Lawyer, U.S. Congressman, governor. Born: November 30, 1835, Pike (now Bullock) County. Parents: William 0. and Sarah (Sellers) Oates. Married: Sallie Toney, March 28, 1882. Children: One. At sixteen, moved to the Southwest, returned to Alabama and attended Lawrenceville Academy. Studied law with the firm of Pugh, Bullock, and Buford. Admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1858 and practiced in Abbeville. Also edited a newspaper. During the Civil War, served as a captain in the Fifteenth Alabama Infantry, later colonel; commanded the 48th Alabama, 1864. Participated in the battles at Chicamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Fussell's Mill, Va. After the war, returned to his law practice; was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention, 1868; elected to the Alabama House of Representatives, 1870-1872; chairman of the judicial committee in the State Constitutional Convention, 1901; nominated to U.S. Senate, 1897. Appointed a brigadier general in the Spanish- American War.

Source: Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 13, Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1, and National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 2.

Author: The War Between the Union and the Confederacy and Its Lost Opportunities. New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1905.

OGDEN, DUNBAR HUNT, 1878-1952

Presbyterian minister. Born: April 12, 1878, New Orleans. Parents: William Frederick and Elizabeth (Hunt) Ogden. Married: Grace Augusta Cox, October 10, 1901. Children: Seven. Education: Southwestern Presbyterian University, A.B.; Presbyterian Divinity School, B.D.; Davidson College, D.D., 1908; Southwestern in Memphis, honorary LL.D., 1948; Maryville College, honorary Litt.D., 1949. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1900. Served churches in Columbus, Miss.; Knoxville, Atlanta, and New Orleans. Pastor at the Government Street Church, 1920- 1930; moderator of the Synods of Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana; taught at the Louisville Theological Seminary and the Columbia Theological Seminary. During World War II, served as special teacher and lecturer at Ft. McPherson, Camp Gordon, and Camp Taylor.

Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol, 3.

Author: The Heart of Mary. Richmond, Va.: Presbyterian Commissioner of Publications, 1927.

OGDEN, FREDERIC DORRANCE, 1915-

University professor, dean, vice president. Born: October 11, 1915, Orange County, N.Y. Parents: Fred Dorrance and Florence Caroline (Young) Ogden. Married: Jessie Cupitt, June 10, 1943. Children: Two. Education: Tusculum College, A.B., 1938; Johns Hopkins, Ph.D., 1951; Edgewood Arsenal, Md., 1940-1941; assistant manager of the Civilian Personnel Field Office at Wright- Patterson Field, 1941-1942; served in U.S. Air Force, 1942-1945. Taught at the University of Alabama, 1946-1957; Eastern Kentucky University, professor, later department chairman, then dean of College of Arts and Sciences, and vice president for planning, 1961-1980; Fulbright lecturer at the Indian School of International Studies in New Delhi, 1957-1958; served on the national screening committee for the Fulbright American Graduate Student Program in South Asia, 1975-1976, and Near East South Asia, 1980. Member of the Southern and American Political Science Associations and the American Conference of Academic Deans.

Source: Who's Who in America, 1982, and Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1980.

Author: The Poll Tax in the South. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1958.

Editor: The Public Papers of Governor Keen Johnson, 1939- 1943. Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 1982.

O'MALLEY, CHARLES J., 1857-

Editor. Born: February 9, 1857, Waverly. Married: Sallie M. Hill, October 16, 1882. Education: Honorary Litt. D. Editor of New World in Chicago and The Angelus in Cincinnati.

Source: Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors and Poets of Ireland.

Author: The Building of the Moon, and Other Poems. Evansville, Ind.: Keller Pub. Co., 1894.

Songs of Dawn. Chicago: J. S. Hyland, 1909.

Songs of Southern Kentucky. Cincinnati: Pratt Pub. Co., 1903.

Thistledrift. Chicago: New World Co., 1908.

