Dr. Basil Manly, the Founder of the Alabama Historical Society (Classic Reprint)
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The late letters of Dr. Manly contain no reference to the bant ling he had so fondly cherished for five years. Indeed it is not supposed that he took any part in the work of the Society after 185 5. But an explanation for this is doubtless found in the fact not only that he was deeply absorbed in other matters, but also because of the association of the Historical Society with the Uni versity, by which it was supposed to be nourished and fostered. The story of the first five years of our history is full of interest, but no feature of it is more prominent than the noble work of him who founded and fostered it with so much patriotic zeal.
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John Owens journal of his removal from Virginia to Alabama in 1818
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Granville County, N.C., 1746-1800, History and Genealogies of Old.
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Thomas McAdory Owen was at one time Head of the Alabama State Dept. of Archives and History. In an explanatory note to these records, Mr. Owen states that he visited Granville County in 1895 to examine the official records for a genealogy of the Own and Grant families of Grassy Creek, also the Williams family. In the process, he conceived the idea of preparing a history of the county, and the county clerk placed at his disposal 10 of the old Minute and Record books prior to 1800. He noted that there were some gaps in the records, particularly from May 9, 1776 to Feb. 4, 1777, when apparently No court was held, as pagination was continuous in the Book. He abstracted just about everything and he listed the documents he did not abstract. This includes wills and inventories, bastardy bonds (lots of these), apprenticeship indentures, marriage bonds etc... Some documents that he considered important he copied in full. His notes start in 1746 and most stopped after the Revolution but he continued the marriage bonds to 1815. The records that this book is taken from are as follows: County court minutes Dec. 2, 1749 through Aug. 6, 1783 and Record Book 1750-1785, and selective Marriage License Bonds, Coroners Inquisitor.
History Of The First Regiment, Alabama Volunteer Infantry, C. S. A (1904)
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Thomas McAdory Owen was an American lawyer and historian.
Background
Thomas Owen was born on December 15, 1866, in Jefferson County, Alabama, eldest son of William Marmaduke and Nancy Lucretia (McAdory) Owen. His original ancestor in America was Thomas Owen, who emigrated from Wales to Virginia in the seventeenth century and became a tobacco planter in Henrico County. Descendants of his moved to Alabama Territory in 1818 from North Carolina. In every generation they had produced able lawyers, judges, and legislators. Thomas Owen's maternal ancestors were Scotch-Irish immigrants who were in South Carolina before the American Revolution. They were chiefly educators and maintained good private schools in various places in Alabama. William Marmaduke Owen was a planter and a physician.
Education
The family was impoverished after the Civil War and Thomas, having prepared for college at Pleasant Hill Academy, conducted by his uncle, Isaac W. McAdory, worked his way through the University of Alabama. He was graduated in 1887 with highest honors, receiving two degrees, those of A. B. and LL. B.
Career
From 1887 to 1901 Thomas Owen practised law in Jefferson County, Alabama, at Bessemer, 1887-94, at Carrollton, 1897-1900, and at Birmingham, 1900-01. From 1894 to 1897 he was chief clerk, division of post-office inspectors, Post-Office Department, Washington, D. C. He was city solicitor of Bessemer, 1890-92, and assistant solicitor of Jefferson County, 1892. Owen might have attained distinction at the bar if his interest in Alabama history had not been so absorbing. He had a passion for the preservation of historical materials and collected them assiduously. He spent much of his time writing and speaking on the history of Alabama to groups in all parts of the state. Much concerned over the destruction of historical materials which he saw going on, he determined to devise some plan for their preservation. The result of his efforts was an act of the Alabama legislature passed February 27, 1901, establishing a Department of Archives and History, which was charged with the responsibility of preserving materials relating to the history of the state. This was the first state department of archives to be established in the United States and it furnished the pattern for such departments founded later by other states and finally by the federal government. Owen was elected, March 2, 1901, its first director, and he was reelected every six years until his death.
A good organizer and executive, Owen was able, despite a small budget, to collect an amount of material that has made the Alabama Department of Archives and History invaluable to historical scholars. He felt that his position as director obligated him to foster interest in history in the South. Accordingly, he took an active part in all the organizations which were connected with that field. He was one of the founders of the Southern History Association in April 1896; founder in 1907 and president until his death of the Alabama Anthropological Society; secretary of the Alabama Historical Society from its reorganization in 1898 until its activities were taken over by the Department of Archives and History in 1904; founder in 1904 and lifelong president of the Alabama Library Association; and president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Society (1907 - 08).
Owen edited a vast amount of historical material. His editorial work includes the Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society (1898 - 1904), the Official and Statistical Register of Alabama (1903 - 19), and Pickett's History of Alabama, which he supplemented under the subtitle Annals of Alabama, 1819-1900. He also compiled "Bibliography of Alabama, " published in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1897 (1898), an exhaustive and scholarly work. He was the author of the History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (1921) and of numerous genealogies and articles on historical subjects. He died of a heart ailment at his home in Montgomery, survived by his wife and one of his two sons, Thomas McAdory, Jr.
Achievements
Thomas Owen was founder of the Alabama Department of Archives and History and its first director (1901-1920).
Thomas Owen's major works: the Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society (1898 - 1904); the Official and Statistical Register of Alabama (1903 - 19); Annals of Alabama 1819-1900; Bibliography of Alabama (1898); the History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (1921).
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Membership
Thomas Owen was a founding member of the Southern History Association; founder and president of the Alabama Anthropological Society; secretary of the Alabama Historical Society; founder and president of the Alabama Library Association; and president of the Mississippi Valley Historical Society.
Connections
On April 12, 1893, Thomas Owen married Susan Bankhead, daughter of Senator John H. Bankhead of Alabama.
