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William Davenport Latner (abt 1815 - 1900) and his wife Katherine "Kattie" Richardson Latner (1810-?) were both born in South Carolina. (Her name may be spelled with a "C." )

The couple moved to Hale County, Alabama, where he worked as a…

Born in 1935 in Sumter County, Alabama, Theophilus Yelverton Rogers, Jr., better known as T.Y. Rogers, Jr., came to Tuscaloosa in 1964, and he is credited with providing key leadership for the civil rights movement in Tuscaloosa.

Reverend Martin…

Sue Clarkson Phifer worked with her husband, J. Reese Phifer, to build a screen manufacturing giant, Phifer Wire Products, Inc. in Tuscaloosa. The couple founded the company in 1952.

Mrs. Phifer was chairman of the board of directors, having been…

Shandy Wesley Jones was born as a slave and freed as a child. He worked his way up to become Tuscaloosa's first elected black representative to the State House serving from 1868 to 1870. He was also a wealthy barber and real estate investor,…

A written account of Tuscaloosa's History by noted educator Clara Verner

This photo of Dr. Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins was taken at the induction of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame in 2016.  Wiggins, the University of Alabama, Department of History’s pioneering first female professor, earned her…

Samuel Minturn Peck was the first Poet Laureate of Alabama. He was born in Tuscaloosa on November 4, 1854 to Elisha Wolsey and Lucy Lamb Peck. His father was a New York attorney who came to Tuscaloosa to practice and who eventually became chief…

Sam Friedman was a pioneer in the development of Tuscaloosa and an authority on the history of the area.

Friedman was the son of the late Bernard Friedman, a Tuscaloosa merchant who immigrated from Hungary.

Friedman and his brother, Victor Hugo…

Samuel Clabaugh was a successful Tuscaloosa businessman and civic leader. In 1916, he was one of the founders of the Tuscaloosa Rotary Club and served as president of the club.
In the same year, a committee was appointed by the Tuscaloosa County…

Samuel Burney Hay is considered to be the first president of Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Ala., because it was under his tenure that the institution became a four-year college.

Hay was born in McAdenville, N.C. and was ordained as a…