.l.: s.n., 19--?. (Written by request of, and read to, the Highland City Book Club of Talladega, Alabama.)
Written under pseudonym of Betsy Hamilton:
Southern Character Sketches. Atlanta, Ga.: The Dickert Co., [1937].
MOORE, JOHN TROTWOOD, 1858-1929
Writer, teacher, librarian. Born: Marion, Ala., August 16, 1858. Parents: John and Emily Adelia (Billingslea) Moore. Married: Mary Brown Daniel, 1900. Children: One. Education: Howard College, 1878; studied law. Employed as a teacher, Monterey and Pineapple, Ala.; founded, Moore's Academy, Pineapple; horse breeder, Maury County, Tenn.; editor, Horse Review, (published in Chicago); formed the magazine, Trotwood's Monthly (later Taylor-Trotwood Magazine), 1905-1906; director, libraries, Archives and History of Tennessee, 1919-1929.
Source: Dictionary of American Biography and from National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 13.
Author: The Bishop of Cottontown: a Story of the Southern Cotton Mill. Philadelphia: J.C. Winston Co., 1906.
The Draper Manuscripts as Relating to Tennessee. Nashville: Brandon, 1919.
The Gift of the Grass: Being the Autobiography of a Famous Racing Horse. Boston: Little, Brown, 1911.
Hearts of Hickory: a Story of Andrew Jackson and the War of 1812. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1926.
Jack Ballington, Forester. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1911.
The Old Cotton-Gin (poem). Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1910.
Ole Mistis, and Other Songs and Stories from Tennessee. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1897.
Songs and Stories from Tennessee. Chicago: J.C. Bauer, H.T. Coates Co., 1897.
A Summer Hymnal: a Romance of Tennessee. Philadelphia: H.T Coates Co., 1901.
Tom's Last Forage. Nashville: Cokesbury Press, 1926.
Uncle Wash: His Stories. Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co., 1910.
Joint Author: Tennessee, the Volunteer State, 1769-1923. Chicago: S. J. Clarke, s.d.
MOORE, WILLIAM DAVIS, 1882-1950
Engineer. Born: Hannibal, Mo., April 17, 1882. Parents: Joe and Emma (Purkey) Moore. Married: Martha Valentine, June 3, 1908. Children: Three. Education: Galion, Ohio; Morgan Engineering Company, 1903. Employed as a clerk, Erie Railroad, 1900-1903; mechanical engineer, Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, Ensley, Ala., 1906-1908; engineer, American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1908-1918; president, 1924-1946; president, Sand Span Pipe Corporation of America. Member: American Foundrymens Association, Cast Iron Pipe Research Association, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Steel Founders Society, and Newcomen Society.
Source: National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 39.
Author: Development of the Cast Iron Pressure Pipe Industry in the Southern States, 1800-1938. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Publishing Co., 1939.
MOORE, WILLIAM GLENN, 1925-
University professor. Born: Luverne, Ala., December 31, 1925. Parents: William Manning and Georgia (Morgan) Moore. Married: Hazel Sanders, March 18, 1949. Children: Three. Education: A.B., 1950; M.A., 1951; Ph.D., University of Alabama, 1960. Employed as a professor, West Georgia College, 1958-; visiting professor, University of Georgia.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 49.
Compiler and Editor:
Coeval Economics: a Book of Reading. Berkeley, Calif.: McCutchan Publising Corp., 1970.
MORGAN, CHARLES, JR., 1930-
Attorney. Born: Cincinnati, Ohio, March 11, 1930. Parents: Charles and Ethel Inez (Mitchell) Moore. Married: Camille Walpole, September 5, 1953. Children: One. Education: B.S., University of Alabama, 1953; J.D., 1955; Alabama Bar, 1955; Washington, D.C. Bar, 1972. Employed as an instructor, University of Alabama, 1954-1955; firm of Dumas, O'Neal and Hay, Birmingham, 1955-1958; individual practice, 1958-1963; assistant counsel, American Association of University Professors, 1963- 1964; attorney, Legal Defense and Education branch, NAACP, 1963- 1964; director, southern regional office, American Civil Liberties Union, 1964-1972; director, national office, 1972. Honors: Fellow, law school, University of Pennsylvania, 1964; Man of the Year, Utility Club of New York, 1965.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1982-1983, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1976.