O'NEAL, EDWARD ASBURY, III, 1875-1958

Farmer, businessman. Born: October 26, 1875, Florence. Parents: Edward Asbury and Mary (Coffey) O'Neal. Married: Julia Camper, November 23, 1904. Children: Three. Education: Paxton's Collegiate Academy and Florence State Normal College; Washington and Lee University, A.B., 1898; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, M.S., 1927. Farmed near Florence after 1899. Served as vice president of the Alabama Farm Bureau, 1922-1923; president, 1923-1947; president of the Lauderdale County Farm Bureau, 1921-1922. Member and president of the Alabama Farm Bureau Credit Corporation, Alabama Farm Bureau Cotton Association, Mutual Supply Association, and Poultry Association. Member of President Warren Harding's Farm Conference in 1921. Member of Secretary Henry Wallace's Agricultural Advisory Council, 1939, and the Federal Advisory Council for Employment Security, Social Security Board, 1941-.

Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.

Author: The Value to Alabama Farmers of Fertilizers Which Can be Produced at Muscle Shoals .... Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Farm Bureau, 1925.

Interview: The Reminiscences of Edward A. O'Neal. New York: Columbia University, Oral History Research Office, 1972. Transcript published by Microfilm Corporation of America, Glen Rock,

N.J.: 1972.

O'NEAL, KIRKMAN, 1890-

Engineer, steel company president. Born: June 17, 1890, Florence. Parents: Emmett and Elizabeth (Kirkman) O'Neal. Married: Elizabeth Paramore, October 9, 1917. Children: Two. Education: Florence State Teachers College, 1905-1909; U.S. Naval Academy, B.S., 1913. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I. Employed as a production engineer at Chicasaw Shipbuilding Company, 1919-1920; Ingalls Iron Works, 1920-1921. Founded and president of O'Neal Steel, 1921-. Member of the National Association of Aluminum Distributors, American Warehouse Association, and Southern Structural Steel Board of Trade.

Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1976, and Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 18th edition.

Author: O'Neal Steel: Memoirs of Kirkman O'Neal. Birmingham, Ala.: s.n., 1974.

ORCUTT, BEN AVIS ADAMS, 1914-

Social worker, university professor. Born: October 17, 1914, Falco. Parents: Benjamin A. and Emily Olive Adams. Education: University of Alabama, A.B., 1936; M.A., 1939; Tulane University; M.S.W., 1942; Columbia University, D.S.W., 1962. Employed as a social worker at the La Garde General Hospital (New Orleans) and at the Ft. Benning Regional Hospital, 1942-1946; chief of social work at the VA Regional Office, Phoenix, Ariz., 1946-1951; chief of social work service, outpatient office, Birmingham, 1954-1957 and 1958; research assistant and field advisor, School of Social Work, Columbia, 1960-1962. Taught at Louisiana State University, 1962-1965; Columbia University, 1965-1976; University of Alabama (professor and director of doctoral program), 1976-; research consultant at Tavistock Center in London, 1972. NIMH fellow, 1957-1970. Member: Council of Social Work Education, National Association of Social Work, and the American Association of Orthopsychiatry.

Source: Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1982.

Joint Author: America's Riding Horses: a Guide to All Breeds for the Amateur. Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, 1958.

Science and Inquiry in Social Work Practice. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Editor: Poverty and Social Casework Services: Selected Papers. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1974.

Joint Editor: Social Work and Thanatology. New York: Arno, 1980.

Social Work With the Dying Patient and the Family. New York: Columbia University, 1977.

