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==Events==
==Events==
* [[January 14]]: A fire broke out on [[2nd Avenue North]], damaging the [[Molton Building]] and causing flooding in the adjacent [[Bell Building]], resulting in a city-wide telephone outage for nearly two weeks.
* [[February 3]]: [[William H. Sims]] gave his address, "Why Not Woman's Suffrage in Alabama?" to the [[Quid pro Quo Club]].
* Spring: The [[1912 West End tornado]] pulled up fences at [[Rickwood Field]].
* Spring: The [[1912 West End tornado]] pulled up fences at [[Rickwood Field]].
* [[April 20]]: The light cruiser ''[[USS Birmingham (CL-2)]]'' reverted to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia
* [[August 13]]: The [[1912 Abernant Mine explosion]] killed 18 miners.
* [[October 2]]: The [[Ringling Bros. Circus]] performed in Birmingham
* [[October 9]]-[[October 18|18]]: [[1912 Alabama State Fair]]
* [[October 11]]: [[Buffalo Bill's Wild West|Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East]] performed in [[Tuscaloosa]].
* [[Birmingham Lodge No. 757]] was chartered by the [[Grand Lodge of Alabama]].
* The [[Brookside Social Club]] was founded.
* The [[Birmingham City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs]] was organized.


===Business===
===Business===
* [[E. B. Van Keuren]] founded an [[Davis Architects|architecture firm]].
* Under the direction of company president [[George Crawford]], the practice of [[convict leasing]] was abandoned at [[TCI]]'s mines.
* [[May 8]]: [[ACIPCO]] employees were given access to a new bathhouse with hot and cold running water.
* [[September 5]]: The [[Birmingham, Ensley & Bessemer Railroad]] began passenger service to western [[Jefferson County]].
* [[September 22]]: Publisher [[Victor Hanson]] launched a Sunday edition of ''[[The Birmingham News]]''.
* [[September 22]]: Publisher [[Victor Hanson]] launched a Sunday edition of ''[[The Birmingham News]]''.
* The [[Birmingham Realty Company]] developed the [[Norwood]] residential subdivision.
* The [[Standard Furniture|Standard Furnishing Company]] was founded.
* [[TCI]]'s [[Ensley Works]] produced 840,000 tons of steel.
* The [[Southern Iron & Steel Company]] failed and its assets were sold to the [[Gulf States Steel Company]].
* The [[Red Mountain Mining & Manufacturing Company]] was dissolved.
* [[Henry Milner]] organized the [[Milner Land Company]].
* The [[Great Southern Automobile Company]] opened sales rooms in the [[Empire Building]].
* The [[Young & Vann Supply Company]] moved into the [[Young & Vann Building|Anheuser-Busch Distribution Warehouse]] on [[1st Avenue North]].
* The [[Jemison Real Estate & Insurance Company]] remodeled the ground floor of the [[Fox Building]] as a public market hall.
* [[Ray McMillan]] purchased the [[Shelby Springs]] resort.
* [[American Printing Co.]] opened.
* The [[Birmingham-Tidewater Railway|Birmingham, Tidewater & Coast Railroad]] was organized.
* The [[Harris Transfer Company]] began operating motorized moving vans.
* [[White Dairy]] was founded.


=== Education ===
=== Education ===
* [[George Denny]] succeeded [[John Abercrombie]] as [[List of University of Alabama presidents|President]] of the [[University of Alabama]].
* [[James Shelborne]] succeeded [[Andrew Montague]] as [[List of Samford University presidents|President]] of [[Howard College]].
* [[James Shelborne]] succeeded [[Andrew Montague]] as [[List of Samford University presidents|President]] of [[Howard College]].
* [[William Bell (Miles College)|William A. Bell]] succeeded [James Bray]] as [[List of Miles College presidents|President]] of [[Miles College]].
* [[Roy Dimmitt]] succeeded [[R. E. Tidwell]] as principal of [[Ensley High School]].   
* [[Roy Dimmitt]] succeeded [[R. E. Tidwell]] as principal of [[Ensley High School]].   
* [[September 12]]: The trustees of the [[Birmingham Medical College]] transferred its building and land to the [[University of Alabama]].
* [[J. E. Jeffrey]] succeeded [[J. A. Morgan]] as principal of the [[Moore School]] in [[Ensley]].
* The [[McCaw School|South Pratt Community School]] was founded.