Author: One Man, One Voice. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.
A Time to Speak. New York: Harper, 1964.
MORLAND, JOHN KENNETH, 1916-
Teacher. Born: Huntsville, Ala., July 4, 1916. Parents: Howard Cannon and Ethel Mae (Gowan) Morland. Married: Margaret Louise Ward, February 26, 1949. Children: Three. Education: B.S., Birmingham Southern College, 1938; B.D., Yale University, 1943; Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1950. Employed as an instructor, in English, Yale-in-China Program, Changsha, Hunan, 1943-1946; executive secretary, Yale-in-China Association, 1946- 1947; teaching, College of William and Mary, 1949-1953; Randolph- Macon Women's College, 1953. Awards: Fulbright Scholarship to Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1966-1967; U.S. Office of Education research grant, 1972.
Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 41-44 and from Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1982-1983.
Author: A Follow-up Study of the Mill-village Sections of "Kent". S.l.: s.n., 1958.
Lunch-counter Desegration in Corpus Christi, Galveston, and San Antonio, Texas. Atlanta, Ga.: Southern Regional Council, 1960.
Race, Values and American Unity. Deland, Fla.: Stetson University, 1969.
School Desegregation, Help Needed?: a Survey of Southern Educators. Washington, D.C.: The Potamic Institute, Inc., 1962.
Social Problems in the United States. New York: Ronald Press Co., 1975.
Token Desegregation and Beyond. Atlanta: Southern Regional Council, 1963.
Joint Author: Millways of Kent. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1958.
Race, Color, and the Young Child. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1976.
Editor and Contributor:
The Not So Solid South. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1971.
MORRISON, FLORENCE HOBSON, 1878-
Born: Greensboro, Ala., 1878. Parents: James Marcellus and Sally (Pearson) Hobson. Education: Newcomb College, New Orleans, studied art. Married: Benjamin Mann Morrison, Hammond, La. Children: Three.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service.
Author: The Song of a Happy World: Flowers and Nature. S.l.: s.n., s.d.
MORRISS, ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, 1877-
Teacher. Born: Selma, Ala., 1877. Parents: William Calloway and Frances Cornelia (Lide) Cleveland. Married: John Morriss, September 1908. Education: A.B., Judson College, 1895; L.I., (a library science degree), Peabody College, 1908; special study, Universities of Virginia and Wisconsin; B.S., 1932; M.A., 1933, Teachers College, Columbia University. Employed as a teacher, public schools, Birmingham, 1900-1901; Selma, 1901-1904; Margaret Allen School, Birmingham, 1904-1908; organized community schools, adult illiterates, Buncombe County, N.C., 1919; executive director, National Education Association's Department of Adult Education, 1929-1931; vice president, National Education Association, 1938-1940; director of adult elementary education, Buncombe County; Director of Adult Education, State Department of Public Instruction; WPA, North Carolina, 1936-1941.
Source: Who's Who of American Women, 1958.
Author: Adult Adventures in Reading. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1939.
Citizens Reference Book. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1922.
Teachers' Manual for Use With Adult Adventures in Reading. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1939.
Joint Author: Writing and Composition Book for Adult Beginners. Richmond: Johnson Publishing Co., 1921.
An Experimental Reading Study in the Joint Library-Adult Elementary Education Field. New York: Teachers College, Columbia University, 1935.
