Amelia Gayle Gorgas
Encyclopedia
Amelia Gayle Gorgas was librarian and post-mistress of the University of Alabama
for 25 years until her retirement at the age of eighty in 1907. She expanded the library from 6,000 to 20,000 volumes. The primary library at the university is named after her.
Amelia was the daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle, the wife of Pennsylvania
-born Confederate
general Josiah Gorgas
and the mother of Surgeon General William C. Gorgas
. She was elected to the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.
University of Alabama
The University of Alabama is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States....
for 25 years until her retirement at the age of eighty in 1907. She expanded the library from 6,000 to 20,000 volumes. The primary library at the university is named after her.
Amelia was the daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle, the wife of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
-born Confederate
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...
general Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas
Josiah Gorgas was one of the few Northern-born Confederate generals and was later president of the University of Alabama....
and the mother of Surgeon General William C. Gorgas
William C. Gorgas
William Crawford Gorgas KCMG was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army...
. She was elected to the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1973.