1912

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

Events

• 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.
• 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.
• Birmingham Lodge No. 757 was chartered by the Grand Lodge of Alabama.
• The Brookside Social Club was founded.

Business

• E. B. Van Keuren founded an 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.
• The Birmingham Realty Company developed the Norwood residential subdivision.
• The 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.

Education

• James Shelborne succeeded Andrew Montague as President of Howard College.
• William A. Bell succeeded [James Bray]] as President of Miles College.
• 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.

Government

• The town of North Johns was incorporated.
• The Blount County town of Cleveland was incorporated.
• 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.
• 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.

Religion

• 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 pastor of Ruhama Baptist Church.
• Louis Pizitz succeeded Isadore Shapiro as president of the Young Men's Hebrew Association.
• George Eaves stepped down from the pulpit at Pilgrim Congregational Hall.
• J. W. Johnson succeeded L. C. Branscomb as pastor of First Methodist Church.
• R. E. Tyler succeeded L. A. Holmes as pastor of East Lake Methodist Church.
• P. L. Abernathy succeeded Robert Anderson as pastor of Avondale Methodist Church.

Sports

• April 11: Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Eddie Dent made his last Major League appearance.
• May 29: Washington Senators pitcher Ewart "Dixie" Walker made his last Major League appearance.
• Carlton Molesworth's 1912 Birmingham Barons won the Southern Association pennant.
• Lonnie Noojin succeeded John Longwell as coach of the Howard Bulldogs football team.

Individuals

• Kelly Ingram re-enlisted in the U.S. Navy.
• Oscar Underwood declined nomination for Vice President of the United States.
• A. H. Parker resigned from the Alabama Penny Savings Bank.
• November 5: B. O. Hargrove was promoted to Captain of Birmingham Fire Station No. 7.
• James Mitchell became president of Alabama Power Company.
• Eugene Yates became chief engineer of Alabama Power Company.
• Miller Reese Hutchison became chief engineer of Thomas Edison's laboratory

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 25: Jim Hayes, pitcher
• April 4: George Brownell, Jr, president of Brownell Travel
• April 20: Helen Davis, architect
• June 1: Julius "Little Man" Popwell, poker player
• June 30: Mamie Foster, educator
• August 7: Tom Drake, baseball player
• [{December 23]]: John Monro, professor at Harvard University and Miles College
• Francis Falkenburg, Alabama State Representative and manager of the Alabama Theatre
• Edward Friend, Jr, attorney
• W. C. Patton, NAACP executive
• Hugh Thomas, choral director at Birmingham-Southern College
• Joseph Woodward II, Woodward Iron Company executive and historian

Marriages

• August 7: Jack Bethea married Alice Sixbey.
• Mel Drennen married Eloise August Johnson in New York City.

Deaths

• August 13: 18 miners were killed in the 1912 Abernant Mine explosion.
• September 4: William Mailly, labor leader

Works

• January 6: The Survey published a special issue, "[Birmingham: Smelting Iron Ore and Civics]"

Buildings

Woodlawn Methodist Church was completed in 1912

• The American Trust and Savings Bank Building was completed downtown.
• Bluff Park United Methodist Church's frame building on Valley Street was constructed.
• Edgewood Park
• Ensley Christian Church was completed.
• Forbes Piano Company store at 1914 4th Avenue North
• T. S. Jackson residence
• Pell City High School
• Rehobeth Baptist Church of Lawley
• Stewart Hall at Miles College
• Windham Building in Smithfield
• Whatley Memorial Baptist Church was dedicated.
• T. Felton Wimberly residence
• Woodlawn Methodist Church opened.
• YWCA Birmingham

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