ORDWAY, SALLY, 1939-

Publicist, playwright, secretary. Born: January 5, 1939, LaFayette. Parents: Charles B. and Mary (Tucker) Ordway. Education: Hollins College, B.A., 1959; Yale Drama School, 1967- 1968; Hunter College (C.U.N.Y.), M.A., 1970. Taught at Mitchell Junior College, 1963-1964; publicist for the New York Film Festival, 1967-1975. After the mid-1960's, devoted time to play writing and other theatrical endeavors. Member of Actors Studio (1966-1969), Dramatists Guild, Authors League of America, and Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective. Awarded a fellowship by ABC Television for writing for the camera, Yale Drama School, 1967.

Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57R.

Author: (Plays) Allison. 1970.

Australia Play. 1971.

The Chinese Caper. 1973.

Crabs. 1971.

A Desolate Place Near a Deep Hole. 1965.

Family, Family. 1972.

Free! Free! Free! 1965.

The Hostess. 1975.

Movie, Movie on the Wall. 1968.

A Passage Through Bohemia. 1966.

Playthings. 1973.

San Fernando Valley. 1971.

Sex Warfare. 1974

There's a Wall Between Us, Darling. 1965.

We Agree. 1970.

(Collections) We Can Feed Everbody Here. Westbeth, N.Y.: s.n., 1974.

OSBORN, GEORGE COLEMAN, 1904-

University professor. Born: May 15, 1904, Learned, Miss. Parents: Samuel George and Bettie Mae (Hendrick) Osborn. Married: Margaret McMillen, May 20, 1936. Children: Two. Education: Mississippi College, A.B., 1927; Indiana University, M.A., 1932; chairman of the Social Services Department at Berry College, 1935-1943; research expert for finance committee of the U.S. Senate, 1937-1938; University of Mississippi, 1943-1944; Memphis State University, 1944-1947; University of Florida, 1947- 1974; Wallace State Junior College, 1974-1977; emeritus professor after 1977. Received research grants from American Philosophical Society (1956) and Woodrow Wilson Foundation (1959). Member of the American and Southern Historical Associations and the American Academy of Political and Social Service.

Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 25R. Directory of American Scholars, 1982 and Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1976.

Author: The First Baptist Church, Gainesville, FL, 1870- 1970. S.l.: s.n., s.d.

James Kimble Vardaman: Southern Commoner. Jackson, Miss.: Hederman Bros. 1981.

John James Tigert: American Educator. Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 1974.

John Sharp Williams, Planter-Statesman of the Deep South. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1943.

Woodrow Wilson in British Opinion and Thought. Gainesville, Fla.: Alachua County, 1980.

Woodrow Wilson: the Early Years. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1968.

Joint Author: The Role of the British Press in the 1970 American Presidential Election. Smithtown, N.Y.: Exposition Press, 1981.

OTT, THOMAS OLIVER, 1938-

High school teacher, university professor. Born: August 4, 1938, LaGrange, Ga. Parents: Thomas Oliver and Marian (Swindell) Ott. Married: Margaret Franklin, November 25, 1961. Children: Two. Education: Asbury College, B.A., 1961; Appalachian State University, M.A., 1963; University of Tennessee, Ph.D., 1970. Taught at Christ School, Arden, N.C., 1961-1963; Central Florida Academy, 1963-1965; University of North Alabama, 1967-. Member of Southern Historical Association, Southeastern Latin Americanists, and Association of Alabama Historians.

Source: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 49R and Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Author: The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804. Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, 1973.

OUSLEY, CLARENCE, 1863-1948

Teacher, journalist. Born: December 23, 1863, Lowndes County. Married: Mary Young, November 8, 1888. Children: Two. Education: Alabama A & M College (Auburn), A.B., 1881; Simmons College, honorary A.M., 1906. Taught school in Texas. Served as editorial writer and managing editor of the Galveston News, Galveston Tribune, and Houston Post, 1889-1903; founder and editor of the Ft. Worth Record, 1903-1913; director of extension at Texas A & M College, 1914-1917; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for the U.S., 1917-1919; chair of Globe Laboratories in Ft. Worth, 1921-.

Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2, and Library of Southern Literature, Vol. 9.

