Author:  BACKUS, OLLIE LUCY, 1908-

Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  August 12, 1908, Harbor Springs,
Mich.  Parents--  Arthur and Kate Backus.  Education--  Michigan
College of Education in Kalamazoo for two years; University of
Michigan, A.B, 1929, M.A., 1930; University of Wisconsin, Ph.D.,
1933.  Taught Latin and English in Bear Lake, Mich. for one year;
directed Speech Clinic for the Beloit Wisconsin Public Schools,
1933-1935; served as chairman of the speech and drama department of
State Teachers' College, Slippery Rock, Pa., 1937; taught at the
University of Michigan, 1943-1949; and after 1949 taught at the
University of Alabama and was director of the speech and hearing
clinic.

<P>Source:  Title pages of her books Speech in Education and Speech
Therapy with Children; and from William Stanley Hoole Special
Collections of the University of Alabama.

<P>Publication(s):  Speech in Education--  a Guide for the Classroom
Teacher.  New York;  Longmans, Green, 1943.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Aphasia in Adults;  the Rehabilitation of
Persons With Loss or Disturbance of the Faculty of Speech Resulting
in Brain Injury.  Ann Arbor;  University of Michigan, 1945.

<P>  The Child With a Cleft Palate.  Ann Arbor;  University of
Michigan, 1943.

<P>  Speech Therapy with Children.  Boston;  Houghton, 1951.

<P>Contributor:  The Rehabilitation of Speech ...  New York;  Harper,
1947.

<P>
Author:        BACON, MARY GORDON PERKINS, 1924-

<P>Biography:     Schoolteacher.  Born--  April 9, 1924, Anniston. 
Parents--  Redding Lightfoot and Mary Billingsley (Gordon) Perkins. 
Married--  William D. Bacon, January 5, 1943.  Children--  Three. 
Education--  Judson College; Jacksonville State College, B.S.,
1956.  Taught in the Anniston Public Schools until 1959.

<P>Source:  Our Many Cousins.

<P>Publication(s):  Our Many Cousins.  Anniston, Ala.;  Author, 1979.

<P>  To the Glory of God.  Anniston, Ala.;  Church of St. Michael and
All Angels, 197-.

<P>
Author:        BADGER, RODNEY REID, 1942-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  July 31, 1942, Salt
Lake City, Utah.  Parents--  Rodney Jenkins and Phyllis (Snow)
Badger.  Married--  Lee Wilson, June 10, 1965.  Children--  Two. 
Education--  U.S. Naval Academy, B.S, 1964; U.S. Naval Postgraduate
School, 1968-1970; Syracuse University, M.S., 1974, Ph.D., 1975. 
Served in the U.S. Navy, 1964-1970; instructor in naval
communications at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,
Calif., 1968-1970.  Joined faculty of the University of Alabama in
1974; served as an associate professor of American Studies;
director of the American Studies program; assistant dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences.  Rockefeller Foundation grant, 1978-1980.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 97.

<P>Publication(s):  The Great American Fair;  the World's Columbian
Exposition and American Culture.  Chicago;  Nelson-Hall, 1979.

<P>Joint_Editor:  Alabama and the Borderlands; from Prehistory to
Statehood. University, Ala.;  University of Alabama Press, 1985.

<P>
Author:        BAGGOTT, BETTY SUE

<P>Biography:     Born--  Augusta, Ga.  Education--  University of
Georgia, Mercer University, and Texas Christian University. 
Married--  Dr. Bob Baggott.  Children--  Three.  Public relations 
director of the Newnan, Ga. hospital, 1960-1972; lived in Opelika,
1972-1982.  Served as a freelance writer, public relations
director, radio announcer, commercial writer, and school teacher.

<P>Source:  Betty Sue Baggott, Dothan, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  From My Heart to Yours.  Opelika, Ala.; 
Franklin's Publications, 1975.

<P>
Author:        BAILEY, HUGH COLEMAN, 1929-

<P>Biography:     College president.  Born--  July 2, 1921, Berry. 
Parents--  Coleman C. and Susie J. (Jenkins) Bailey.  Married-- 
Ahleida J. Seever, November 17, 1962.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Samford University, A.B.,
1950; University of Alabama, M.A.,
1951, Ph.D., 1954.  Taught at Samford University, 1953-1970; served
as Dean of Arts and Sciences of Howard College, 1970-1975.  Vice
President for Academic Affairs at Francis Marion  College, 1975-1978; became president of
Valdosta (Ga.) State College, 1978. 
American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1965-1966; member of
the American Acadeny of Science, Pi Gamma Mu, and Lambda Chi Alpha.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. 2; Directory of American
Scholars, 6th ed.; Leaders in  Education, 5th ed.; Who's Who in
America, 1980.

<P>Publication(s):  Americanism vs. Communism.  Northport, Ala.; 
American Southern Pub. Co., 1964.

<P>  Edgar Gardner Murphy;  Gentle Progressive.  Coral Gables, Fla.; 
University of Florida Press, 1968.

<P>  Hinton Rowan Helper;  Abolitionist-Racist.  University, Ala.; 
University of Alabama Press, 1968.

<P>  John William Walker.  University, Ala.;  University of Alabama
Press, 1964.

<P>  Liberalism in the New South.  Coral Gables, Fla.;  University of
Florida Press, 1969.

<P>
Author:        BAILEY, PAUL CLINTON, 1921-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  October 26, 1921,
Baileyton.  Parents--  Noel R. and Lemma L. (Roberts) Bailey. 
Married--  Eileen Garmon, October 1, 1944.  Children--  Three. 
Education--  St. Bernard College; Jacksonville State University,
B.S., 1942; Vanderbilt University, M.A., 1946, Ph.D., 1949.  Taught
at University of Montevallo (Alabama  College), 1947-1963;
Birmingham Southern College after 1963.  Member of the Alabama
State Board of Examiners in Basic Sciences, American Association
for Advancement of Science, Torrey Botanical Club, American Genetic
Association, and Alabama Academy of Science.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in Alabama, Vol. 2; Who's Who in America, 1980.

<P>Publication(s):  An Introduction to Modern Biology.  Scranton, Pa.; 
International Textbook Co., 1969.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Laboratory Guide for an Introduction to
Modern Biology.  Scranton, Pa.;  International Textbook Co., 1970.

<P>  Under Siege;  Man, Men, and Earth.  New York;  Intext Educational
Publishers, 1973.

<P>Editor:  A History of the Alabama Academy of Science.  Auburn,
Ala.;  Alabama Academy of Science, 1963.

<P>
Author:        BAKER, GLADYS, 1900-1957

<P>Biography:     Syndicated columnist.  Born-- about 1900.  Parents-- 
Mr. and  Mrs. A. Herbert Baker of Jacksonville, Florida.  Married-- 
William H. Oates.  Married--  William H. Kettig, Jr.  Married-- 
Howard E. Coffin.  Married--  Roy Leonard Patrick.  Beginning in
1918, worked for the Jacksonville Metropolis.  In 1926 moved to
Birmingham and became a feature writer for the Birmingham News. 
During much of the 1930s wrote a weekly page of copy for the
Birmingham News.  Beginning about 1937 became syndicated foreign
correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance.  Wrote and
published in newspapers two serial novels;  "Sallie's  Temptations"
and "Mr. and Mrs. Sallie."  Retired from newspaper work in 1942.

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library; Alabama Department of
Archives and History; and from New York Times, December 18, 1957.

<P>Publication(s):  I Had to Know.  New York;  Appleton Century, 1951.

<P>  Our Hearts Are Restless.  New York;  Putnam, 1955.

<P>
Author:        BAKER, JOHN NEWTON

<P>Biography:     College professor, public relations.  Parents-- 
Bertsil B. and Bonnie M. (White) Baker.  Education--  Howard
College.  Served as a member of the Howard College faculty; taught
at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.  Secretary to the head architect
of TVA, contributing editor of a national magazine, college
professor, public relations director at Auburn University and at
Florida State University, personnel interviewer for an industrial
firm, and assistant to the  president of the University of
Richmond.  He later was at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill.

<P>Source:  Preface to Your Public Relations are Showing.

<P>Publication(s):  Sex Education in High Schools.  New York;  Emerson
Books, 1942.

<P>  Your Public Relations Are Showing.  New York;  Twayne, 1958.

<P>
Author:        BAKER, OLA GRACE, 1908-

<P>Biography:     Teacher, counselor.  Born--  1908, Lamar County. 
Parents--  Robert Lee and Ethel Cora (Clearman) Baker.  Education-- 
Attended Athens College; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1931;
University of Alabama, M.A.  Taught in Jefferson County, 1928-1943;
employed by the U.S. Marine Corps, 1946-1947; served the University
of Alabama as counselor to  women, assistant dean of women, foreign
student advisor, and coordinator of counselling service, 1947 until
her retirement in 1970.  Received Algernon Sidney Sullivan  Award,
1955.  Member of Delta Kappa Gamma and, conference chairperson of
the Commission on Archives and History, member of bicentennial
committees.

<P>Source:  Letter from Ola Grace Baker dated September 28, 1983.

<P>Publication(s):  Flowers of the Field.  Tuscaloosa, Ala.;  s.n.,
1974.

<P>
Author:        BAKER, ROGER DENIO, 1902-

<P>Biography:     Pathologist.  Born--  April 10, 1902, East Lansing,
Mich.  Parents--  Ray Stannard and Jessie Irene (Beal) Baker. 
Married--  Eleanor Elizabeth Ussher, September 29, 1929.  Children--  Three.  Education-- 
University of Wisconsin, A.B., 1924;
Harvard University, M.D., 1928; attended the University of Kiel and
Tulane University.  Worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Medical
College of Alabama, Jefferson-Hillman Hospital, Durham V.A.
Hospital, Louisiana  State University at New Orleans, and Rutgers
University  Medical School.  Member of the American Society of
Clinical Pathologists, American Association of Pathologists and
Bacteriologists.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1974-1975.

<P>Publication(s):  Essential Pathology.  Baltimore;  Williams &
Wilkins, 1951.

<P>  The Pathologic Anatomy of Mycoses;  Human Infection with Fungi,
Actinomycetes, and Algae.  New York;  Springer-Verlag, 1971.

<P>  Postmortem Examination;  Specific Methods and Procedures. 
Philadelphia;  Saunders, 1967.

<P>
Author:        BAKLANOFF, ERIC N., 1925-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  December 9, 1925,
Graz, Austria.  Parents--  Nicholas W. and Lucile (King) Baklanoff. 
Married--  H. Christina Janes, May 1, 1956.  Children--  Two. 
Education--  Antioch College, 1943-1944; Ohio State University,
B.A., 1949, M.A., 1950; Ph.D., 1958.  Served in the U.S. Navy,
1944-1946; worked for Chase National Bank in  Puerto Rico, 1950-1954; taught at Louisiana
State University, 1958-1961 and 1965-1968; at Vanderbilt  University, 1962-1965; and at the
University
of Alabama after 1969; served as the Board of Visitors Research
Professor of Economics at Alabama after 1974.  Awarded Fulbright
fellowship, Vanderbilt University fellowship, University of Alabama
Research Committee fellowship and grants from Louisiana State
University, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the U. S. Department of
State.  Honors;  Outstanding Scholarship award from the University
of Alabama, 1980-1981.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 13NR.

<P>Publication(s):  The Economic Transformation of Spain and Portugal. 
New York;  Praeger, 1978.

<P>  Expropriation of U. S. Investments in Cuba, Mexico, and Chile. 
New York;  Praeger, 1975.

<P>  Spain's Emergence as a Middle Industrial Power.  Washington,
D.C.;  American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research,
1985.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Agrarian Reform and Public Enterprise in
Mexico.  University, Ala.;  University of Alabama Press, 1987.

<P>Editor:  Mediterranean Europe and the Common Market.  University,
Ala.;  University of Alabama Press, 1975.

<P>Editor_and_Contributor:

<P>  New Perspectives of Brazil.  Nashville;  Vanderbilt University
Press, 1966.

<P>  The Shaping of Modern Brazil.  Baton Rouge, La.;  Louisiana State
University Press, 1969.

<P>
Author:        BALDWIN, ALEX (Pseudonym)

<P>See:  Butterworth, William Edward, III

<P>
Author:        BALL, RICHARD WILLIAM, 1923-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  August 16, 1923,
Streator, Ill.  Education--  University of Illinois, B.A., 1944,
M.A., 1945, Ph.D. in mathematics, 1948.  Taught mathematics  at the
University of Washington, 1948-1954; Auburn University after 1954.
Member of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical
Association of America.

<P>Source:  American Men and Women of Science--Physical and
Biological.  14th ed.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Introduction to Modern Algebra and Matrix
Theory.  New York;  Rinehart, 1954.

<P>  Principles of Abstract Algebra.  New York;  Holt, 1963.

<P>
Author:        BALL, TIMOTHY HORTON, 1826-1913

<P>Biography:     Pastor.  Born--  February 16, 1826, Agawam, Mass. 
Parents--  Hervey and Jane Ayrault (Horton) Ball.  Married-- 
Martha Caroline Creighton, April 19, 1855.  Children--  Two. 
Education--  Franklin College in Indiana, A.B., 1850, A.M., 1853. 
Taught at Franklin Springs, Ala. in 1851 and began preaching there
a short time later.  Most of his life was spent in Clarke County,
Ala.

<P>Source:  Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

<P>Publication(s):  Annie B., the Dying Girl.  Crown Point, Ind.; 
s.n., 1893.

<P>  A Dream of Hell, by an Orthodox Dreamer.  Crown Point, Ind.;  The
Register Office, 1886.

<P>  Encyclopedia of Genealogy of Lake County, Indiana, with a
Compendium of History, 1834-1904;  a Record of the Achievements of
its People in the Making of a Commonwealth.  Chicago;  Lewis Pub.
Co., 1904.

<P>  Francis Ball's Descendants.  Crown Point, Ind.;  J. J.  Wheeler,
1902.

<P>  Genealogical Record of the Dinwiddie Clan of Northwestern
Indiana.  Crown Point, Ind.;  J. J.  Wheeler, 1902.

<P>  A Glance into the Great South-east; or, Clarke County, Alabama,
and its Surroundings, from 1540 to 1877.  Grove Hill, Ala.;  Knight
and Leonard, 1882.

<P>  The Home of the Redeemed and Other Discourses.  Crown Point,
Ind.;  Register Printers, 1898.

<P>  Inspired Scriptures.  Crown Point, Ind.;  J. J. Wheeler, 1903.

<P>  Lake County, Indiana, 1884; an Account of the Semicentennial
Celebration.  Crown Point, Ind.;  Lake County Star Office, 1884.

<P>  Lake County, Indiana, from 1837 to 1872.  Chicago;  J. Goodspeed,
1873.

<P>  The Lake of the Red Cedars; or, Will It Live?  Thirty Years in
Lake County.  Crown Point, Ind.;  J. H. Ball, 1889.

<P>  A Land in the Great South-east;  or, Clarke County, Alabama, and
its Surroundings, from 1540 to 1877.  Grove Hill, Ala.;  Knight and
Leonard, 1882.

<P>  Mount Vernon, Alabama.  Washington, D.C.;  Southern History
Association, 1898.

<P>  Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900; or, a View of Our Region
Through the Nineteenth Century.  Crown Point, Ind.;  Register
Printers, 1898.

<P>  Notes on Luke's Gospel.  Crown Point, Ind.;  Donahue &
Henneberry, 1889.

<P>  Old Truth in a New Setting.  Crown Point, Ind.;  J. J.  Wheeler,
1906.

<P>  Poems and Hymns.  Crown Point, Ind.;  Register Office, 1888.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  The Creek War of 1813 and 1814.  Montgomery,
Ala.;  White Woodruff & Fowler, 1895.

<P>
Author:        BALLARD, JAMES CLARENCE, 1921-

<P>Biography:     Born--  1921, Florence, Ala.  Lived early part of
life in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia.  During WWII, he served
four years in the Air Corps as a radar observer; later, he served
in the Strategic Air Command.  Education--  University of Virginia
and St. John's College in Annapolis.  Lived in Virginia and in
Atlanta, Ga.

<P>Source:  Bert Hitchcock.

<P>Publication(s):  But a Little Moment.  New York;  E.P. Dutton,
1950.

<P>  The Long Way Through.  Boston;  Houghton, Mifflin, 1959.

<P>  Rolling All the Time;  Stories.  Urbana;  University of Illinois
Press, 1976.

<P>
Author:        BANCROFT, BETSY BARBER

<P>Biography:     Parents--  Judge and Mrs. William C. Barber of
Birmingham.  Married--  Joseph Bancroft.  Children--  Three. 
Education--  Howard College.  Served as a poet-in-residence in some
of  the school systems of the state including Fort Payne and
Montgomery.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  Belongings;  a Retrospective Journal of the South. 
Natchitoches, La.;  Northwestern State University Press, 1980.

<P>  Green Again.  Gretna, La.;  Pelican Pub. Co., 1971.

<P>  Heir's Song.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Heirship Press, 1976.

<P>  Wild Honeysuckle.  Gretna, La.;  Pelican Press, 1966.

<P>
Author:        BANDMAN, LOTTIE COPELAND

<P>Biography:     Born--  Florence.  Education--  Florence State
Normal College; postgraduate studies in Germany.  Married-- 
Chester G. Bandman.  Taught in Birmingham.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Flowers and Festivals of the Jewish Year. 
New York;  Hearthside Press, 1964.

<P>
Author:        BANDY, WAY,   -1986

<P>Biography:     Beauty consultant.  Born--  Birmingham.  Taught
American and  English Literature in the public schools in the
South; in  1967, moved to New York and worked until 1971 as salon
and makeup director for Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz.  After 1972,
freelance face designer for fashion magazines and a designer for
cosmetic advertising in television commercials, films and the
theater.  Became one of the most sought after beauty consultants,
having as some of his clients Nancy Reagan, Madonna, Catherine
Deneuve and Elizabeth Taylor.

<P>Source:  Designing Your Face; Time, August 25, 1986.

<P>Publication(s):  Designing Your Face.  New York;  Random, 1977.

<P>  Styling Your Face.  New York;  Random, 1981.

<P>
Author:        BANISTER, GARY L., 1948-

<P>Biography:     Park director.  Born-- February 14, 1948,
Summerville, Ga.  Parents--  Paul K. and Virginia (Abrams)
Banister.  Married--  Trudy Hagan, August 20, 1971.  Children-- 
One.  Education--  University of Alabama, B.S., 1972.  Worked as an
auditor for Consultant Services Company of Salisbury, N.C.;
recreation director at Camilla, Ga.; park and recreation director
at Geneva, Ala.  Member of the National Park and Recreation
Association, Alabama Park and Recreation Society, and Geneva County
Development Committee.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57.

<P>Publication(s):  My War With God.  Grand Rapids, Mich.;  Zondervan,
1973.

<P>
Author:        BANKHEAD, TALLULAH BROCKMAN, 1903-1968

<P>Biography:     Actress.  Born--  January 31, 1903 or some
authorities say  "about February 12, 1903," Huntsville.  Parents-- 
William  Brockman and Adelaide Eugenia (Sledge) Bankhead.  Married--  John Emery, August
31, 1937, divorced June 13, 1941.  Education--  Convents in New York and Washington. 
Abandoned school to
attempt an acting career.  Had a few minor roles in New York, then
was invited to appear on the London stage.  Went to London in 1923
and became a sensation as an actress with an enormous following and
as a model for the rebellious young generation.  Roles in; 
"Reflected Glory," "Dark Victory," "Forsaking All Others," "The
Little Foxes," and "Skin of Our Teeth."  Honors;  New York Film
Critics Award for her appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat,"
1944.

<P>Source:  Notable American Women, the Modern Period.

<P>Publication(s):  Tallulah;  My Autobiography.  New York;  Harper,
1952.

<P>
Author:        BAREFIELD, MARILYN DAVIS HAHN, 1926-

<P>Biography:     Born--  June 11, 1926, Birmingham.  Parents--  Fred
Lewis and  Gladys Scott (Sims) Davis.  Married--  Richard Neal Hahn
in  1950.  Children--  Two.  Married--  Carr Byron Barefield, 1983. 
Education--  Attended Huntingdon College for two years.  Worked for
Vulcan Materials Company, 1945-1950; Lincoln National Life
Insurance Company, 1972-1981; executive secretary of the Birmingham
Historical Society after 1982; served as secretary, vice-president
and president of the Alabama Historical Commission.  Honors; 
Alabama Historical Commission, Award of Merit, 1978.

<P>Source:  Marilyn Barefield, Birmingham, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  Alabama Mortality Schedule, 1950.  Easley, S.C.; 
Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1983.

<P>  Clarke County, Alabama Records, 1814-1885.  Easley, S.C.; 
Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1983.

<P>  Historical Records of Randolph County, Alabama, 1832-1900. 
Easley, S.C.;  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.

<P>  Old Cahaba Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1817-1853. 
Mobile, Ala.;  Old South Printing and Publishing Co., 1981.

<P>  Old Huntsville Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1810-1854.  Easley, S.C.;  Southern
Historical Press, Inc. 1985.

<P>  Old Montgomery Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1834-1869.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Southern University Press, 1991.

<P>  Old St. Stephen's Land Office Records & American State Papers,
Public Lands.  Easley, S.C.;  Southern Historical Press, Inc.,
1983.

<P>  Old Sparta and Elba Land Office Records and Military Warrants,
1822-1860.  Easley, S.C.;  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1983.

<P>  Old Tuskaloosa Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1821-1855.  Easley, S.C.; 
Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1984.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Pickens County, Alabama, 1841-1861.  Easley,
S.C.;  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1984.

<P>Compiler:  Butler County, Alabama, Obituaries--from Alabama
Christian Advocate, Greenville Advocate.  Easley, S.C.;  Southern
Historical Press, Inc., 1985.

<P>  Butler County in the Nineteenth Century.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Privately Published, 1978.

<P>  Cemeteries of Jefferson County, Alabama.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Birmingham Genealogical Society and Birmingham Public Library,
1982-.

<P>  Map Reproductions;  a New Map of Alabama with its Roads and
Distances From Place to Place, Along the Stage and Steam Boat
Routes.  Easley, S.C.;  Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.

<P>  Railroad and County Map of Alabama.  Easley, S.C.; Southern
Historical Press, Inc., 1984.

<P>
Author:        BARKER, LARRY LEE, 1941-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  November 22, 1941,
Wilmington, Ohio.  Parents--  Milford and Ruth Maxine Barker. 
Married--  1961.  Children--  Two.  Education--  University of
Ohio, A.B., 1962, M.A., 1963, Ph.D., 1965.  Taught at Southern 
Illinois University, 1965-1966; Purdue University, 1966-1969;
Florida State University, 1969-1976; Auburn University  after 1976.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 81; Directory of American
Scholars, 1981.

<P>Publication(s):  Communication.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall, 1982.

<P>  Communication Vibrations.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; Prentice-Hall,
1974.

<P>  Introduction to Listening;  a Programmed Approach.  New Orleans,
La.;  Spectra, 1988.

<P>  Listening Behavior.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice-Hall,
1971.

<P>  Listening Skills;  Objectives and Criterion Reference Exercises. 
New Orleans, La.;  Spectra, 1988.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Behavioral Objectives and Instruction. 
Boston;  Allyn and Bacon, 1970.

<P>  Effective Listening;  Key to Your Success.  Reading, Mass.; 
Addison-Wesley, 1983.

<P>  Groups in Process;  an Introduction to Small Group Communication. 
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice-Hall, 1979.

<P>  Measurement of Communication Behavior.  White Plains, N.Y.; 
Longman, 1989.

<P>  Nonverbal Communication.  San Francisco;  Chandler, 1967.

<P>  Speech--Interpersonal Communication.  San Francisco;  Chandler,
1967.

<P>Editor:  Communication in the Classroom;  Original Essays. 
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice-Hall, 1982.

<P>Joint_Editor:  Conceptual Frontiers in Speech-Communication; 
Report (of the New Orleans Conference on Research and Instructional
Development).  New York;  Speech Association of America, 1969.

<P>  Speech Communication Behavior;  Perspectives and Principles. 
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice-Hall, 1971.

<P>
Author:        BARKER, SAMUEL BOOTH, 1912-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  March 3, 1912,
Montclair, N.J.  Parents-- Harry and Marion (Booth) Barker. 
Married--  Justine Rogers, July 31, 1934.  Education--  University
of  Vermont, B.S., 1932; Yale University, 1932-1934; Cornell
University, Ph.D., 1936.  College of Medicine of the University of
Tennessee, medicine fellow, 1936-1941, instructor in physiology,
1941-1944; taught at the University of Iowa, 1944-1953; University
of Vermont, 1962-1965; University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1952-1962 and after 1965.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1980.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Basic Endocrinology for Students of Biology
and Medicine.  Philadelphia;  F. A. Davis Publishing Co., 1962.

<P>  A History of the Alabama Academy of Science.  Auburn, Ala.; 
Alabama Academy of Science, 1963.

<P>
Author:        BARKSDALE, JELKS, 1901-1987

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  September 30, 1901,
Fernbank.  Married--  1937.  Children--  One.  Education-- 
University of  Alabama, B.S., 1922; M.S., 1930; Columbia
University, M.A., 1931, Ph.D., 1934.  Employed as chemical engineer
for the U. S. Bureau of Mines in Alabama, 1922-1927; staff
geologist for the Alabama State Geological Survey, 1927-1930;
research chemist for Carleton Ellis Laboratory, 1935-1937; National
Lead Company, 1937-1942; United States Quartermaster Corps, 1942-1946; associate professor
of chemistry at Auburn University after
1946.

<P>Source:  American Men and Women of Science, 12th ed.

<P>Publication(s):  Cation an Anion Identification.  S.l.;  s.n.,
1963.

<P>  Doctor Bill.  Auburn, Ala.;  Barksdale Books, 1976.

<P>  General Chemistry for Colleges.  New York;  Longman, 1950.

<P>  Let's Stop Inflation Now.  Auburn, Ala.;  s.n., 1979.

<P>  Let's Write That Book.  Auburn, Ala.;  Author, 1970.

<P>  Lignite in Alabama.  University, Ala.;  Geological Survey of
Alabama, 1929.

<P>  Ochers of Alabama.  University, Ala.;  Geological Survey of
Alabama, 1930.

<P>  Possible Salt Deposits in the Vicinity of the Jackson Fault,
Alabama.  University, Ala.;  Geological Survey of Alabama, 1929.

<P>  Titanium;  Its Occurence, Chemistry, and Technology.  New York; 
Ronald Press, 1949.

<P>
Author:        BARNARD, HARRY VOLLIE, 1929-

<P>Biography:     Born--  June 15, 1929, Cottonville.  Parents-- 
Percy T. and  Marjorie (Edmonds) Barnard.  Married--  Wanda Hyde,
December 7, 1950.  Children--  Two.  Education--  University of
North  Alabama, B.S., 1950; University of Alabama, M.A., 1954,
Ed.D., 1959; additional study at Harvard University, 1955; Ain
Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, 1976.  Served in the U.S. Army,
1950-1952; taught in the public schools of Orlando, Fla., 1953-1956; teaching fellow at the 
University of Alabama, 1957-1959;
research assistant and  clerk of the Subcommittee on Special
Education, U.S. House of Representatives, 86th Congress, 1959-1960;
taught at Rutgers University, 1960-1966; taught at the University
of  Kentucky after 1966.  After 1977, Associate Dean for Teacher
Education and director of the overseas student teaching  program.

<P>Source:  Book jacket for Tattered Volunteers; files at  Alabama
Public Library Service; and Harry V. Barnard, Lexington, Ky.

<P>Publication(s):  Tattered Volunteers;  the Twenty-seventh Alabama
Infantry Regiment C.S.A.  Northport, Ala.;  Hermitage Press, 1965.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Orange Study of Curriculum and School
Buildings.  New Brunswick, N.J.;  Rutgers University Division of
Field Studies and Research, 1966.

<P>Editor:  Urbanization--Some Educational Implications;  Twenty-ninth
Yearbook of the New Jersey Secondary School Teachers Association. 
Plainfield, N.J.;  The Association, 1974.

<P>
Author:        BARNARD, WILLIAM DEAN, 1942-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  September 18, 1942,
Birmingham.  Married--  1964.  Children--  Three.  Education-- 
Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1964; University of Virginia,
Ph.D., 1971.  Taught at the University of South  Alabama, 1968-1972; employed by the Alabama
Commission on Higher education as
research associate, 1972-1973, associate director of academic
affairs, 1973-1977; and served as assistant to the chancellor of
the University of Alabama System after 1977.

<P>Source:  Directory of American Scholars, History 7th ed., 1978.

<P>Publication(s):  Dixicrats and Democrats;  Alabama Politics. 
University, Ala.;  University of Alabama Press, 1974.

<P>
Author:        BARNES, JOE, 1920-

<P>Biography:     Teacher, museum curator.  Born--  April 17, 1920. 
Parents-- Lovi J. and Myrtle (Woodson) Barnes.  Married--  Mabel 
Thornton, July 20, 1947.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Attended
Auburn University, 1946; Jacksonville State  Teachers College,
B.S., 1949; University of Alabama, master's degree, 1977.  Served
in the U.S. Army Reserve, 1956-1980; named Soldier of the Year in
the State of Alabama, 1974; high school coach, 1949-1952; chief of
a review and analysis group at Redstone Arsenal, 1952-1973; curator
of museums at Noccalula Falls in Gadsden after 1973.  Member of the
Alabama High School Football Officials Association, the American
Legion, Etowah Historical Society, and Ta-Co-Bet Historical
Association.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; Man
on a Mountain; and Joe Barnes, Gadsden, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  History of Hokes Bluff and Eastern Etowah County,
Alabama.  Hokes Bluff, Ala.;  Eagle Printing and Key Shop, 1966.

