During the Great Depression in America, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an employment program created by President Roosevelt in 1935. Over its eight years of existence, the WPA put roughly 8.5 million Americans to work. The Federal agency employed tens of thousands of actors, musicians, writers, and other artists to capture the essence of […]
This article and more abstracts are available in the ebook ALABAMA GENEALOGY NOTES Volume I: News of people and events transcribed from the Birmingham Iron Age, April 16, 1874 ENTERPRISE – The streetcars in Montgomery were put on the track for the first time last Tuesday. LeGrand & Co. had opened that morning their splendid […]
JAMES B. SIMPSON Biography and Genealogy (Nov. 23, 1857 – Jan. 1898) Greenville and Montgomery County, Alabama James B. Simpson or “Jim Simpson,” as he was known to all, was an estimable character. He was a man of modest worldly estate, but employed in a marked degree the confidence, the regard, and the intimate friendship […]
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