Author: Background of American Government. Dallas, Tex.: The Southern Pub. Co., 1924.

The Business of Agriculture During the War and After. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1918.

Galveston in Nineteen Hundred. Atlanta, Ga.: W.D. Chase, 1900.

History of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. College Station, Tex.: Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 1935.

A History of the United States for the Grammar Grades. Dallas, Tex.: Southern Pub. Co., 1920.

Lone Star Edition of the World's Best Orations ... Chicago: Kaiser, s.d.

Rings o' Smoke. New York: Abbey Press, 1902.

The Student's History of Our Country .... Dallas, Tex.: Southern Pub. Co., 1912.

OWEN, MARIE BANKHEAD, 1869-1958

Archivist, journalist, writer. Born: September 1, 1869, Noxube County, Miss. Parents: John Hollis and Tallulah (Brockman) Bankhead. Married: Thomas M. Owen. Children: Two. Education: public and private schools in Alabama; Ward's Seminary in Nashville. Served on the fiction and feature staff of Uncle Remus Magazine and Southern Women's Magazine, woman's page editor for the Montgomery Advertiser; director of Alabama Department of Archives and History, 1920-1935. Completed her husband's History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Edited or compiled the Alabama Historical Quarterly, Alabama Historical and Statistical Register, and Montgomery Blue Book (1909-1910).

Source: Owen's Story of Alabama and Woman's Who's Who in America, 1914.

Author: Alabama, a Social and Economic History of the State. Montgomery, Ala.: Dixie Book Co., 1938.

Our State--Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1927.

The Story of Alabama: a History of the State. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1949.

Yvonne of Braithwaite. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1927.

Plays: Alabama: or the Making of a State... Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1919.

At Old Mobile. Mongtomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1919.

DeSoto and the Indians. Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1919.

OWEN, THOMAS McADORY, 1866-1920

Lawyer, archivist. Born: December 15, 1866, Jonesboro. Parents: William Marmaduke and Nancy Lucretin (McAdory) Owen. Married: Marie Susan Bankhead, April 12, 1893. Children: Two. Education: University of Alabama, A.B., LL.B., 1887; A.M., 1893; LL.D., 1904; Practiced law in Bessemer, 1887-1894; city solicitor for Bessemer, 1890-1893; assistant solicitor for Jefferson County, 1892; chief clerk, Division of Post Office Inspector, U.S. Post Office Department in Washington, 1894-1897; practiced law in Carrollton and Birmingham, 1897-1901. Established and served as director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, 1901-1920. Founder and president of the Alabama Library Association and the Alabama Anthropological Society. Member and officer of the Alabama Historical Society, Mississippi Valley Historical Society, Confederate History Club of Montgomery, Sons of the Revolution in Alabama, and United Sons of Confederate Veterans. Edited publications of the Alabama Historical Society, Department of Archives and History, and Gulf States Historical Magazine.

Source: Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1, Library of Southern Literature, National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 19, and Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 1.

Author: Alabama: State Name, Boundaries, Capitol, Executive Mansion, Seal, Flag, Holidays, Song and Flower. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1915.

Annals of Alabama, 1819-1900. Birmingham, Ala.: Webb Book Co., 1900.

Bibliography of Alabama. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1898.

City Code of Bessemer, Alabama. Bessemer, Ala.: s.n., 1888.

Dr. Basil Manly, the Founder of the Alabama Historical Society. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Historical Society, 1904.

The Establishment, Organization, Activities and Aspirations of the Department of Archives and History of the State of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1904.

History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1921.

The Methodist Churches of Montgomery:... Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1908.

Our State--Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Birmingham Printing Co., 1927.

Preliminary Index to the Legislative Reference Collections of the Department. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1914.

Report of the Alabama History Commission to the Governor of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1901.

William Strother, of Virginia, and his Descendants. Harrisburg, Pa.: Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1898.

Joint Author: High Points in Alabama History. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 1928.