<P>  Man on a Mountain.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Southern University Press,
1969.

<P>  John Wisdom Citizen-Soldier.  Gadsden, Ala.;  Birch Anderson,
1979.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  A History of Etowah County.  Birmingham,
Ala.;  Roberts and Sons, 1969.

<P>
Author:        BARNETT, ALBERT EDWARD, JR., 1895-1961

<P>Biography:     Methodist minister, teacher.  Born--  August 29,
1895, Opelika.  Parents--  Albert Edward and Mary Hannah (Banks)
Barnett.  Married--  Lucie Rebecca Browder, December 29, 1929. 
Education--  Southern University in Greensboro, Ala., 1916; Emory
University, Candler School of Theology, B.D., 1921; University of
Chicago, M.A., 1928, Ph.D., 19??.  Licensed to preach in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1917; taught for one year at the
State Normal School at Moundville, Ala.; Technological High School
at Atlanta.  During World War I served as Y.M.C.A. director. 
Served as pastor in the Norcross Circuit, Ga., 1922-1923; pastor at
Mobile; student pastor at Auburn, 1924; taught at Scarritt College,
1924-1943; University of Chicago, 1944; Garrett Biblical Institute
in Evansville, Ind., 1944-1950; Emory University, Candler school of
Theology, 1950-1961.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History; Files
at Pitts Theological Library, Emory University.

<P>Publication(s):  Andrew Sledd - His Life and Work.  Atlanta;  Emory
University, Candler School of Theology, 1956.

<P>  The Church;  Its Origin and Task; a Study of Biblical Sources. 
Nashville;  National Methodist Student Movement, 1960.

<P>  Disciples to Such a Lord;  the Gospel According to St. Mark.  New
York;  Woman's Division of Christian Service, Board of Missions,
The Methodist Church, 1957.

<P>  Letters of Paul.  Nashville;  Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1947.

<P>  The Modern Reader's Guide to Acts.  New York; Association Press,
1962.

<P>  The New Testament, its Making and Meaning.  Nashville;  Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1946.

<P>  Paul Becomes a Literary Influence.  Chicago;  University of
Chicago Press, 1941.

<P>  Understanding the Parables of Our Lord.  Nashville;  Cokesbury
Press, 1940.

<P>
Author:        BARNETT, CORA CHASTANG, 1896-

<P>Biography:     Born--  September 27, 1896, Citronelle.  Parents-- 
Cyrus and Emma Estella (Hester) Chastang.  Married--  Stewart R.
Barnett, August 31, 1924.  Children--  Three.  Education--  public
schools of Citronelle; Huffstetler Business College.  Secretary of
Mobile Tractor Company; clerk for Southern Pacific Railroad in New
Orleans; chief clerk for Central of  Georgia Railroad in New
Orleans; owned an antique and  novelty shop in New Orleans, 1950-1966.  Nominated "Woman
of the Year" in Citronelle, 1982; served
two years as president of Citronelle Woman's Club; helped re-establish the Boy Scouts of
America's Camp Pushmatoha in
Citronelle.

<P>Source:  Cora Chastang Barnett, Citronelle, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  Citronelle, "Now and Then", 1811-1971. 
Citronelle, Ala.;  Author, 1971.

<P>  "Creole Cookin" Cookbooks.  New Orleans, La.;  Author, 1948.

<P>  New Orleans' Fabulous Iron Laceworks.  New Orleans, La.;  Author,
1950.

<P>
Author:        BARNEY, HOWARD, 1912-

<P>Biography:     Reporter, advertising.  Born--  September 14, 1912,
Mobile.  Parents--  Oscar N. and Marian (Hunter) Barney.  Married-- 
Mary Bacon, October 31, 1936.  Children--  Four.  Education-- 
University of Missouri, Bachelor of Journalism.  Worked for the
Kansas City Journal Post, 1934-1935; Mobile Press Register, 1935-1943; Merchants National
Bank of Mobile, 1943-1947.  Founded Barney
and Patrick Advertising Agency in 1947 and worked there until 1972. 
Served as chairman of the  Mobile Library Board, Mobile Infirmary
Board, and Gulf  Health Foundation.

<P>Source:  Howard Barney, Mobile, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  Mister Bell.  Mobile, Ala.;  The Bellingrath-Morse
Foundation, 1979.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Mobile;  the Life and Times of a Great
Southern City.  S.l.;  Windsor Publications, 1981.

<P>
Author:        BARNWELL, WILLIAM, 1943-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  February 11, 1943,
Macon, Ga.  Parents--  Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Barnwell.  Education-- 
Coffee High School in Florence; University of North Alabama,
bachelor's degree; University of Florida, Ph.D., 1972.  Taught at
the University of South Carolina, 1971-1977; Columbia College after
1977.  Member of the Modern Language  Association and South
Atlantic Modern Language Association.

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library and at Alabama Public
Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  The Blessing Papers.  London;  Colin Smythe, 1981.

<P>
Author:        BARRAX, GERALD WILLIAM, 1933-

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  June 21, 1933, Attalla. 
Education--  Duquesne University, B.A., 1963; University of
Pittsburgh, M.A., 1969; attended the University of North Carolina. 
Worked in a steel mill; cab driver; postal worker; substitute
teacher, and radio mechanic.  Taught at North Carolina Central
University and North Carolina State  University.

<P>Source:  Black American Writers Past and Present.

<P>Publication(s):  Another Kind of Rain.  Pittsburgh;  University of
Pittsburgh  Press, 1970.

<P>  An Audience of One.  Athens, Ga.;  University of Georgia Press,
1980.

<P>  Leaning on the Sun;  Poems.  Fayetteville, Ark.;  University of
Arkansas Press, 1992.

<P>
Author:        BARRETT, EDWARD WARE, 1910-

<P>Biography:     Reporter, correspondent.  Born--  July 3, 1910,
Birmingham.  Parents--  Edward Ware and Lewis Robertson (Butt)
Barrett.  Married--  Mason Daniel, November 25, 1939.  Children-- 
Two.  Education--  Princeton University, A.B., 1932; attended 
University of Dijon in France; Bard College, LL.D., 1950.  Began
his career in 1933 as a reporter for the Birmingham  Age-Herald,
which his father had owned.  Became the  Washington correspondent
for Newsweek until 1942.  Helped  set up the overseas division of
the U.S. Office of War  Information; directed propaganda broadcasts
to Europe, 1942-1946; editorial director for Newsweek, 1946-1950;
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 1950-1952;
executive vice-president of Hill and Knowlton, a public relations 
firm, 1953-1956; dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of
Journalism, 1956-1968; director of the Communications Institute of
the Academy for Educational  Development, 1969-1977; publisher of
Journalism Review, beginning in 1975.  Member of the Foreign Policy
Council on Foreign Relations.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1978-1979.

<P>Publication(s):  Truth is Our Weapon.  New York; Funk & Wagnall,
1953.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Educational TV;  Who Should Pay? 
Washington, D.C.;  American Institute for Public Policy Research,
1968.

<P>Editor:  Journalists in Action.  Manhasset, N.Y.;  Channel Press,
1963.

<P>
Author:        BARRETT, HENRY CHARLES, 1923-

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  March 2, 1923, Birmingham. 
Parents--  Henry Clifford and Marcia Powers (White) Barrett. 
Married--  Betsy Joan Mason, July 23, 1955.  Children--  Three. 
Education--  University of Alabama, B.S., 1948, M.A. 1949; studied
at Juillard School of Music; Columbia University.  Taught at the
University of Alabama; played in several symphony  orchestras, was
principal violinist for the Birmingham  Symphony, 1950-1960;
lecturer and performer at several meetings of the National
Convention of Music Teachers.  Member of the Alabama Music Teachers
Association, American String Teachers Association, Music Educators
National Conference, and Music Teachers National Association.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1978.

<P>Publication(s):  The Viola;  Complete Guide for Teachers and
Students.  University, Ala.;  University of Alabama Press, 1972.

<P>
Author:        BARRETT, LINTON LOMAS, 1904-1972

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  September 1, 1904,
Lanett.  Parents--  Linton Stephens and Carrie Elizabeth (Lomas) 
Barrett.  Married--  Elizabeth Elliott, June, 1928.  Children-- 
One.  Married--  Marie Hamilton McDavid, May 26, 1937.  Children-- 
One.  Education--  Mercer University, B.A., 1928; University of
Virginia, DuPont fellow, 1930-1931; University  of North Carolina,
Ph.D., 1938.  Taught at Mercer University, University of Alabama,
Furman University, University of North Carolina, Princeton
University, University of Kansas, Washington and Lee University,
and Duke University; served as Public Affairs Officer at the
American embassies in Bogota, Columbia and Quito, Ecuador; editor
of Hispania, 1950-1964.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.

<P>Publication(s):  Barron's Simplified Approach to Cervantes' Don
Quixote.  Woodbury, N.Y.;  Barron, 1971.

<P>  A Comparative Study of Six Manuscripts of Juan Perez de
Montalban's Como Padre y Como Rey.  Chapel Hill, N.C.;  Estudios de
Hispan˘fila, 1976.

<P>  Five Centuries of Spanish Literature, from the Cid Through the
Golden Age.  New York;  Dodd, 1962.

<P>  The Supernatural in Spanish Non-Religious Comedia of the Golden
Age.  Lexington, Ky.;  University of Kentucky, 1957.

<P>Editor:  A Mediaeval Italian Anthology.  Chapel Hill, N.C.;  s.n.,
1950.

<P>
Author:        BARTLETT, JERRY FRANK, 1941-

<P>Biography:     Attorney, teacher.  Born--  April 17, 1941,
Langdale.  Parents--  James Joel and Estelle (Frazier) Bartlett. 
Married--  Gisela Beyer, September 27, 1963.  Children--  One. 
Education--  Florence State University, B.S, 1963; Samford
University, Cumberland School of Law, J.D, 1967.  Employed as an
insurance investigator in Charleston, S.C., 1964-1965; admitted to
the Alabama Bar, taught business administration at Athens State
College and after 1984, served as special assistant to the
president of the College; selected as a special assistant to the
Attorney General of  Alabama, 1985.  Member of Delta Mu Delta, Phi
Alpha Delta, and the Limestone County and Alabama Bar Associations.

<P>Source:  Jerry F. Bartlett.

<P>Publication(s):  Getting Started in Alabama Real Estate.  Dubuque,
Iowa;  Kendall/Hunt, 1978.

<P>
Author:        BARTON, LEVI ELDER, 1870-

<P>Biography:     Baptist minister;  Born--  April 25, 1870, near
Jonesboro, Ark.  Parents--  William Henderson and Eliza Martha 
(Mortan) Barton.  Married--  Rosa Belle Hurt, 1899.  Children-- 
Four.  Education--  Union University in Jackson, Tenn., A.M., 1898;
D.D., 1911; attended Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1898-1899.  Ordained to the
ministry in the Baptist Church, 1896; served
churches in Hope and Fayette, Ark.; Suffolk and Norfolk, Va.;
Quitman and Atlanta, Ga.; West Point, Miss.; and Andalusia and
Jasper, Ala.  Served as general secretary to the executive board of
the Arkansas Baptist Convention, first vice-president of the
Alabama Baptist Convention and in many other positions in the
Baptist Church in Alabama.  Editor of the Walker County Tribune,
1937; presidential elector for the Prohibition Party, 1940;
nominated for vice-president of  the United States by the
Prohibition Party in 1944 but declined the nomination.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.

<P>Publication(s):  Amazing Grace.  Boston;  Christopher Pub. House,
1954.

<P>  Help for Soul Winners.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1945.

<P>  Take Heed.  Nashville;  Broadman, 1942.

<P>  Three Dimensions of Love and Other Sermons.  Boston;  R. G.
Badger, 1929.

<P>  (Pamphlet)  Four Pillars of the Baptist Temple.

<P>
Author:        BARTON, VIRGINIA HOOPER, 1902-

<P>Biography:     Music teacher.  Born--  November 7, 1902,
Guntersville.  Parents--  Alexander and Lucinda Winston Hooper. 
Married--  Dr. Bruce Barton.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
attended  University of Idaho.  Employed with the Alabama Health
Department for twenty-seven years; taught private lessons in  piano
for fifty years; organist at the First Methodist  Church in
Guntersville. State officer in the Alabama Federation of Women's
Clubs.  Honors;  Woman of the Year, Guntersville, 1930.

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library.

<P>Publication(s):  AFWC Creative Writings 1971 and 1972. 
Albertville, Ala.;  Thompson Printing Co.

<P>  Consider My Meditation.  Guntersville, Ala.;  V. H.  Barton,
1965.

<P>  Scripsit.  Albertville, Ala.;  Thompson Printing Co., 1979.

<P>
Author:        BASHINSKY, ELIZABETH BURFORD, 1867-

<P>Biography:     College teacher.  Born--  1867, Dixon's Spring,
Tenn.  Parents--  Robert Allen and Mary Elizabeth (Lowe) Burford. 
Married--  Leopold Max Bashinsky, June 17, 1891.  Children-- 
Three.  Education--  Columbia Institute at Columbia, Tenn.  Taught
at Troy State Teachers College.  Member of the board of trustees of
Judson College; member of the  United Daughters of the Confederacy,
Daughters of the American Revolution, and Daughters of 1812.

<P>Source:  Owen's The Story of Alabama, Vol. IV.

<P>Publication(s):  Tried and True Recipes.  Troy, Ala.;  s.n., 1922.

<P>
Author:        BASHINSKY, SLOAN YOUNG, II, 1942-

<P>Biography:     Attorney.  Born--  October 7, 1942, Birmingham. 
Parents--  Sloan Young and Nelle Francis (Major) Bashinsky. 
Married--  Jane Shea, June 14, 1975.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
Vanderbilt University, B.A.; University of Alabama, J.D.  Practiced
law in Birmingham after 1968.

<P>Source:  Sloan Bashinsky, II, Birmingham.

<P>Publication(s):  Home Buyers;  Lambs to the Slaughter?  Hillsboro,
N.C.;  Menasha Ridge Press, 1984.

<P>  Kill All the Lawyers?  New York;  Simon & Schuster, 1986.

<P>  Selling Your Home Sweet Home.  New York;  Simon & Schuster, 1985.

<P>
Author:        BASLER, ROY PRENTICE, 1906-

<P>Biography:     Teacher, librarian.  Born--  November 19, 1906, St.
Louis, Mo.  Parents--  Roy Prentice and Mary (Olsen) Basler. 
Married--  Virginia Pearl Anderson, August 31, 1929.  Children-- 
Five.  Education--  Central College in Fayette, Missouri, A.B.,
1927; Duke University, A.M., 1930, Ph.D., 1931.  Career included
being a high school teacher in Caruthersville, Mo.; professor of
English at Ringling  College, Florence State Teachers College,
University of Arkansas, and George Peabody College; executive
secretary and editor-in-chief for the Abraham Lincoln Association;
and service at the Library of Congress in the reference department;
chief of the Manuscript Division with the chair of American
History.

<P>Source:  American Authors and Books 1640 to the Present Day.  3rd
rev. ed.; Who's Who in America, 1978-1979; and Contemporary
Authors, Vols. 5-6.

<P>Publication(s):  "Abraham Lincoln, Artist."  Congressional Record, 
May 24, 1938.  Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office.

<P>  Abraham Lincoln's Democracy;  an Address Delivered at Lincoln
Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee, on the Seventy-fifth
Anniversary of the "Gettysburg Address."  Harrogate, Tenn.; 
Lincoln Memorial University, 1938.

<P>  All the Difference;  a Talk on the Occasion of the Dedication of
the Robert Frost Room in the Jones Library, Amherst, October 21,
1959.  S.l.;  s.n., 1959.

<P>  As One Southerner to Another;  Concerning Lincoln and the
Declaration of Independence.  Chicago;  Abraham Lincoln Bookshop,
1943.

<P>  Fenwick Island Poems.  S.l.;  Bayside Press, 1975.

<P>  Lincoln.  New York;  Grove Press, 1962.

<P>  The Lincoln Legend;  a Study in Changing Conceptions.  Boston; 
Houghton, 1935.

<P>  The Muse and the Librarian.  Westport, Conn.;  Greenwood Press,
1974.

<P>  President Lincoln Helps His Old Friends.  Springfield, Ill.; 
Abraham Lincoln Association, 1977.

<P>  Sex, Symbolism and Psychology in Literature.  New Brunswick; 
Rutgers University Press, 1948.

<P>  A Short History of the American Civil War.  New York;  Basic
Books, 1948.

<P>  Touchstone for Greatness;  Essays Addresses, and Occasional
Pieces About Abraham Lincoln.  Westport, Conn.;  Greenwood Press,
1973.

<P>Editor:  Abraham Lincoln;  Collected Works.  New Brunswick, N.J.; 
Rutgers University Press, 1953.

<P>  Abraham Lincoln;  Collected Works, Supplement.  Westport, Conn.; 
Greenwood Press, 1974.

<P>  The Enduring Lincoln;  Lincoln Sesquicentennial Lectures at the 
University of Illinois.  Urbana, Ill.;  University of Illinois
Press, 1959.

<P>  Abraham Lincoln, His Speeches and Writings.  Cleveland;  World,
1946.

<P>  A Guide to the Study of the United States of America; 
Representative Books Reflecting the Development of American Life
and Thought.  Washington, D.C.;  Library of Congress, 1960.

<P>  Walt Whitman's Memoranda During the War & Death of Abraham
Lincoln.  Bloomington, Ind.;  Indiana University Press, 1962.

<P>Contributor:  Walt Whitman in Our Times;  Four Essays.  Detroit; 
Wayne State University Press, 1970.

<P>Compiler:  Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in Translation. 
Washington, D.C.;  Library of Congress, 1972.

<P>
Author:        BATES, JAMES LEONARD, 1919-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  May 6, 1919,
Birmingham.  Education--  Wake Forest, B.A., 1941; University of
North  Carolina, M.A., 1946, Ph.D., 1952.  Taught history at the
University of North Carolina, 1946-1947;, University of  Maryland,
1947-1954; University of Illinois after 1954.  Member of the
American Historical Association, Organization  of American
Historians, and Southern Historical Association.

<P>Source:  Directory of American Scholars, 1974.

<P>Publication(s):  Origins of Teapot Dome.  Urbana, Ill.;  University
of Illinois Press, 1963.

<P>  The United States, 1898-1928;  Progressivism and a Society in
Transition.  New York;  McGraw, 1976.

<P>Editor:  Tom Walsh in Dakota Territory.  Urbana, Ill.;  University
of Illinois, 1966.

<P>
Author:        BATHURST, JAMES ELMER, 1898-

<P>Biography:     College Administrator.  Born--  June 10, 1898,
Alton, Kan.  Married--  1919.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
McPherson  College, A.B., 1922; Iowa State University, A.B., Ph.D.,
1926.  Postdoctoral fellowship and Rockefellow Foundation grant,
1938-1939.  Served as president of Wessington Springs Junior
College, 1923-1925; assistant director of the Bureau  of Public
Personnel Administration, Birmingham Southern College, 1927-1929;
professor of psychology, Birmingham Southern College, 1929-1946;
executive vice-president of the  American Management Association,
1946-1954; dean, Athens College, 1959 until his retirement in 1970. 
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
and of the American Psychological Association.

<P>Source:  American Men and Women of Science, 12th. ed. and Social
and Behavioral Sciences.

<P>Publication(s):  And Now I Know.  College Park, Ga.; s.n., 1957.

<P>
Author:        BATTLE, HERBERT BEMERTON, 1862-1929

<P>Biography:     Chemist.  Born--  May 29, 1862, Chapel Hill, N.C. 
Parents--  Kemp Plummer and Martha Ann (Battle) Battle.  Married-- 
Alice M. Wilson, November 25, 1885.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
University of North Carolina, B.S., 1881, Ph.D., 1887.  Professor
of chemistry at Leonard Medical School, 1886-1897; assistant
chemist at the North Carolina  Agriculture Experiment Station;
state chemist and director of the North Carolina Agriculture
Experiment Station; president of Southern Chemical Company in
Winston, N.C.; Southern Cotton Oil Company in Savannah, Ga., and
Montgomery, Ala., 1902-1906; president of the Battle  Laboratory
Corporation, 1906-1929.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America.  Vol. 1.  56

<P>Publication(s):  The Battle Book;  a Genealogy of the Battle Family
in America.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1930.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Chemical Conversion Tables for Use in the
Analysis of Commercial Fertilizers, Cotton Seed, Iron and Food
Products, Etc.  Baltimore;  Williams and Wilkins, 1909.

<P>
Author:        BAUGHMAN, DOROTHY JAMES, 1940-

<P>Biography:     Writer.  Born--  July 13, 1940, Prattville. 
Parents--  Charles Ross and Thelma (Cooper) McCartney.  Married-- 
James Baughman, April 22, 1960.  Children--  Three.  Education-- 
Attended high school in Elmore County.  Employed as telephone
switchboard operator in Montgomery; cardiogram technician at Elmore
County Hospital; served on the city  council of Eclectic; and after
1973, free-lance writer.  Member of the Eclectic Community council
and the Creative Writers Club in Montgomery.  Honors;  Won prizes
in the  Alabama Pen Women and Press and Author Club contests before
her first book was published.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 65; Women in Public Office,
1978; and the jacket of Piney's Summer.

<P>Publication(s):  Ghost of Aronov Point.  New York;  Avalon Books,
1980.

<P>  Icy Terror.  New York;  Avalon Books, 1984

<P>  Piney's Summer.  New York;  Coward McCann, 1976.

<P>  Secret of Montoya Mission.  New York;  Avalon Books, 1981.

<P>  Secret Wishes, Secret Fears.  New York;  Avalon Books, 1986.

<P>
Author:        BAXTER, RICHARD DUNCAN, 1918-

<P>Biography:     Born--  May 6, 1918, Fort Payne.  Parents--  Stephen
Elisha and Jessie (Duncan) Baxter.  Married--  Viola Nancy Ellis,
March 11, 1947.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Public  schools. 
Employed as a clerk for the Southern Railway Company, 1936-1954;
worked for Kingsberry Homes Corporation as traffic manager, 1954-1956, purchasing agent and
traffic manager until 1964, vice
president for purchasing and traffic, 1964.  After 1967, director
of purchasing and traffic for the Kingsberry Homes Division of the
Boise Cascade Corporation.  Member of the Fort Payne City Council,
1948-1952; member of the DeKalb County Democratic Executive
Committee, 1950-1963.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1978.

<P>Publication(s):  Annals of Fort Payne Baptist Church.  S.l.; s.n.,
1964.

<P>  A History of the Baxter Family of DeKalb County, Alabama.  S.l.; 
s.n., 1957.

<P>
Author:        BAYER, SPENCER DROKE

<P>Biography:     Teacher, administrator.  Born--  Tennessee. 
Education--  University of Tennessee.  Moved to Boligee in Greene
County, Ala. in 1919.  Farmed for two years; taught school at 
Boligee and at Eutaw.  Served as county superintendent of 
education for Greene County, 1932 until his retirement in 1957. 
Veteran of World War I, a Mason, and a Shriner.  Candidate for
Alabama State Senate.

<P>Source:  Birmingham News, February 3, 1980; and from files at
Alabama Department of Archives and History.

<P>Publication(s):  Moonlight Lake and Other Short Stories.  New York; 
Vantage, 1976.

<P>  Old Mose Tells His Grandchildren About God and the Bible.  New
York; Vantage, 1978.

<P>
Author:        BEALLE, ALFRED BATTLE, 1879-

<P>Biography:     Cotton broker.  Born--  September 5, 1879, Pickens
County.  Parents--  Alfred Battle and Rosa (Wood) Bealle.  Moved to
Tuscaloosa when he was a child.  Apprenticed to a printing  office
and remained in that trade until he was eighteen; joined a cotton
brokerage firm.  First printed poem was published in the New
Orleans Times Democrat, 1898.

<P>Source:  Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

<P>Publication(s):  Poems.  Tuscaloosa, Ala.;  C. W. Weatherford, 19--.

<P>
Author:        BEAN, WILLIAM GLEASON, 1891-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  December 26, 1891,
Heflin.  Parents--  Jesse Coleman and Louise (Moore) Bean. 
Married--  Lucy B. Marstellar, May 27, 1927.  Children--  Two. 
Education--  University of Alabama, A.B., 1913; Harvard 
University, M.A., 1914, Ph.D., 1922.  Taught in Blount County,
Ala.; Harvard University; Washington and Lee University; taught
summer sessions at Tulane University, University of Virginia, and
University of Alabama.  Member of the Southern Historical
Association, Academy of Social  Sciences of Virginia, Phi Beta
Kappa, Democratic Party and Presbyterian Church.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1958-1959.

<P>Publication(s):  The Liberty Hall Volunteers;  Stonewall's College
Boys.  Charlotteville;  University of Virginia Press, 1964.

<P>  The Rufner Pamphlet of 1847;  an Antislavery Aspect of Virginia
Sectionalism.  Richmond, Va.?;  s.n., 1953.

<P>  Stonewall's Man;  Sandie Pendleton.  Chapel Hill, N.C.; 
University of North Carolina Press, 1959.

<P>
Author:        BEARDEN, B. R., ca. 1927-

<P>Biography:     Born--  ca. 1927, Jefferson County.  Married. 
Children--  Two.  Education--  Attended the University of Alabama;
graduated from Howard College and George Peabody College.  Worked
as a carpenter's helper, grocery clerk, milkman, bookkeeper,
census-taker, floorwalker, postal clerk, park supervisor and
principal.  Served as a radio operator with  the U.S. Navy during
World War II; principal of Forest Hill School and Underwood School
in Jefferson County; principal of Fairfield High School;
administrative assistant  superintendent of Fairfield city schools. 
Served as president of Fairfield Education Association.

<P>Source:  Birmingham Public Library and from Alabama School Journal,
December 1967.

<P>Publication(s):  Jingle Bells, the Lighter Side of Christmas Verse. 
New York;  Pageant Press, 1961.

<P>
Author:        BEASLEY, BUCKNER, 1881-1971

<P>Biography:     Born--  1881, Auburn.  Parents--  James G. Beasley,
Sr.  Education--  Attended Auburn University.  Children--  Three. 
Resident of Montgomery and of Auburn for five years before  his
death on September 25, 1971.  Employed with the United Fruit
Company in Honduras.

<P>Source:  Files at the Alabama Public Library Service and the
Alabama Department of Archives and History.

<P>Publication(s):  Songs of the Caribbee.  Montgomery, Ala.; 
Privately printed for the author by Capital Press, 1969.

<P>
Author:        BEATTY, RICHMOND CROOM, 1905-1961

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  January 6, 1905,
Shawnee, Okla.  Parents--  William Henry and Caroline (Barbour) 
Beatty.  Married--  Floy Ward, May 7, 1927.  Education--  Public
schools of Birmingham; Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1926,
M.A., 1928; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D., 1930.  Taught at
Tennessee State Teachers College in Memphis; University of Alabama;
Vanderbilt University; literary editor of the Nashville Tennessean,
1956-1961.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4 and Owen's The Story of
Alabama.

<P>Publication(s):  The American Tradition in Literature.  New York; 
Norton, 1956.

<P>  Bayard Taylor;  Laureate of the Gilded Age.  Norman;  University
of Oklahoma Press, 1936.

<P>  The English Drama;  an Anthology, 900-1642.  New York;  Norton,
1935.

<P>  James Russell Lowell.  Nashville;  Vanderbilt University Press,
1942.

<P>  Journal of a Southern Student.  S.l.;  s.n., 1944.

<P>  The Literature of the South.  Chicago;  Scott, Foresman Co.,
1952.

<P>  Lord Macaulay, Victorian Liberal.  Norman;  University of
Oklahoma Press, 1938.

<P>  A Vanderbilt Miscellany, 1919-1944.  Nashville;  Vanderbilt
University Press, 1944.

<P>  Vanderbilt Studies in the Humanities.  Nashville;  Vanderbilt
University Press, 1951-

<P>  William Byrd of Westover.  Boston;  Houghton, 1932.

<P>  William Byrd's Natural History of Virginia; or, The Newly
Discovered Eden.  Richmond, Va.;  s.n., 1940.

<P>Joint_Editor:  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;  an
Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism.  New York; 
Norton, 1977.

<P>  Contemporary Southern Prose.  Boston;  D.C. Heath Co., 1940.

<P>  The Red Badge of Courage;  an Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and
Sources, Criticism.  New York;  Norton, 1978.

<P>
Author:        BEAUCHAMP, GEORGE ALLAN, 1855-

<P>Biography:     Born--  March 16, 1855, Eufaula.  Parents--  Andrew
Hamil and  Margaret Euphemia (Allan) Beauchamp.  Married--  Julia
Fauntleroy Crowder, January 15, 1903.  Children--  Three. 
Education--  City schools of Eufaula.  Entered the drug business as
a clerk in 1871; became a proprietor in 1889 but disposed of his
interest in 1912; cashier of East Alabama  National Bank in
Eufaula; secretary and treasurer of the Eufaula Grocery Company; in
1901, became grand secretary of  the Masonic Grand Lodge of
Alabama.

<P>Source:  Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

<P>Publication(s):  Chapter Manual, Grand Royal Arch Chapter of
Alabama.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Dispatch Printing Co., 1919.

<P>  Masonic Manual;  Grand Lodge of Alabama, A. F. and A. M. 
Birmingham, Ala.;  Press of Dispatch Printing Co., 1908.

