Background
Owen, Thomas Mcadory was born on December 15, 1866 in Jonesboro, Alabama, United States. Son of Doctor William Marmadnke and Nancy L. (McAdory) Owen.
Owen, Thomas Mcadory was born on December 15, 1866 in Jonesboro, Alabama, United States. Son of Doctor William Marmadnke and Nancy L. (McAdory) Owen.
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws, University of Alabama, 1887, Master of Arts, 1893, Doctor of Laws, 1904.
John Hollis Bankhead, April 12, 1893. Practiced law Bessemer, Carrollton and Birmingham, Alabama, 1887-1901. Led in agitation resulting in establishment of Alabama State Department of Archives and History, 1901, later, director Has rare collection of Alabama and Southern Americana.
Founder, and president Alabama library association, since 1904.
Secretary Alabama Society South.R., since 1894. Commander-in-chief of United Sons of Confederation
Veterans, 1905-1907 (historian-general 1907-1917). Founder and 1st president Alabama Anthropological Society, 1909.
Founder Confederate History Club, February 4, 1911.
Author: City Code of Bessemer, Alabama, 1888. Bibliography of Alabama, 1897. Bibliography of Mississippi, 1899.
Annals of Alabama, 1819-1900 (addendum to 3d edit, Pickett’s History of Alabama), 1900.
Separate genealogies of Lester, Strother, Eaton, Stansel, Lacey, Kelly, Fisher and Ross families. History of Montgomery, Alabama, 1907.
Title “Alabama” in Catholic Cyclopedia. History of Alabama; Dictionary of Alabama Biography, 1920.
Editor transactions Alabama History Society, volumes
1 to 5, 1898-1905. Report Alabama History Commission, 1901. Editor Gulf States History Magazine, 1902-1903.
Editor publications Alabama State Department Archives and History.
Address: Montgomery, Alabama
Married Marie Susan, daughter