=== Government ===
=== Government ===
* The town of [[North Johns]] was incorporated.
* The town of [[North Johns]] was incorporated.
* The [[Blount County]] town of [[Cleveland]] was incorporated.
* [[Hugo Black]] resigned from the [[Birmingham Police Court]].
* [[Hugo Black]] resigned from the [[Birmingham Police Court]].
* [[John Abercrombie]] was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
* [[John Hearst Miller]] was elected to the [[Birmingham Municipal Court]].
* [[H. T. Caffey]] succeeded [[M. J. Sharp]] as [[Mayor of Leeds|Mayor]] of [[Leeds]].
* The [[United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Alabama]] was changed to the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama]].
* [[David McLendon]] was elected [[Jefferson County Tax Assessor]].


=== Religion ===
=== Religion ===
* [[Willis Clark]] succeeded [[Raimundo deOvies]] as pastor of [[St Andrew's Episcopal Church]].
* [[Willis Clark]] succeeded [[Raimundo deOvies]] as pastor of [[St Andrew's Episcopal Church]].
* [[John Plunker]] resigned from the pulpit of [[South Highland Presbyterian Church]].
* [[James R. Edwards]] succeeded [[Willis W. Lee]] as [[List of pastors of Ruhama Baptist Church|pastor]] of [[Ruhama Baptist Church]].
* [[Louis Pizitz]] succeeded [[Isadore Shapiro]] as president of the [[Levite Jewish Community Center|Young Men's Hebrew Association]].
* [[George Eaves]] stepped down from the pulpit at [[Pilgrim Church|Pilgrim Congregational Hall]].
* [[J. W. Johnson]] succeeded [[L. C. Branscomb]] as pastor of [[First United Methodist Church|First Methodist Church]].
* [[R. E. Tyler]] succeeded [[L. A. Holmes]] as pastor of [[East Lake United Methodist Church|East Lake Methodist Church]].
* [[P. L. Abernathy]] succeeded [[Robert Anderson]] as pastor of [[Avondale United Methodist Church|Avondale Methodist Church]].
* [[E. C. McVoy]] became pastor of [[Highlands United Methodist Church|Highlands Methodist Church]].
* The [[Birmingham-Easonian Baptist Bible College|Birmingham Baptist College]] was rechartered under the [[Colored Baptist Educational Association]] and moved to [[Powderly]].
* Methodist-Episcopal pastor [[William Simmons]] was suspended for inefficiency.
* A portion of the congregation of [[Oak Grove Cumberland Presbyterian Church]] merged with [[Rosedale Cumberland Presbyterian Church]] to form [[Edgewood Presbyterian Church]].
* [[Mountain Brook Methodist Church]] was founded in [[Crestline Village]].
* [[First Baptist Church of Sylacauga|Sylacauga Baptist Church]] changed its name to [[First Baptist Church of Sylacauga]].


===Sports===
===Sports===
* [[April 11]]: Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher [[Eddie Dent]] made his last Major League appearance.
* [[May 29]]: Washington Senators pitcher [[Ewart Walker|Ewart "Dixie" Walker]] made his last Major League appearance.
* [[Carlton Molesworth]]'s [[1912 Birmingham Barons]] won the [[Southern Association]] pennant.
* [[Carlton Molesworth]]'s [[1912 Birmingham Barons]] won the [[Southern Association]] pennant.
 
* [[Lonnie Noojin ]] succeeded [[John Longwell]] as coach of the [[Samford Bulldogs football|Howard Bulldogs]] football team.
* [[Mike Donahue]] established a men's soccer program at the [[Auburn Tigers|Alabama Polytechnic Institute]] in [[Auburn]].