<P>
Author:        BECK, MARTIN LUTHER, 1874-

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  1874.  Education--  Southern
Methodist University, B.A., B.D.; University of Chicago, M.A. 
Specialist in the teaching of social studies; demonstration teacher
in the training school at Lee County High School; supervisor of
practice teachers in the School of Education at Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, 1928-1941.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and
Auburn University Libraries.

<P>Publication(s):  American Civilization ...  Auburn, Ala.;  Prather
Publishing Co., 1930.

<P>  American Life, Yesterday and Today.  Auburn, Ala.;  Prather
Publishing Co., 1934.

<P>  Our American Heritage.  Auburn, Ala.;  Prather Publishing Co.,
1941.

<P>  Our Life Together;  Civics Guide.  Auburn, Ala.;  Prather
Publishing Co., 1933.

<P>  Story of the Old World.  Auburn, Ala.;  Prather Publishing Co.,
1941.

<P>
Author:        BECK, MAY RANDLETTE

<P>Biography:     Born--  Mobile.  Parents--  William Albert and
Columbia Elizabeth (Monroe) Randlette.  Married--  Julius Edward
Beck, April 15, 1902.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Attended 
Wynnton College at Columbus, Ga.; Elizabeth Whitfield Bellamy
Finishing School for Young Ladies at Mobile; postgraduate course at
Wilmington, N.C.; studied  elocution under teachers from the Boston
Conservatory of Art.  Early life devoted to home interests; in 1935
aided in the organization of the Historic Mobile Preservation
Society; served as president of that organization and helped make
possible the establishment of the Mobile Historical Museum.  Member
of the Writers Conclave of Alabama and the  editorial staff of the
State Historical Society.

<P>Source:  Owen's The Story of Alabama, Vol. 4.

<P>Publication(s):  A Colonial Romance.  Mobile, Ala.;  Rapier House,
1950.

<P>  Ghosts of Old Mobile.  Mobile, Ala.;  Haunted Bookshop, 1946.

<P>  Great Grandpa Billie, a Down Easter's Adventures North and South
from Square Rig to Steam.  Mobile, Ala.; Rapier House, 1958.

<P>  Life's Golden Glow.  Mobile, Ala.;  Jordan Printing Co., 1954.

<P>
Author:        BECKWITH, CHARLES MINNEGRODE, 1851-1929

<P>Biography:     Episcopal priest.  Born-- June 3, 1851, Prince
George County, Va.  Parents--  Thomas Stanley and Agnes (Ruffin) 
Beckwith.  Married--  Lucy Cocke, 1888.  Children--  One.  Married--  Mary Belle Cameron,
May 11, 1897.  Education--  University of
Georgia, 1873.  Master of the grammar schools of the University of
the South at Sewanee, Tenn., for  six years.  Studied theology at
Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn.; ordained priest in
1881; rector of churches in Atlanta, Houston, and Galveston;
elected assistant bishop of Texas but declined the honor; elected
the fourth Episcopal bishop of Alabama, 1902.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1 and National Cyclopedia of
American Biography, Vol. 13.

<P>Publication(s):  The Church School in the Book of Common Prayer. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1928.

<P>  Rightly Instructed in God's Holy Word.  New York;  T. Whittaker,
1905.

<P>  The Teacher's Companion to the Trinity Course.  New York;  E. S.
Gorham, 1902.

<P>  The Trinity Course of Church Instruction.  New York;  T.
Whittaker, 1901.

<P>
Author:        BEDDOW, MARY ELIZABETH RUSSELL, 1860-

<P>Biography:     Born--  February 19, 1860, Winchester, Tenn. 
Parents--  Aaron and Mary (McDonald) Russell.  Education--  Prof.
van  Buren Livingston's school, Chattanooga, Tenn.  Married-- 
Charles Peter Beddow, November 6, 1881.  Children--  Seven.  Lived
in Birmingham.

<P>Source:  Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

<P>Publication(s):  Oracle of Moccasin Bend.  New York;  The Neal Pub.
Co., 1903.

<P>
Author:        BEE, FANNA MAE KEES, 1899-

<P>Biography:     Librarian.  Born-- August 18, 1899, Fair River,
Miss.  Parents--  Leondias Polk and Florence Laperl (Maxwell) Kees. 
Education--  Whitworth College, 1916-1919.  Married--  Eugene 
Seavey Bee, May 5, 1921.  Children-- Three.  Held positions as
office secretary and librarian for the Birmingham Sunday  School
Council; library consultant to the Sunday School  Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention in Birmingham; special collections
librarian at Howard College; and  director of Hospital Library.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1973.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Canaan; Garden Spot by the Cuttacochee,
1818-1968.  Bessemer, Ala.;  Canaan Baptist Church, 1971.

<P>  Sesquicentennial History of Ruhama Baptist Church, 1819-1969. 
Birmingham, Ala.;  Ruhama Baptist Church, 1969.

<P>
Author:        BEECH, WEBB (Pseudonym)

<P>See:  Butterworth, William Edmund, III

<P>
Author:        BEECHER, JOHN, 1904-

<P>Biography:     Teacher, poet.  Born--  January 22, 1904, New York,
N.Y.  Parents--  Leonard Thurlow and Isabel (Garghill) Beecher. 
Education--  Attended Virginia Military Institute and Cornell 
University; University of Alabama, A.B., 1926; attended  Harvard
University; University of Wisconsin, M.A., 1930; attended the
University of North Carolina.  Married--  Barbara Marie Scholz,
August 16, 1955.  Children--  Five.  Worked for U.S. Steel in
Birmingham; instructor in English at Dartmouth College and the
University of Wisconsin; administrator of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration in North Carolina; manager of resettlement
projects and  migrant camps for the U.S. Department of Agriculture;
assistant editor and editorial writer for the Birmingham News and
Birmingham Age-Herald; regional director of the President's
Committee on Fair Employment; chief editor for the National
Institute of Social Relations; assistant professor of sociology at
San Francisco State College; rancher; lecturer in English at
Arizona State University; a poet in residence at the University of
Santa Clara, North Shore Community College, St. Johns University,
and Assumption College.  During World War II, served in the
Merchant Marines.  After the German surrender, director of thirty
displaced persons camps around Stuttgart.  Visiting  professor at
Miles College, 1966-1967.  Operated Ramparts Press with his wife.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 5 and a brochure in the files
at the Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  All Brave Sailors;  the Story of the SS Booker T.
Washington.  New York;  L. B. Fischer, 1945.

<P>  And I Will Be Heard.  New York;  Twice a Year Press, 1940.

<P>  Collected Poems, 1924-1974.  New York;  Macmillan, 1974.

<P>  Hear the Wind Blow!  Poems of Protest and Prophecy.  New York; 
International Publishers, 1968.

<P>  Here I Stand.  New York;  Twice a Year Press, 1941.

<P>  Homage to a Subversive.  Scottsdale, Ariz.; Ramparts Press, 1961.

<P>  In Egypt Land.  Scottsdale, Ariz.;  Ramparts Press, 1960.

<P>  Inquest;  a Poem.  San Francisco;  Morning Star Press, 1957.

<P>  John Beecher Papers;  1899-1972.  (14 reels of microfilm).  Glen
Rock, N.J.;  Microfilming Corporation of America, 1973.

<P>  Just Peanuts;  a Poem.  San Francisco;  Morning Star Press, 1957.

<P>  Land of the Free;  a Portfolio of Poems on the State of the
Union.  Oakland, Calif.;  Morning Star Press, 1956.

<P>  Observe the Time;  an Everyday Tragedy in Verse.  San Francisco; 
Morning Star Press, 1956.

<P>  Phantom City.  Scottsdale, Ariz.;  Ramparts Press, 1961.

<P>  Poems for the People;  Broadsides ...  San Francisco;  Morning
Star Press, 1957.

<P>  Report to the Stockholders and Other Poems, 1932-1962.  Phoenix,
Ariz.;  s.n., 1962.

<P>  To Live and Die in Dixie, and Other Poems.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Red Mountain Editions, 1966.

<P>  Tomorrow is a Day;  a Story of the People in Politics.  Chicago; 
Vanguard Books, 1980.

<P>  Undesirables;  Poems.  Landham, Md.;  Gossetree Press, 1964.

<P>
Author:        BEESON, JASPER LUTHER, 1867-1943

<P>Biography:     University professor, chemist.  Born--  August 31,
1867, Keener.  Parents--  Captain W. B. and Mary A. (Sibert) 
Beeson.  Married--  Leola Selman, 1894.  Children--  One. 
Education--  University of Alabama, A.B., 1889; Johns Hopkins 
University, Ph.D., 1893, LL.D., 1929.  Instructor in physics at the
University of Alabama; chemist with the Geological  Survey of
Alabama, 1888-1889; research chemist at the Louisiana Experiment
Station and a professor of chemistry at Louisiana School of Sugar,
1893-1897.  Served as professor, dean, and president, Georgia State
College for Women, 1897-1934.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.

<P>Publication(s):  Beeson Genealogy.  Macon, Ga.;  Burke Co., 1925.

<P>  The Sibert Family of South Carolina and Alabama.  Mobile, Ala.; 
Acme Printing Co., 1928.

<P>  A Study of the Action of Certain Diazo-compounds on Methyl and
Ethyl Alcohols Under Varying Conditions.  Baltimore;  Gugenheim,
Weil and Co., 1893.

<P>
Author:        BEESON, MALCOLM ALFRED, 1879-

<P>Biography:     Born-- June 20, 1879, Gadsden.  Parents--  W. B. and
Mary Ann  Beeson.  Married--  Effie Harrison, July 14, 1904. 
Education--  Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Johns Hopkins
University, earning the B.S., D.C.S., and LL.D. degrees.  Taught at
Central State Teachers College in Edmund, Okla.; bulletin writer
for the Oklahoma A & M College Extension and Experiment Station
Bulletin.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939.

<P>Publication(s):  Alfalfa Experiment.  Stillwater;  Agricultural
Experiment Station, 1921.

<P>  Effect of Lime and Organic Matter on So Called Hard-Pan Soils. 
Stillwater;  Agricultural Experiment Station, 1921.

<P>  Grain Sorgrum, for Club Borge in Oklahoma.  Stillwater; 
Agricultural Experiment Station, 1918.

<P>  Sweet Clover.  Stillwater;  Agricultural Experiment Station,
1915.

<P>  Wheat, Continuous, With and Without Manure.  Stillwater; 
Agricultural Experiment Station, 1921.

<P>
Author:        BELL, ROBERT EUGENE, 1926-

<P>Biography:     Librarian.  Born--  October 13, 1926, Tarrant City. 
Parents--  Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bell.  Education--  Birmingham
Southern College, B.A., 1950; Harvard University, M.A. in English,
1951; Louisiana State University, M.S. in Librarianship, 1967;
University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D., 1974; also attended
Columbia University and the University of  Texas.  Worked at the
Birmingham Public Library, 1949-1950; Mobile Public Library, 1951-1955 and 1963-1965; Fort
Worth Public Library, 1955-1960; New
Orleans Public Library, 1962-1963 and 1965-1966.  Executive
director of the Book Club of California, 1960-1962; assistant
professor of librarianship, University of South Carolina, 1971-1973; reference librarian  at City
College of San Francisco, 1974-1976; lecturer in the School of Library and Information Service at
the University of California at Berkeley, 1974-1976; head of
humanities and  social science reference at the University of
California at Davis after 1976.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in Library and Information Science, 1982.

<P>Publication(s):  A Bibliography of Mobile, Alabama.  University,
Ala.;  University of Alabama, 1956.

<P>  The Butterfly Tree, a Novel.  Philadelphia;  Lippincott, 1959.

<P>  A Dictionary of Classical Mythology;  Symbols, Attributes and
Association in Classical Myth.  Santa Barbara, Calif.;  ABC-Clio,
1982.

<P>  Women of Classical Mythology;  a Biographical Guide.  Santa
Barbara, Calif.;  ABC-CLIO, 1991.

<P>
Author:        BELL, WILLIAM STEWART, 1921-1980

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  October 31, 1921,
Birmingham.  Education--  Howard College, A.B., 1942; Birmingham 
Conservatory of Music, B.M., 1948; Middlebury College, M.A., 1949;
Columbia University, Ph.D., 1960.  Served as a translator-interpreter for the U. S. Armed Forces
in Europe; taught at Lycee
Claude Bernard, Paris, 1949-1950; Columbia  University, 1957-1960;
Mount Holyoke College, 1961-1976; and University of Alabama in
Birmingham after 1979.  Awarded grants from the American
Philosophical Society and Mt.  Holyoke.  Honors;  Clarke F. Ansley
Prize awarded by Columbia University Press.

<P>Source:  Directory of American Scholars, and Jane McRae, Bessemer,
Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  Cocteau, La Machine Infernale.  New York;  Dell,
1968.

<P>  Proust's Noturnal Muse.  New York;  Columbia University Press,
1962.

<P>Editor:  Marcel Proust, Un Amour de Swann.  New York;  Macmillan,
1965.

<P>
Author:        BELLANTE, DONALD MICHAEL, 1943-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  December 27, 1943,
Meridian, Conn.  Married--  1967.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
Bryant College, B.S., 1964; Washington University, M.B.A., 1966;
Florida State University, Ph.D. in Economics, 1971.  Taught at
Auburn University after 1970.

<P>Source:  American Men and Women of Science, 1978.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Labor Economics;  Choice in Labor Markets. 
New York;  McGraw-Hill, 1979.

<P>
Author:        BELSER, DANYLU, 1893-

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  March 28, 1893, Montgomery County. 
Parents--  Stephen P. and Martha Frances Crawford (Hays)  Belser. 
Education--  University of Denver, B.A.; Columbia  University,
M.A., Ph.D.  Teacher and principal in elementary schools in
Alabama; served as supervisor of elementary education for
Montgomery County, supervisor of primary  education for Alabama,
state director of the School and Community Organizations in the
State Department of Elementary Education at the University of
Alabama after  1929.  Fellow of the General Education Board, 1927-1929.

<P>Source:  Who's Who of American Women, 1958.

<P>Publication(s):  Conditions and Practices Influencing the
Elementary Education of White Children in the Public Schools of
Alabama.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham Printing Company, 1930.

<P>Editor:  Teaching Inter-American Relations;  a Workshop Report
Developed by the Members of the Workshop.  University, Ala.; 
Bureau of Educational Research, CoIlege of Education, University of
Alabama, 1944.

<P>
Author:        BENDITT, THEODORE MATTHEW, 1940-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  October 23, 1940,
Philadelphia, Pa.  Education--  University of  Pennsylvania, B.A.,
1962, LL.B, 1965, M.A., 1967 and Ph.D., 1971.  Taught at Duke
University, 1970-1975; University of Southern California 1975-1978;
University of Alabama in Birmingham after 1978 and became chairman
of the Department  of Philosophy after 1980.  National Endowment
for the Humanities fellowship, 1974-1975.  Visiting professor at
the University of Pittsburgh, 1979.

<P>Source:  Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

<P>Publication(s):  Law as Rule and Principle.  Stanford, Calif.; 
Stanford University Press, 1978.

<P>  Rights.  Totowa, N.J.;  Biblo and Jannen, 1982.

<P>
Author:        BENEFIELD, LARRY D.

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  Roanoke.  Education-- 
Auburn University, M.S., 1972; Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
Ph.D., 1975.  Taught at Mississippi State University for one  year;
Auburn University.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Biological Process Design for Wastewater
Treatment.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice, 1980.

<P>  Process Chemistry for Water and Wastewater Treatment.  Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice, 1982.

<P>  Sensitivity Analysis for an Activated Sludge Model Which
Considers Toxicant Concentration.  Auburn, Ala.;  Water Resources
Research Institute, Auburn University, 1984.

<P>  Treatment Plant Hydrolics for Environmental Engineers.  Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice, 1984.

<P>
Author:        BENFORD, GREGORY ALBERT, 1941-

<P>Biography:     Physicist.  Born--  January 30, 1941, Mobile. 
Parents--  James Alton and Mary Eloise (Nelson) Benford.  Married-- 
Joan Abbe, August 26, 1967.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
University of Oklahoma, B.S., 1963; University of California  in
San Diego, M.S., 1965, Ph.D., 1967.  Worked as a research
assistant, University of California in San Diego, 1964-1967;
Employed by the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif.
as a fellow, 1967-1969, and research physicist, 1969-1971; member
of the faculty of the University of California in Irvine after
1971; visiting professor at  Cambridge University, 1976-1979.  Held
a Woodrow Wilson fellowship, 1963-1964.  Honors;  Nebula Award from
Science Fiction Writers of America, 1975 and 1981, British Science
Fiction Award, 1981.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 12NR, and Who's Who in America,
1984.

<P>Publication(s):  Across the Sea of Suns.  New York;  Simon &
Schuster, 1984.

<P>  Against Infinity.  New York;  Simon & Schuster, 1984.

<P>  Artifact.  New York;  TOR, 1985.

<P>  Deeper Than the Darkness.  New York;  Ace Publishing Corp., 1970. 
(revised as The Stars in Shroud.  New York;  Putnam, 1979.)

<P>  In The Ocean of Night, a Novel.  New York;  Dial, 1977.

<P>  Matter's End.  New Castle, Va.;  Cheap Street, 1991.

<P>  Jupiter Project.  Nashville;  Thomas Nelson, 1975.

<P>  Shiva Descending.  New York;  Avon, 1980.

<P>  Timescape.  New York;  Simon & Schuster, 1980.

<P>  Threads of Time.  Nashville;  Thomas Nelson, 1974.

<P>  Tides of Light.  Toronto;  Bantam, 1989.

<P>Contributor:  Beyond the Fall of Night.  New York;  Putnam, 1990.

<P>  The Jupiter War.  New York;  ROC, 1991

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Find the Changling.  New York;  Dell, 1980.

<P>  If the Stars Are Gods.  New York;  Putnam, 1977.

<P>
Author:        BENNERS, ALFRED HATCH, 1849-

<P>Biography:     Lawyer.  Born--  February 22, 1849, Greensboro. 
Parents--  Augustus and Jane (Hatch) Benners.  Married--  Margaret 
Chadwick Jones, February 2, 1871.  Children--  Four.  Education-- 
Southern University, 1868.  Attorney at  Greensboro, 1870.  Lived
in Dallas, Tex., 1875-1885; Greensboro, 1885-1890.  Represented
Hale County in the Alabama Legislature, 1888-1889.  In 1890 moved
to  Birmingham.  Served as chancellor of the Northwestern  Chancery
Division of Alabama, 1905-1916.

<P>Source:  Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

<P>Publication(s):  Slavery and Its Results.  Macon, Ga.;  J. W.
Burke, 1923.

<P>
Author:        BENNETT, WALTER HARTWELL, 1907-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born-- 1907.  Education-- 
University of Richmond, 1930; Duke University, Ph.D., 1940.  Taught
in the Virginia public schools; Georgia Teachers College at 
Statesboro; University of Alabama in 1938; assistant  director of
the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Mississippi,
1941-1942; visiting professor at  Louisiana State University and at
Duke University during  some summers.  President of the Political
Science  Association.  Retired from the University of Alabama
faculty in 1977.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

<P>Publication(s):  American Theories of Federalism.  University,
Ala.;  University of Alabama Press, 1964.

<P>Editor:  Letters From the Federal Farmer to the Republic. 
University, Ala.;  University of Alabama Press, 1978.

<P>
Author:        BENSKO, JOHN, 1949-

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  1949, Birmingham.  Education-- 
St. Louis  University, Auburn University, and Florida State
University; University of Alabama, B.A., 1973, M.F.A., 1979. 
Taught on a temporary and part-time basis at the University of
Alabama; taught at Old Dominion University.  Poems and  critical
works published in Black Warrior Review, Carolina Quarterly, New
Orleans Review and Contemporary Literature in Birmingham.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Literature in Birmingham and files at Alabama
Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  Green Soldiers.  New Haven;  Yale University
Press, 1981.

<P>
Author:        BENSON, CARL FREDERICK, 1916-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  February 19, 1916,
Camden, Ark.  Parents--  Louis Victor and Elizabeth (Walther)
Benson.  Married--  Martha Ellen Blanks, May 29, 1941.  Children-- 
Two.  Education--  Southern State College in Arkansas; University
of Texas, B.A., 1937, M.A., 1938; University of Illinois, Ph.D.,
1948.  Taught at Arkansas A & M College and University of Illinois;
Auburn University after 1947.  A Ford faculty fellow at Harvard
University and Masschusetts Institute of Technology; Fulbright
lecturer at Erlangen University.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1978.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  The Idea of Tragedy.  Glenview, Ill.; 
Scott, Foresman, 1966.

<P>Joint_Compiler:  Essays for Exposition.  New York;  Harcourt, 1977.

<P>
Author:        BERNEY, WILLIAM CLAIBORNE, 1920-1962

<P>Biography:     Writer.  Born--  May 6, 1920, Birmingham.  Parents-- 
William and Louise (Claiborne) Berney.  Education--  University of
Alabama, B.A., 1942; University of Iowa, M.A. in drama. 
Collaborated with Howard Richardson in writing their thesis.  After
graduation the thesis was produced and ran for nine months on
Broadway in 1944 as "Dark of the Moon."  He and Richardson
collaborated in writing other plays.  At the time of his death in
1962 he was working as a script writer in Hollywood, Calif.

<P>Source:  Biographical sketch by Robert Finney in the files at
Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  A Masque of Night;  a Poetic Interlude. 
University, Ala.;  L. Raines, 1941.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Dark of the Moon;  a Play in Nine Scenes. 
S.l.;  s.n., 1944.

<P>  Design for a Stained Glass Window;  a Play in Three Acts. 
Boston;  Baker, 1950.

<P>  Protective Custody;  a Play in Three Acts.  New York;  Hart Pub.
Co., s.d.

<P>
Author:        BERRY, EVA, 1905-1957

<P>Biography:     Born--  January 6, 1905, Bellfactory in Madison
County.  Education--  Howard College, A.B., 1930; Woman's
Missionary Union Training School in Louisville, Ky.  Served as
church secretary in two churches; Birmingham Association WMU Young
People's secretary, 1933; Young People's secretary, WMU, Alabama,
1934-1943; field worker, WMU, Missouri, 1944-1947; executive
secretary, WMU, Missouri, 1947-1954; worked with the Broadway Plan
of Church Finance in the Southern Baptist General Convention of
California, 1954-1956; executive secretary of the Kansas Woman's
Missionary Union, 1957.

<P>Source:  Southern Baptist Encyclopedia and Eljee Bentley, Archivist
of the Woman's Missionary Union, Birmingham, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  Labor of Love through Alabama Baptist Woman's
Missionary Union, 1899-1939.  S.l.;  Alabama Baptist Woman's
Missionary Union, 1940.

<P>
Author:        BEST, ADAM (Pseudonym)

<P>See:  Carmichael, William Edward

<P>
Author:        BETHEA, JACK (ANDREW JACKSON), 1892-

<P>Biography:     Reporter, writer.  Born--  September 19, 1892,
Birmingham.  Parents--  Augustus Brown and Eugenia (Bethea) Bethea. 
Married--  Alice Sixbey, August 7, 1912.  Children--  One. 
Education--  Phillips High School.  Reporter for the Birmingham
Ledger; managing editor of the Birmingham Post.  Member of the
Loafers Literary Club.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1 and Who Was Who Among North
American Authors.

<P>Publication(s):  Bed Rock.  Boston;  Houghton, 1928.

<P>  Cotton, a Novel.  Boston;  Houghton, 1928.

<P>  The Deep Seam.  Boston;  Houghton, 1927.

<P>  Honor Bound.  Boston;  Houghton, 1926.

<P>
Author:        BETTS, EDWARD CHAMBERS, 1890-1946

<P>Biography:     Born--  Alabama, June 9, 1890.  Education-- 
University of  Alabama, LL.B., 1911; graduated from the U.S. Army
Infantry  School, 1925.  Achieved rank of Captain in the Infantry,
1917 and advanced through the ranks to brigadier general in 1943;
served as professor of military law, United States Military
Academy, 1938-1942.  At the time of his death he was judge advocate
general of the United States Forces in Europe.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2 and Obituaries on File,
1979.

<P>Publication(s):  Historic Huntsville.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Southern
University Press, 1909.  (also published as Early History of
Huntsville, Alabama, 1804 to 1870.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Brown
Printing, 1916.)

<P>
Author:        BEVERLY, JOHN WILLIAM, 1859-1924

<P>Biography:     College administrator.  Born--  Hale County, 1859. 
Parents--  Aaron and Susan (Wayne) Beverly.  Children--  Six. 
Education--  Lincoln Normal University, B.S., 1882; Brown 
University, Ph.D., 1894.  Principal of Tullibody Academy at
Greensboro, 1882-1884.  In 1915, first Black president of what is
now Alabama State University; dean of Alabama State  Normal School,
1920-1922; instructor of English and history at Prairie View
College in Texas until his death in 1924.  Honors;  Selma
University, honorary LL.D.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in Alabama and Mrs. Bertha P. Williams,
Alabama State University.

<P>Publication(s):  Guide to the English Oration for Use in Schools
...  Montgomery, Ala.;  Author, 1902.

<P>  History of Alabama, for Use in Schools and for General Reading. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  Author, 1901.

<P>  Some Everyday Mistakes in the English Language Corrected. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1922.

<P>
Author:        BEYER, RICHARD GEORGE, 1940-

<P>Biography:     Born--  August 12, 1940.  Education--  New York
State College of Forestry, Syracuse University, N.Y.; Florence
State  University.  Married--  Carolyn.  Children--  Two.  Employed
as inventory control clerk, production control assistant, computer
coordinator and, in 1973, data processor manager for the National
Floor Products Company in Florence, Ala.  Treasurer and president
of the Alabama State Poetry Society; dean of poetry for the Alabama
Writers  Conclave; vice president of the national board of
directors of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in Poetry, 1970-1971 and The Homely Muse.

<P>Publication(s):  The Homely Muse;  Selected Poems, 1962-1972. 
Florence, Ala.;  Pinpoint Press, 1973.

<P>
Author:        BIDERMAN, ALBERT D., 1923-

<P>Biography:     Research associate.  Born--  July 10, 1923,
Patterson, N.J.  Parents--  Isaac and Celia (Silberstein) Biderman. 
Married--  Sumiko Fujii, November 9, 1951.  Children--  Three. 
Education--  New York University, A.B., 1947; University of
Chicago, M.A., 1952.  Instructor in sociology at Illinois Institute
of Technology; research social psychologist at Maxwell Air Force
Base; senior research associate at the Bureau of Social Science
Research in Washington, D.C.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 5.

<P>Publication(s):  An Annotated Bibliography on Prisoner
Interrogation, Compliance and Resistance.  Washington, D.C.; 
Bureau of Social Science Research, 1963.

<P>  Bibliography on Display and Communication;  Literature and Films,
Selected for Their Pertinence to Kinostatistics for Social
Indicators.  Washington, D.C.;  Bureau of Social Science Research,
1973.

<P>  The Criminal Record as a Social Problem.  Washington, D.C.; 
Bureau of Social Science Research, 1970.

<P>  Cultural Models of Captive Relationships.  Washington, D.C.; 
Bureau of Social Science Research, 1960.

<P>  Death as a Criterion in the Study of Extreme Captive Situations. 
Washington, D.C.;  Bureau of Social Science Research, 1961.

<P>  Information, Intelligence, Enlightened Public Policy;  Functions
and Organization of Societal Feedback.  New York;  s.n., 1969.

<P>  Interim Report of an Inventory of Surveys of the Public and
Crime, Justice and Related Topics.  Washington, D.C.;  Bureau of
Social Science Research, 1971.

<P>  An Inventory of Surveys of the Public on Crime, Justice and
Related Topics.  Washington, D.C.;  National Institute of Law
Enforcement and Criminal Justice, 1972.

<P>  Kinostatics for Social Indicators.  Washington, D.C.;  Bureau of
Social Science Research, 1971.

<P>  March to Calumny;  the Story of American POWs in the Korean War. 
New York;  Macmillan, 1963.

<P>  National Goals and Statistical Indicators.  Washington, D.C.; 
Bureau of Social Science Research, 1963.

<P>  Recent Second-career Patterns of Military Retirees.  Washington,
D.C.;  Bureau of Social Science Research, 1973.

<P>  Report on a Pilot Study in the District of Columbia on
Victimization and Attitudes Toward Law Enforcement.  Washington,
D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1967.

<P>  Surveys of Population Samples for Estimating Crime Incidence. 
Washington, D.C.;  Office of Law Enforcement Assistance, United
States Department of Justice, 1968.  (also published as the Annals
of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Vol.
374).

<P>  Toward Improved Graphic Social Reporting.  S.l.;  s.n., 1974.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  An Analysis of 36 Competitive Procurements
of Social Program Evaluation Studies.  Washington, D.C.;  Bureau of
Social Science Research, 1974.

<P>  A Competitive Evaluation Research Industry.  Washington, D.C.; 
Bureau of Social Science Research, 1972.

<P>  Data Sources on White-collar Law-breaking.  Washington, D.C.; 
U.S. Department of Justice, 1980.

<P>  The Employment of Retired Military Personnel.  Washington, D.C.; 
Bureau of Social Science Research, 1966.

<P>  Historical Incidents of Extreme Overcrowding.  Washington, D.C.; 
Bureau of Social Science Research, 1965.

<P>  An Inventory of Surveys of the Public on Crime, Justice and
Related Topics.  Washington, D.C.;  National Institute of Law
Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Government Printing Office, 1972.

<P>  Political Economies of Social Research;  the Case of Sociology. 
Washington, D.C.;  Bureau of Social Science Research, 1968.

