Guide to the Edward Calvin Crow correspondence MSS.0378
Crow, Edward Calvin
- Publication:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
Box 870266
February 2008
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-02-21T15:09-0600
- Language Usage:
English
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Edward Calvin Crow correspondence
- Unit ID:
MSS.0378
- Repository:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet (3 items)
- Dates:
1952
- Abstract:
Correspondence between E. C. Crow and Dr. John M. Gallalee of the University of Alabama regarding a newspaper article on Gen. Josiah Gorgas, as well as a newspaper article on the oldest judge in Birmingham, Alabama.
- creator
Crow, Edward Calvin, 1866-1956
Scope and Contents note
This collection contains a letter to Dr. John M. Gallalee of the University of Alabama regarding a newspaper article on Gen. Josiah Gorgas, one from Gallalee to Crow thanking him for the same, and a newspaper article on the oldest judge in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
E. C. Crow correspondence, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
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unknown, 2008; updated by Martha Bace, 2013
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
unknown
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Conditions Governing Use note
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Conditions Governing Access note
None
Biographical/Historical note
Edward Calvin Crow, son of Calvin Austin and Elizabeth Thaxton Crow, was born on 18 June 1866, in Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama. He studied law at the University of Alabama and graduated with his law degree in 1888 and took a post doctorate law course at the University of Virginia in 1889. He practiced law in Florence, Alabama, for fifteen years before moving to Birmingham in 1903. He was appointed (and later elected) judge of the 10th judicial circuit
In 1889, he married Evie McKee; the couple had three daughters, Elizabeth, Lucy, and Evelyn. Crow died on 2 February 1956.
Source(s)
Crow, Edward Calvin, 1866-1956 (local)
Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883 (Library_of_Congress_Name_Authority_File)
Alabama (localbroad)
Birmingham (Ala.) (lcsh)
Clippings (information artifacts) (aat)
Government, Law and Politics (localbroad)
Jefferson County (Ala.) (lcsh)
Letters (correspondence) (aat)
University of Alabama (localbroad)
War and Military (localbroad)
Letters Box 571