{"id":1055,"date":"2011-06-30T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T17:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2017-12-18T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:10:10","slug":"davis-george-jacob-1876-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"DAVIS, GEORGE JACOB, 1876-1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engineer; professor of engineering; university dean. Born&#8211; June 28, 1876, Washington, D.C. Parents George Jacob and Nora Ninette Jones Davis. \u00a0Married&#8211;\u00a0Ardelia Barbara\u00a0Meyer, June 28, 1905.\u00a0 Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended George Washington University; Cornell University, B.C.E., 1902. Taught engineering at\u00a0 the University of Wisconsin, 1902-1912; University of Alabama, 1912-1946; dean of the College of Engineering, 1912-46.\u00a0\u00a0Served as\u00a0engineer for the Alabama State Advisory Committee for Public Works, 1933.\u00a0 Designed bridges and tunnels for the Tuscaloosa city water works.\u00a0 One of the original twelve honorary judges for the Fisher Body Craftsman Guild, 1950-53. Member of\u00a0Phi Beta Kappa; International Rotary Club; Tuscaloosa Chamber of Commerce; Sons of the American Revolution; American Society of Civil Engineers and several other professional engineering organizations.\u00a0 Honorary D.Sci., University of Alabama, 1931. Died February 28, 1958.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Alumni Magazine, May-June 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, George Jacob.\u00a0 <em>Family History.\u00a0 <\/em>Tuscaloosa, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Files at Alabama Department of Archives and History.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Family History, With Special Emphasis on the Ancestors of the Brothers, Philip Christopher Davis, George Graham Davis, (and others). Tuscaloosa, Ala.; s.n., 1955.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography:\u00a0 Engineer; professor of engineering; university dean. Born&#8211; June 28, 1876, Washington, D.C. Parents George Jacob and Nora Ninette Jones Davis. \u00a0Married&#8211;\u00a0Ardelia Barbara\u00a0Meyer, June 28, 1905.\u00a0 Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Attended George Washington University; Cornell University, B.C.E., 1902. Taught engineering at\u00a0 the University of Wisconsin, 1902-1912; University of Alabama, 1912-1946; dean of the College of Engineering, [&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-1055","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\/1055","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=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7267,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/7267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}