<P>  Self-perceived Social Value and Moral Qualities of One's Work; 
Neglected Social Dimensions for Quality of Employment Indicators. 
Washington, D.C.;  Bureau of Social Science Research, 1976.

<P>  Social Scientist and International Affairs;  a Case for a
Sociology of Social Science.  New York;  Wiley, 1968.

<P>  Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics ...  New York;  Spring-Verlag, 1989.

<P>Editor:  Mass Behavior in Battle and Captivity;  the Communist
Soldier in the Korean War.  Chicago;  University of Chicago Press,
1968.

<P>  Toward an Agenda for Research on National Victimization Survey
Statistics.  Washington, D.C.;  Bureau of Social Science Research,
1978.

<P>Joint_Editor:  Measuring Work Quality for Social Reporting. 
Beverly Hills;  Sage, 1976.

<P>
Author:        BIDGOOD, LEE, 1884-1963

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  1884, Norfolk County,
Va.  Married.  Children--  Four.  Education--  Virginia's
Churchland Academy; University of Virginia, B.A., M.A.  Served as
a fellow, assistant instructor, and  instructor at the University
of Wisconsin for four years; named professor of economics at the
University of Alabama in  1913.  Appointed dean of the School of
Commerce and Business  Administration, 1919-1954.  Served as
interim president of  the University of Alabama for two months in
1953.  Honors;  Honorary degrees from the University of Alabama,
New York  University, University of Virginia, and Columbia
University.

<P>Source:  Files at the Alabama Public Library Service and obituary
in the Birmingham News, May 19, 1963.

<P>Publication(s):  American Economy;  Outline, References and
Questions.  University, Ala.;  Weatherford Pub.  Co., 1920.

<P>  American Society;  Outline, References and Topics.  Tuscaloosa,
Ala.;  Weatherford Press Co., 1920.

<P>  Our Government.  University, Ala.;  University of Alabama,
Extension Division, 1920.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  The First Exploration of the Trans-Allegheny
Region by the Virginians, 1650-1674.  Cleveland;  A. H. Clark,
1912.

<P>  Introductory Sociology;  a Study of American Society.  New York; 
Prentice-Hall, 1939.

<P>
Author:        BILBRO, ANNE MATILDE, 1889-

<P>Biography:     Musician, teacher.  Born-- 1889, Tuskegee.  Parents--  James  Andrew and
Francina A. (Mason) Bilbro.  Education-- 
Alabama Conference Female College; studied music under private 
tutors.  Early in her life she composed two sets of piano pieces
for young folks, "Jolly Tunes for Little Folks" and  "Wee Folks in
Music Land." She composed and sold music in many forms; piano
stories, piano studies, song stories, early instruction
collections, musical plays, etc.  She also  wrote verse, short
stories, and a novel.  Lived in New York and in the Southwest,
returned to Alabama and lived in Gadsden; taught at Birmingham
College of Music.

<P>Source:  American Women, 1935-1940 and Musical Alabama.

<P>Publication(s):  The Middle Pasture.  Boston;  Small, Maynard &
Co., 1917.

<P>
Author:        BILLINGSLEY, ANDREW, 1926-

<P>Biography:     University administrator.  Born--  March 20, 1926,
Marion.  Education--  Grinnell College, A.B., 1951; Boston
University, M.S., 1956; University of Michigan, M.A., 1960;
Brandeis  University, Ph.D., 1964.  Awarded honorary Doctor of
Humane  Letters by Grinnell College, 1971.  Married--  Amy. 
Children--  Two.  Employed as a part-time social worker and  part-time assistant dean of students
at the University of California at
Berkeley, 1964-1965; assistant professor of socal work there until
1968; a fellow of the Metropolitan Applied Research Center for the
National Urban League; assistant chancellor for academic affairs at
California, 1968-1970; vice president for academic affairs at
Howard University, 1970-1975; president of Morgan State University
after 1975.  Served on the board of The Black Scholar and the
Journal of Afro-American Studies.

<P>Source:  Who's Who of Black Americans, 1980.

<P>Publication(s):  Black Families and the Struggle for Survival.  New
York;  Friendship Press, 1974.

<P>  Black Families in White America.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.; 
Prentice-Hall, 1968.

<P>  The Evolution of the Black Family.  New York;  National Urban
League, 1976.

<P>  Illegitimacy;  Changing Services for Changing Times.  New York; 
National Council on Illegitimacy, 1970.

<P>  The Role of the Social Worker in a Child Protective Agency;  a
Comparative Analysis.  Boston;  Massachusetts Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1964.

<P>  The Social Worker in a Child Protective Agency.  New York;
National Association of Social Workers, 1965.

<P>  Studies in Child Protective Services;  Final Report of a Project
Supported by the Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.  S.l.;  s.n., 1969.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Children of the Storm;  Black Children and
American Child Welfare.  New York;  Harcourt, 1972.

<P>  Research on African-American Families;  a Holistic Perspective. 
Boston, Mass.;  Trotter Institute, University of Massachusetts,
1989.

<P>
Author:        BIRNEY, HERMAN HOFFMAN, 1891-1958

<P>Biography:     Writer, editor.  Born--  April 1, 1891,
Philadelphia, Pa.  Parents--  Herman Hoffman and Elizabeth 
Cherrill (Boude) Birney.  Married--  Marguerite Agnes Bovington,
June 14, 1930.  Children--  One.  Education--  Dickinson College in
Carlisle, Pa., 1908-1912.  Served in the Army during World War I;
attached to the  Philadelphia Regional Office of the Office of War
Sources, 1943-1947; technical writer for the Army missile program
at Fort Bliss, Tex., after 1947; served as editor of Rocket
Research and Development; editor of Ammunition and Small Arms
Research and Development for the U.S. Army Ordnance Department. 
Member of Phi Delta Theta.  Books were written under the pseudonym,
David Kent.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3, and Obituaries on File,
1979.

<P>Publication(s):  Ann Carmeny.  New York;  G. P. Putnam's Sons,
1941.

<P>  Ay-chee, Son of the Desert.  Philadelphia;  Penn Pub. Co., 1939.

<P>  Barrier Ranch.  Philadelphia;  Penn Pub. Co., 1933.

<P>  Brothers of Doom;  the Story of the Pizarros of Peru.  New York; 
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942.

<P>  The Ca'non of Lost Waters.  Philadelphia;  Penn Pub. Co., 1929.

<P>  Dead Man's Trail.  Philadelphia;  The Penn Pub. Co., 1937.

<P>  The Dice of God.  New York;  Holt, 1956.

<P>  Eagle in the Sun.  New York;  Putnam, 1935.

<P>  Forgotten Ca'non.  New York;  Triangle Books, 1934.

<P>  Grim Journey;  the Story of the Adventures of the Emigrating
Company Known as the Donner Party, which, in the Year 1846, Crossed
the Plains from Independence, Missouri, to California.  New York; 
Minton, Balch & Co., 1934.

<P>  Jason Burr's First Case, by David Kent (pseud.).  New York; 
Random House, 1941.

<P>  King of the Mesa.  Philadelphia;  Penn Pub. Co., 1927.

<P>  A Knife is Silent, by David Kent (pseud.).  New York;  Random
House, 1947.

<P>  The Masked Rider.  New York;  Grossett & Dunlap, 1928.

<P>  Mountain Chief, an Indian Legend for Children.  Philadelphia; 
Penn Pub. Co., 1938.

<P>  The Pinto Pony, a Real Horse Story.  Philadelphia;  Penn Pub.
Co., 1930.

<P>  Roads to Roam.  Philadelphia;  Penn Pub. Co., 1930.

<P>  Steeldust; the Story of a Horse.  New York;  Grossett & Dunlap,
1928.

<P>  A Stranger in Black Butte.  Philadelphia;  Penn Pub. Co., 1936.

<P>  Tu'kwi of the Peaceful People.  Philadelphia;  Penn Pub. Co.,
1933.

<P>  Two Little Navajos;  a Tale of the Children of the Painted
Desert.  Philadelphia;  Penn Pub. Co., 1931.

<P>  Vigilantes;  a Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of the Plummer Gang
of Outlaws In and About Virginia City, Montana, In the Early '60s. 
Philadelphia; Penn Pub. Co., 1929.

<P>  Zealots of Zion.  Philadelphia; Penn Pub Co., 1931.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Holy Murder;  the Story of Porter Rockwell. 
New York;  Minton, Balch, 1934.

<P>
Author:        BLACK, HUGO LAFAYETTE, 1886-1971

<P>Biography:     Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice.  Born--  February 27,
1886, Harlan, Clay County.  Married--  Josephine Patterson Foster,
1919.  Married--  Elizabeth Seay DeMeritte, 1957.  Children-- 
Three.  Education--  Ashland College, Birmingham Medical College,
University of Alabama Law School in Birmingham, LL.B., 1906. 
Practiced law in Ashland and Birmingham; served in the U.S.  Army,
1917-1919.  Elected to the U.S. Senate, 1926; appointed to the U.S.
Supreme Court, 1937, championing individual rights as guaranteed by
the first and fifth amendments; vigorously supported civil rights.

<P>Source:  McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography.

<P>Publication(s):  A Constitutional Faith.  New York; Knopf, 1968.

<P>  "Sincerely Your Friend" ... Letters of Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black
to Jerome A. Cooper.  University, Ala.;  University of Alabama
Press, 1973.

<P>
Author:        BLACK, HUGO LAFAYETTE, JR., 1922-

<P>Biography:     Lawyer.  Born--  April 29, 1922, Birmingham. 
Parents--  Hugo Lafayette and Josephine Patterson (Foster) Black. 
Married--  Graham Hobson, June 12, 1947.  Children--  Three. 
Education--  University of Alabama, A.B., 1946; Yale University,
LL.B., 1949.  Admitted to practice before the bar in Alabama,
Florida and the Supreme Court.  Partner in the firm of  Kelly,
Black, Black, Wright and Earle in Miami, Fla.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1980.

<P>Publication(s):  My Father;  a Remembrance.  New York;  Random
House, 1975.

<P>
Author:        BLACKFORD, RANDOLPH FAIRFAX

<P>Biography:     Episcopal priest.  Education--  Virginia Theological
Seminary.  Ordained a deacon in 1915 and a priest in the  Episcopal
Church in 1916.  Served as a chaplain at Fort  McClellan; named
rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Talladega, 1945. 
Organized St. James Mission in Alexander City, 1947, and St. Mary's
Mission in Childersburg, 1948.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service and from his
books.

<P>Publication(s):  Fascinating Talladega County, Rich in History and
Legends.  Talladega, Ala.;  Brannon, 1957.

<P>  History of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Talladega, Ala. 
Talladega, Ala.;  Typescript, 1952.

<P>  The Might and Mystery of St. Michael and All Angels Church,
Anniston, Alabama.  S.l.;  s.n., 1952.

<P>  Under Seven Flags.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham Printing Co.,
1950.

<P>
Author:        BLACKMON, ROSS, 1877-

<P>Biography:     Lawyer.  Born--  March 5, 1877, Cedartown, Ga. 
Parents--  Augustus Young and Sarah Ann (Ross) Blackmon.  Resided
at  Choccolocco near Anniston.  Married--  Julia Virginia Miller,
December 29, 1917.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Jacksonville
State Normal School.  Licensed to practice law  in Alabama, 1898. 
Worked with the committee to draw up the  1901 Constitution of the
State of Alabama.  Member of the Calhoun County and American Bar
Associations and the  American Judicature Society.  Helped in
establishing Fort  McClellan.

<P>Source:  Grove's Library of Alabama Lives.

<P>Publication(s):  A Story of the Progress and Achievement of the
Negro Race in the Art of Self Government.  Anniston, Ala.;  s.n.,
1947.

<P>
Author:        BLACKSHEAR, HELEN F., 1911-1979

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  June 5, 1911, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 
Parents--  Samuel Freeman.  Married--  William Blackshear, April
21, 1934.  Children--  Three.  Education--  Agnes Scott College,
B.A., 1931; University of Alabama, M.A., 1932.  Visitor for  the
Alabama Child Welfare Department in Montgomery; supervisor for the
Tuscaloosa County Recreation Department; English teacher in
Montgomery.  Member of the Alabama State Poetry Society, Creative
Writers of Montgomery, and Alabama Writers Conclave.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 25R.

<P>Publication(s):  The Creek Captives and Other Alabama Stories. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  John M. Patterson Technical College, 1975.

<P>  Mother Was a Rebel.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Adams Press, 1973.

<P>  Random Runes (Poems).  Montgomery, Ala.;  s.n., 1975.

<P>  Robert Loveman;  Belated Romanticist.  University, Ala.; 
University of Alabama Press, 1932.

<P>  Tuscaloosa Sketches.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Parker Advertising Co.,
1967.

<P>
Author:        BLACKSTONE, JOHN HOMER, 1911-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  October 28, 1911,
Dalton, Ga.  Married-- 1935.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Auburn
University, B.S., 1938, M.S., 1941.  Assistant agricultural
economist at the University of Kentucky, 1941-1942; taught at
Auburn University, 1941 and again after 1946; professor of
agricultural economics and rural sociology after 1953.

<P>Source:  American Men and Women of Science--Social and Behavioral
Sciences, 13th ed.  1978.

<P>Publication(s):  The Present and Projected Agricultural Economy of
the Appalachian Region of Alabama; a Report.  Auburn, Ala.; 
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, 1968.

<P>  Recreation in the Appalachia and Non-Appalachia Regions of
Alabama;  Appendix F to Report for Development of Water Resources
in Non-Appalachia Alabama.  Auburn, Ala.;  Agricultural Experiment
Station, Auburn University, 1968.

<P>
Author:        BLACKWELL, ANNIE LOUISE, 1919-1977

<P>Biography:     Born--  May 7, 1919, Benmore, Miss.  Education-- 
Twentieth Century Business College; University of Houston, B.A.,
1951; Johns Hopkins University, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1966.  Career
included being a secretary; legal secretary in  Mobile; technical
assistant in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins
University; education  director at a camp for adults; staff
director of the Knoxville Area Human Relations Council; member of
the  Florida Governor's Commission on the Status of Women; court
reporter in the U.S. Air Force; instructor of creative writing at
Watkins Institute; Fulbright lecturer in American  literature at
the University of Sao Paulo; associate professor of English at
Florida A & M University.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57R.

<P>Publication(s):  The Men Around Hurley.  New York; Vanguard, 1957.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Lillian Smith.  New York; Twayne, 1971.

<P>
Author:        BLAIR, ALGERNON, 1873-1952

<P>Biography:     Building contractor.  Born--  August 6, 1873,
Brooklyn, N.Y.  Parents--  Alexander and Hannah (Farnell) Blair. 
Married--  Caroline Livingston Singleton, June 15, 1898.  Married-- 
Adele Blue, July 14, 1908.  Children--  Three.  Education--  Macon,
Ga. high school in 1888.  Contractor in Montgomery and built major
buildings and installations throughout the South.  Director of
First National Bank of  Montgomery, member of "The Thirteen," a
literary and  philosophical society.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.

<P>Publication(s):  Alabama State Capitol and Grounds; a Paper Read
Before the Thirteen, May 13, 1943.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham
Pub. Co., 1943.

<P>  Church of the Advent, Its History and Traditions.  Birmingham,
Ala.;  Birmingham Pub. Co., 1943.

<P>  Digging Wells, a Tribute to General Robert Ernest Noble, Surgeon,
United States Army (Retired).  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham Pub.
Co., 1942.

<P>
Author:        BLAKE, WALKER E.  (Pseudonym)

<P>See:  Butterworth, William Edmund, III

<P>
Author:        BLAKELY, HUNTER BRYSON

<P>Biography:     Baptist minister.  Education--  Attended Erskine
College; Princeton Seminary; Louisville Presbyterian Seminary;
University of Edinburgh, Oxford University; University of  Berlin;
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.D.  Held pastorates at
Louisville, Ky.; Harrodsburg, Ky.; and Staunton, Va.  Taught at
Columbia Seminary.  President of Queens College in Charlotte, N.C.,
1939-1950; secretary of the Division of Higher Education of the
Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A,
after 1950.

<P>Source:  Book jacket for Religion in Shoes.

<P>Publication(s):  I Wager on God.  Richmond;  John Knox Press, 1956.

<P>  Religion in Shoes; or, Brother Bryan of Birmingham.  Richmond,
Va.;  Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1934.

<P>
Author:        BLALOCK, DELTON DENNIS, 1940-

<P>Biography:     High school principal, personnel officer.  Born-- 
April 4, 1940.  Parents--  Dennis Liphus and Hazel Anne (Phillips)
Blalock.  Married--  Sandra Lee Daniel, December 21, 1962. 
Children--  Three.  Married--   Gail Katherine Aliano, May 25,
1984.  Education--  University of Alabama, B.A., M.A.; graduate
work at the University of Virginia.  Grew up in Cullman County.
Moved to Virginia and served as a high school principal and as a
personnel officer in Fairfax.  Returned to Alabama and lived at
Hanceville.

<P>Source:  Phillips, Fine, Sandlin, Self Families ....

<P>Publication(s):  British and American Comptons;  From the Colonial
Era to the  Modern Day.  S.l.;  Author, 1984.

<P>  Daniel, Bradberry, Doss, Tinney, Puckett, Gibbs, ... Families. 
S.l.;  Author, 1980.

<P>  Families of Western Georgia and Randolph, Cleburne, Cullman, and 
Marion Counties, Alabama.  S.l.;  s.n., 1980.

<P>  France to America; Sinyard and Related Families ...  S.l.; 
Author, 1984.

<P>  Phillips, Fine, Sandlin, Self Families ...  S.l.;  Author, 1984.

<P>
Author:        BLANDIN, ISABEL MARGARET ELIZABETH,   -1912

<P>Biography:     Teacher, social worker.  Born--  Alabama.  Parents-- 
Joseph  Reid and Rosa Jane (Smith) John.  Lived at Uniontown,
Montgomery and Selma.  Married--  John Wirt Blandin.  Children-- 
Three.  Taught in Selma and Montgomery, and in Houston, Tex. 
Organized Houston's first mission board and was its president for
several years; helped establish free kindergartens, day nurseries
and Sunday schools.

<P>Source:  Biographical Directory of Southern Authors and files at
Alabama Department of Archives and History.

<P>Publication(s):  From Gonzales to San Jacinto;  a Historical Drama
of the Texan Revolution.  Houston, Texas;  Dealy & Baker, 1897.

<P>  History of Higher Education of Women in the South Prior to 1860. 
New York;  Neale Pub. Co., 1909.

<P>  History of Shearn Church, 1837-1907.  Houston, Tex.;  J. V. Dealy
Co., 1908.

<P>
Author:        BLASSINGAME, WYATT RAINEY, 1909-

<P>Biography:     Reporter, teacher, writer.  Born--  February 6,
1909, Demopolis.  Parents--  Wyatt Childs and Maud (Lurton)
Blassingame.  Married--  Gertrude Olsen, 1936.  Children--  Two. 
Education--  Howard  College, 1926-1928; University of Alabama,
A.B., 1930, graduate work 1931-1935; New York University, 1951-1952.  Reporter for the
Montgomery Advertiser, 1930-1931; teaching
fellow at the University of Alabama, 1931-1933; instructor at
Florida Southern College, 1948-1951; full time writer after 1951. 
Honors;  Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award, 1956, for best short
story, "Man's  Courage", published in Harpers.

<P>Source:  Something About the Author and Contemporary Authors, Vol.
1R.

<P>Publication(s):  Baden-Powell.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1966.

<P>  Bent's Fort.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1967.

<P>  Bowleg Bill.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1967.

<P>  Combat Nurses of World War II.  New York;  Random, 1967.

<P>  Dan Beard.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1972.

<P>  Devils in the Dark.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1972.

<P>  Diving for Treasure.  Philadelphia;  Macrae-Smith, 1971.

<P>  Eleanor Roosevelt.  New York;  Putnam, 1968.

<P>  Ernest Thompson Seton.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1971.

<P>  The Everglades, from Yesterday to Tomorrow.  New York;  Putnam,
1974.

<P>  The First Book of American Expansion.  New York;  Watts, 1965.

<P>  The First Book of Florida.  New York;  Watts, 1963.

<P>  The  First Book of the Seashore.  New York;  Watts, 1964.

<P>  For Better, For Worse.  New York;  Crowell, 1951.

<P>  Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1966.

<P>  The French Foreign Legion.  New York;  Random, 1955.

<P>  Frontier Doctors.  New York;  Watts, 1963.

<P>  The Golden Geyser.  Garden City, N.Y.;  Doubleday, 1961.

<P>  Great Trains of the World.  New York;  Random, 1953.

<P>  Halo of Spears.  Garden City, N.Y.;  Doubleday, 1962.

<P>  His Kingdom for a Horse.  New York;  Dodd, Mead, 1983.

<P>  How Davy Crockett Got a Bearskin Coat.  Champaign, Ill.; 
Garrard, 1972.

<P>  The Incas and the Spanish Conquest.  New York;  J. Messner, 1980.

<P>  Jake Gaither; Winning Coach.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1969.

<P>  Jim Beckwourth, Black Trapper and Indian Chief.  Champaign, Ill.; 
Garrard, 1973.

<P>  John Henry and Paul Bunyan Play Baseball.  Champaign, Ill.; 
Garrard, 1971.

<P>  Joseph Stalin and Communist Russia.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard,
1971.

<P>  The Little Killers, Fleas, Lice, Mosquitos.  New York;  Putnam,
1975.

<P>  Live from the Devil.  Garden City, N.Y.;  Doubleday, 1959.

<P>  The Look-it-up Book of Presidents.  New York; Random, 1968.

<P>  Medical Corps Heroes of World War II.  New York;  Random House,
1969.

<P>  Naturalist-Explorers.  New York;  Watts, 1964.

<P>  Navy's Fliers in World War II.  Philadelphia;  Westminister,
1967.

<P>  Oseola.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1967.

<P>  Out-Island Doctor.  Garden City, N.Y.;  Doubleday, 1963.

<P>  Paul Bunyan Fights the Monster Plants.  Champaign, Ill.; 
Garrard, 1974.

<P>  Pecos Bill and the Wonderful Clothesline Snake.  Champaign, Ill.; 
Garrard, 1978.

<P>  Pecos Bill Catches a Hidebehind.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard,
1977.

<P>  Pecos Bill Rides a Tornado.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1973.

<P>  Ponce de Leon.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1965.

<P>  Porcupines.  New York; Dodd, 1982.

<P>  Sacagawea.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1965.

<P>  Science Catches the Criminal.  New York;  Dodd, 1975.

<P>  Skunks.  New York;  Dodd, 1981.

<P>  Stephen Decatur.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1964.

<P>  The Story of the Boy Scouts.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard, 1968.

<P>  The Story of the United States Flag.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard,
1969.

<P>  The Strange Armadillo.  New York;  Dodd, 1983.

<P>  They Rode the Frontier.  New York;  Watts, 1959.

<P>  Thor Heyerdahl, Viking Scientist.  New York;  Elseyier/Nelson,
1979.

<P>  Underwater Warriors.  New York;  Random House, 1982.

<P>  The U.S. Frogmen of World War II.  New York;  Random, 1964.

<P>  William Beebe, Underwater Explorer.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard,
1976.

<P>  William F. Halsey, Five Star Admiral.  Champaign, Ill.;  Garrard,
1970.

<P>  William Tecumseh Sherman, Defender of the Union.  Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice, 1970.

<P>  Wonders of Alligators and Crocodiles.  New York;  Dodd, 1973.

<P>  Wonders of Crows.  New York;  Dodd, 1979.

<P>  Wonders of Egrets, Bitterns, and Herons.  New York;  Dodd, 1982.

<P>  Wonders of Frogs and Toads.  New York;  Dodd, 1975.

<P>  Wonders of Racoons.  New York;  Dodd, 1977.

<P>  Wonders of Sharks.  New York;  Dodd, 1984.

<P>  Wonders of The Turtle World.  New York;  Dodd, 1976.

<P>
Author:        BLISS, ANDREW RICHARD, JR., 1889-1941

<P>Biography:     Pharmacologist, teacher, university dean.  Born-- 
November  10, 1889, New York, N.Y.  Parents--  Andrew Richard and
Frances Revue (Sutton) Bliss.  Married--  Loretta Ann  Deering,
August 20, 1918.  Education--  Columbia University, Ph.Ch., 1908,
Ph.B., 1909; Howard College, B.S., 1910, A.M., 1919; University of
Alabama, M.D., 1932; Howard College, LL.D., 1932.  Taught at
various schools in the South, including the University of Alabama,
Emory University School of Medicine, the University School of
Medicine.  His last  post was head of the Department of
Pharmacology and Dean of Pharmacy at Howard College.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.

<P>Publication(s):  A Laboratory Manual of Elemental Qualitative
Chemical Analysis ....  Philadelphia;  W. B. Saunders, 1918.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  The Essentials of Physiology and
Pharmacodynamics.  S.l. ; s.n, s.d.

<P>  A Laboratory Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis.  Menasha,
Wisc.;  George Banta Pub. Co., 1928.

<P>  Physics and Chemistry for Nurses.  Philadelphia;  J. B.
Lippincott, 1926.

<P>  Properties and Uses of Drugs.  Philadelphia;  Blakiston, 1930.

<P>  Qualitative Analysis.  Menasha, Wisc.;  George Banta, 1929.

<P>  A Text-book of Physics and Chemistry for Nurses.  Philadelphia; 
J. B. Lippinott Co., 1916.

<P>
Author:        BLISS, LORETTA ANN DEERING, 1895-

<P>Biography:     Born--  1895, New York, N.Y.  Parents--  John and
Mary (O'Neill) Deering.  Married--  Andrew Richard Bliss, Jr.,
August 20, 1918.  Education--  Ursuline Academy, Hunter  College,
Cox College, and Columbia University.  Served as vice president of
the women's auxiliary to the National Council of the Episcopal
Church from the Diocese of TennesSee: served as Joint_author of the
Diocesan Devotional and Educational Program of the Woman's
Auxiliary, 1933-1934.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who of North American Authors.

<P>Publication(s):  Meditations.  Menasha, Wisc.;  George Banta, 1973.

<P>
Author:        BOATWRIGHT, RUTH FOREMAN, 1904-

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  1904, Thomasville.  Education-- 
Selma  University and Alabama State College; Tuskegee Institute,
M.A.; Wayne State University, post-graduate work.  Employed  as a
supervisor of schools in Jefferson County for many  years.  After
her retirement she devoted herself to church  work.

<P>Source:  Gene Geiger, Auburn University.

<P>Publication(s):  Origin and Development of the Negro Visiting
Teacher in Alabama.  New York;  Vantage Press, 1976.

<P>
Author:        BODDIE, JOHN BENNETT, JR., 1880-

<P>Biography:     Lawyer.  Born--  December 5, 1880, Dayton.  Parents--  John  Bennett and Annie
(Perryman) Boddie.  Married-- Emma
McCall, January 10, 1907.  Children--  Four.  Married--  Pearl D. 
Davis.  Married--  Lillian Orr Williams.  Education--  University
of  Virginia, 1900-1902; Kent College of Law in Chicago, LL.B.,
1911.  Entered the army during the Spanish-American War but
discharged when they discovered he was under age.  During  World
War I, served as a lieutenant and captain.  Assistant  U.S.
Attorney in Chicago, 1914-1917, 1919-1923; practiced  law in
Chicago.

<P>Source:  Historical Southern Families, Vol. 1 and Seventeenth
Century of Isle of Wight, Virginia.

<P>Publication(s):  Births, Deaths, and Sponsors, 1717-1778, from the
Albemarle Parish Register of Surrey and Sussex Counties, Virginia. 
Baltimore ; Genealogical Publishing Co., 1974.

<P>  Boddie and Allied Families.  Chicago?;  s.n., 1918.

<P>  Colonial Surrey.  Baltimore;  Genealogical Pub. Co., 1948.

<P>  Historical Southern Families.  Redwood City, Calif.;  Pacific
Coast Publishers, 1957-1971.

<P>  Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight, Virginia.  Chicago;  Chicago
Law Printing Co., 1938.

<P>  Southside Virginia Families.  Baltimore;  Genealogical Publishing
Co., 1955.

<P>  Virginia Historical Genealogies.  Redwood City, Calif.;  Pacific
Coast Publishers, 1954.

<P>
Author:        BOEHLKE, FREDERICK JOHN, JR., 1926-

<P>Biography:     College instructor.  Born--  Philadelphia, Pa. 
Education--  University of Pennsylvania, A.B., M.A., Ph.D.; Eastern
Baptist Theological Seminary, Bachelor of Divinity.  Served as
history professor and chairman of the Social Science Division of
Judson College in Marion, Ala.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  Pierre de Thomas, Scholar, Diplomat and Crusader. 
Philadelphia;  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966.

<P>
Author:        BOGGAN, LOUISE WARD, 1900-

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  Starkville, Miss.  Parents-- 
William  and Annie Ward.  Married--  Jeff Boggan.  Children--  One. 
Education--  Mississippi State College for Women, B.A., 1927;
attended the Palmer Institute of Creative Writing in Los Angeles,
1950.  History teacher in Mississippi and Alabama schools. 
Contributed articles to newspapers and the Birmingham News
Magazine.

<P>Source:  Who's Who of American Women with World Notables, 1970-1971.

<P>Publication(s):  The Ivy Cup;  Story of Mississippi Through the War
Between the States.  Huntsville, Ala.;  Strode, 1976

<P>  The Stone Amulet.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Banner Press, 1968.