MORTON, CARL P., 1920-
Business executive. Born: Leeds, Ala., June 7, 1920. Parents: Hartwell Albert and Eunice (Pledger) Morton. Married: Isabel Gibbons, October 2, 1946. Children: Three. Education: Auburn University. Served with the U.S. Air Force, 1941-1945; business executive, Hardy Corporation, 1946; president, Birmingham Mechanical Contractor's Association; Alabama Writers Conclave. Member: Alabama State Poetry Society, National Federation of State Poetry Societies, advisory board, Auburn University School of Arts and Science; poet laureate, state of Alabama. Honors: Bronze Star.
Source: Marks' Who Was Who in Alabama and from Pinpoint Press, Box 253, Florence, Ala..
Author: Desiring Stone. Peterborough, N.H.: Windy Row Press, 1973.
Cratin. Scrod I. Florence, Ala.: Pauper's Press, 1984.
An Occasional Tyger: Poetry. Birmingham, Ala.: Woodview Press, 1977.
MORTON, JOHN ROBERT, 1904-
Educator. Born: Fredericksburg, Tex., June 27, 1904. Parents: John R. and Frances (McKinnon) Morton. Married: June Sweetman, August 1, 1928. Children: Three. Education: B.S., South West Texas State College, 1925; M.A., University of Texas, 1929; Ed.D., Columbia University, 1939; Ohio State University. Employed as a teacher, schools of Texas, 1925-1936; Public Works Agency, 1936-1937; director of extension teaching and professor of adult education, Mississippi State College, 1939-1944; director of continuing education, University of Alabama, 1944; dean of extension, University of Alabama, 1954.
Source: Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. II.
Director of Study: University Extension in the United States: a Study .... University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1953.
Joint Editor: Alabama's Resources and the Schools .... University, Ala.: Bureau of Educational Research, College of Education, University of Alabama, 1946.
MOSELEY, ELLA LOWERY, 1866-1942
Teacher, writer. Born: Montevallo, Ala., May 16, 1866. Parents: Colvin Alexander and Eliza Miriam (Hudson). Married: Dr. Robert A. Moseley, March 2, 1892. Education: Florence State Normal College, 1883. Employed as teacher, Sayre Street School, Montgomery, 1883-1892; writer, poetry, Montgomery Advertiser; founded and edited, Birmingham Times; editor, woman's department of the newspaper, 1895-1899.
Source: Files at Alabama Public Library Service
Author: The Wonder Lady. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Sheperd, 1911
MOSELEY, FRANKLIN SHACKELFORD, 1899-1976
Born: Montgomery, Ala., January 15, 1899. Parents: Franklin McLemore and Lela (Shackelford) Moseley. Married: Pattie Moore, March 25, 1942. Children: One. Education: Auburn University, 1918-1921; certificate in theology, Southern Methodist University, 1932; A.B., Huntingdon, 1933. Employed as minister, Burnt Corn, LaPlace Circuit, Butler, Auburn, Akron-Havanna, Pepperell-St.Paul, Marion Junction-Orrville, Georgiana, Montgomery, Linden, Livingston, and Eutaw; director of the Wesley Foundation.
Source: 160 Years of Methodism....
Author: 160 Years of Methodism in South Alabama and Northwest Florida, 1808-1968. Hannibal, Mo.: American Yearbook Co., 1968?
Compiler: Index to a History of Methodism in Alabama. Troy, Ala.: Alabama Genealogical Society, 1964.
Editor and Indexer:
Snedecor's 1855-1856 Directory of Greene County, Alabama. (1963 reprint). Eutaw, Aala.: Moseley, 1963.
Joint Editor: George Shackelford and Annette Jeter and Their Descendants. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1941.
Indexer: 1860 Census, Lowndes County, Alabama. Ft. Deposit, Ala.: Alice M. Lee, 1974.
