{"id":1049,"date":"2012-10-11T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T01:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2018-01-03T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:34:07","slug":"davis-posey-oliver-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1049","title":{"rendered":"DAVIS, POSEY OLIVER, 1890-1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Agricultural Extension Service official; college administrator; radio pioneer. \u00a0Born&#8211; August 15, 1890, Athens. Parents&#8211; Richard Scoggins and Elizabeth (Barker) Davis. Married&#8211; Mildred Kilburn, June 19, 1918. Education&#8211; Attended Potter College, Bowling Green, Ky.; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1916; graduate study at API. Employed by Agricultural Extension Service to work with 4-H Clubs, beginning in 1918;\u00a0 director of the Alabama\u00a0State Agricultural Extension Service, 1937-1959. Founded\u00a0 radio station WAPI at Auburn, which later became associated with the National Broadcasting Company, the first radio network in the state. . Executive secretary of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1932-37 (during this period the school was run by an administrative committee made up of three members, the &#8220;executive secretary&#8221; being one member). Member of Phi Kappa Phi, Masons, Shriners, and Kiwanis.\u00a0 Named Man of the Year in Alabama Agriculture, 1939, by the <em>Progressive Farmer<\/em> magazine; awarded a Citation for Distinguished Service to American Agriculture by the American Farm Bureau in 1946. Died January 17, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Library of Alabama Lives, 1961.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Century of Science on Alabama Farms. Auburn, Ala.; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1952.<\/p>\n<p>Extension Work:\u00a0 Its Origin, Nature, Value, and Opportunity.\u00a0 API, 1949.<\/p>\n<p>My Davis Ancestors and Relatives.\u00a0 N.P., n.d.<\/p>\n<p>One Man; Edward Asbury O&#8217;Neal III, of Alabama. Auburn, Ala.; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1951.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Posey Oliver Davis are held by the Ralph Brown Draughon Library at Auburn University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Agricultural Extension Service official; college administrator; radio pioneer. \u00a0Born&#8211; August 15, 1890, Athens. Parents&#8211; Richard Scoggins and Elizabeth (Barker) Davis. Married&#8211; Mildred Kilburn, June 19, 1918. Education&#8211; Attended Potter College, Bowling Green, Ky.; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S., 1916; graduate study at API. Employed by Agricultural Extension Service to work with 4-H Clubs, beginning in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7289,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/7289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}