<P>
Author:        BOGGS, JAMES, 1919-1987

<P>Biography:     Autoworker, writer.  Born--  May 28, 1919, Marion
Junction.  Married--  Grace Lee.  Children--  Six.  Education-- 
Public  schools in Bessemer.  Worked as a field hand; ice cutter;
and for the Works Project Administration in Detroit, Mich.; and as
auto worker in Detroit, 1941-1968.  After 1963, he was a writer.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 77.

<P>Publication(s):  The American Revolution;  Pages from a Negro
Worker's Notebook.  New York;  Monthly Review Press, 1963.

<P>  Racism and the Class Struggle;  Further Pages From a Black
Worker's Notebook.  New York;  Monthly Review Press, 1970.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth
Century.  New York;  Monthly Review Press, 1974.

<P>
Author:        BOHANNON, WILLIAM EVERETTE, 1882-1940

<P>Biography:     Educator.  Born--  Beech Grove, Ky.  Parents-- 
Nathaniel Brown and Tommie (Robertson) Bohannon.  Married--  Ora
Ella Daniel.  Children--  One.  Education--  Southern  Normal
College, Bowling Green, Ky., B.S, 1904, A.B., 1906; Indiana
University, A.M., 1915; studied at the University of Chicago, 1916. 
Taught in the rural schools of Kentucky for two years;
superintendent of schools in Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee,
1908-1914.  Served as  professor of education and psychology after
1918; dean of the School of Education after 1926 at Howard College
in Birmingham, Ala.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.

<P>Publication(s):  Hypnotism.  Birmingham, Ala.;  American Printing
Co., 1935.

<P>  A Philosophy of Education.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham
Printing Co., 1927.

<P>
Author:        BOLES, WILLIAM J.

<P>Biography:     Reporter.  Born--  Piedmont.  Education--  Attended
a one room  school.  In 1887, lived over a print shop in Decatur
when the owner wanted to start a newspaper and asked Boles to 
help; became city editor of the Anniston Hot Blast, 1890; was with
Birmingham Age Herald, 1893-1895; employed as  secretary of the
Commercial Club in Birmingham, 1896-1898.  During the Spanish
American War commanded a Black division  of the 3rd Alabama
Regiment.  Returned to the Birmingham Age Herald and stayed until
1902; worked with the Cincinnati Enquirer, 1902-1918; political
campaign worker for the Mobile Seaport campaign and worked for the
Mobile Register, 1920-1924; returned to the Birmingham News-Age
Herald, 1924.  Beginning in 1932, wrote a daily column, "This Date
in Alabama History".

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library.

<P>Publication(s):  Romance and Realty;  Story of Real Estate
Transactions in Birmingham Since the First Land Sale in 1871. 
Birmingham, Ala.;  Author, 1928.

<P>
Author:        BOLTON, CLYDE, 1936-

<P>Biography:     Sportswriter.  Born--  1936, Anderson, S.C. 
Married--  Sandra Jean Grifpin.  Children--  Three.  Employed as a
Birmingham News sportswriter and columnist.  Honors;  Received a
number of national sportswriting awards.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  And Now I See.  Wilson, N.C.;  Star Books, 1989.

<P>  The Basketball Tide.  Huntsville, Ala.;  Strode, 1977.

<P>  Bolton's Best Stories of Auto Racing.  Huntsville, Ala.;  Strode,
1975.

<P>  The Crimson Tide, a Story of Alabama Football.  Huntsville, Ala.; 
Strode, 1972.

<P>  Ivy.  Los Angeles;  Holloway House, 1986.

<P>  Silver Britches.  West Point, N.Y.;  Leisure Press, 1982.

<P>  They Wore Crimson.  Atlanta;  Comartie-Long, 1981.

<P>  Unforgettable Days in Southern Football.  Huntsville, Ala.; 
Strode, 1974.

<P>  War Eagle, a Story of Auburn Football.  Huntsville, Ala.; 
Strode, 1973.

<P>  Water Oaks.  Atlanta;  Comartie-Long, 1980.

<P>
Author:        BOMAR, PAUL VERNON, 1863-1932

<P>Biography:     Baptist minister, college administrator.  Born-- 
September  9, 1863, Spartanburg, S.C.  Parents--  John Earle and
Louise Nancy (Bomar) Bomar.  Married--  Nannie Elizabeth  Earle on
September 6, 1888.  Children--  Five.  Education--  Wofford
College, A.B., 1882; Southern Baptist Theological  Seminary in
Lexington, Ky., 1888; studied at the  University of Chicago, 1899;
Howard College, D.D., 1902.  Ordained to the ministry in the
Southern Baptist church, 1888; served churches in Camden, S.C.
until 1891; in Versailles, Ky., until 1896, in Marion, Ala. until
1913; served as vice president of Judson College, 1910-1913, and
then president until 1923.  Traveled to China  where his daughter
was a missionary in 1923-1924; served as pastor of a church in
Tuskegee, 1924-1931.  Trustee of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary.

<P>Publication(s):  Enduring Salvation and Other Sermons.  New York; 
Pageant Press, 1958.

<P>
Author:        BOND, ALBERT RICHMOND, 1874-1944

<P>Biography:     Baptist minister.  Born-- March 9, 1874, Wilson
County, Tenn.  Parents--  James Houston and Mary Catherine  (Cason)
Bond.  Married--  Ruth Pugh, December 20, 1898.  Married-- 
Catherine Elizabeth Walmsley, October 7, 1925.  Children--  One. 
Education--  University of Nashville in Tennessee, A.B., A.M.,
1895; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.M, 1898; Florence
State Normal School, D.D., 1911.  Ordained a Baptist minister,
1895; served various churches  as pastor.  Editor of the Baptist
and Reflector, 1917-1920; editorial secretary of the Education
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1920-1927; served as
assistant manager  of the Birmingham Independent in 1934.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.

<P>Publication(s):  The Master Preacher.  New York;  American Tract
Society, 1911.

<P>  Southern Baptist and Illiteracy;  a Survey.  S.l.;  Education
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1928.

<P>
Author:        BOND, GORDON CREWS, 1939-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  November 17, 1939,
Fort Myers, Fla.  Married--  1974.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
Florida State University, B.S., 1962, M.A., 1963; Ph.D., 1966. 
Taught at the University of Southern Mississippi, 1966-1976; Auburn
University after 1976.  Research interest was the French Revolution
and Napoleon.  Member of the  American Historical Association, the
Society for French History Studies, and the Belgian Society of
Napoleonic Studies.

<P>Source:  Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

<P>Publication(s):  The Grand Expedition;  the British Invasion of
Holland in 1809.  Athens, Ga.;  University of Georgia Press, 1979.

<P>
Author:        BONNER, CLINT, 1909-1966

<P>Biography:     Artist, cartoonist.  Born--  Lineville.  Education-- 
Woodlawn  and Minor High Schools in Birmingham; studied journalism
in the evenings; studied commercial art instruction by 
correspondence.  Owner and president of Southeastern Decal and
Nameplate Corporation; Gulf States Art School.  Created and drew a
comic strip, "They Died With Their Boots On"; created three other
series; "A Carol is Born," "Famous Words  of Famous People," and
"Alabama Oddities."  Painted the portraits of Chauncy Sparks and
James E. Folsom.

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library and A Hymn is Born.

<P>Publication(s):  A Hymn is Born.  Nashville;  Broadman, 1959.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Home is the Sailor.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Vulcan Press, 1955.

<P>
Author:        BONI, MARGARET BRADFORD, 1893-1974

<P>Biography:     Musician.  Born--  1893, Birmingham.  Education-- 
graduated from Florida State College for Women; studied music in
Germany and at Julliard School of Music.  Folk song  instructor and
conductor in the public schools of Pennsylvania and New York; gave
recorder courses in the  Department of General Education at New
York University.

<P>Source:  Authors of Books for Young People, Supplement and
Contemporary Authors, Vol. 53.

<P>Editor:  Favorite Christmas Carols.  New York;  Simon and Schuster,
1957.

<P>  Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs.  New York;  Simon and
Schuster, 1952.

<P>  Fireside Book of Folksongs.  New York;  Simon and Schuster, 1947.

<P>  Fireside Book of Love Songs.  New York;  Simon and Schuster,
1954.

<P>  Songs of the Gilded Age.  New York;  Golden Press, 1960.

<P>
Author:        BONNER, WILLIAM HOMER, 1924-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born-- June 5, 1924, Nauvoo. 
Parents--  Lee H. and Willie Ann (Baughn) Bonner.  Married-- 
Martha Sue Wilson, December 20, 1969.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Livingston University,
B.S., 1948; University of Tennessee,
M.S., 1953; Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1961.  Served as
assistant treasurer at Livingston University, 1948-1954; worked at
the University of Tennessee, 1954-1962; professor of Business
Education and Office Management at Tennessee Technological
University, 1962-.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 53.

<P>Publication(s):  Better Business Writing.  Homewood, Ill.;  Irwin,
1974.

<P>  Communicating Clearly.  Houston, Tex.;  Science Research
Associates, 1980.

<P>  Communicating in Business;  Key to Success.  Houston, Tex.; Dame
Publications, 1990.

<P>
Author:        BONNIE, FREDERIC JOSEPH, 1945-

<P>Biography:     Writer, editor.  Born--  October 11, 1945, at
Brigton, Me.  Parents--  F. Leroy and Helen Louise (Gilmore)
Bonnie.  Married-- Susan Marchant, June 22, 1967.  Married--  Ellen
Sullivan, December 30, 1974.  Married--  Wendy Watts, September 21,
1984.  Children--  One.  Education--  University of Vermont, B.A.,
1971; attended the University of Maine in Portland; the University
of New Hampshire; Universite de Nice; Harvard University; Jefferson
State Junior College.  Worked at Harvard University Library, 1966-1968; University of Vermont
Library, 1968-1969; Chittenden Trust
Company in Burlington, Vermont, 1970-1972; Garden Way Publishing,
1973; Southern Living Magazine, 1974-1979; and Dyatron Corporation
after March 1984; freelance public relations writing for Vulcan
Materials, 1979-1983; and taught fiction writing, University  of
Alabama Special Studies, 1978-1982; editor and publisher of the
Isinglass Review, a literary journal, 1968-1974.

<P>Source:  Fred Bonnie, Birmingham, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  Displaced Persons; Stories.  Ottawa;  Oberon
Press, 1982.

<P>  Flowering Trees, Shrubs, and Vines;  a Guide for Home Gardeners. 
Birmingham, Ala.;  Oxmoor House, 1976.

<P>  Growing Plants in Containers.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Oxmoor House,
1976.

<P>  Squatter's Rights; Stories.  Ottawa;  Oberon Press, 1979.

<P>  Too Hot and Other Maine Stories.  Brunswick, Me.;  Dog Ear Press,
1987.

<P>  Wide Load.  Ottawa;  Oberon Press, 1987.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Growing Flowers.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Oxmoor
House, 1975.

<P>  Growing Lawns and Ground Covers.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Oxmoor
House, 1975.

<P>  House Plants.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Oxmoor House, 1975.

<P>  Vegetable Gardening.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Oxmoor House, 1976.

<P>Joint_Compiler:  The Compleat Vegetable Book.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Oxmoor House, 1976.

<P>
Author:        BOONE, LOUIS EUGENE, 1941-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  May 5, 1941,
Robertsdale.  Parents--  Louis W. and Helen (Hadley) Boone. 
Married--  Pat Jones.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Delta State
College, B.S., 1963, University of Southern Mississippi, M.S.,
1964; University of Arkansas, Ph.D., 1968.  Instructor at Auburn
University, 1964-1965; University of Arkansas, 1965-1967;
University of Southern Mississippi, 1967-1969; professor of
marketing and chairman of the Department of Management and
Marketing at the University of Tulsa, after 1969.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 41R.

<P>Publication(s):  Contemporary Marketing.  Hinsdale, Ill.;  Dryden
Press, 1974.

<P>  Identifying the Consumer Innovator.  Hattiesburg, Miss.;  Bureau
of Business Research, University of Southern Mississippi, 1969.

<P>  Management Perspectives in Marketing.  Encino, Calif.;  Merrill,
1972.

<P>  Marketing.  Chicago;  Dryden Press, 1981.

<P>  Marketing Channels.  Morristown, N.J.;  General Learning Press,
1973.

<P>  Marketing Mastery Guide.  Hinsdale, Ill.;  Dryden Press, 1981.

<P>  Marketing Strategy.  2nd. ed.  Columbus, Ohio;  C. E. Merrill
Co., 1971.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Consumer Behavior.  Encino, Calif.; 
Dickenson, 1973.  (also published as Classics in Consumer Behavior. 
Tulsa, Okla.;  PPC Books, 1977.)

<P>  Contemporary Business.  Hinsdale, Ill.;  Dryden Press, 1976.

<P>  Foundations of Marketing.  Hinsdale, Ill.;  Dryden Press, 1977.

<P>  The Great Writings in Management and Organizational Behavior. 
Tulsa, Okla.;  PPC Books, 1980.

<P>  Personal Financial Management.  Homewood, Ill.;  BPI/IRWIN, 1989.

<P>  The Sales Management Game.  Morristown, N.J.;  General Learning
Press, 1972.

<P>
Author:        BOOZER, CELINA LUZANNE, 1903-

<P>Biography:     Musician.  Born--  May 11, 1903, Hokes Bluff, Etowah
County.  Parents-- Simon Henry and Clara Elizabeth (Landers)
Boozer.  The family moved to Anniston in 1910.  Education-- 
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.  Established and ran a
conservatory of music in Anniston.  Involved in developing real
estate and attempted to establish an artists colony on  Cheaha
Mountain.  Wrote under the pseudonyms Liny Lu and  Celina LuZanne.

<P>Source:  Owen's Story of Alabama, Vol. 4, page 217, and Dr. and
Mrs. Irwin Boozer, Anniston, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  Heritage of Buddha;  the Story of Siddhartha
Gautama.  New York;  Philosophical Library, 1953.

<P>  Our Brother Red (and his "Bull").  Brooklyn, N.Y.;  T. Gaus'
Sons, 1962.

<P>  The Star of Saint Nick.  Anniston, Ala.;  s.n., 1962.

<P>
Author:        BOSWELL, CHARLES A., 1916-

<P>Biography:     Sportsman.  Born--  December 22, 1916, Birmingham. 
Played football for the University of Alabama for three years
before he joined the Army in 1942.  Wounded in battle in  November
1944 and lost his sight; retired from the Army in 1946.  Although
he never played golf before losing his vision, he won the U.S.
Blind Golfers' Association championship thirteen times.  Appointed
revenue commissioner of the State of Alabama, 1971; received the
Ben Hogan award  from the Golf Writers Association of America,
1958, received the distinguished American award from the Football
Foundation Hall of Fame, 1965; elected to the Alabama Sports  Hall
of Fame, 1972; awarded the President's Distinguished Service Award
by the Commission on Employment of the Handicapped.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in Golf.

<P>Publication(s):  Now I See.  New York;  Meredith Press, 1969.

<P>
Author:        BOWEN, ROBERT A.,   -1958

<P>Biography:     Born--  Dothan but grew up in Worth County, South
Georgia.  Married--  Bessie Collins.  Children--  One.  Education-- 
University of Georgia, 1923.  While at the university worked  on
the university paper, The Georgia Cracker; worked on the Worth
County Local and the Ashville (N.C.) Citizen and the Ashville
Times.  Founded and sold two newspapers.

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library and Wilson Library
Bulletin, October 1958.

<P>Publication(s):  Tall in the Sight of God.  Winston-Salem;  J. F.
Blair, 1958.

<P>
Author:        BOWEN, ROBERT O., 1920-

<P>Biography:     Teacher, editor.  Born--  May 7, 1920, Bridgeport,
Conn.  Parents--  Charles A. and Irene (Johnson) Bowen.  Education--  Attended junior college,
1945-1946; University of Alabama, B.A.,
1948, M.A., 1950; studied  further at the University College of
North Wales, 1952-1953.  Taught at Cornell University, University
of Iowa, Montana State University, University of Washington,
University of Santa Clara, University of Dallas, and Alaska
Methodist University.  Served in the U.S. Navy, 1937-1945; editor
at Colonial Press in Northport, Ala. beginning in 1960; edited the
Dallas Review, the Alaska Review, and Fur Rendezvous Magazine;
proprietor of the North Employment Agency in Anchorage, Alaska,
after 1970.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 9R. and Writers's Directory,
1978.

<P>Publication(s):  An Alaskan Dictionary.  S.l.;  Nooshnik Press,
1965.

<P>  Bamboo.  New York;  Knopf, 1953.

<P>  The Christmas Child (libretto).  Performed by the Helena Montana
Civic Symphony in 1960.

<P>  College Style Manual.  Northport, Ala.;  Colonial Press, 1962.

<P>  Marlow the Master and Other Stories.  Northport, Ala.;  Colonial
Press, 1963.

<P>  The New Professors.  New York;  Holt, 1960.

<P>  Sidestreet.  New York;  Knopf, 1955.

<P>  The Truth About Communism.  Northport, Ala.;  Colonial Press,
1962.

<P>  The Weight of the Cross.  New York;  Knopf, 1951.

<P>Editor:  Practical Prose Studies.  New York;  Knopf, 1956.

<P>Joint_Editor:  Alaska Literature Directory.  Anchorage, Alaska; 
Alaska Methodist University, 1964.

<P>
Author:        BOYD, CHARLES E., 1922-

<P>Biography:     Union worker, editor.  Born--  December 6, 1922,
Pearson.  Parents--  John Samuel and Mary Jane (Lucas) Boyd. 
Education--  University of Alabama, 1941-1942, State  University of
Iowa, 1943-1944, Boston University, 1945-1947, and Empire State
College of State University of New York, A.B., 1975.  Served in the
U.S. Army, 1942-1945.  Member of Local 1-S of the Retail, Wholesale
and Department Store  Workers; served as business agent of the
Local, 1956-1969, education director, and editor of the local's
News beginning in 1969.  Member of the Alabama Genealogical
Society, the Industrial Relations Research Association, and the
Atlantic Labor Press Conference.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in Labor, 1976.

<P>Publication(s):  At Liberty on Bear Creek, 1835-1985;  a 150th
Anniversary History of Baptist Church, Hagler, Alabama. 
Birmingham, Ala.; Banner Press, 1984.

<P>  The Devil's Den;  a History of the 44th, Alabama .... 
Birmingham, Ala.;  Banner Press, 1987.

<P>  Haysop, a Church, a Community, a People of Haysop Creek, Bibb
County, Alabama.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Banner Press, 1979.

<P>  Not Without Struggle;  Early Years of Local 1-S, Department Store
Workers Union, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union,
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations,
1939-1949.  New York;  C. E. Boyd, 197-?

<P>
Author:        BOYD, MINNIE CLARE, 1898-

<P>Biography:     Educator.  Born--  Ramer.  Education--  Agnes Scott
College; Columbia University, M.A., Ph.D.  Served on the staff of
Jacksonville State Teachers' College; head of the History
Department at Mississippi State College for Women.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  Alabama in the Fifties.  New York; Columbia
University Press, 1932.

<P>
Author:        BOYKIN, MILTON LEE, 1935-

<P>Biography:     Born--  September 14, 1935, Selma.  Parents-- 
Edward McKinley  and Annie T. (Threadgill) Boykin.  Married-- 
Catherine, August 23, 1967.  Children--  One.  Education-- 
Birmingham  Southern College, A.B., 1958; American University in
Washington, D.C., M.A., 1966; University of Alabama, Ph.D., 1971. 
Teaching assistant and instructor at the University of Alabama,
1967-1970; taught at The Citadel, after 1970.  President of the
student body at Birmingham Southern College; served in the United
States Naval Reserve for more than twenty-four years.

<P>Source:  Milton Lee Boykin, Charleston, S.C.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  An Analysis of the Impact of Audiovisual
Programs on  Naval Reserve Training.  New Orleans;  Chief of Naval
Reserve, s.d.

<P>  An Empirical Analysis of Retention in the United States Naval
Reserve, 1980.  S.l.;  U.S. Department of the Navy, 1980?

<P>  Naval Reserve Force ASW Frigate Manpower Study, February, 1983,
Final Report; ....  Washington, D.C.;  Mobilization Concepts
Development Center, National Defense University, 1983.

<P>  A Preliminary Report;  Naval Reserve Personnel Attitude Study,
1979.  S.l.;  U.S. Department of the Navy, 1979?

<P>
Author:        BRADLEY, BERT EDWARD, 1926-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  June 2, 1926,
Birmingham.  Parents--  Adelbert and Odie (Self) Bradley.  Married--  Jeanne Moore, December
4, 1948.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
Birmingham Southern College, A.B., 1950; University of Alabama,
M.A., 1951; Florida State University, Ph.D., 1955.  Taught at the
University of Richmond and the University of North Carolina;
professor and head of the speech department at Auburn University
after 1973.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 41R.

<P>Publication(s):  Fundamentals of Speech Communication.  Dubuque,
Iowa;  W. C. Brown, 1974.

<P>  Speech Performance.  Dubuque, Iowa;  W. C. Brown, 1967.

<P>
Author:        BRADLEY, MICHAEL ANDERSON

<P>Biography:     Born--  Talladega.  Moved to Canada in 1959, and
worked at journalism, writing, marketing, advertising, research,
and  social action.  Married.  Children--  One.  Education-- 
Attended Dalhousie University, 1964-1967.  Invented the
Environmental Reaction Analog Perception Testing apparatus.

<P>Source:  Book jacket for The Iceman Inheritance.

<P>Publication(s):  The Black Discovery of America.  Toronto; 
Personal Library, 1981.

<P>  Crisis of Clarity;  the New Democratic Party and the Quest for
the Holy Grail.  Toronto;  Summerhill Press, 1985.

<P>  The Cronos Complex I.  Toronto;  Nelson, Foster & Scott, 1973.

<P>  The Iceman Inheritance. Toronto;  Dorset Publishing Co., 1978.

<P>  Imprint;  a Novel.  New York;  Warner Books, 1980.

<P>  The Mantouche Factor.  Toronto;  Dorset Publishing Co., 1979.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  The Days of Canadian Steam.  Willowdale,
Ont.;  Hounslow Press, 1988.

<P>  Holy Grail Across the Atlantic;  the Secret History of Canadian
Discovery and Exploration.  Willowdale, Ont.;  Houslow Press, 1988.

<P>
Author:        BRADLEY, VAN ALLEN, 1913-

<P>Biography:     Reporter, book dealer.  Born--  August 24, 1913,
Albertville.  Parents--  Van A. and Lula (Montgomery) Bradley. 
Married--  Patricia Elaine Thompson, November 5, 1939.  Children-- 
Three.  Married--  Sharon Luedke, December 3, 1966.  Children-- 
One.  Education--  Harding College, 1930-1932; University of
Missouri, B.J., 1933.  Worked for the Nashville Tennessean, Omaha
Bee-News, Chicago Herald  Examiner, Chicago Sun and the Chicago
Daily News.  President  of Heritage Bookshop, Inc. in Chicago,
1964-1972; president of Van Allen Bradley, Inc.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1980.

<P>Publication(s):  The Book Collector's Handbook of Values.  New
York;  Putnam, 1972.

<P>  Gold in Your Attic.  New York;  Fleet, 1958.

<P>  More Gold in Your Attic.  New York;  Fleet, 1961.

<P>  Music for the Millions.  Chicago;  Institute of Business History,
1957.

<P>  The New Gold in Your Attic.  New York;  Fleet, 1968.

<P>
Author:        BRAGG, SHIRLEY, 1853-1908

<P>Biography:     Physician.  Born--  November 3, 1853, near
Lowndesboro.  Parents--  John and Mary Frances (Hall) Bragg. 
Married--  Isabella Norvelle Murray, February 7, 1878.  Children-- 
One.  Education--  Spring Hill College; St. Louis University, A.B.,
1872; Alabama Medical College, M.D., 1875.  Adjunct professor of
surgery at Atlanta Medical College, 1875; practiced medicine in
Lowndes County, 1876-1896; and in Montgomery after 1896.  Health
officer in both Lowndes and  Montgomery Counties.  Appointed
physician inspector of the Convict Board, 1901, elected president
of the Board, 1905; named state prison inspector, 1907.

<P>Source:  Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. III.

<P>Publication(s):  Child Labor Law, Alabama 1908.  Montgomery, Ala.; 
State of Alabama, 1908.

<P>
Author:        BRANDON, MICHAEL

<P>Biography:     Born--  Birmingham.  After his father died he
continued in his father's profession, metallurgist.

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library and at Alabama
Department of Archives and History.

<P>Publication(s):  Nonce, a Novel.  New York;  Coward, 1944.

<P>
Author:        BRANNON, PETER ALEXANDER, 1882-1967

<P>Biography:     Archivist.  Born--  August 30, 1882, Seale. 
Parents--  George  Thomas and Stephie (Greene) Brannon.  Married-- 
Frances Frazer, October 5, 1904.  Children--  Three.  Education-- 
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Ph.G., 1900.  He was a pharmacist
chemist, 1900-1910; spent the remainder of his career with the
Alabama Department of Archives and History, serving as curator,
1910-1941; archivist, 1941-1955, and as director, 1955-1967. Member
of the Commission on State Archaelogical Surveys, Alabama
Confederate History Society, America and Alabama Anthropological
Societies, Alabama Library Association, Alabama Academy of Science,
Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of Confederate Veterans,
Montgomery Glass Collectors.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 4.

<P>Publication(s):  Aboriginal Remains in the Middle Chattahoochee
Valley of Alabama and Georgia.  Lancaster, Pa.;  New Era
Publishing, 1909.

<P>  Adventures on the Highroad, Here and There in Alabama. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon, 1930.

<P>  Alabama Trade Bead Checklist.  Lancaster, Pa.;  G. B.
Festermaker, 1974.

<P>  By-paths in Alabama and Some Houses by the Side of the Road. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1929.

<P>  Edward Harris, Friend of Audubon.  New York;  Newcomen Society,
1947.

<P>  Engineers of Yesteryear.  Montgomery, Ala. ;  Paragon Press,
1928.

<P>  Fourteen Adams Avenue;  a Story of Two Houses.  Montgomery, Ala.,
1929.

<P>  Handbook of the Alabama Anthropological Society, 1920. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  Brown Printing Co., 1920.

<P>  Highway Boats and Bridges.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press,
1929.

<P>  Historic Highways in Alabama ....  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon
Press, 1929.

<P>  Indians in Alabama.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Alabama State Department
of Archives, 1950.

<P>  Lilies, Lions and Bag-pipes;  Tales of Other Days in Alabama. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1930.

<P>  A Little Black Volume;  the Story of Curiosity's Reward. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1930.

<P>  Mile Stones Along Alabama's Pathway.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon
Press, 1931.

<P>  Montgomery Glass Collectors Third Exhibition, May 8-16, 1938. 
Montgomery, Ala.;  Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1938.

<P>  The Montgomery True Blues Scrap Book;  Rebuilt June 28th, 1938. 
S.l.;  s.n., 1955.

<P>  My Memories of John Witherspoon DuBose.  Montgomery, Ala.; 
Walker Printing Co., 1966.

<P>  Old Volumes.  Montgomery, Ala.;  s.n., 1937.

<P>  The Organization of the Confederate Post Office Department at
Montgomery and a Story of Thomas Welsh Provisional Stamped
Envelope.  Montgomery, Ala.;  s.n., 1960.

<P>  The Pageant Book, Official Program of the Ceremonies and the
Pageant in Celebration of Alabama Home Coming Week, May 5-6, WPWPC. 
Montgomery, Ala.; s.n., 1926.

<P>  Romance of Beginnings of Some Alabama Industries; an American
Pilgrimage Address.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham Publishing Co.,
1939.

<P>  Secret Medicine Societies of the Seneca.  Lancaster, Pa., 1909.

<P>  Some Old Alabama Books I Have Known.  Montgomery, Ala., 1963.

<P>  The Southern Indian Trade;  Being Particularly a Study of
Material from the Tallapoosa River Valley in Alabama.  Montgomery,
Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1935.

<P>  A Travel Log, One of a Series of Historical Stories of Trips
Through Alabama.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press, 1928.

<P>  Turning the Pages in Alabama.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon Press,
1932.

<P>  Vilula and Something of the Brannons from There.  Montgomery,
Ala.;  Walker Printing Co., 1966.

<P>  The Years of the Alabama Historical Society.  Montgomery, Ala.; 
Walker Press, 1964.

<P>Editor:  Arrow Points;  a Monthly Bulletin of the Alabama
Anthropological Society.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Alabama
Anthropological Society, 1920-

<P>  MONGLACO;  Bulletin of Montgomery Glass Collectors.  Montgomery,
Ala.;  Montgomery Glass Collectors, 1934.

<P>  Montgomery Glass Collectors Monthly Bulletin.  Montgomery, Ala.; 
Montgomery Glass Collectors, 193?-.

<P>
Author:        BRANSCOMB, BENNETT HARVIE, 1894-

<P>Biography:     University professor, librarian, dean.  Born-- 
December 25, 1894, Huntsville.  Parents--  Lewis Capers and Nancy 
(McAdory) Branscomb.  Married--  Margaret Vaughan, June 15, 1921. 
Children--  Three.  Education--  Birmingham Southern  College,
A.B., 1913, Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar, 1914-1917; Columbia
University, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., 1924.  Taught at Southern Methodist,
1919-1925; at Duke University where he served as director of the
library, chairman of the division of ancient languages and
literature, and dean of the divinity school, 1925-1946; and at
Vanderbilt  University, 1946-1967, where he served as chancellor. 
Subsequently served as consultant to the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development and to the Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs.  Served on several United States and UNESCO
councils and commissions.  Honors;  Awarded honorary degrees from
Birmingham Southern College, Southwest College, Hebrew Union
College, Northwestern  University, Brandeis University, and
Southern Methodist  University.

