{"id":1058,"date":"2011-05-24T11:22:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2017-12-18T10:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T17:06:12","slug":"davis-donald-echard-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"DAVIS, DONALD ECHARD, 1916-2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Botanist; university professor. Born&#8211; January 12, 1916, Charleston, Ill. Parents&#8211; Leonard Ernest and Jessie Allie (Echard) Davis. Married&#8211; Dorothy Dale Richey, June 5, 1940. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Eastern Illinois State University, B.Ed., 1938;\u00a0 Ohio State University, M.S., 1940; Ph.D., 1947.\u00a0 Served in the U.S. Army during WWII; awarded four battle stars and the Combat Infantry\u00a0Medal. Oak Ridge Institute Fellow, 1951. Taught Plant physiology and ecology at Auburn University, 1952-1982. \u00a0Member American Society of Plant Physiologists; Weed Society of America; Alabama Academy of Science. Awarded status of\u00a0professor emeritus on his retirement in\u00a01982.\u00a0 Honorary D. Ped. by Eastern Illinois State University, 1956. \u00a0The Donald E. Davis Arboretum on the Auburn campus, dedicated in 1977, \u00a0is named in his honor. Died February 21, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest, 1975-1976, and Library of Alabama Lives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Effects of Herbicides on Submerged Seed Plants. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn University Department of Botany, 1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atrazine Fate and Effects in a Salt Marsh. Gulf Breeze, Fla.; Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>Guide and Key to Alabama Trees. Dubuque, Iowa; W. C. Brown, 1965. [Editions 2-5 published by Kendal\/Hunt, 1972-1999].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Botanist; university professor. Born&#8211; January 12, 1916, Charleston, Ill. Parents&#8211; Leonard Ernest and Jessie Allie (Echard) Davis. Married&#8211; Dorothy Dale Richey, June 5, 1940. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Eastern Illinois State University, B.Ed., 1938;\u00a0 Ohio State University, M.S., 1940; Ph.D., 1947.\u00a0 Served in the U.S. Army during WWII; awarded four battle stars and the Combat [&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-1058","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\/1058","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=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}