MOSES, ALFRED GEIGER, 1878-
Rabbi. Born: Livingston, Ala., September 23, 1878. Parents: Adolph and Emma (Isaacs) Moses. Married: Birdie Feld, June 2, 1925. Children: One. Education: Louisville, Ky.; B.A., University of Cincinnati, 1900; Hebrew Union College, 1901. Employed as the rabbi, Temple Shaarai Shomayim, Mobile. Member: Mobile city, county departments of public welfare; Iberville Historical Society; Society for International Peace and Arbitration; Central and Southern Rabbinical Associations; American Anthropological Society; Phi Beta Kappa. Awards: Litt.D. by the University of Alabama in 1911.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 6 and from National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 13.
Author: A Congregation in the Name of God. Mobile, Ala.: Brisk Pr. Co., 1905.
A History of the Jews of Mobile. Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1904.
Jewish Science: Divine Healing in Judaism. Mobile, Ala.: Gill Printing, 1915.
Our Present Condition as a Jewish Community. Mobile, Ala.: s.n., 1905.
A Peace Anthology - A Bible Message on Peace. Mobile, Ala.: Gill Printing, 1916.
MOSES, HORACE SMITH, 1906-1964
Librarian. Born: Salina, Kan., November 25, 1906. Education: B.A., Knox College, 1929; B.S., Library Science, Western Reserve, 1938. Employed in production and sales, Burger-Baird Company, Kansas City, Mo., 1928-1929; retail bookseller, store manager, Fort Wayne, Ind., 1930-1937; readers' advisor, Cleveland; director of libraries, Kansas City, Mo., 1938-1940; director, Huntsville, Ala., 1940; state, 1940-1945; director, Mobile's public library services, 1945-1950; director, Topeka, Kansas Public Library, 1950-1964. Member: Kansas and American Library Associations.
Source: Alabama Public Library Service files.
Author: Here Comes the Circus. Boston: Houghton, 1941.
Report of a Survey of the El Dorado Public Library, El Dorado, Kansas .... S.l.: s.n., 1957.
Report of a Survey of the George Smith Public Library, Junction City, Kansas .... Emporia: Kansas State Teachers College, 1953.
Report of a Survey of the Newton Public Library, Newton, Kansas .... S.l.: s.n., 1961.
Report of a Survey of the Salina Public Library, Salina, Kansas .... S.l.: s.n., 1941.
A Survey of the Free Public Library of Topeka, 1950. Topeka: Free Public Library, 1951.
MOSES, LOUISE JANE "FLUCI"
Librarian. Born: Anniston, Ala. Education: A.B., Talladega College; M.L.S, Atlanta University. Employed as a service club director, Fort McClellan, Ala.; special services hostess, U.S. Air Force, Germany; librarian, Albany State College; Booker Washington Business College, Birmingham; University of Southern California; Los Angeles County Public Library. Honors: Librarian of the Year, Los Angeles County Employees Association; County Employee of the Year, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, 1966.
Source: Shadow Castings.
Author: Shadow Castings: a Book of poetry. Los Angeles: Brockman Gallery, 1983.
MOSES, MONTROSE JONAS, 1878-1934
Writer. Born: New York City, September 2, 1878. Parents: Montefiore J. and Rose (Jonas) Moses. Married: Lucille Dorothy Herne, February 1, 1911. Children: One. Married: Leah Agnes Houghtaling, June 19, 1923. Children: One. Education: Montgomery, Ala.; B.S., College of the City of New York, 1899. Employed as editorial staff, Literary Digest, 1900-1902; dramatic editor, The Reader Magazine, 1903-1907; dramatic critic, The Independent, 1908-1918, The Book News Monthly, 1908-1918, The Bellman, 1910-1919.
Source: Dictionary of American Biography, Suppl. 1; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.
Author: The American Dramatist. Boston: Little, Brown, 1911.
The American Theater as Seen by Its Critics, 1752-1934. New York: W. W. Norton, 1934.
Children's Books and Reading. New York: M. Kennerley, 1907.
The Fabulous Forrest. Boston: Little, Brown, 1929.