<P>Source:  Directory of American Scholars, 1974, and Who's Who in
America, 1978.

<P>Publication(s):  The Competent College Student; ....  Nashville; 
Tennessee Higher Education Commission, 1977.

<P>  The Contribution of Moral and Spiritual Ideas to the Making of
the American Way of Life ....  Madison, Wisc., 1952.

<P>  The Gospel of Mark.  New York;  Harper, 1937?.

<P>  How Should We Develop the Kenyon Libraries?  S.l.;  s.n., 1942.

<P>  The Message of Jesus;  ....  New York;  Abingdon Press, 1926.

<P>  Purely Academic;  an Autobiography.  Nashville;  Vanderbilt
University, 1978.

<P>  Teaching With Books;  a Study of College Libraries.  Chicago; 
Association of American Colleges and American Library Association,
1940.

<P>  The Teachings of Jesus.  Nashville;  Cokesbury Press, 1931.

<P>  Vanderbilt University;  the Commodore's Best Investment.  New
York;  Newcomen Society in North America, 1950.

<P>
Author:        BRANTLEY, MARY E., 1906-

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  May 14, 1906, Burnt Corn. 
Parents--  Henry  H. and Eugenia (Betts) Brantley.  Education-- 
Alabama  College, A.B, 1930; graduate work at the University of 
Alabama.  Taught in the Birmingham City Schools, 1930-1945; Atmore
City Schools, 1945 until her retirement in 1972.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in Alabama, 1972 and the jacket to Early
Settlers Along the Old Federal Road in Monroe and Conecuh Counties.

<P>Publication(s):  From Cabins to Mansions.  Huntsville, Ala.;
Strode, 1981.

<P>  Early Settlers Along the Old Federal Road in Monroe and Conecuh
Counties, Alabama.  Baltimore;  Gateway Press, 1976.

<P>  (Booklet)  "Poetry for the First Grade."

<P>  (Booklet)  "Recollections and Reflections of Childhood."

<P>
Author:        BRANTLEY, WILLIAM HENDERSON, JR., 1898-1964

<P>Biography:     Attorney.  Born--  September 17, 1898, Pike County. 
Parents--  William High and Mary (Henderson) Brantley.  Married-- 
Evelyn Ann Hassinger, June 23, 1924.  Children--  Three. 
Education--  University of Alabama; Harvard University Law  School. 
Employed as a lawyer in Birmingham with avocation of amateur
historian.  Long-time trustee of Samford University.  Brantley Room
at Samford University Law Library holds his books, manuscripts, and
photographs.

<P>Source:  James I. J. Brantley's Dear Grandchildren and Three
Capitals (1976 reprint)

<P>Publication(s):  Banking in Alabama, 1816-1860.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Author, 1961-1967.

<P>  The Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Tallapoosa, County, Alabama,
March 27, 1814.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Southern University Press,
1969.

<P>  Chief Justice Stone of Alabama.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham
Publishing Co., 1943.

<P>  Three Capitals;  a Book About the First Three Capitals of
Alabama.  S.l.;  Privately printed, 1947.

<P>
Author:        BRANYON, EDGAR WATTERSON, 1870-

<P>Biography:     Teacher, school superintendent.  Born--  September
28, 1870, Kennedy.  Parents--  John S. and Alpah (Smith) Branyon. 
Married--  Nell Emily Walker, 1919.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
Florence State College, two years;  Peabody College, B.S., 1916;
M.S., 1919; further graduate work at the University of Alabama,
Cornell University, and Auburn University.  Taught at rural schools
in Fayette County, Walker County High School, Albertville High
School, Hamilton High School, and at schools in Memphis, Tenn. and
Jackson, Miss.  Superintendent of Education for Marion County,
1940-1959; chairman of the Marion County Democratic Party and a
member of the Alabama and National Education Associations.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in American Politics, 1975 and from Alabama's
Distinguished.

<P>Publication(s):  Fifty Years in Educational Work;  1960 History of
Hamilton High School.  S.l.;  s.n., 1954.

<P>  History of Marion County, Alabama.  S.l.; s.n., 1960.

<P>  History of My Life.  S.l.;  s.n., 1965.

<P>  People are Funny.  S.l.;  s.n.,  1956.

<P>
Author:        BRASHER, NELL HUGHEY, 1912-

<P>Biography:     Nurse.  Born--  December 1, 1912, Perry County. 
Parents--  Monte Zyma and Dovie (Stone) Hughey.  Married--  Leonard
Brasher.  Children--  Four.  Education--  Attended high school in
Perry County.  Was a licensed practical nurse.  Wrote a column in
the Birmingham Post-Herald called "Page From a  Diary," 1966-1974;
contributed to Teen With a Future and to Alabama Prize Short
Stories, 1970.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 61.

<P>Publication(s):  Angel Tracks in the Cabbage Patch.  New York; 
William Frederick Press, 1972.

<P>  Daddy Poured the Coffee.  Gretna, La.;  Pelican, 1978.

<P>  Heart Streams.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Thomas Hendricks Associates,
1966.

<P>  You've Got to be Kidding!  Trussville, Ala.;  N. Brasher, 1981.

<P>
Author:        BRASHER, PHELAN BRIGHT, 1900-

<P>Biography:     Teacher, salesman.  Born--  March 23, 1900,
Decaturville, Tenn.  Parents--  George Walter and Arbia Ann
Brasher.  Married--  Eleanor Buck.  Children--  Three.  Education-- 
Union University in Jackson, Tenn.; graduate work at Peabody
College.  Employed as a chemist for Dupont Engineering Company and
the Mobile County (Alabama) Citrus Fruit Growers.  Taught chemistry
in high schools in  Columbus, Miss. and in Mobile; salesman for a
school scientific equipment company for six years; state sales
representative for a school textbook publishing company for thirty-one years. Helped organize the
United Cerebral Palsy Association.

<P>Source:  Shadows and Sunshine ....

<P>Publication(s):  Shadows and Sunshine With Cerebral Palsy. 
Birmingham, Ala.;  Title Books, 1982.

<P>
Author:        BRATCHER, ALFRED LEWIS, 1905-

<P>Biography:     Born--  1905, Texas.  Married--  Eva Howard of
Texas.  Education--  Tennessee State University; American Baptist 
Theological Seminary in Nashville; studied at Morehouse  College;
Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta; and Virginia Union
University in Richmond, Va.; Selma University, D.D.; Baptist Bible
College in Birmingham, LL.D.  Served as treasurer-manager of the
BBM Federal Credit Union and on the advisory board of Citizens
Federal Savings and Loan Association in Birmingham.  Served as
minister of the Morning Star Baptist Church in Demopolis.

<P>Source:  Alfred L. Bratcher, Birmingham, Ala..

<P>Publication(s):  Eighty-Three Years.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Paragon
Press, 1950.

<P>
Author:        BRAUNE, ANNA

<P>Biography:     Illustrator, librarian.  Born--  Albany, N.Y.  Spent
her childhood in Cincinnati, Ohio; Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Fairhope,
Ala.  Studied at the Art Academy of  Cincinnati, the New York
School of Fine and Applied Arts, and at a school in Monton, France. 
Worked as a librarian at Fairhope and in the personnel division of
a large corporation in Mobile.

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library and Alabama Department
of Archives and History.

<P>Publication(s):  Honey Chile.  Garden City, N.Y.;  Doubleday, 1937.

<P>  Wonderful Toys.  New York;  Harper and Row, 1990.

<P>Illustrator:  The Bojabi Tree.  1956 edition.  Garden City, N.Y.; 
Doubleday, 1956.

<P>  Timothy's Tunes.  Boston;  Boston Music Co., 1943.

<P>  Up Creek and Down Creek.  New York;  Random House, 1936.

<P>
Author:        BREEN, JON LINN, 1943-

<P>Biography:     Librarian.  Born--  November 8, 1943, Montgomery.
Married--  Rita A. Gunson, 1970.  Education--  Pepperdine
University, B.A., 1965; University of Southern California, M.S. in
Library Science, 1966.  Served in the U.S. Army. 1967-1969; sports
broadcaster, 1963-1965.  Librarian, California State University,
Long Beach 1966-1967; California State University, Dominguez Hills
1969-1975; and since 1975, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, Calif.

<P>Source:  Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers.  2nd. ed. 
1985.

<P>Publication(s):  Listen for the Click.  New York;  Walker, 1983. 
(British ed. published as Vicar's Roses.  London;  Macmillan,
1984.)

<P>  The Gathering Place.  Walker, 1984.  (British ed. published; 
London;  Macmillan, 1984)

<P>  Hair of the Sleuthhound;  Parodies of Modern Fiction.  Metuchen,
N.J.;  Scarecrow, 1982.

<P>  Loose Lips.  New York;  Simon & Schuster, 1990.

<P>  Novels Verdict and Guide;  a Guide to Courtroom Fiction. 
Metuchen, N.J.;  Scarecrow Press, 1984.

<P>  Synod Sleuths;  Essay On Judeo-Christian Detective Fiction. 
Metuchen, N.J.;  Scarecrow Press, 1990.

<P>  Touch of the Past.  New York;  Walker, 1988.

<P>  Triple Crown.  New York;  Walker, 1985.

<P>  What About Murder;  a Guide to the Books About Mystery and
Detective Fiction.  Metuchen, N.J.;  Scarecrow Press, 1981.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  American Murders;  11 Rediscovered Short
Novels from American Magazines, 1934-1954.  New York;  Garland,
1986.

<P>  Murder California Style;  a Collection of Short Stories.  New
York;  St. Martin's, 1987.

<P>Contributor:  Murder in Los Angeles.  New York;  Morrow, 1987.

<P>  Murder Off the Rack;  Critical Study of Ten Paperback Masters.
Metuchen, N.J.;  Scarecrow Press, 1989.

<P>
Author:        BREWER, THADDEUS CONSTANTINE WILLIS, 1844-1912

<P>Biography:     Editor, lawyer, legislator.  Born--  March 15, 1844,
Brewerville, Sumter County.  Parents--  Robert Willis and Jane
(Hadden) Brewer.  Married--  Mary Baine.  Children--  Four.  Began
working in a printing office at age fourteen and three years later
was editing a newspaper in Milton, Fla.  Attempted three times to
enlist in the Army during the War Between the States, but failed
because of health.  Served briefly on the staff of General Wirt
Adams and briefly as aide-de-camp to Governor Robert M. Patton;
made an honorary colonel.  Admitted to the bar in 1865.  Became
part owner and editor of the Wilcox Times, 1865; established the
Hayneville Examiner, 1868, and published it until 1880.  President,
State Press Association, 1876.  Served as treasurer of Lowndes
County; elected and served as State Auditor, 1876-1880; served in
the Alabama House of Representatives, 1880-1882, 1890-1894; served
in the Alabama Senate, 1882-1890; served in the U. S. House of
Representative, 1896-1901.  Had extensive land holdings and was an
owner and director of the Montgomery, Hayneville and Camden
Railroad.

<P>Source:  Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography; Alabama Review,
July 1965; Marks' Alabama Past Leaders; and his granddaughter,
Miriam Russell Black.

<P>Publication(s):  Alabama;  Her History, Resources, War Record, and
Public Men.  Montgomery, Ala;  Barret & Brown, 1872.

<P>  The Children of Issachar;  a Story of Wrongs and Remedies.  New
York;  Putnam, 1884.

<P>  Egypt and Israel;  an Inquiry into the Influence of More Ancient
People Upon Hebrew History ....  Cedar Rapids, Iowa;  Torch Press,
1910.

<P>  The Secret of Mankind With Some Singular Hints Gathered in the
Elsewhere of After-Life ....  New York;  Putnam, 1895.

<P>
Author:        BREYER, BERNARD R., 1919-

<P>Biography:     Professor, journalist.  Born--  July 25, 1919,
Nashville, Tenn.  Children--  Three.  Education--  Vanderbilt
University, B.A., 1939; Louisiana State University, M.A., 1940;
University of Virginia, Ph.D., 1948.  Taught at the University of
Arizona, 1947-1949, and Auburn  University, after 1949.

<P>Source:  Directory of American Scholars, 1982.

<P>Publication(s):  A New Look at Julius Caesar.  Nashville; 
Vanderbilt University Press, 1955.

<P>  Towards an Interpretation of Kubla Khan. Charlottesville, Va.; 
University of Virginia Press, 1953.

<P>
Author:        BRIDGMAN, FREDERICK ARTHUR, 1847-1928

<P>Biography:     Artist.  Born--  Tuskegee.  Parents--  Frederick and
Lorina Bridgman.  Married--  Florence Mott Baker.  Education-- 
Brooklyn Art School and the National Academy of Design, as well as
study under J. L. Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.  Had
a studio in Paris and occasionally visited New York.  Honors;  Won
first and second class medals at Paris and Continental Exhibits.

<P>Source:  Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. II.

<P>Publication(s):  The Ignoramuses.  Boston, 1887.

<P>  Winters in Algeria.  New York;  Harper & Brother, 1890.

<P>
Author:        BRILES, EVE IDA BARAK, 1948-

<P>Biography:     Researcher, writer.  Born--  January  28, 1948, New
York  City. Parents--  Henry and Lotte (Seligmann) Barak.  Married--  David Elwood Briles. 
Education--  Brown University, A.B., 1968;
Rockefeller University, Ph.D., 1974; post-doctoral work at the
University of Alabama in Birmingham, 1978-1982.  Research associate
at the University of Texas System Cancer Center in Houston after
1983.  Wrote more than twenty journal articles, book chapters and
abstracts published in scientific publications.

<P>Source:  Eve Briles, Houston, Texas.

<P>Publication(s):  Moods, Seasons, and Love.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Birmingham Printing and Publishing Co., 1982.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Points of Perception;  a Mosaic of Verse. 
Houston, Texas;  Bridgeport Press, 1984.

<P>
Author:        BRINKLEY, IDA LEE CROCKER

<P>Biography:     Editor, journalist.  Married--  Edwin T. Brinkley,
managing editor of the Anniston Star and city editor of the
Birmingham Post.  Children--  Two.  Served as a society and church
editor for newspapers in Birmingham and Anniston.

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library and Alabama Department
of Archives and History.

<P>Publication(s):  The Crossover.  Bloomfield, N.J.;  Carlton Press,
1974.

<P>
Author:        BRITTIN, NORMAN AYLSWORTH, 1906-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  Syracuse, N.Y. 
Parents--  Lewis J. and Grace (Aylsworth) Brittin. Married-- 
Florence Mellor, March 1, 1929.  Children--  Two.  Married--  Ruth
Harris Lowe, 1951.  Education--  Syracuse University, A.B., 1927,
A.M., 1930; post-graduate work at the University of California,
1934-1937; University of Washington, Ph.D., 1947.  Received the
Warshaw award for the humanities; Fulbright  lecturer in Spain,
1968-1969.  Taught English at Auburn University, 1948 until his
retirement in 1977.  Co-editor of Southern Humanities Review, 1966-1977.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1980.

<P>Publication(s):  Edna St. Vincent Millay.  Boston;  Twayne, 1967.

<P>  A Reading Apprenciceship;  Literature.  New York;  Holt, 1971.

<P>  Thomas Middleton.  Boston;  Twayne, 1972.

<P>  A Writing Apprenticeship.  New York;  Holt, 1963.

<P>  Writing Description and Narration.  New York;  Holt, 1969.

<P>
Author:        BROADUS, ELEANOR BOYCE, 1902-

<P>Biography:     Librarian. teacher.  Born--  May 13, 1902, near
Russellville.  Parents--  Boyce and Margaret Russell (Sargent)
Broadus.  Education--  Judson College, A.B., 1923; George Peabody,
M.A., 1926, B.S. in Library Science, 1933.  Taught in Jefferson
County Schools, 1923-1927, and at Henry County High School, 1927-1932. Librarian at Tarrant
High School after 1933.  The Sunday
School Board chose some of her stories for publication in
Storytime.

<P>Source:  History of First Baptist Church, Russellville; Who's Who
in Library Service.  

<P>Publication(s):  History of the First Baptist Church, Russellville,
Alabama, 1867-1967. Birmingham, Ala.;  Banner Press, 1967.

<P>
Author:        BROCK, GEORGE WILLIAM, 1864-1941

<P>Biography:     College president, teacher.  Born--  February 18,
1864, Etowah County.  Parents--  Josiah and Louisa (Riggs) Brock. 
Married--  Carrie L. Luttrell, July 6, 1899.  Married--  Mary A.
Boyd, August 10, 1910.  Education--  Graduated from the State
Normal School at Florence; University of Alabama, A.B., 1900;
studied at the University of the South; Howard College, LL.D.,
1917; University of Alabama, LL.D., 1920.  Superintendent of
schools in Opelika from 1902-1907; instructed in summer schools at
the University of Alabama, 1905-1908; State Normal School in
Livingston, chairman of the faculty 1907-1910; president, 1910-1941.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.

<P>Publication(s):  Historical Sketches;  State Teachers College,
Livingston, Alabama.  Livingston, Ala.;  s.n., 1928.

<P>
Author:        BROOKINS, DEWEY C., 1904-

<P>Biography:     Salesman, columnist.  Born--  June 4, 1904, Dothan.
Parents--  Frank and Eolin Brookins.  Married--  Rebecca, 1951. 
Children--  One.  Education--  Attended the U.S. Naval Academy and
worked at some time as a naval inspector.  Automobile salesman in
Montgomery; newspaper columnist.

<P>Source:  Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature; Encyclopedia of
Science Fiction.

<P>Publication(s):  Flying High.  New York;  Vantage Press, 1965.

<P>
Author:        BROOKS, BESSIE A., ca.  1882-

<P>Biography:     Social worker.  Born--  about 1882, Springville,
Tenn.  Married--  Eugene Clifton Brooks.  Children--  Two. 
Education--  Attended the University of Alabama and Tulane
University.  Was with the Jefferson County Department of Public
Welfare from its beginning in 1921 to 1953.  Served as president of
the North Alabama chapter of the American Association of Social
Workers. Member;  Jefferson County Social Workers Club.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

<P>Publication(s):  A Half Century of Progress in Family Welfare Work
in Jefferson County.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Roberts, 1936.

<P>
Author:        BROOKS, CHARLES GORDON, 1920-

<P>Biography:     Editorial cartoonist.  Born--  November 22, 1920,
Andalusia.  Parents--  Gordie and Emily Elizabeth (Smith) Brooks. 
Married--  Virginia Matson, 1943.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
Studied at Birmingham Southern College, 1940-1941 and Chicago
Academy of Fine Arts, 1941-1942.  Became an editorial cartoonist
for the Birmingham News in 1948.  Honors;  Sigma Delta Chi Service
Award and the Bronze Medallion, 1960; Vigilant Patriot Award from
the DAV., 1968; eleven Freedom Foundation awards from 1960 to 1973;
and the first annual Grover C. Hall Award from Troy State
University, 1974.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 1978.

<P>Illustrator:  The Real Spiro Agnew.  New York;  Pelican Publishing,
1970.

<P>Editor:  Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 1972-.  New York; 
Pelican Publishing, 1972-.

<P>
Author:        BROOKS, OLIVE

<P>Biography:     Editor, journalist.  Born--  Mobile.  Parents-- 
Stewart and Emma Brooks.  Education--  Attended Shorter College,
Randolph Macon Woman's College, the University of Arizona, Columbia
University and the New School of Social Research.  Deputy clerk in
the U.S. District Court in Mobile; chief of the public relations
unit for the U.S. Army District Engineers in the Panama Canal,
1941-1946; writer-editor for the Panama Canal Company and the Canal
Zone Government, 1962-1964; vice chairman for the Canal Zone
Regional Democratic Party, correspondent for various U.S.
newspapers and news magazines; copyreader, reporter and desk editor
for The Panama American, 1949-1969.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in American Politics, 1979.

<P>Publication(s):  Panama Quadrant, poetry.  New York;  s.n., 1960.

<P>
Author:        BROOKS, SARA, 1911-

<P>Biography:     Domestic Worker.  Born--  Black belt of west central
Alabama.  Parents--  Will Brooks.  Her mother died when she was one
year old.  Married--  Jesse.  Children--  Five.

<P>Source:  You May Plow Here.

<P>Publication(s):  You May Plow Here;  the Narrative of Sara Brooks. 
New York;  Norton, 1986.

<P>
Author:        BROUGHTON, PANTHEA REID, 1940-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  September 11, 1940,
Birmingham.  Parents--  John and Nell (Marshall) Reid. Married-- 
George Broughton.  Children--  One.  Education--  Randolph Macon
College, 1958-1959; University of Alabama, B.A., 1962, M.A., 1963;
University of North Carolina, Ph.D., 1971.  Taught English at
Virginia Polytechnic Institute until 1975; after 1975, associate
professor of English at Louisiana State University.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 57.

<P>Publication(s):  The Art of Walker Percy.  Baton Rouge, La.; 
Louisiana State University Press, 1979.

<P>  Guide to Teaching Literature.  Glenview, Ill.;  Scott, Foresman,
1979.

<P>  William Faulkner;  the Abstract and the Actual.  Baton Rouge,
La.;  Louisiana State University Press, 1974.

<P>
Author:        BROUN, WILLIAM LE ROY, 1827-

<P>Biography:     University professor, college president.  Born-- 
October 1, 1827, Middleburg (Loudoun County), Va. Parents--  Edwin
Conway and Elizabeth (Channel) Broun.  Married--  Sallie J.
Fleming, November 1, 1859.  Children--  Seven.  Education-- 
University of Virginia, A.M., 1850; St. Johns College in Maryland,
LL.D., 1874; University of Georgia, LL.D., 1892.  Taught at Oakland
College in Mississippi, 1852-1854; University of Georgia, 1854-1856.  In 1856, he established
and served as president of
Broomfield Academy in Virginia.  Served in the army of the
Confederate States of America and attained rank of lieutenant
colonel.  After the war he taught at the University of Georgia,
Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Vanderbilt University,
University of Texas, and served twice as president of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, 1882-1883 and 1884-1902.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1; National Cyclopedia of
American Biography, Vol. 19.

<P>Publication(s):  Dr. William Le Roy Broun.  New York;  Neale
Publishing Co., 1912.

<P>  The Richmond Arsenal.  Baltimore, 1869. (extracted from the New
Edition Magazine, v.4, April 1867.)

<P>
Author:        BROWDER, JOHN GLEN, 1943-

<P>Biography:     University professor, U.S. Representative.  Born-- 
January 15, 1943, Sumter, S.C.  Parents--  Archie Calvin and Ila
(Frierson) Browder.  Married--  Sara Rebecca Moore, February 4,
1967.  Children--  One.  Education--  Presbyterian College in South
Carolina, B.A., 1965; Emory University, M.A., Ph.D., 1971. Taught
political science at Jacksonville State University after 1971. 
Elected to the Alabama House of Representatives, 1982, Alabama
Secretary of State, 1986, U.S. House of Representatives, 1988-.

<P>Source:  Glen Browder.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Civics and Law in State and Nation. 
Woodville, Ala.;  Viewpoint Publications, 1986.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, ANNIE FINLEY GREENE

<P>Biography:     Teacher, writer.  Born--  Tuscaloosa.  Parents-- 
Thomas Finley and Virginia (Owen) Greene.  Sister of Frances Nimmo
Greene.  Married--  Eugene Levert Brown, 1901.  Children--  One. 
Education--  At home by her mother; Tuscaloosa Female Academy,
earning the M.A.  degree. Taught in the public schools for some
time and at a college for girls at Sweetwater, Tenn. for at least
two years.  Stories published in Youth's Companion, Harpers, and
other periodicals.

<P>Source:  Owen's Dictionary of Alabama Biography, Vol. 3.

<P>Publication(s):  Fireside Battles.  Chicago;  Laird & Lee, 1900.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, DAVID BRUCE, 1943-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  November 25, 1943.
Married--  July, 1963.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Rutgers
University, B.S., 1966; Montana State University, M.S., 1967; Texas
Tech University, Ph.D., 1969.  Taught at Texas Tech University,
1967-1969; Rutgers University, 1969-1972; Auburn University after
1972.  Principal investigator for many studies for the Alabama
Office of Highway and Traffic Safety and conducted studies for the
New Jersey Hospital Association, Mid Atlantic Power Company,
Alabama Industrial Relations Department, and U.S.Bureau of Labor
Statistics; served as consultant on computerization and on safety
planning for local, state, and national organizations.  Between
1969 and 1984, published more than two dozen articles, papers, and
reviews in periodicals; wrote more than 100 technical reports for
the Alabama Highway Department.

<P>Source:  David B. Brown,  Auburn, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  Systems Analysis and Design for Safety.  Englewood
Cliffs, New Jersey;  Prentice-Hall, 1976.

<P>  Systems Analysis For Applications Software Design.  Oakland,
California;  Holden-Day, 1984.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, EMILY (Pseudonym)

<P>See:  Sterne, Emma Gelders

<P>
Author:        BROWN, JOE DAVID, 1915-1976

<P>Biography:     Journalist, novelist.  Born--  Birmingham.  Parents--  William Samuel and Lucille
(Lokey) Brown.  Married--  Mildred
Harbour, October 24, 1935.  Married--  Frances O'Reilly, 1945. 
Children--  Three.  Education--  Attended the University of
Alabama.  Worked on newspapers in Alabama and Missouri; feature
writer for the New York Daily News, 1939-1946; foreign
correspondent for Time and Life, 1949-1957; free-lance writer,
1957-1976.  Honors;  Alabama Library Association, Alabama Author's
Award, 1974.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 13.

<P>Publication(s):  Addie Pray.  New York;  Simon & Schuster, 1971. 
(also published in 1972 as Paper Moon)

<P>  The Freeholder.  New York;  Morrow, 1949.

<P>  Glimpse of a Stranger.  New York;  Morrow, 1968.

<P>  India.  Chicago;  Time-Life, 1961.

<P>  Kings Go Forth.  New York;  Morrow, 1956.

<P>  Stars in My Crown.  New York;  Morrow, 1946.

<P>Editor:  Can Christianity Survive.  Chicago;  Time-Life, 1967.

<P>  The Hippies.  Chicago;  Time-Life, 1967.

<P>  Sex in the 60s.  Chicago;  Time-Life, 1967.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, LOIS L.  (George Saul, Pseudonym),
1908-

<P>Biography:     Born--  October 10, 1908, Laurel, Miss.  Parents-- 
Eugene and Donnie (Howse) Saul.  Married--  Grady Brown,  October
3, 1938.  Children--  One.  Education--  Junior  college in
Ellisville, Miss.  Worked as a laboratory technician at a
Hattiesburg hospital.  Won  story contest sponsored by Birmingham
Age-Herald; published several children's stories and poems.  Lived
at Oneonta after moving from Mississippi.

<P>Source:  Ruth A. Estes, Oneonta Public Library.

<P>Publication(s):  Echoes of the Winds.  Boston;  Bruce Humpries,
1957.

<P>Author:        BROWN, LOU, 1898-1982

<P>Biography:     Born--  January 24, 1898, Opp.  Parents--  Joseph
Jerall and Missouri Scofield Barnes.  Married--  Warren Hathaway
Brown, June 24, 1924.  Children--  Seven.  Education--  Judson
College; Troy State Teachers College.  Served as hostess for the
Community Club in Andalusia.  Wrote weekly column for the Andalusia
Star News for thirty years.  Honors;  Named Star Scribe of the
South in a contest sponsored by the Progressive Farmer Magazine,
1954.

<P>Source:  Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal, November 25,
1979; and Buck Publishing Co.

<P>Publication(s):  My Country Roads.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Buck
Publishing Co., 1979.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, MARY VIRGINIA POUNDS, 1916-

<P>Biography:     Librarian, writer.  Born--  Birmingham.  Education-- 
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, A.B.; Emory University, M.L.S. 
Librarian, Birmingham Public Library; acting director, Birmingham
Southern College Library.  Honors;  Alabama Library Association,
Alabama Author's Award, 1976.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  The Gold Disc of Coosa.  Huntsville, Ala.; 
Strode, 1978.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Alabama Heritage.  Huntsville, Ala.; 
Strode, 1967.

<P>  Alabama, Mounds to Missiles.  Huntsville, Ala.;  Strode, 1966.

<P>  Creek Indian History;  a Historical Narrative of the Geneology,
Traditions, And Downfall of the Ispocoga Ar Creek Indian Tribe of
Indians.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham Public Library, 1989.

<P>  Sketches of Alabama.  Tuscaloosa, Ala.;  University of Alabama
Press, 1970.

<P>  Toting the Lead Row.  Tuscaloosa, Ala.;  University of Alabama
Press, 1981.

<P>  The World of Southern Indians.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Beechwood
Books, 1983.

<P>Editor:  Around the Spiral Staircase;  Recipes ....  Huntsville,
Ala.;  Strode, 1977

<P>Joint_Editor:  Grand Old Days of Birmingham Golf.  Birmingham,
Ala.;  Beechwood Books, 1984.

<P>  Southern Indian Myths and Legends.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Beechwood
Books, 1985.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, MILTON PERRY, JR., 1928-

<P>Biography:     Clergyman, university professor.  Born--  June 5,
1928, Bessemer.  Parents--  Milton and Elaine (Hood) Brown.
Married--  Anne Marie Cochran, April 1, 1950.  Children--  Two. 
Education--  Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1950; Louisville
Presbyterian Theological Seminary, B.D., 1954; Duke University,
Ph.D., 1959.  Ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church and
served as pastor of a church in Bardstown, Ky.; taught at Duke
University, 1955-1958; chaplain and assistant professor of religion
at Washington & Lee University, 1958-1960; and at Southwestern at
Memphis after 1960.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 9.