==Individuals==
==Individuals==
* [[November 5]]: [[B. O. Hargrove]] was promoted to Captain of [[Birmingham Fire Station No. 7]].
* [[Mary Echols]] became Grand Matron of the [[Alabama Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star]].
* [[John Gallalee]] joined the faculty of the [[University of Alabama]].
* [[Carrie Hill]] trained at Arthur Freedlander's "plein air school" on Martha's Vineyard.
* [[G. M. Howle]] and [[J. T. Howle]], publishers of ''[[Howle's Iconoclast]]'', were charged with libel.
* [[Miller Reese Hutchison]] became chief engineer of Thomas Edison's laboratory
* [[Kelly Ingram]] re-enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
* [[Kelly Ingram]] re-enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
* [[Oscar Underwood]] declined nomination for Vice President of the United States
* [[James Mitchell]] became president of [[Alabama Power Company]].
* [[Lewis Morris]] succeeded [[Rhett Goode]] as dean of the [[Birmingham Medical College|Birmingham Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical College]].
* [[A. H. Parker]] resigned from the [[Alabama Penny Savings Bank]].
* [[William Rushton Sr]] was named president of the [[Atlantic Ice and Coal Corporation]].
* [[Oscar Underwood]] declined nomination for Vice President of the United States.
* [[Clement Wood]] was appointed an assistant City Attorney for Birmingham.
* [[Eugene Yates]] became chief engineer of [[Alabama Power Company]].


===Births===
===Births===
* [[January 11]]: [[Hugh Stubbins Jr]], architect
* [[January 12]]: [[Howard Bailey]], football player
* [[January 13]]: [[George Gaunt]], architect
* [[January 15]]: [[Leon Medlock]], [[Birmingham Police Department]]
* [[February 12]]: [[Paul Bascomb]], jazz saxophonist
* [[February 25]]: [[Millard Hayes]], pitcher
* [[March 3]]: [[Samuel Barker]], first dean of [[UAB Graduate School]]
* [[April 4]]: [[George Brownell Jr]], president of [[Brownell Travel]]
* [[April 16]]: [[Billy Edmundson]], president of [[Southern Toy Co.]]
* [[April 20]]: [[Helen Davis]], architect
* [[May 8]]: [[William Chambers]], architect
* [[May 10]]: [[Laurie Battle]], U.S. House of Representatives
* [[June 1]]: [[Little Man Popwell|Julius "Little Man" Popwell]], poker player
* [[June 1]]: [[Little Man Popwell|Julius "Little Man" Popwell]], poker player
* [[June 16]]: [[Dorothy Levy]], [[United Ability]] co-founder
* [[June 30]]: [[Mamie Foster]], educator
* [[August 7]]: [[Tom Drake]], baseball player
* [[August 7]]: [[Tom Drake]], baseball player
* [[November 7]]: [[Joe Gunther]], professional wrestler and wrestling promoter
* [[December 23]]: [[John Monro]], professor at Harvard University and [[Miles College]]
* [[James Bailey]], [[Mayor of Leeds]]
* [[Francis Falkenburg]], [[Alabama State House of Representatives|Alabama State Representative]] and manager of the [[Alabama Theatre]]
* [[Edward Friend Jr]], attorney
* [[Dona Hardekopf]], actress and charity director
* [[Herman Long]], social scientist, [[Talladega College]] and UNCF president
* [[Herbert Longenecker]], biochemist and Tulane University president
* [[W. C. Patton]], NAACP executive
* [[Hugh Thomas]], choral director at [[Birmingham-Southern College]]
* [[Joseph Woodward II]], [[Woodward Iron Company]] executive and historian


===Awards===
===Awards===


===Graduations===
===Graduations===
* [[Henry Badham Jr]] earned a degree from Yale University.
* [[John Persons]] graduated from the [[University of Alabama School of Law]].


===Marriages===
* [[August 7]]: [[Jack Bethea]] married [[Alice Bethea|Alice Sixbey]].
* [[December 12]]: Architect [[William Warren]] married the former [[Dorthea Warren|Dorthea Orr]].
* [[Mel Drennen]] married [[Eloise Drennen|Eloise August Johnson]] in New York City.
* Aspiring architect [[Carolyn Smith|Carolyn Cortner]] married Wilburn Blanks Smith.


