1913

1913 was the 4nd year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

• George Ward succeeded Culpepper Exum as President of the Birmingham City Commission.
• George Huddleston, Sr succeeded Oscar Underwood as Representative for the 9th Congressional District of Alabama.
• A tornado damaged St Andrew's Episcopal Church.
• Howard College admitted its first female students.
• The Birmingham Public Library Board succeeded the Birmingham Public Library Association.
• St Stanislaus Parish was established in Wylam.
• St Joseph's Catholic Church was established in Ensley.
• Miss Fancy was purchased from a failed circus by the Birmingham Advertising Club and displayed in Avondale Park.
• Henry Edmonds became pastor of South Highland Presbyterian Church.
• Lloyd Noland was hired by the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company to reorganized their employee health department.
• John Wesley Gilbert succeeded William A. Bell as president of Miles College.
• A. Feinsilver succeeded J. T. Loeb as rabbi of Knesseth Israel Congregation.
• Calera Lodge No. 445 began meeting at the Bondurant and Burke Drug Store.
• February 6: The Rotary Club of Birmingham was chartered.
• October 1: The USS Birmingham (CL-2) was recommissioned and sent to carry officials of the Panama-Pacific Exposition on a South American tour.
• Patti Ruffner Jacobs addressed the annual convention of the National Woman's Suffrage Association in Washington D. C.
• Dean William B. Oliver left his position with the University of Alabama School of Law.
• The Avondale Regional Library joined the Birmingham Public Library system.
• Adna Moore became pastor of the Pilgrim Church.

Business

• The Jack Daniel Distilling Company opened on 2nd Avenue North.
• The Oak Hill Memorial Association took over management of Oak Hill Cemetery.
• George Crawford and Robert Jemison, Jr began planning construction of the Tutwiler Hotel.
• H. M. Newsome purchased the Bonita Theater, later rebuilding it as the Rialto.
• The Birmingham Tidewater Railway began passenger service between Ensley and East Lake.
• Hand picks supplanted mechanical coal cutters at the Brookside mine.
• Actor Henry Walthall signed a contract with Reliance-Majestic Studios in Los Angeles, California.
• Ranson & Son Grocery opened.
• Browdy's delicatessen opened.
• Franklin Glass was appointed to fill the vacant seat left by the death of Senator Joseph Johnston, but was not confirmed. Francis White was seated in 1914.
• August 3: The Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Company began servicing the No. 7 Wylam-Bush Hills streetcar line.
• December 23: The Birmingham, Selma & Pensacola Railroad was acquired by Birmingham, Selma & Mobile Railroad.

Sports

• The 8-0 Auburn Tigers won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association football championship.
• Guy Tutwiler played his final season for the Detroit Tigers.
• Lonnie Noojin played his final season in the minor leagues.
• Howard College went 5-3-1 under coach Lonnie Noojin.

Works

Buildings

• Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rosedale
• City Federal Building
• Ensley First United Methodist Church
• Howell-Porter House
• Pythian Temple (Alabama Penny Savings Bank building)
• Ridgely Apartments (now the Tutwiler Hotel)
• Trianon Theatre
• The Roden Hotel was begun, but construction was halted and the steel frame demolished for scrap.
• Rebie Hall was destroyed by fire.

Individuals

Births

• January 31: Don Hutson, football player
• February 14: Mel Allen, sports announcer
• March 12: Loulie Jean Norman, operatic soprano
• April 1: Buster Bray, baseball player
• June 20: Al Gallodoro, saxophone player
• July 1: Wedo Martini, baseball player
• July 16: George Seibels, Mayor of Birmingham
• September 11: Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach
• October 13: Kenneth Daniel, ACIPCO president
• October 27: Robert Waldrop, Mayor of Homewood
• [{December 20]]: Carl Elliott, U. S. congressman
• Jack Brazleton, comptroller and aviator
• Jessie Johnson, daughter of Crawford and Caroline Johnson.
• Nell Williams, socialite and murder victim

Awards

• Tom Stewart was admitted to the Alabama Bar.
• Octavus Roy Cohen was admitted to the South Carolina Bar.
• Kirkman O'Neal graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy.

Deaths

• May 16: Louise Wooster, madame
• August 8: Joseph Johnston, Governor of Alabama and U. S. Senator
• November 26: Rufus Cobb, Governor of Alabama

Context

1910s

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