<P>Publication(s):  The Authentic Writings of Ignatius.  Durham, N.C.; 
Duke University Press, 1963.

<P>Contributor:  Studies in the History and Text of the New Testament. 
Salt Lake City;  University of Utah Press, 1967.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, STEVEN FORD, 1952-

<P>Biography:     Writer, editor, publisher.  Born--  September 11,
1952, Florence.  Parents--  Ford M. and Gloria P. Brown. 
Education--  University of Alabama in Birmingham; University of
Houston Graduate School.  Served as a writer-in-residence for
Birmingham City middle schools and at the Living Learning Center at
Indiana University.  Director of Old Town Music Hall Music/Reading
series on Morris Avenue in Birmingham. Founder of Thunder City
Press; editor and publisher of the Thunder Mountain Review. 
Contributed articles to Rolling Stone, the Mid-Atlantic Review, and
Washington Book Review.

<P>Source:  Poet & Writer, 1977, and Steven Ford Brown.

<P>Publication(s):  Against the Old Propellers of the Twilight. 
Atlanta;  Stone Gargoyle, 1977.

<P>  Apples That Are Mirrors, Mirrors That Are Apples.  Huntington
Beach, Calif;  Burning Wind Press, 1979.

<P>  Contemporary Literature in Birmingham;  an Anthology. 
Birmingham, Ala.;  Thunder City Press, 1983.

<P>  Coast To Coast Monuments;  Poems.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Man Alone
Publications, 1972.

<P>  Erotic Mask;  18 Prose Poems.  Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.; 
Lunchroom Press, 1983.

<P>  Growing Flowers By Candlelight in Hotel Rooms.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Man Alone Publications, 1972.

<P>  Learning To Live Without You;  Poems.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Man
Alone Publications, 1972.

<P>  A New Beginning;  Poems.  Steele, Ala.;  Transcend, 1973.

<P>  Notes From the Unconscious.  Fairbury, Neb.;  Southeast Community
College, 1981.

<P>  Songs of the Last Light;  Eleven Prose Poems.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Thunder City Press, 1979.

<P>  Song of The Last Light;  Elven Prose Poems.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Man Alone Publications, 1972.

<P>  Song of the Last Light;  Five Prose Poems.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Thunder City Press, 1977.

<P>  Thunder City Poems, 1975-76.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Thunder City
Press, 1976.

<P>Editor:  Contemporary Literature in Birmingham;  an Anthology. 
Birmingham, Ala.;  Thunder City Press/Birmingham Public Library,
1983.

<P>  Heart's Invention;  On The Poetry of Vassar Millen.  Houston; 
Ford-Brown and Co., 1988.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, WALLACE LAMAR, 1926-

<P>Biography:     Born--  September 21, 1926, Banks.  Married--  Bobby
Jean Green.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Troy High School, 1944. 
Commissioned in U.S. Air Force,  June, 1951; served as B-59 pilot
and was shot down over North Korea, January 13, 1953; spent the
next 32 months in Chinese prisons.  Captain Brown attended Oklahoma
University after the Korean Conflict.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  The Endless Hours.  New York;  Norton, 1961.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, WILBURT SCOTT, 1900-1968

<P>Biography:     Military man, university professor.  Born-- 
December 20, 1900, Holliston, Mass.  Parents--  Robert James Brown. 
Married--  Martha Stennis, June 2, 1949.  Education--  Phillips
Andover Academy; University of Alabama, B.A., 1955, M.A., 1957,
Ph.D., 1963.  Served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1917-1953; retired
with rank of Major General.  Awarded twenty-seven medals, including
the Silver Star, by the Marine Corps. Associate professor of
history at the University of Alabama, 1957-1968.  Articles
published in Army, Navy, and Marine Corps publications.

<P>Source:  Mrs. Wilbert Scott Brown, Tuscaloosa.

<P>Publication(s):  The Amphibious Campaign for West Florida and
Louisiana, 1814-1815.  Tuscaloosa, Ala.;  University of Alabama
Press, 1969.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, WILLIAM GARROTT, 1868-1913

<P>Biography:     Writer.  Born--  April 24, 1868, Marion.  Parents-- 
William Richard and Mary Cogswell (Parish) Brown.  Education-- 
Howard College, A.B., 1886; Harvard University, A.B., 1891, A.M.,
1892.  Assistant in the Harvard Library, 1893-1901; lecturer in
American history, 1901-1902; editorial writer for Harper's Weekly,
1908.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1.

<P>Publication(s):  Andrew Jackson.  Boston;  Houghton, 1900.

<P>  The Foe of Compromise and Other Essays.  New York;  Macmillan,
1903.

<P>  A Gentleman of the South.  New York;  Macmillan, 1903.

<P>  Golf.  Boston;  Houghton-Mifflin, 1902.

<P>  A History of Alabama.  New York;  University Publishing Co.,
1900.

<P>  Life of Oliver Ellsworth.  New York;  Macmillan, 1905.

<P>  The Lower South in American History.  New York;  Macmillan, 1902.

<P>  The New Politics & Other Papers.  Boston;  Houghton, 1914.

<P>  Official Guide to Harvard University.  Cambridge;  Harvard
University, 1899.

<P>  Stephen Arnold Douglas.  Boston;  Houghton, 1902.

<P>  Virginia;  a History of the People.  New York; s.n., 1903.

<P>
Author:        BROWN, WILLIAM LeROY

<P>See:  Broun, William LeRoy

<P>
Author:        BROWNE, DUNNE (Pseudonym)

<P>See:  DeLeon, Thomas Cooper

<P>
Author:        BROWNE, RAY BROADUS, 1922-

<P>Biography:     University professor, editor.  Born--  January 15,
1922, Millport.  Parents--  Garfield and Anne Browne.  Children-- 
One.  Education--  University of Alabama, A.B., 1943; Columbia
University, M.A., 1947; University of California at Los Angeles,
Ph.D., 1956.  Professor of English at Bowling Green State
University after 1967.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 17.

<P>Publication(s):  Against Academia ....  Bowling Green, Ohio; 
Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989.

<P>  The Alabama Folk Lyric;  a Study in Origins and Media
Disseminations.  Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green State
University Popular Press, 1979.

<P>  The Indian Doctor.  Indiannapolis;  Indiana Historical Society,
1964.

<P>  Lincoln Lore.  Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green University
Popular Press, 1975.

<P>  Melville's Drive to Humanism.  Lafayette, Ind.;  Purdue
University Press, 1971.

<P>  A Night with the Hants and Other Alabama Folk Experiences. 
Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1976.

<P>  Objects of Special Devotion;  Fetishism in Popular Culture. 
Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1982.

<P>  The Spirit of Australia;  the Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield. 
Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1988.

<P>Editor:  The Burke-Paine Controversy.  New York;  Harcourt, 1963.

<P>  The Celtic Cross.  Layfayette, Ind.;  Purdue University Studies,
1964.

<P>  Challenges In American Culture.  Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling
Green State University Popular Press, 1970.

<P>  Contemporary Heroes and Heroines.  Detroit;  Gale Research, 1990.

<P>  Crises on Campus.  Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green University
Popular Press, 1970.

<P>  Critical Approaches to American Literature.  New York;  Crowell,
1965.

<P>  Frontiers of American Culture.  Purdue University Studies. 1968.

<P>  Mark Twain's Quarrel with Heaven, "Captain Stormfield's Visit to
Heaven" and Other Sketches.  New Haven, Conn.;  College and
University Press, 1969.

<P>  New Voices in American Studies.  Lafayette, Ind.;  Purdue
University Studies, 1966.

<P>  Popular Culture & Curricula.  Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green
University Popular Press, 1969.

<P>  Teach In.  Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green University Popular
Press, 1971.

<P>Contributor:  The Defective Detective In Pulps.  Bowling Green,
Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1983.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Digging Into Popular Culture ....  Bowling
Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1991.

<P>  Dimensions of Detective Fiction.  Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling
Green State University Popular Press, 1976.

<P>Joint_Editor:  The God Pumpers;  Religion in The Electronic Age. 
Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1987.

<P>  The Gothic World of Steve King;  Landscape of Nightmares. 
Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1987.

<P>  Laws of Our Fathers;  Popular Culture and The U.S. Constitution. 
Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1986.

<P>  More Tales of The Defective Detective in Pulps.  Bowling Green,
Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1985.

<P>  Old Sleuth's Freaky Female Detective;  From The Dime Novel. 
Bowling Green, Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1990.

<P>  Symbiosis;  Popular Culture and Other Fields.  Bowling Green,
Ohio;  Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988.

<P>
Author:        BROWNELL, BLAINE ALLISON, 1942-

<P>Biography:     University professor, administrator.  Born-- 
November 12, 1942, Birmingham.  Parents--  Blaine, Jr. and Annette
(Holmes) Brownell.  Married--  Mardi Taylor, August 21, 1964. 
Children--  Two.  Education--  Washington and Lee University, B.A.,
1965; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1967, Ph.D., 1969. 
Assistant professor, Purdue University, 1969-1974; chairman of the
Urban Studies and History Department, the University of Alabama in
Birmingham, after 1974. Member of the Birmingham Planning
Commission and the Jefferson County Planning & Zoning Commission. 
Honors;  Awarded senior fellowship from the Institute of Southern
History at Johns Hopkins University, 1971.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 65.

<P>Publication(s):  Bosses and Reformers.  Boston;  Houghton, 1973.

<P>  The Urban Ethos in the South.  Baton Rouge, La.;  Louisiana State
University Press, 1973.

<P>  The Urban South in the Twentieth Century.  St.  Charles, Mo.; 
Forum Press, 1974.

<P>  Using Microcomputers;  a Guidebook.  Newbury Park, California; 
Sage Publications, 1985.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Urban America;  from Downtown to No Town. 
Boston;  Houghton Mifflin, 1979.

<P>  The Urban Nation, 1920-1980.  New York;  Hill & Wang, 1981.

<P>Joint_Editor_and_Contributor:

<P>  The City in Southern History.  Port Washington, N.Y.;  Kennikat,
1977.

<P>
Author:        BROWNING, AL

<P>Biography:     Investigative reporter.  Parents--  Mr. and Mrs. A.
H. Browning.  Native of Brewton; lived for some time in
Albertville.  Education--  Attended Snead State Junior College;
University of Alabama, 1973.  Sports writer for The Boll Weevil;
worked for Standard-Coosa-Thatcher in Chattanooga; sports writer
and sports editor for the Tuscaloosa News; free-lance writer for
the Columbus (Miss.) Dispatch.  Honors;  Five first place awards
for writing from the Alabama Sportswriters Association, 1974-1975.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History and
SCRIPSIT.

<P>Publication(s):  Basic Thoughts in Coaching Baseball.  Memphis,
Tenn.;  Memphis Park Commission, 1974.

<P>  Bowl, Bama, Bowl.  Huntsville, Ala.;  Strode, 1977.

<P>  On The Run.  Nashville;  Rutledge Hill Press, 1989.

<P>  Third Saturday In October;  Tennessee vs. Alabama.  Nashville; 
Rutledge Hill Press, 1987.

<P>
Author:        BRUCE, WILLIAM HERSCHEL, 1856-1943

<P>Biography:     Professor, college president.  Born--  April 8,
1856, Troup County, Ga.  Parents--  Hilery and Catherine (Pruitt)
Bruce.  Married--  Lillie O. Hart.  Children--  Four.  Education-- 
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, A.B.; Baylor University, A.M.;
Mercer University, Ph.D.; Trinity University, LL.D.  Teacher in
Texas schools and colleges; North Texas State Teachers College,
president, 1906-1923; president emeritus, 1923.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, 1943-1950.

<P>Publication(s):  Circles of the Triangle.  Denton, Tex.;  North
Texas State Teachers College, 1932.

<P>  Principles & Processes of Education.  Dallas;  C. A. Bryant Co.,
1916.

<P>  Some Noteworthy Properties of the Triangle and its Circles. 
Boston;  D.C. Heath, 1903.

<P>  Random Verses of W. H. Bruce.  Denton, Tex.;  North Texas State
Teachers College, 1942.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Arithmetic, a Higher Book.  Boston;  D.C.
Heath, 1906.

<P>  Arithmentic, a Lower Book.  Boston;  D.C. Heath, 1906.

<P>  The Elements of Plane Geometry.  Dallas;  Southern Pub. Co.,
1910.

<P>  The Emergent Man.  S.l.;  s.n., 1940.

<P>
Author:        BRUNHOUSE, ROBERT LEVERE, 1908-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  September 24, 1908,
Mechanicsburg, Pa.  Parents--  Harry and Hattie (Altland)
Brunhouse.  Married--  Mildred Adams, 1940.  Education--  Dickinson
College, A.B., 1930; University of Pennsylvania, A.M., 1936, Ph.D.,
1940. Taught history in colleges in Pennsylvania and New Jersey;
appointed professor of history at the University of South Alabama
in Mobile, 1968.  Member of the American Historical Association;
Phi Beta Kappa.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 49

<P>Publication(s):  Counter-Revolution in Pennsylvania, 1776-1790. 
Los Angeles, Calif.;  Octagon Books, 1971.

<P>  Frans Blom, Maya Explorer.  Alberquerque, N.M.;  University of
New Mexico Press, 1976.

<P>  History of the Carlisle Indian School;  a Phase of Government
Indian Policy, 1879-1918.  Philadelphia;  University of
Pennsylvania, s.d.

<P>  In Search of the Maya;  the First Archaeologists.  University of
New Mexico Press, 1973.

<P>  Pursuit of the Mayas.  Alberquerque, N.M.;  University of New
Mexico Press, 1975.

<P>  Sylvanius G. Morley & the World of the Ancient Mayas.  Norman,
Okla.;  University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

<P>Editor:  David Ramsey, 1749-1815;  Selections from His Writings. 
Philadelphia, Pa.;  American Philosophical Society, 1965.

<P>Joint_Editor:  Writings on Pennsylvania History.  Harrisburg, Pa.; 
Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1946.

<P>
Author:        BRUNSON, MARION BAILEY, 1931-

<P>Biography:     Educator.  Born--  1931, Elba.  Parents--  Fox and
Mary (Bailey) Brunson.  Married--  Nancy Elizabeth Cowart, June 4,
1960.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Troy State University, B.S.;
Florida State University, master's degree; qualified for the AA
certificate through Auburn University.  Served in the U.S. Army
during the Korean War.  Principal of Elba High School for three
years, then principal of Hillcrest Elementary School in Enterprise
after 1961.  Organized the Pea River Historical and Genealogical
Society.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  A Backward Look;  a History of the Brunson
Reunion.  S.l.;  s.n., 1969.

<P>  A History of Blanchard and Allied Families.  Enterprise, Ala.; 
s.n., 1970.

<P>  A History of the Brunson Family.  Enterprise, Ala.;  s.n., 1963.

<P>  Pea River Logic;  Hand Me Downs From Grandpa's Trunk. 
Tuscaloosa, Ala.;  Portal Press, 1986.

<P>  Pea River Reflections;  Intimate Glimpses of Area Life During Two
Centuries.  Tuscaloosa, Ala.;  Portals Press, 1975.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  A History of Our Cowart Family.  Enterprise,
Ala.;  s.n., 1967.

<P>
Author:        BRUNSON, MAY AUGUSTA, 1909-1970

<P>Biography:     College professor, dean.  Born--  September 1, 1909,
Mobile.  Parents--  Charles Augustus and May Leila (Davidson)
Brunson.  Education--  Judson College, A.B., 1935; Teachers College
Columbia University, M.A., 1945, Ed.D., 1957.  Employed by Judson
College; served as director of publicity, 1935-1938, director of
admissions and instructor of English, 1938-1942, and dean of
students, 1942-1946.  After 1946, employed by the University of
Florida, Coral Gables, associate dean of women and associate
professor of orientation and professor of education.  Honors; 
Judson College outstanding alumnae award, 1960; Theta Sigma Phi
Community Headliner award for Dade County, Fla., 1963.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.

<P>Publication(s):  Guidance;  an Integrating Process in Higher
Education.  New York;  Teachers College Press, 1959.

<P>
Author:        BRYAN, JAMES ALEXANDER, 1863-1941

<P>Biography:     Clergyman, teacher.  Born--  March 21, 1863,
Kingstree, S.C.  Education--  University of North Carolina;
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1889.  Taught at Gastonia Female
Institute, 1884-1885.  Supply minister in Birmingham, summer of
1888;  Pastor, Third Presbyterian Church, 1889-.  Served the people
of Birmingham until his death.

<P>Source:  Hunter B. Blakeley's Religion in Shoes.

<P>Publication(s):  A  Collection of My Sermons.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Author, 1927.

<P>
Author:        BRYANT, PAUL (BEAR) WILLIAM, 1913-1983

<P>Biography:     Football coach.  Born--  Kingsland, Ark.  Parents-- 
Wilson Monroe and Ida (Kilgore) Bryant.  Married--  Mary Harmon
Black, August 3, 1934.  Children--  Two.  Education--  University
of Alabama, B.S., 1939.  Served as assistant football coach at the
University of Alabama, 1936-1940; assistant football coach at
Vanderbilt University during 1940-1941; head football coach at the
University of Maryland, the University of Kentucky, and Texas A &
M; head football coach, University of Alabama, 1958-1983.  Retired
as the "winningest" college football coach in history. Honors;  Won
numerous coaching and citizenship awards. The University of Alabama
named an athletic hall and stadium in his honor.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1982.

<P>Publication(s):  Building a Championship Football Team.  Englewood
Cliffs, N.J.;  Prentice-Hall,  1960.

<P>
Author:        BRYANT, SPURGEON Q., 1905-

<P>Biography:     Teacher, college administrator.  Born--  December
25, 1905, Leake County, Miss. Parents--  James and Dixie (Sanders)
Bryant.  Married--  Betsy A.  Mitchell.  Children--  Two. 
Education--  Alabama State University, B.S., M.Ed.; University of
Northern Colorado, Ed.D.  Taught in elementary and secondary
schools in Alabama and served as a principal for almost twenty
years; for seven years, dean of the College of Elementary Education
at Alabama State University and for three years was chairman of the
Department of Mathematics there.  Retired after having serving ten
years as the dean of the School of Education at Alabama A & M
University at Normal.

<P>Source:  Book jacket to Ole Nell, Momma and Me and personal
interview with Clara Roberson Bryant, Huntsville.

<P>Publication(s):  Black Leadership Fenced in by Racism. 
Philadelphia;  Dorrance, 1974.

<P>  Ole Nell, Momma and Me.  Huntsville, Ala.;  Strode, 1978.

<P>  Why I Do Not Like Busing.  New York;  Vantage Press, 1973.

<P>
Author:        BUCHER, GEORGE C., 1925-

<P>Biography:     NASA administrator.  Born--  December 15, 1925,
Gerguson, Miss.  Parents--  Mrs. George H. Bucher.  Married-- 
Delores C. Belew.  Children--  Three.  Education--  Washington
University, B.S.; University of Alabama, M.S; Oklahoma State
University, Ph.D.  Served in the U.S.  Navy during World War II;
research contract administrator with the St. Louis Ordnance
District of the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency; moved to
Guntersville in 1956; associated with the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville as Deputy Associate Director for Science; served as an
adjunct professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

<P>Source:  SCRIPSIT

<P>Joint_Editor:  Physics of the Moon;  Selected Topics Concerning
Lunar Exploration.  Washington, D.C.;  National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, 1965.

<P>
Author:        BUCK, JANIE BROWN, 1931-

<P>Biography:     Born--  August 31, 1931, Andalusia.  Parents-- 
Warren H. and Minnie Lou (Barnes) Brown.  Married--  William Pettus
Buck, March 20, 1954.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Florida State
University, degree in music education, 1953.  Established Buck
Publishing Company, 1979, to publish Southern authors.  Associate
member of the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ.

<P>Source:  Buck Publishing Co., Birmingham.

<P>Publication(s):  Keeping Cool in Life's Fires.  Huntsville, Ala.; 
Strode Pub. Co., 1983.

<P>Editor:  My Country Roads.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Buck Pub. Co., 1979.

<P>
Author:        BUCK, WILLIAM PETTUS, 1928-

<P>Biography:     Dentist.  Born--  January 27, 1928, Birmingham.
Parents--  Gray Carol and Gladys (Pettus) Buck. Married--  Janie
Brown, March 20, 1954.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Graduated
from Birmingham Southern College and from the University of Alabama
School of Dentistry. Served his residency in oral and maxillofacial
surgery, 1953-1956; private practice in Birmingham; president of
the Birmingham District Dental Society; chief of oral surgery at
St. Vincent Hospital.  Published several articles on oral surgery
in dental journals.

<P>Source:  Buck Publishing Co., Birmingham.

<P>Publication(s):  Sad Earth, Sweet Heaven.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Cornerstone Press, 1972.

<P>  Taming the Buck.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Buck Publishing Co., 1979.

<P>
Author:        BULLARD, ROBERT LEE, 1861-1947

<P>Biography:     Army officer.  Born--  January 15, 1861, Youngsboro.
Parents--  Daniel and Susan (Mizell) Bullard.  Married--  Rose D. 
Brabson.  Married--  Ella R. Wall in 1927.  Children--  Four. 
Education--  Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, B.S.;
United States Military Academy, Columbia University, LL.D.; Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, LL.D.; Pennsylvania Military College, D.M.S. 
In 1925, retired from the United States Army at the rank of
lieutenant general.  Author of a number of articles in magazines,
newspapers and military journals.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.

<P>Publication(s):  Fighting Generals.  Ann Arbor, Mich.;  J. W.
Edwards, 1944.

<P>  Personalities and Reminiscences of the War.  Garden City, N.Y.; 
Doubleday, 1925.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  American Soldiers Also Fought.  New York; 
Longmans, Green, 1936.

<P>
Author:        BULLOCK-WILLIS, VIRGINIA

<P>Biography:     Tutor, interpreter.  Born--  Fair Hill Plantation at
Boligee, Greene County.  Spent her childhood in Mobile and in
Washington, D.C.  Parents--  James Madison and Anna Mary (Garrow)
Bullock.  Married--  George Willis.  Education--  Private tutors;
studied in Paris; George Washington University, bachelor's degree,
master's degree and post graduate study; American University, post-graduate study.  She and her
husband were owners of cotton
plantations in Alabama and Mississippi.  Mrs. Willis was an
accomplished horsewoman.  She traveled extensively.  Taught French
in the Washington area and at times served as interpreter for
officers and wives of the French military mission to the United
States. Wrote under the pseudonym of Panthea Pendleton.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  Jangle Jingles of Fairies and Flowers;  Children's
Poems.  New York;  Pageant Press, 1957.

<P>  Magnolias and Gray Moss;  Jingles by a Rhymester.  New York; 
Pageant Press, 1961.

<P>  Pat, by Panthea Pendleton (pseud.).  New York;  Pageant Press,
1958.

<P>  The Young Virginian and Other Stories.  New York;  Pageant Press,
1964.

<P>
Author:        BUNCE, WILLIAM HARVEY, 1903-

<P>Biography:     Artist, writer.  Born--  1903, Stillwater, N.Y. 
Education--  Columbia University; New York School of Design. 
Supervising draftsman and artist on the TVA-WPA archaeological
survey of the Chicamauga Basin and a participant in the National
Writer's Program that produced the publications;  Alabama, A Guide
to the Deep South and Tennessee, A Guide to the Volunteer State.

<P>Source:  Authors of Books for Young People, 1964.

<P>Publication(s):  Chula, Son of the Mound Builders,  New York; 
Dutton, 1942.

<P>  Dragon Prows Westward.  New York;  Harcourt, 1946.

<P>  Freight Train.  New York;  Putnam, 1954.

<P>  Here Comes the School Train.  New York;  Dutton, 1953.

<P>  Horned Snake Medicine;  a Story of the Mound Builders.  New York; 
Dutton, 1945.

<P>  The Iron Horse Goes to War.  Washington, D.C.;  School and
College Service, Association of American Railroads, 1960.

<P>  Son of the Iraquois.  Philadephia;  MacRae Smith, 1936.

<P>  Trails, a Book of Animal Stories.  Nashville;  Broadman Press,
1935.

<P>  Treasure Was Their Quest.  New York;  Harcourt, 1947.

<P>  War Belts of Pontiac.  New York;  Dutton, 1943.

<P>
Author:        BURCHARD, ERNEST F., 1875-1961

<P>Biography:     Geologist.  Born--  May 20, 1875, Independence, Kan. 
Parents--  George W. and Alice (Boyd) Burchard.  Married--  Frances
Baker, June 18, 1910.  Education--  Northwestern University, B.S.,
M.S.; University of Alabama, Sc.D., 1935.  Mining geologist with
the U.S.  Geological Survey and with various state geological
surveys, including Alabama; senior geologist for the Geological
Survey of Alabama, 1945-1961.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 5.

<P>Publication(s):  Bauxite in Northeastern Mississippi.  Washington,
D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1925.

<P>  The Brown Iron Ores of the Western Highland Rim, Tennessee, 1934. 
Nashville;  s.n., 1934.

<P>  The Brown Iron Ores of West-Middle Tennessee.  Washington, D.C.; 
Government Printing Office, 1927.

<P>  The Cement Industry in Alabama.  University, Ala.;  Geological
Survey of Alabama, 1940.

<P>  Iron-bearing Deposits in Bossier, Caddo, and Webster Parishes,
Louisiana.  Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1915.

<P>  Iron Ore in Cass, Marion, Morris, and Cherokee Counties, Texas. 
Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1915.

<P>  Iron Ore Outcrops of the Red Mountain Formation in Northeast
Alabama.  University, Ala.;  Geological Survey of Alabama, 1947.

<P>  Iron Ores, Fuels, and Fluxes of the Birmingham District, Alabama. 
Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1910.

<P>  Lancaster-Mineral Point Folio, Wisconsin-Iowa-Illinois. 
Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1907.

<P>  Manganiferious & Ferruginous Chert in Perry & Lewis Counties,
Tennessee.  Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1943.

<P>  Our Mineral Supplies, 1919.  Washington, D.C.;  Government
Printing Office, 1919.

<P>  Portland Cement Materials & Industry in the United States. 
Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1913.

<P>  The Red Iron Ores of East Tennessee, Northeast Alabama and
Northwest Georgia.  Nashville;  Brandon Printing Co., 1913.

<P>  Russellville Brown Iron Ore District, Franklin County, Alabama. 
University, Ala.;  Geological Survey of Alabama, 1960.

<P>  The Stone Industry in 1911.  Washington, D.C.;  U.S. Dept. of the
Interior, Geological Survey, 1912.

<P>  Structural Materials.  Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing
Office, 1910.

<P>
Author:        BURGHARD, AUGUST, 1901-

<P>Biography:     Advertising.  Born--  August 19, 1901, Opelika.
Parents--  August and Margaret (Meadors) Burghard. Married--  Lois
Baker.  Children--  Two.  Education--  Attended Mercer University,
1921-1925; Northwestern University, 1937-1939; Emory University,
1941; University of North Carolina, 1942-1943.  Began his career
with the Ft. Lauderdale News; worked with the Ft. Lauderdale
Chamber of Commerce; president of August Burghard Advertising,
Inc.; senior vice president of Campbell-Dickey Advertising, Inc.;
director of the Everglades Bank and the Lauderdale Memorial
Gardens. Honors;  Silver Medal from the Advertising Federation of
American and Printers' Ink, 1959.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 17.

<P>Publication(s):  Alligator Alley, Florida's Most Controversial
Highway.  S.l.;  Lanman, 1969.

<P>  America's First Family, the Savages of Virginia.  Philadelphia; 
Dorrance, 1974.

<P>  The Days of Our Years;  are Three Score and Ten --.  Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.;  First Presbyterian Church, 1982.

<P>  The Fabulous Fin.  Fort Lauderdale, Fla.;  s.n., 1979.

<P>  From $2,512.00 to a Billion Plus.  Fort Lauderdale, Fla.;  Wake
Brooke House, 1977.

<P>  Half a Century in Florida.  Fort Lauderdale, Fla.;  Manatee
Books, 1982.

<P>  History, Lauderdale Yacht Club.  Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; 
Lauderdale Yacht Club, 1978.

<P>  Mrs. Frank Stranahan, Pioneer.  Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; 
Historical Society of Fort Lauderdale, 1968.

<P>  My Early Days in Florida from 1905.  Fort Lauderdale, Fla.;  Wake
Brooke Book Co., 1975.

<P>  Nova University;  the First Ten Years.  Ft. Lauderdale,  Fla.; 
Nova University Press, 1975.

<P>  The Story of Frederick C. Peters.  Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; 
Tropical Press, 1972.

<P>  Watchie-Esta/Hutie.  Fort Lauderdale, Fla.;  Historical Society
of Fort Lauderdale, 1960.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Checkered Sunshine;  the Story of Fort
Lauderdale, 1793-1955.  Gainesville, Fla.;  University of Florida
Press, 1966.

<P>
Author:        BURKART, FRANCES CAROLYN LEE, 1916-

<P>Biography:     Teacher.  Born--  October 15, 1916,  Hartselle.
Parents--  Chester Irvin and Lucia Davenport (Barcliff) Lee. 
Married--  Carl Theodore Burkart.  Children--  Four.  Education-- 
Alabama College at Montevallo, degree in public school music, 1938. 
Taught in Hanceville for three years.  Active in the Lutheran
Woman's Missionary League.

<P>Source:  Mammy Barcliff's Scrapbook.

<P>Editor:  Lucia Lee's Clippings, 2 vols.  Cullman, Ala.;  Gregath,
1983.

<P>  Mammy Barcliff's Scrapbook.  Cullman, Ala.;  Gregath, 1982.