===Retirements===
===Retirements===
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===Deaths===
===Deaths===
 
* [[January 14]]: [[J. F. B. Jackson]], business investor
* [[March 5]]: [[George Scoville]], hotelier
* [[August 13]]: 18 miners were killed in the [[1912 Abernant Mine explosion]].
* [[September 4]]: [[William Mailly]], labor leader
* [[October 8]]: [[Nelson Barker]], banker


==Works==
==Works==
* [[January 6]]: ''The Survey'' published a special issue, "[[http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/u?/p4017coll8,677 Birmingham: Smelting Iron Ore and Civics]]"
* [[January 6]]: ''The Survey'' published a special issue, "[[http://bplonline.cdmhost.com/u?/p4017coll8,677 Birmingham: Smelting Iron Ore and Civics]]".
* [[Joseph Zoettl]] began constructing miniatures at [[St Bernard Abbey]], eventually creating the [[Ave Maria Grotto]].
* ''The Abolition Crusade and Its Consequences,'' by [[Hilary Herbert]]
* [[Birmingham]]'s [[Revolutionary War Veterans Memorial]] was commissioned by the [[General Sumter Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution]].


===Buildings===
===Buildings===
* [[Edgewood Park]]
[[Image:Woodlawn Methodist 1920s.jpg|right|thumb|275px|[[Woodlawn United Methodist Church|Woodlawn Methodist Church]] was completed in 1912]]
* [[American Trust and Savings Bank Building|John A. Hand Building]]
* [[John A. Hand Building|American Trust and Savings Bank Building]] at 2001 [[1st Avenue North (Downtown)|1st Avenue North]]
* [[Bluff Park United Methodist Church]]'s frame building on [[Valley Street]]
* [[Burnett Building]] at 1816–1818 [[2nd Avenue North (Downtown)|2nd Avenue North]]
* [[Edgewood Park]] and [[Edgewood Highlands]] subdivision
* [[Ensley Christian Church]] was completed.
* [[Forbes Building]] for [[Forbes Piano Company]] on [[4th Avenue North]]
* [[Graves Building]] on [[2nd Avenue North]]
* [[T. S. Jackson residence]]
* [[T. S. Jackson residence]]
* [[Kaulton]] mill town near [[Tuscaloosa]].
* [[Matsuyama]], the [[Louis Clark]] country estate in [[Chalkville]]
* [[Pell City High School]]
* [[Rehobeth Baptist Church of Lawley]]
* [[The Richmond]] apartments on [[Highland Avenue]]
* [[Stewart Hall]] at [[Miles College]]
* [[Stewart Hall]] at [[Miles College]]
* Addition to the [[Summit School]] / [[Summit Baptist Church]] in [[Bluff Park]]
* [[Tuscaloosa Amtrak Station|Tuscaloosa Southern Railroad Depot]]
* [[Windham Building]] in [[Smithfield]]
* [[Windham Building]] in [[Smithfield]]
* [[Huffman Baptist Church|Whatley Memorial Baptist Church]] was dedicated.
* [[T. Felton Wimberly residence]]
* [[Woodlawn United Methodist Church|Woodlawn Methodist Church]] opened.
* [[YWCA Birmingham]]
* [[Tuscaloosa]]'s [[Greensboro Avenue]] was paved.
* [[October 27]]: The cornerstone for the [[Convent of Perpetual Adoration]] and [[Blessed Sacrament Academy]] in [[West End]] was laid.
====Demolitions====
* The west half of the [[McAdory Building]] was taken down to make room for the [[John A. Hand Building|American Trust and Savings Bank Building]].


