Cola Barr Craig (née, Barr; pen name, Benjamin H. Craig; March 17, 1861 – January 20, 1930) was an author of the American South who wrote short stories and a novel. Also a clubwoman, she served as president of several organizations including the United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C.),[1] the Memorial Association of Selma, Alabama, and United Charities of Selma.[2]
Craig served as president of the U.D.C., of the Memorial Association, of the United Charities of Selma, vice-president Anti-Suffrage association of the U.D.C.[1] With Mrs. James S. Pinckard, Craig attempted to co-organize a branch of the Southern Women's Rejection League, but the attempt failed.[4]
She was the county chair, State council of defense, and chair, Dallas county committee on food conservation and production, during World War I. She was one of the originators of the movement which resulted in the first hospital in Selma, owned by the United Charities. She was a member of the Ossian Club, a literary organization, and secretary-treasurer of the "Scribblers", the first organized writers club in Alabama. She was a Presbyterian; and a Democrat.[1]
Craig was the author of Was-She, and The Contrast (unpublished), and of numerous short stories and poems.[1]
^ abcdefghOwen, Thomas McAdory (1921). "Craig, Mrs. Cola Barr". History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Vol. 3. S. J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 412. Retrieved 28 November 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^Jackson, Walter Mahan (1954). The Story of Selma. Superintendent of Schools ; [The Birmingham printing Company]. p. 464. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
^Stanton, Elizabeth Cady; Anthony, Susan Brownell; Gage, Matilda Joslyn; Harper, Ida Husted (1922). History of Woman Suffrage: 1900-1920. Fowler & Wells. p. 338. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.