John Woods Frierson

Background

Frierson, John Woods was born on March 10, 1897 in Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Albert and Kate (Fogelman) Frierson.

Education

Student Webb School, Bell Buckle, Tennessee, 1913-1914, Branham and Hughes School, Springhill, Tennessee, 1914-1915.

Career

Classified advertising salesman Memphis Press, 1922-1924. Advertising salesman 1924-1928. Advertising manager El Paso (Texas) Post, 1928-1929.

Business manager El Paso Herald-Post, 1929-1935. Birmingham (Alabama) Post, since 1935. President, director Birmingham Post Company and assistant general manager Birmingham News since 1950.

Membership

Served as corporal 11th Aero Squadron, 1st Day Bombardment Group, 1st Army, Advertising Educational Foundation, 1917-1919. Clubs: Birmingham Country, Downtown, The.

Connections

Married Waldo Meyer, January 8, 1934. Children: John Woods, Albert Meyer, Waldo Lynn.

Father:

Albert Frierson

Mother:

Kate (Fogelman) Frierson

Spouse:

Waldo Meyer

child:

Waldo Lynn Frierson

child:

Albert Meyer Frierson

child:

John Woods Frierson