<P>
Author:        BURKE, ARTHUR DEVRIES, 1893-1950

<P>Biography:     University professor, editor.  Born--  January 1893,
Wheeling, W.Va.  Parents--  Thomas Carrol and Anna (Little) Burke. 
Married--  Marguerite Oltcalt, February 1, 1921.  Education-- 
University of Wisconsin, B.S., 1916; Ohio State University, M.S.,
1920, additional study, 1927-1929.  Dairy inspector in Huntington,
W.Va., 1916-1917; taught at Ohio State University, 1919-1920,
Oklahoma A & M University, 1920-1929, and Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, 1929-1946.  Member of the American Dairy Science
Association, Alabama Dairy Products Association, and the
International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers.  Technical
editor for the Milk Dealer and for the Ice Cream Review.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.

<P>Publication(s):  Practical Dairy Tests;  a Manual for Students and
Those Interested in the Practical Testing of Dairy Products. 
Milwaukee, Wisc.;  Olsen Publishing Co., 1929.

<P>  Practical Dairy Tests and Fundamentals of Dairying.  Milwaukee,
Wisc.;  Olsen Publishing Co., 1935.

<P>  Practical Ice Cream Making and Practical Mix Tables.  Milwaukee,
Wisc.;  Olsen Publishing Co., 1933.

<P>  Practical Manufacture of Cultured Milks and Kindred Products. 
Milwaukee, Wisc.;  Olsen Publishing Co., 1938.

<P>
Author:        BURKE, JOHN JOSEPH, JR., 1942-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  May 4, 1942, Buffalo,
N.Y.  Education--  Boston College, A.B., 1967; Northwestern
University, M.A., 1968; University of California in Los Angeles,
Ph.D., 1974.  Taught English at the University of California in San
Diego, 1973-1974, and University of Alabama after 1974.  Essays
published in several periodicals and books.

<P>Source:  Jacket to The Unknown Samuel Johnson; Directory of
American Scholars, 1982.

<P>Joint_Editor:  Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry.  Tuscaloosa,
Ala.;  University of Alabama Press, 1981.

<P>  The Unknown Samuel Johnson.  Madison;  University of Wisconsin
Press, 1983.

<P>
Author:        BURKE, MALCOLM CLAYTON, JR., 1879-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  Demopolis. Parents-- 
Malcolm and Annie Burke.  Education--  University of Alabama, A.B.,
1899; Harvard University, A.B., 1901; University of Munich, Ph.D.,
1908.  Taught Greek at the University of Alabama, 1901-1905, 1908-1917.  Served in the U.S.
Consular Service.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  De Apollinaries Sidonii Codice Nondum Tractate
Remensi....  Munich, Germany;  Dastner & Callwey, 1911.)

<P>  Versiculi.  New York;  s.n., 1915.

<P>
Author:        BURKHARDT, ERDMAN WALTER, 1894-1977

<P>Biography:     Architect, university professor.  Born--  January
23, 1894, Leipzig, Germany.  Parents--  Ernest and Emma (Heilmann)
Burkhardt.  Married--  Varian Carpenter.  Children--  Three. 
Education--  Washington State University, B.S.; Columbia
University, M.S.  Was in the architecture department at Auburn
University and served as the acting head of the department, 1929-1964; served as district officer
for Alabama of the Historic
American Buildings Survey, 1933-1937 and 1970-1972; restoration
consultant for the Alabama Division of Parks and Historic Sites,
1970-1972.  Honors;  Medalist in the Beaus Arts Institute of
Design, first medal, XV Paris Prize, 1922; Distinguished Service
Award from the Alabama Historical Commission, 1975.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1976.

<P>Publication(s):  Alabama Ante-bellum Architecture;  a Scrapbook
View from the 1930s.  Montgomery, Ala.;  Alabama Historical
Commission, 1976.

<P>
Author:        BURNETTE, OLLEN LAWRENCE, JR., 1927-

<P>Biography:     Research professor, dean.  Born--  September 30,
1927, Bethel, N.C.  Parents--  Ollen and Eva E. (Highsmith)
Burnette.  Married--  Elizabeth Tull.  Children--  Five. 
Education--  University of Richmond, B.A.; University of Virginia,
M.A., 1948, Ph.D., 1952. Taught at Petersburg, Virginia High
School, 1948-1949 and Virginia Military Institute, 1951-1953; field
editor for Charles Scribner's Sons, 1953-1957; book editor for the
State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1957-1963; research
professor of history, Birmingham Southern College from 1963-1972;
dean of faculty and research professor of history, Stratford
College, 1972-1974; executive director of the West Piedmont
Planning District Commission, after 1975.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 33.

<P>Publication(s):  Beneath the Footnote.  Madison, Wisc.;  State
Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1970.

<P>  Life in America.  New York;  Harper, 1964.

<P>  A Syllabus of American History.  Madison, Wisc.;  University of
Wisconsin, 1960.

<P>Editor:  Wisconsin Witness to Frederick Jackson Turner.  Madison,
Wisc.;  State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1961.

<P>
Author:        BURNS, CRANFORD HERMAN, 1907-

<P>Biography:     Educator.  Born--  July 1, 1907, Cullman.  Parents-- 
John Henry and Lexer (Grant) Burns.  Married--  Dorothy
Reinstadier, August 27, 1936.  Children--  Two.  Education-- 
University of Alabama, B.S., M.A.; Columbia University, Ed.D. 
Taught in Cullman County Schools and at Cold Springs School,
Bremen; principal of a school in Scottsboro; director of guidance
at the University of Alabama, 1945-1946, 1947-1948; Mobile County
Schools, assistant superintendent, 1948-1952, superintendent, 1952-1970.

<P>Source:  Who's Who in America, 1974.

<P>Publication(s):  Henry & Lexer Grant Burns Family.  Mobile, Ala.; 
Henley Secretarial Service, 1974.

<P>  Our Yesteryears.  S.l.;  Alabama Retired Teachers Association,
1976.

<P>  Values by Which We Live.  Mobile, Ala.;  s.n., 1981.

<P>
Author:        BURNS, JEREMIAH M., 1887-

<P>Biography:     Educator.  Born--  September 3, 1887, Delmar,
Winston County.  Parents--  William Riley and Rebecca (Lovett)
Burns.  Married--  Nelsie Victoria Thomas, July 8, 1909.  Children--  Three.  Education--  West
Alabama Agricultural School at
Hamilton and G. R. C. College at Henderson, Tenn., graduating in
1904.  Taught in the rural schools for ten years; then served as
superintendent of education for Winston County, 1913-1917.  Served
at one time as a member of the House of Representatives.

<P>Source:  Owen's History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama
Biography.

<P>Publication(s):  History of the Clear Creek Baptist Association,
1874-1957.  Haleyville, Ala.?;  Burns, 1958?

<P>
Author:        BUSBY, ROSA LEE

<P>Biography:     Auditor.  Born--  Birmingham.  Parents--  Robert Lee
and Matura (Russell) Busby.  Education--  Studied at the Graduate
School of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Auditor, U.S.
Department of Agriculture after 1931. Served with the U.S. Women's
Air Force from 1943 to 1945, in the 8th and 9th Air Forces in the
European, African and Middle East theaters.  Decorated with the
campaign medal with two battle stars.  Member of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, the Daughters of the American
Revolution, and the American Legion.

<P>Source:  Who's Who of American Women, 1966.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Some Early Alabama Churches (Established
before 1870).  Birmingham, Ala.;  Alabama Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution, 1973.

<P>
Author:        BUSCH, FRANCIS XAVIER, 1879-1975

<P>Biography:     Attorney, educator.  Born--  May 9, 1879, Detroit,
Mich.  Parents--  Francis X. and Carolyn (Van Buskirk) Busch. 
Married--  Jeanette Marrision, 1903.  Children--  Four.  Married-- 
Jean Mapes Lucas, April 28, 1933.  Education--  Illinois College of
Law, LL.B., 1904, LL.M, 1905; DePaul University, LL.D., 1912.
Worked as an American trial lawyer, corporation counsel, educator,
and author of books on famous criminal trials.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 5P.

<P>Publication(s):  Busch-Dixon Law Examiner.  Chicago;  Callaghan &
Co, 1903.

<P>  Busch Outlines of Common Law Pleading.  Chicago;  Callaghan &
Co., 1912.

<P>  Guilty or Not Guilty.  Indianapolis, Ind.;  Bobbs-Merrill, 1948.

<P>  In & Out of Court.  Chicago;  DePaul University Press, 1942.

<P>  Law & Tactics in Jury Trials.  Indianapolis, Ind.;  Bobbs-Merrill, 1948.

<P>  Prisoners at the Bar.  Indianapolis, Ind.;  Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.

<P>
Author:        BUSH, ANNIE LOUISE RYDER, 1896-

<P>Biography:     Teacher, postal worker.  Born--  June 28, 1896,
Talladega Springs, but grew up in Childersburg.  Parents--  Jesse
W.  and Emma (Keith) Ryder.  Married--  I. M. Bush, 1918. 
Children--  Three.  Education--  Alabama Normal College in
Florence, 1917.  Taught at Dothan for three years and at
Childersburg for fifteen years.  Worked as a postal clerk in the
Childersburg post office, 1941-1965.

<P>Source:  Memoirs of Childersburg.

<P>Publication(s):  Memoirs of Childersburg.  Alexander City, Ala.; 
Bama Printery, 1976.

<P>
Author:        BUTLER, MARY KIMBRO, 1923-

<P>Biography:     Writer, journalist.  Born--  October 9, 1923,
Crenshaw County.  Parents--  Jessie Wilson and Martha E. (Wallace)
Kimbro.Married--  Leon Broughton Butler, October 12, 1940. 
Children--  Three.  Education--  Dozier High School, 1939.  Wrote
for the Tallassee Tribune, Wetumpka Herald, and the Alabama
Journal. Also wrote commercials for a radio station.  Honors; 
Stories won first place in Creative Writers of Montgomery's contest
three times; honored by the Alabama Legislature for her
contribution to the State through her literary efforts.

<P>Source:  Buck Publishing Co.,  Birmingham, Ala.

<P>Publication(s):  The Inverson's Autumn, The Fallen Dream.  Chicago; 
Adams Press, 1984.

<P>  Papa's Old Trunk.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Buck Publishing Co., 1981.

<P>
Author:        BUTTERFIELD, MARVIN ELLIS, 1897-

<P>Biography:     University professor.  Born--  Davilla, Tex. 
Education--  Simmons College, A.B.; University of Illinois, Ph.D.;
studied at the University of Colorado, the University of Oklahoma
and the State University of Iowa.  Professor of Spanish at the
University of Alabama after 1938.

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Public Library Service.

<P>Publication(s):  Jeronimo de Aguilar, Conquistador.  University,
Ala.;  University of Alabama Press, 1955.

<P>
Author:        BUTTERWORTH, EMMA JOSEFA MACALIK, 1928-

<P>Biography:     Born--  about 1928, Vienna, Austria.  Parents-- 
Josef and Olga (Pomaisel) Macalik.  Married--  William E.
Butterworth, July 12, 1950, came to the United States in 1955;
naturalized in 1958.  Children--  Three. Member of the Corps de
Ballet of the Vienna State Opera Company, 1936-1944.  Attended the
University of Vienna, 1945-1950; beginning in 1947, was a
calligrapher, engrosser, and illuminator.  Resides in Fairhope.
Honors;  Alabama Library Association, Alabama Author's Award, 1984.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vol. 105 and jacket to As the Waltz
Was Ending.

<P>Publication(s):  As the Waltz Was Ending.  Chicago;  Four Winds
Press, 1982.

<P>  The Complete Book of Calligraphy.  Philadelphia;  Lippincott,
1980.

<P>
Author:        BUTTERWORTH, WILLIAM EDMUND, III, 1929-

<P>Biography:     Writer.  Born--  November 10, 1929, Newark, N.J. 
Parents--  William Edmund and Gladys (Schnable) Butterworth.
Married--  Emma Josefa Macalik, July 12, 1950.  Children--  Three. 
Served in the U.S. Army, 1946-1947, 1951-1953.  Served as a combat
correspondent in Korea. Lived at Ozark, then at Fairhope, Ala. 
Wrote under the pseudonyms of Alex Baldwin, Webb Beech, Walker E.
Blake, James McM.  Douglas, Eden Hughes, Edmund O. Scholefield and
Patrick J. Williams.  Honors;  Alabama Library Association, Alabama
Author's Award, 1982.

<P>Source:  Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1R and 2NR, and Who's Who in
the South and Southwest.

<P>Publication(s):  Air Evac.  New York;  Norton, 1967.

<P>  The Air Freight Mystery.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1978.

<P>  An Album of Automobile Racing.  New York;  Watts, 1977.

<P>  Black Gold;  the Story of Oil.  New York;  Four Winds Press,
1975.

<P>  Careers in the Service.  New York;  Watts, 1976.

<P>  Christina's Passion.  New York;  Playboy Press, 1977.

<P>  Comfort Me With Love.  New York;  New American Library, 1961.

<P>  The Court-Martial.  New York;  New American Library, 1962.

<P>  Crazy to Race.  New York;  Grossett, 1971.

<P>  Dateline;  Talladega.  New York;  Grossett, 1972.

<P>  Dave White and the Electric Wonder Car.  New York;  Four Winds
Press, 1974.

<P>  Le Falot.  Paris;  Gallimard, 1963.

<P>  Fast and Smart.  New York;  Norton, 1970.

<P>  Fast Green Car.  New York;  Norton, 1965.

<P>  Flunking Out.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1981.

<P>  Flying Army;  the Modern Air Arm of the U.S. Army.  Garden City,
N.Y.;  Doubleday, 1971.

<P>  The Girl in the Black Bikini.  New York;  Berkeley Publishing
Co., 1962.

<P>  Grand Prix Driver.  New York;  Norton, 1969.

<P>  Helicopter Pilot.  New York;  Norton, 1967.

<P>  Hell on Wheels.  New York;  Berkeley Publishing Co., 1962.

<P>  Hi-fi;  From Edison's Phonograph to Quadraphonic Sound.  New
York;  Four Winds Press, 1977.

<P>  The High Wind;  the Story of NASCAR Racing.  New York;  Grossett,
1972.

<P>  Hot Seat.  New York;  New American Library.  1961.

<P>  Hot Wire.  New York;  Harvey House, 1982.

<P>  The Hotel Mystery.  New York;  Scholastic Press, 1979.

<P>  The Image Makers.  Melbourne;  Scripts Publishing, 1967.

<P>  LeRoy and the Old Man.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1980.

<P>  The Love-Go-Round.  New York;  Berkeley Publishing Co., 1962.

<P>  Marty and the Micromidgets.  New York;  Norton, 1970.

<P>  A Member of the Family.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1982.

<P>  Mighty Minicycles.  New York;  Harvey House, 1976.

<P>  Moose, the Thing, and Me.  Boston;  Houghton, 1982.

<P>  Moving West on 122.  Boston;  Little, Brown, 1970.

<P>  My Father's Quite a Guy.  Boston;  Little, Brown, 1971.

<P>  The Narc.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1972.

<P>  Next Stop Earth.  New York;  Walker, 1978.

<P>  Orders to Vietnam.  Boston;  Little, Brown, 1968.

<P>  Race Car Team.  New York;  Grossett, 1973.

<P>  The Racedriver.  New York;  Scholastic Book Service, 1972.

<P>  Redline 7100.  New York;  Norton, 1968.

<P>  Return to Daytona.  New York;  Grossett, 1974.

<P>  Return to Racing.  New York;  Grossett, 1971.

<P>  Road Racer.  New York;  Norton, 1967.

<P>  The Roper Brothers and Their Magnificent Steam Automobile.  New
York;  Four Winds Press, 1976.

<P>  Skyjacked!  New York;  Scholastic Book Service, 1972.

<P>  Slaughter by Auto.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1980.

<P>  Soldiers on Horseback;  the Story of the United States Cavalry. 
New York;  Norton, 1966.

<P>  Steve Bellamy.  Boston;  Little, Brown, 1970.

<P>  Stock Car Racer.  New York;  Norton, 1966.

<P>  Stop and Search.  Boston;  Little, Brown, 1969.

<P>  Stop, Thief!  New York;  Scholastic Book Service, 1975.

<P>  Susan and Her Classic Convertible.  New York;  Four Winds Press,
1970.

<P>  Tank Driver.  New York;  Scholastic Book Service, 1978.

<P>  Team Racer.  New York;  Grossett, 1972.

<P>  Tires and Other Things;  Some Heroes of Automotive Evolution. 
Garden City, N.Y.;  Doubleday, 1974.

<P>  Under the Influence.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1979.

<P>  Wheel of a Fast Car.  New York;  Norton, 1969.

<P>  Wheels and Pistons;  the Story of the Automobile.  New York; 
Four Winds Press, 1971.

<P>  Where We Go From Here.  New York;  New American Library, 1962.

<P>  The Wonders of Astronomy.  New York;  Putnam, 1964.

<P>  The Wonders of Rockets and Missiles.  New York;  Putnam, 1964.

<P>  Wrecker Driver.  New York;  Scholastic Book Service, 1979.

<P>  Yankee Driver.  New York;  Grossett, 1973.

<P>Written_under_pseudonym_of_Eden_Hughes:

<P>  Leroy and the Wolves.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1980.

<P>  The Selkirks.  New York;  New American Library, 1982.

<P>  The Wiltons.  New York;  New American Library, 1980.

<P>Written_under_pseudonym_of_Alex_Baldwin:

<P>  The Last Heroes.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1985.

<P>Written_under_pseudonym_of_Webb_Beech:

<P>  Article 92;  Murder-Rape.  New York;  Fawcett, 1965.

<P>  Make War in Madness.  New York;  Fawcett, 1966.

<P>  No French Leave.  New York;  Fawcett, 1960.

<P>  Warrior's Way.  New York;  Fawcett, 1965.

<P>Written_under_pseudonym_of_Walker_E._Blake:

<P>  Doing What Comes Naturally.  Derby, Conn.;  Monarch, 1965.

<P>  The Loved and the Lost.  Derby, Conn.;  Monarch, 1962.

<P>  Once More With Passion.  Derby, Conn.;  Monarch, 1964.

<P>Written_under_pseudonym_of_James_McM._Douglas:

<P>  Drag Race Driver.  New York;  Putnam, 1971.

<P>  Hunger for Racing.  New York;  Putnam, 1967

<P>  A Long Ride on a Cycle.  New York;  Putnam, 1972.

<P>  Racing to Glory.  New York;  Putnam, 1969.

<P>  The Twelve-cylinder Screamer.  New York;  Putnam, 1970.

<P>Written_under_pseudonym_of_W._E._B._Griffin:

<P>  The Aviators.  New York;  Putnam, 1988.

<P>  Battleground.  New York;  Putnam, 1991.

<P>  The Berets.  New York;  Jove, 1984.

<P>  Call To Arms.  New York;  Jove, 1987.

<P>  The Captains.  New York;  Jove, 1982.

<P>  The Colonels.  New York;  Jove, 1983.

<P>  Counterattack.  New York;  Putnam, 1990.

<P>  The Generals.  New York;  Jove, 1986.

<P>  The Lieutenants.  New York;  Jove, 1982.

<P>  Line Of Fire.  New York;  Putnam, 1992.

<P>  The Majors.  New York;  Jove, 1983.

<P>  Men in Blue.  New York;  Jove, 1991.

<P>  The New Breed.  New York;  Putnam, 1987.

<P>  Semper Fr.  New York;  Jove, 1986.

<P>  Special Operations.  New York;  Jove, 1991.  (Originally
published under pseudonym John Kevin Dugan.)

<P>  The Victim.  New York;  Jove, 1991.

<P>  The Witness.  New York;  Jove, 1992.

<P>Written_under_pseudonym_of_Edmund_O._Scholefield:

<P>  Bryan's Dog.  Cleveland;  World Publishing, 1967.

<P>  L'il Wildcat.  Cleveland;  World Publishing, 1967.

<P>  Maverick on the Mound.  Cleveland;  World Publishing, 1968.

<P>  Tiger Rookie.  Cleveland;  World Publishing, 1966.

<P>  Yankee Boy.  Cleveland;  World Publishing, 1971.

<P>Written_under_pseudonym_of_Patrick_J._Williams:

<P>  Fastest Funny Car.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1967.

<P>  The Green Ghost.  Scholastic Book Services, 1969.

<P>  Grand Prix Racing.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1968.

<P>  Racing Mechanic.  New York;  Scholastic Book Services, 1969.

<P>  Up to the Quarterdeck.  New York;  Four Winds Press, 1969.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  M*A*S*H Goes to Hollywood.  New York; 
Pocket Books, 1976.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to Las Vegas.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1976.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to London.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1976.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to Miami.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1976.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to Montreal.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1977.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to Morocco.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1975.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to Moscow.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1978.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to New Orleans.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1975.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to Paris.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1974.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to San Francisco.  New York;  Pocket Books.  1976.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to Texas.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1977.

<P>  M*A*S*H Goes to Vienna.  New York;  Pocket Books, 1976.

<P>
Xx             BUTTS, CHARLES, 1863-1946

<P>Biography:     Geologist.  Born--  September 18, 1863, Portville,
N.Y.  Parents--  William and Eliza Jane (Southworth) Butts. 
Married--  Mellye Arledge, November, 1903.  Married--  Ella
Virginia Rickles Pearson, November 30, 1909.  Education--  Alfred
University, B.S., 1899, M.S., 1900.  University of Alabama, D.Sc.,
1927. Geologist, U.S. Geological Survey.

<P>Source:  Who Was Who in America, Vol. 3.

<P>Publication(s):  Analyses of Alabama Coals.  Birmingham, Ala.; 
Birmingham Printing Co.  1926.

<P>  Birmingham Folio, Alabama.  Washington, D.C.;  U. S. Geological
Survey, 1910.

<P>  The Coal Resources and General Geology of the Pound Quadrangle in
Virginia.  Charlottesville, Va.;  University of Virginia, 1914.

<P>  Ebensburg Folio, Pennsylvania.  Washington, D.C.;  U. S.
Geological Survey, 1905.

<P>  Economic Geology of the Kittanning and Rural Valley Quadrangles,
Pennsylvania.  Washington, D.C.;  Government Printing Office, 1906.

<P>  Fensters in the Cumberland Overthrust Block in Southwestern
Virginia.  Charlottesville, Va.;  Virginia Geological Survey, 1927.

<P>  Geologic Map of the Appalachian Valley of Virginia with
explanatory text.  Charlottesville, Va.;  Virginia Geological
Survey, 1933.

<P>  Geology and Mineral Resources of the Bellefonte Quadrangle,
Pennsylvania.  Washington, D.C.;  U.S. Government Printing Office,
1936.

<P>  Geology and Mineral Resources of the Equity-Shawnee-town
Area.(Parts of Gallatin and Saline Counties)  Urbana, Ill.;  State
Geological Survey.

<P>  Geology and Oil Possibilities of the Northern Part of Overton
County, Tennessee, and adjoining parts of Clay, Pickett and
Fentress Counties.  Nashville;  Williams Printing Co., 1919.

<P>  Geology of Jefferson County, Kentucky.  Frankfort, Ky.;  s.n.,
1914-1915.

<P>  Geology of the Appalachian Valley in Virginia. Richmond, Va.; 
Virginia Conservation Commission, 1940.

<P>  Hollidays-Huntingdon Folio, Pennsylvania.  Washington, D.C.; 
U.S. Geological Survey, 1945.

<P>  Kittanning Folio, Pennsylvania.  Washington, D.C.;  U.S.
Geological Survey, 1904.

<P>  The Mineral and Forest Resources of Kentucky, Vol. 1.  Frankfurt,
Ky.;  Kentucky Department of Geology and Forestry, 1919.

<P>  Mississippian Formations of Western Kentucky.  S.l.;  The State
Journal Company, 1917.

<P>  The Mississippian Series of Eastern Kentucky.  Lexington, Ky.; 
The Kentucky Geological Survey, 1922.

<P>  Montevallo-Columbiana Folio, Alabama.  Washington, D.C.;  U.S.
Geological Survey, 1940.

<P>  Oil and Gas Possibilities at Early Grove, Scott County, Virginia. 
Charlottesville, Va.;  Michie Company, 1927.

<P>  Reconnaissance Geologic Map of Barren County, Kentucky. 
Lexington, Ky.;  Kentucky Geological Survey, 1919.

<P>  Rural Valley Folio, Pennsylvania.  Washington, D.C.;  U.S.
Geological Survey, 1905.

<P>  Warren Folio, Pennsylvania-New York.  Washington, D.C.;  U.S.
Geological Survey, 1910.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Geology and Mineral Resources of the
Crossville Quadrangle, Tennessee.  Nashville;  Department of
Education, Division of Geology, 1925.

<P>  Geology and Mineral Resources of the Paleozoic Area in Northwest
Georgia.  Atlanta;  Government Printing Office and Tennessee Valley
Authority, 1948.

<P>  Geology of Alabama,  University, Ala.;  Birmingham Printing Co.,
1926.

<P>  The Geology of Hardin County and Adjoining Part of Polk County. 
Springfield, Ill.;  Illinois State Journal Co., 1920.

<P>  Guidebook, Field Conference of Pensylvania Geologists, Virginia-1938.  Charlottesville, Va.; 
Virginia Geological Survey, 1938.

<P>  Iron Ores, Fuels, and Fluxes of the Birmingham District, Alabama. 
Washington, D.C.;  U.S. Geological Survey, 1910.

<P>  Southern Appalachian Region.  Washington, D.C.;  U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1932.

<P>  Tyrone Quadrangle;  Geology and Mineral Resources.  Harrisburg,
Pa.;  Department of Internal Affairs, Topographic and Geologic
Survey, 1939.

<P>
Author:        BUTTS, THOMAS LANE

<P>Biography:     Clergyman.  Born--  Bermuda, Conecuh County. 
Married--  Hilda A. Tidwell.  Education--  Troy State University,
B.A., 1951; Emory University, B.D.; Northwestern University,
Theology School, M.A. in Pastoral Psychology.  Served churches in
Panama City, Fla.;  Canoe, Mobile, Foley, and Brewton, Ala.;
superintendent of the Dothan district for the Methodist Church;
pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Montgomery, 1978-1983; pastor, Trinity
Methodist Church in Ft. Walton Beach, Fla. 
Taught psychology  at the University of West Florida and at
Jefferson Davis State Junior College.  In 1978 wrote and broadcast
a fifteen part series on "The Protestant Hour."

<P>Source:  Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.

<P>Publication(s):  The Bible and Living in the World.  Nashville; 
Graded Press, 1978.

<P>  Tiger in the Dark.  New York;  Abingdon, 1978.

<P>
Author:        BUXTON, CLYNE

<P>Biography:     Youth worker.  Born--  Miss.  Education--  Attended
Lee  College in Cleveland, Tenn.; Samford University, 1962.  Church
of God minister; director of Sunday school and youth  literature
for his church for eleven years; state director of  youth and
christian education for the Church of God in Alabama;  did youth
work in several states; edited Lighted Pathways.  In  1973, living
in Cleveland, Tenn.

<P>Source:  Files at Birmingham Public Library.

<P>Publication(s):  The Bible Says You Can Expect These Things.  Old
Tappan, N.J.;       F. H. Revell Co., 1973.

<P>  This Way to Better Teaching.  Cleveland, Tenn.;  Pathway Press,
1974.

<P>  What About Tomorrow.  Cleveland, Tenn.;  Pathway Press, 1974.

<P>
Author:        BYNUM, JASPER E., 1839-1923

<P>Biography:     Farmer, businessman.  Born--  May 21, 1839, in a log
cabin one-half mile northest of Oneonta.  Parents--  Tapley and
Eliza  (Cornelius) Bynum.  Married--  Frances Shockley, 1856. 
Married--  Mrs. Moody, 1864.  Married--  Martha Smith, 1905. 
Children--  Four.  Served in the Confederate Army; farmed until
1867; after 1867, operated a merchantile business and owned a hotel
in Oneonta.

<P>Source:  Ruth A. Estes, Oneonta Public Library.

<P>Publication(s):  Historical Sketches of the Bynum Family.  Vol. 1. 
S.l.;  s.n., s.d.

<P>
Author:        BYNUM, MICHAEL JEFFERY

<P>Biography:     Sportswriter.  Education--  University of Alabama. 
Served as student manager of  the football team in 1977; student
body president of the New  College Division of the University. 
Member Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Theta Chi fraternity. 
Also a member of the  Diamond Century Club at Texas A & M and the
Gold Club at the  University of Mississippi.

<P>Source:  The William Stanley Hoole Special Collections of the
University of Alabama.

<P>Publication(s):  Aggie Pride.  College Station, Tex.;  We Believe
Trust Fund at the Bank of A & M, 1980.

<P>  Bear Bryant's Boys of Autumn.  Tuscaloosa, Ala.;  Autumn
Football, 1988.

<P>  Bryant, the Man and the Myth.  Atlanta;  Cross Road Books, 1979.

<P>  Hightide, a Story of Class and Courage.  Atlanta;  Cross Road
Books, 1978.

<P>  Vince Lombardi;  Memories of a Special Time.  S.l.;  October
Football, 1988.

<P>Joint_Publication(s):  Bound for Glory.  College Station, Tex.;  We
Believe Trust Fund at the Bank of A & M, 1980.

<P>  Never Say Quit.  Atlanta;  Cross Road Books, 1979.

<P>  We Believe - Bear Bryant's Boys Talk.  College Station, Tex.;  We
Believe Trust Fund at the Bank of A & M, 1980.

<P>Joint_Editor_and_Contributor:

<P>  Knute Rockne;  His Life and Legend;  Based on the Unfinished
Autobiography.  S.l.;  October Football, 1988.