Letters and list, 1934-1976 and n.d.

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Letters and list, 1934-1976 and n.d.

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Letters, 1934-1976, and list, n.d., to Juliet P. Dixon. Of particular interest is the 1934 June 22 letter of J.M. Donner to Dixon which contains a speech Donner made for Frank M. Dixon as Dixon attempted to become Governor of Ala. Other subjects discussed include: prohibition--Ala.; the State Docks of Ala.; insurance--Ala.: World War, 1939-1945; and several letters, 1941, from gubernational descendants on a fashion show for the British War Relief Committee and whether they could supply gowns of the wives of Ala. Governors; the 1941 Mar. 8 letter contains a list of governors and their descendants; the presentation, 1942, of the portrait of Gov. Dixon to Ala., and the letter containing the speech made by Robert T. Simpson, Jr.; and a letter, 1976, from Milo B. Howard, Ala. Dept. of Archives and History, regarding the identification of photographs. There are also the second and third pages of a list, n.d. There is a gap from 1943-1975 where no letters appear. Among the correspondents were F.M. Bonner, W. Arthur Abramson, Walter B. Jones, Mrs. Harvey B. Ware, A.M. Lockett, Mary Gayle Gorgas, Eva Comer Ryding, Robert T. Simpson, Jr., and Milo B. Howard, Jr.

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Ware, Harvey B., Mrs.

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Bonner, F.M.

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British War Relief Committee.

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Jones, Walter B. (Walter Bryan), 1895-1977

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Dixon, Juliet P. (Juliet Polly Perry), ca.1900-ca.1980.

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Juliet Perry was born ca.1900 to Samuel and Juliet Jolly Perry in Birmingham, Ala. She graduated from Phillips High School in Birmingham, in 1917, and attended Columbia University. During the World War, 1914-1918, she was in the Volunteer Relief Association. She married Frank M. Dixon 1920 Nov. 3 in Birmingham, Ala. She was active in the American Legion Auxiliary, and its successor, the Junior League, as well as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the UDC, and the ...

Ryding, Eva Comer.

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Gorgas, Mary Gayle.

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Lockett, A.M.

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Howard, Milo B.

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Abramson, W. Arthur.

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Dixon, Frank M. (Frank Murray), 1892-1965

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Dixon was born 1892 July 25 to Frank and Launa Murray Dixon in Oakland, Cal. In 1906 he entered Phillips Academy in Exeter, N.H.; then attended Columbia University for one term. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1916 with an LL.B., and was admitted to the Ala. bar in 1917. That same year he entered the U.S. Army and fought overseas in World War I. He was attached to the French Army as an aerial observer. On 1918 July 21 he was wounded, which caused the amputation of hi...

Simpson, Robert T.

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