Famous Actor-Families in America. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1906.
Henrik Ibsen. New York: M. Kennerley, 1908.
The Life of Heinrich Conried. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1916.
The Literature of the South. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1910.
Maurice Maeterlinck. New York: Duffield, 1911.
A Study Course on the American Drama. Chicago: Drama League of America, 1916.
Editor: Everyman, a Morality Play. New York: J. F. Taylor, 1903.
The Palmer Cox Brownie Primer. New York: Century, 1906.
Plays of Clyde Fitch. Boston: Little, Brown, 1915.
Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern. Boston: Little, Brown, 1918.
Representative Continental Dramas, Revolutionary and Traditional. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924.
Representative One-Act Plays by Contnental Authors. Boston: Little, Brown, 1922.
Ring Up the Curtain. Boston: Little, Brown, 1932.
A Treasury of Plays for Children. Boston: Little, Brown, 1921.
Joint Editor: Another Treasury of Plays for Children. Boston: Little, Brown, 1926.
British Plays from the Restoration to 1820. Boston: Little, Brown, 1929.
Clyde Fitch and His Letters. Boston: Little, Brown, 1924.
Dramas of Modernism and Their Forerunners. Boston: Little, Brown, 1931.
Representative American Dramas, National and Local. Boston: Little, Brown, 1925.
Translator: On Emerson, and Other Essays. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1912.
The Passion Play of Oberammergau. New York: Duffield, 1930.
MOSLEY, DONALD CRUMPTON, 1932-
Born: Starkville, Miss., April 17, 1932. Parents: Thomas Henry and Elizabeth (Crumpton) Mosley. Married: Susan Young Mosley, April 7, 1961. Children: One. Education: B.S., Mississippi State University, 1954; M.S., University of Tennessee, 1958; Ph.D., University of Alabama, 1965. Employed as a trainee, Pick Hotel Corporation, 1957-1959; field representative, Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1959-1960; taught, University of Alabama, 1960-1962; Mississippi State University, 1962-1968; University of Otago, New Zealand, 1969; University of South Alabama, 1973; dean, University of South Alabama. Member: Southern Management Association; Academy of Management; director, American Association of University Administrators.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1982.
Joint Author: An Analysis and Evaluation of a Community Action Anti-Poverty Program in the Mississippi Delta. State College: Mississippi State University, 1967.
An Interpretive Analysis and Evaluation of a Pilot Community Leadership Program. Mobile, Ala.: Business Resources Center, College of Business and Management, University of South Alabama, 1975.
Management, Concepts and Applications. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Management, the Art of Working With and Through People. Encino, Calif.: Dickenson, 1974.
Supervisory Management: the Art of Working With and Through People. Cincinnati: South-Western Pub., 1985.
MOTON, ROBERT RUSSA, 1867-1940
Educator, college professor. Born: August 26, 1867, Amelia County, Va. Parents: Booker and Emily (Brown) Moton. Married: Elizabeth Hunt Harris, June 7, 1905. Married: Jennie Dee Booth, July 1, 1908. Children: Five. Education: Taught by mother; attended free school for Negroes; Hampton Institute, 1885-1890; honorary degrees from Oberlin College, Williams, Virginia Union, Wilberforce, Lincoln, Harvard, and Howard Universities. Named "major" in charge of military discipline; assisted in soliciting funds for Hampton and represented school at meetings and conference; selected principal of Tuskegee Institute, 1915; added College department in the 1920's; established camp for training black officers and a black combat division in World War I; aided in having Emmett Scott, a black named assistant to the Secretary of War and the selecting of Tuskegee as the site for a VA Hospital. Served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Education in Haiti, 1930. Received the Harmon Award for Race Relation, 1932; the Spingarn Medal, 1935. Resigned from Tuskegee Institute, 1940.
Source: Dictionary of American Biography, Suppl. 2, Current Biography, 1940, and Reader's Digest, 57: pp. 25-28, Nov. 1950.