Compiler: Alabama Newspapers and Periodicals. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 1915.

Handbook of the Alabama Anthropological Society, 1910. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1910.

Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama: .... Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Printing Co., 1911.

Joint Compiler: Alabama Official and Statistical Register. Montgomery, Ala.: Alabama Department of Archives and History, 1903.

OWENS, JESSE (JAMES CLEVELAND), 1913-1980

Athlete, entertainer, businessman. Born: September 12, 1913, Danville. Parents: Henry and Emma (Alexander) Owens. Married: Ruth Solomon. Children: Three. Education: Ohio State University, A.B., 1937. Worked as an entertainer, served as WPA official; established a dry cleaning business, and became a salesman, 1937-1940. Employed by the Office of Civil Defense in Philadelphia, 1940-1942; Ford Motor Company, 1942-1946; military service, 1944; director of sport sales and part owner of a Negro baseball club, Portland, Ore., 1942-1956; secretary of the Illinois Athletic Commission, 1952-1955. Operated a public relations and marketing firm in Chicago, later Phoenix, 1955-. Member of the Illinois Youth Commission. In the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, won four medals for 100, 200, 400 meter races and the running broad jump; broke two Olympic records and one world record.

Source: Current Biography, Vol. 80N and Who's Who in America, 1980.

Author: Track and Field. New York: Atheneum, 1976.

Joint Author: Blackthink: My Life as Black Man and White Man. New York: Morrow, 1970.

I Have Changed. New York: Morrow, 1972.

Jesse, A Spiritual Autobiography. Plainfield, N.J.: Logos International, 1978.

The Jesse Owens Story. New York: Putnam, 1970.

Jesse, the Man Who Outran Hitler. New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1978.

OWSLEY, FRANK LAWRENCE, 1890-1956

University professor. Born: January 20, 1890, Montgomery. Parents: Lawrence Monroe and Annie Scott (McGehee) Owsley. Married: Harriet Fason Chappell, July 24, 1920. Children: Three. Education: Fifth District Agricultural School in Wetumpka, Ala. Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1911; M.A., 1912; University of Chicago, M.A., 1917; Ph.D., 1924. Taught in public schools and API, 1912-1919; Birmingham-Southern College, 1919- 1920; Vanderbilt University, 1920-1949; University of Alabama (1949-1954), filling the Hugo Friedman Chair of Southern History, developing a new Ph.D. Program, and heading the Department of History.

Source: Dictionary of American Biography, Suppl. 6 and Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.

Author: King Cotton Diplomacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1931.

Plain Folks of the Old South. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1949.

The South, Old and New Frontiers. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1949.

Joint Author: Know Alabama. Birmingham, Ala.: Colonial Press, 1961.

A Short History of the American People. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1945-1948.

The United States from Colony to World Power. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1949.

OWSLEY, FRANK LAWRENCE, JR., 1928-

University professor. Born: June 13, 1928, Nashville, Tenn. Parents: Frank L. and Hariett (Chappell) Owsley. Married: 1952. Children: Two. Education: Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1949; M.A., 1951; University of Alabama, Ph.D., 1955. Taught at George Washington University, 1956; U.S. Naval Academy, 1957- 1960; Auburn University, 1960-; visiting professor at the University of Nebraska, 1967-1968. Awarded the Arthur W. Thompson Memorial Prize, 1968. Member of the Southern and American Historical Associations and the Organization of American Historians.

Source: Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

Author: British and Indian Activities in Spanish West Florida During the War of 1812 and 1814. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1969.

The C.S.S. Florida: Her Building and Operations. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1965.

The South: Old and New Frontiers. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1969.

Struggle for the Gulf Borderlands: the Creek War and the Battle of New Orleans, 1812-1815. Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida Press, 1981.

Joint Author: Know Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Viewpoint Pub., 1970.

Editor: The Life of Andrew Jackson. University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1974.