By Erin Harney
alabamanewscenter.com
In the recently released “From Marion to Montgomery: The Early Years of Alabama State University, 1867-1925,” author Joseph Caver brings to light new information about the founding in a detailed history of one of the country’s earliest historically black universities.
Caver is a former senior archivist at the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, a history lecturer at Alabama State University (ASU) and he was the first Black archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
Caver’s interest in researching his alma mater began during graduate school, while working at the state archives.
Horace F. Hanna, Jr.
Horace F. Hanna, Jr. died Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, at the Susque-View Home in Lock Haven. He was 95 years old. Dubbed “Buck Hardy the Daredevil” by a boyhood friend, Horace subsequently went by the nickname Buck all of his life. Buck was born May 8, 1925 in Lock Haven, the son of the late Horace F. Hanna, Sr. and Loretto Dennehy Hanna.
On Nov. 23, 1950, Horace Hanna, Jr. and Celestine Kelly were married in Pittston, Pa., at St. John, the Evangelist Catholic Church. Celestine, the love of Buck’s life, died on Feb. 12, 2008.
Horace served in the U.S. Army from 1943-1946 at the rank of Staff Sergeant. Buck was a very proud 1949 graduate of Mt. St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Md., with a Bachelor of Science degree in history and a minor in literature. Given any opportunity, Buck could often be heard singing “The Bells of St. Mary’s,” regaling anyone willing to listen. On May 19, 2015, Buck travelled with a few family members to his beloved Mt. St. Ma
Feb. 27, 1788: A three-day skirmish called the âBattle of the Lost State of Franklinâ was fought at what is now Tipton-Haynes Historic Site. Soldiers braved severe cold and snowstorms. (Source: An Adventure in Northeast Tennessee: A three Day (Self-Guided) Tour by Faith Stahl.)
Feb. 27, 1890: Readers of The Comet learned âThe order for the basting and iron work for the new hotel and office building for the Carnegie Land Company has been given to the Johnson City Foundry and Machine Works. The order is a large one and Chattanooga and Knoxville companies had bids in but Johnson City never gets left. The company here does as good work and does it cheaper than any company in the State (sic). It is not out of place to state here that there are only one or two larger and better equipped shops in the State than the Johnson City Foundry and machine works (sic.)â
From Marion to Montgomery sheds new light on the founding, history of Alabama State University
By Erin Harney
February 26, 2021
Lincoln School in Marion, Perry County, c. 1870-1899. The Lincoln School was one of the first institutions established for the education of African Americans after the Civil War. (Lincoln Normal School, Brantley Collection, Samford University Library, D-000108)
In the recently released “From Marion to Montgomery: The Early Years of Alabama State University, 1867-1925,” author Joseph Caver brings to light new information about the founding in a detailed history of one of the country’s earliest historically black universities.
Caver is a former senior archivist at the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, a history lecturer at Alabama State University (ASU) and he was the first Black archivist at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.
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Barry was born in 1887 on a farm in
Pennsylvania. After he graduated from school, Barry s father farmed him out to a neighbor, who paid the Barry family
$30 per month for his labor. His father allowed him to keep
$2 of the monthly wage for himself.
After three years of the arrangement, Barry decided he didn t want to spend the rest of his life looking at the south end of a horse going north, according to a short biography written by his son David in 1988.
Barry put himself through
Kansas State Teachers College and in 1914 sent his resume to the