Author: An Apostle of Good Will. Hampton, Va.: Hampton A & M Institute, 1917.
Finding a Way Out. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1920.
The Negro of Today. Tuskegee, Ala.: Tuskegee Institute, 1921.
The Negro's Debt to Lincoln. Hampton, Va.: s.n., 1922.
Racial Good Will. Hampton, Va.: Hampton Institute, 1916.
What the Negro Thinks. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1929.
MOUNT, ROBERT HUGHES, 1931-
University professor. Born: December 25, 1931, Lewisburg, Tenn. Married: 1961. Children: Two. Education: Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., M.S.; Ph.D., Florida, 1961. Taught at Alabama College, 1961-1966; Auburn University, 1966-. Member: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1979.
Author: The Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama. Auburn, Ala.: Auburn University Experiment Station, 1975.
Systematic and Ecological Relationships of the Water Snakes Natrix Sipedon and N. Fasciata in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Lawrence: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1976.
MUDD, WILLIAM SWEARINGEN, 1885-1942
Lawyer, journalist, business man. Born: November 24, 1885, Birmingham. Parents: Joseph Paul and Eula (Anglin) Mudd. Married: Nellie Nabor, November 24, 1908. Children: Two. Education: University of Alabama, B.S., 1906; University of Virginia, LL.B., 1908. Added to Alabama Bar, 1908 and practiced law until 1913; President of Tuscaloosa News, Gadsden Times; and the Rome (Ga.) News Tribune; chairman of the board for the Etowah Hotel Company. Member: Phi Delta Phi; Phi Delta Theta.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.
Author: The Old Boat Rocker. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1935.
MULLINS, ISLA MAY, 1859-1936
Writer. Born: April 30, 1859, Summerfield. Parents: Anson Wheeler and Lydia Maria (Cobb) Hawley. Married: Edgar Young Mullins, June 2, 1886. Children: Two. Education: private tutor, Judson College.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1, and American Authors and Books.
Author: Anne of the Blossom Shop. Boston: Page Co., 1914.
Anne's Wedding. Boston: Page Co., 1916.
The Blossom Shop. Boston: Page Co., 1913.
The Boy from Hollow Hut. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1911.
Captain Pluck. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1926.
Edgar Young Mullins. Nashville: Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1929.
House Beautiful. Nashville: Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1934.
The Mt. Blossom Girls. Boston: Page Co., 1918.
Side By Side: a Child Study. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publishing Soc., 1898.
Timothy's Second wife. New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1922.
Tweedie. Boston: Page Co., 1922.
Uncle Mary. Boston: Page Co., 1922.
An Upward Look for Mothers. Philadelphia: The Griffith and Rowland Press, 1900.
When Yesterday Was Young. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1926.
MUNRO, IRENE BRINSON, 1898-
College professor. Born: December, 1898, Brinson, Ga. Parents: Homer Hodges and Carolina (Jones) Brinson. Married: Winthrop Marshall Munro, January, 1934. Children: One. Education: Andrew Junior College, diploma, 1917; Wesleyan College, B.A., 1919; Columbia University, M.A., 1924; postgraduate study Columbia, 1934; Oxford University, 1966. Taught high school history, Brinson, and Plant City, Fla.; Andrew College, Lander College, Furman College, Jacksonville State College, Georgia State College for Women; Huntingdon College, 1929-1968. Member of the Alabama and Southern Historical Associations; library board of the Carnegie Library in Montgomery,
Source: Owen's Story of Alabama, and the Directory of American Scholars.
Joint Author: Handbook for Clubwomen. Clinton, S.C.: Jacobs Press, 1942.
