Joel Campbell Du Bose

Joel Campbell DuBose (December 17, 1855 - March 7, 1917), also written Joel Campbell Du Bose was an educator, author, and state legislator in Alabama from 1903 to 1907.

[1][2][3][4][5][6] DuBose was born December 17, 1855, in Sumter County, Alabama, the son of Benjamin, a school teacher, and his wife Sarah.

DuBose attended the University of Alabama, earning his bachelor's degree in 1878, then his master's of art in 1882.

[7] With Alabama historian Thomas F. Owen, he founded the Gulf States Historical Magazine, a bi-monthly journal publishing on the history of the Gulf Coast of the United States, in 1902.

He took over as editor the second year, but lacking financial or institutional support the magazine folded.