Marvin Whiting
Marvin Whiting (born 1934 in Fort Valley, Georgia; died November 2010) was an archivist, historian and curator of the Birmingham History Center.
Whiting earned a bachelor of arts in literature at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, then attended divinity school at Yale University for a year before returning to emory for a bachelor's in divinity at the Candler School of Theology. He married in 1960 and served as minister at two small Methodist churches in southwest Georgia for the next two years. In 1964 he became an assistant to the headmaster at the Lovett School in Atlanta, then returned to Emory for a master of arts in American colonial history. He completed a Ph.D. in a program jointly directed by Columbia University and the Union Theological Seminary in 1970, then taught at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida for four years. He returned again to Emory to complete a second master's in librarianship with a specialty in archival management, then joined the staff of the Birmingham Public Library.
Whiting spent 20 years as an archivist for the Birmingham library and also held adjunct faculty positions at Birmingham-Southern College, UAB, and the University of Alabama. He has authored several books on Methodist history and local history.
Publications
- Whiting, Marvin Yeomans ( ) The Bearing Day Is Not Gone : The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary History Of Independent Presbyterian Church
- Whiting, Marvin Yeomans ( ) Fairfield : Past, Present, Future, 1910-1985
- Whiting, Marvin Yeomans ( ) Mission By The River : The Beginnings Of Kirkwood
- Whiting, Marvin Yeomans ( ) One Great City : The Campaign For Consolidated Government, Birmingham, Alabama, 1970-1971
- Whiting, Marvin Yeomans ( ) The Problem Of Authority In Early American Methodism : 1773-1787
- Whiting, Marvin Yeomans ( ) Religious Literature In Virginia, 1685-1786 : A Preface To A Study In The History Of Ideas
- Whiting, Marvin Yeomans ( ) The Shepherd And The Sheep : Reflections On An Image And Its Place In The History Of Early American Methodism
- Whiting, Marvin Yeomans ( ) Vestavia Hills, Alabama : A Place Apart
References
- Baggett, James L. (2001) "Marvin Whiting" profile for Alabama Bound - accessed November 28, 2010