==Context==
==Context==
The year 1912 saw
The year 1912 saw the formal establishment of the Republic of China.  New Mexico became the 47th state; Arizona became the 48th.  Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four became the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole.  The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low.  The Mayor of Tokyo gave 3,000 cherry trees to be planted in Washington, D.C.  The RMS ''Titanic'' sank, killing 1,517 passengers and crew.  The Olympic Games took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The Novarupta volcano formed on the Alaska Peninsula. Emperor Meiji of Japan died and was succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who became Emperor Taishō. Woodrow Wilson defeated incumbent William Howard Taft and former president Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential election. The skull of paleoanthropological hoax Piltdown Man was presented to the Geological Society of London.


Notable fiction published in 1912 included
Notable fiction published in 1912 included ''The Lost World'' by Arthur Conan Doyle, ''Riders of the Purple Sage'' by Zane Grey, ''The Judgement'' by Franz Kafka, ''Death in Venice'' by Thomas Mann; ''Tarzan of the Apes'' by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and ''The Tale of Mr. Tod'' by Beatrix Potter.


Notable music released in 1912 included
Notable music released in 1912 included the premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 9" and the publication of W. C. Handy's "The Memphis Blues". Senator Elihu Root was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating the U.S. entry into World War I in opposition to the German Empire.


Notable births in 1912 included
Notable births in 1912 included actors Dale Evans, José Ferrer, Gene Kelly, Eleanor Powell, and Cornel Wilde; artist Jackson Pollock; cartoonists Charles Addams and Chuck Jones; Korean president  Kim Il-sung; figure skater Sonja Henie; first ladies Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon; golfer Sam Snead; humorist Minnie Pearl; mathematician Alan Turing; musicians John Cage, Perry Como, Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins, Georg Solti, and Sonny Boy Williamson II; photographer Gordon Parks; Pope John Paul I; scientist Wernher von Braun; television host Art Linkletter; and writer Studs Terkel.


Deaths included those of
Deaths included those of activist William Booth; architects Frank Furness and Richard Norman Shaw; artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema; author Bram Stoker; aviator Wilbur Wright; French politician Henri Brisson; Japanese Emperor Meiji; nurse Clara Barton; surgeon Joseph Lister;


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1912 was the 41st year after the founding of the city of Birmingham.

Events

Business

Education

Government

Religion

Sports

Individuals

Births

Awards

Graduations

Marriages

Retirements

Deaths

Works

Buildings

Woodlawn Methodist Church was completed in 1912

Demolitions

Context

The year 1912 saw the formal establishment of the Republic of China. New Mexico became the 47th state; Arizona became the 48th. Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four became the second expeditionary group to reach the South Pole. The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low. The Mayor of Tokyo gave 3,000 cherry trees to be planted in Washington, D.C. The RMS Titanic sank, killing 1,517 passengers and crew. The Olympic Games took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The Novarupta volcano formed on the Alaska Peninsula. Emperor Meiji of Japan died and was succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who became Emperor Taishō. Woodrow Wilson defeated incumbent William Howard Taft and former president Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential election. The skull of paleoanthropological hoax Piltdown Man was presented to the Geological Society of London.

Notable fiction published in 1912 included The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle, Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey, The Judgement by Franz Kafka, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann; Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, and The Tale of Mr. Tod by Beatrix Potter.

Notable music released in 1912 included the premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 9" and the publication of W. C. Handy's "The Memphis Blues". Senator Elihu Root was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating the U.S. entry into World War I in opposition to the German Empire.

Notable births in 1912 included actors Dale Evans, José Ferrer, Gene Kelly, Eleanor Powell, and Cornel Wilde; artist Jackson Pollock; cartoonists Charles Addams and Chuck Jones; Korean president Kim Il-sung; figure skater Sonja Henie; first ladies Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon; golfer Sam Snead; humorist Minnie Pearl; mathematician Alan Turing; musicians John Cage, Perry Como, Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins, Georg Solti, and Sonny Boy Williamson II; photographer Gordon Parks; Pope John Paul I; scientist Wernher von Braun; television host Art Linkletter; and writer Studs Terkel.

Deaths included those of activist William Booth; architects Frank Furness and Richard Norman Shaw; artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema; author Bram Stoker; aviator Wilbur Wright; French politician Henri Brisson; Japanese Emperor Meiji; nurse Clara Barton; surgeon Joseph Lister;

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