MURPHY, EDGAR GARDNER, 1869-1913
Episcopal priest. Born: August 31, 1869. Fort Smith, Ark. Parents: Samuel W. and Janie (Gardner) Murphy. Married: Maud King, August 31, 1891. Children: Two. Education: University of the South; General Theological Seminary and Columbia University. Ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church, 1890; a priest, 1893. Served as rector of churches in San Antonio and Laredo, Tex.; Chillicothe, Ohio and Montgomery. Helped found a black episcopal church; organized a conference to promote interchange between blacks and whites and among people throughout the United States. Organized and chaired the first Alabama Child Labor Committee; served as first secretary of the first National Child Labor Committee. Withdrew from the ministry to devote more time to reform movements and to the Southern Education Board; secretary of S.E.B., 1903-1908. Wrote under the name of Kelvin McKready.
Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1; National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 25, Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 13, and Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors.
Author: Alabama's First Question. Montgomery, Ala.: s.n. 1904.
The Basis of Ascendancy. New York: Longmans, 1909.
A Beginner's Star-Book, by Kelvin McKready. New York: Putnam, 1912.
The Case Against Child Labor. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Child Labor Conmittee, 1900.
Child Labor and Business. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Child Labor Committee, 1902.
Child Labor and the Public. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Child Labor Committee, 1900.
Child Labor in Alabama and the South. Montgomery, Ala.: Central Committee on Child Labor in Alabama, 1901.
Child Labor in the Southern Press. Montgomery, Ala.: Executive Committee on Child Labor in Alabama, 1902.
Child Labor Legislation. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Child Labor Committee, 1900.
Child Labor Question in Alabama. New York: National Child Labor Committee, 1907.
The Church and the Negro Episcopate. S.l.: s.n., 1907.
The Edgar Gardner Murphy Papers in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina Library. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, 1966.
The Federal Regulation of Child Labor. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Child Labor Committee, 1907.
The Larger Life. New York: Longmans, 1897.
The Negro and the "Solid South." Cheyney, Pa.: Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race, 1900.
An Open Letter on Suffrage Restriction. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Printing, 1901.
Problems of fhe Present South. New York: Grossett, 1904.
The South and Her Children. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Committee on Child Labor, 1902.
Southern Education. S.l.: s.n., 1902.
The Task of the South. Montgomery, Ala.: s.n., 1900.
The White Man and the Negro of the South. Montgomery, Ala.: s.n., 1900.
Words for the Church. New York: Whittaker, 1897.
MURRAY, ALBERT LEE, 1916-
University teacher, military officer, Born: 1916, Nokomis. Parents: John Lee and Sudie (Graham) Young. Married: Mozelle Menefee, May 31, 1941. Children: One. Education: Tuskegee Institute, B.S., 1939; studied at the University of Michigan, 1940; Northwestern, 1941; Columbia University, M.A., 1948; Colgate University, honorary Litt.D., 1975. Taught at Tuskegee Institute, 1940-1943 and 1946-1951; director of the College Little Theatre and the jazz consortium; served in the U.S. Air Force, 1943-1962, retiring as a major. Taught in the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, 1968; O'Conner Professor at Columbia, 1970-1973; visiting lecturer at the University of Missouri, 1972; writer-in-residence, Emory University, 1978; lecturer at various universities in the U.S. Received the Lilliam Smith Award, Alabama Library Association Authors Award, and the ASCAP Award for music criticism.
Source: Who's Who in America, 1979, Contemporary Authors, Vol. 49 and Alabama Public Library Service files.
Author: The Good Morning Blues: Autobiography of Count Basie. New York: Random House, 1985.
The Hero and the Blues. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1973.
The Omni-Americans. New York: Outerbridge and Dientsfrey, 1970.
South to a Very Old Place. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
The Spyglass Tree. New York: Pantheon Books, 1991.
Stomping the Blues. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Train Whistle Guitar. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
MURRAY, JOHN FRANKLIN, 1911-1979
College professor, college administrator. Born: April 11, 1911, Axtell, Kan. Education: St. Louis University, A.B. 1937; A.M., 1942; S.T.L., 1947; University of New Mexico, Ph.D., 1957. Taught at Spring Hill College, 1941-1966 and 1972-; academic vice-president, 1966-1972. Member: South Atlantic Modern Language Association; Milton Society of American Research.
Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1978.
Author: Jesuits South. Mobile, Ala.: s.n., 1954.
Let Us Adore. Mobile, Ala.: Spring Hill College, 1965.
Joint Author: Writing and Research. Mobile, Ala.: Spring Hill College, 1961.
MURRAY, WILLIAM MOZLEY
Chemist. Born: August 4, 1912, Roswell, N.M. Education: Emory University, A.B., 1932; M.A., 1933; Princeton University, Ph.D., 1936. Employed as a laboratory instructor at Harvard University, 1936-1937; analytical chemist for General Electric (Massachusetts), 1937-1945; Southern Research Institute, serving as analytical chemist, 1945-1947; assistant director, 1947-1948; director 1948-1963; president, 1964-1972; consultant, 1972.
Source: American Men and Women of Science, 1976.
Author: Thomas W. Martin: a Biography. Birmingham, Ala.: Southern Research. Institute, 1978.
MUSKAT, BETH TAYLOR, 1934-
Museum worker, archival work. Born: September 2, 1934, Norwalk, Conn. Parents: Robert Gardner and Julie Keith (Sachs) Rosegrant. Married: Michael Spencer Muskat, June 18, 1955. Children: Three. Education: Smith College, B.A., 1956; Wright State University, M.A., 1978. Employed by the Dayton Art Institute, 1978; Amon Carter Museum, 1979-1980; Alabama Department of Archives and History, 1984-.
Source: The Way It Was and the files at Jacksonville State University.
Joint Author: The Way It Was, 1850-1930. Montgomery, Ala: Landmarks Foundation, 1985.
MYERS, BRUCE, 1902-
School teacher, probation officer. Born: March 9, 1902, Walker County. Married: Mary Frances Bruce. Children: Three. Education: Attended Freed-Hardeman and Harding Colleges; Florence State Normal School, diploma, 1927; Florence State Teacher College, B.S., 1932; George Peabody College, M.A., 1937; University of Alabama. Taught in the schools of Walker, Morgan, Colbert, Franklin, and Madison Counties, and Muscle Shoals, 1924- 1941; probation and parole officer for Walker, Winston, and Marion Counties, 1941-1972. Member of Phi Delta Kappa, of the Walker County and Alabama historical associations, the Alabama Genealogical Society and the Carl Elliott Regional Library Board.
Source: Courtesy of Daniel Tubb, 1794-1882.
Walker County, Alabama Census of 1830. S.l.: s.n., 1981.
Walker County, Alabama Census of 1840. S.l.: s.n., 1981.
Walker County, Alabama 1860 Census. Cullman, Ala.: Gregath Company, 1982.
Walker County, Alabama, 1880 Census. Cullman, Ala.: Gregath Company, 1982.
Winston County, Alabama, 1870 Census. Cullman, Ala.: Gregath Company, 1983.
Winston County, Alabama, 1880 Census. Cullman, Ala.: Gregath Company, 1983.
Genealogical Historian: Daniel Tubb, 1794-1882, of South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, and descendants. Cullman, Ala.: Gregath Co., 1982.
MYERS, LUCIA MAY GIDDENS, 1879-
Journalist. Married: Weldon T. Meyers, Education: Huntingdon College, B.A., 1924. Employed as a reporter and feature writer for the Birmingham Age-Herald and other Birmingham newspapers, 1924-1939 and 1942-1944; Washington Post, 1939-1942. Moved to Spartanburg, S.C., then Lakeland, Fla.
Source: Alabama Public Library Service files.
Author: Lady Huntingdon, Friend of the Wesleys. Montgomery, Ala.: Huntingdon College Alumnae Association, 1956.