{"id":1673,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1673"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"moore, william davis, 1882-1950  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"MOORE, WILLIAM DAVIS, 1882-1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engineer.  Born&#8211;  Hannibal, Mo., April 17, 1882.  Parents&#8211;  Joe and Emma  (Purkey) Moore.  Married&#8211;  Martha Valentine, June 3, 1908.  Children&#8211;  Three.  Education&#8211;  Galion, Ohio; Morgan Engineering Company, 1903.  Employed as a clerk, Erie Railroad, 1900-1903; mechanical engineer, Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, Ensley, Ala., 1906-1908; engineer, American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1908-1918; president, 1924-1946; president, Sand Span Pipe Corporation of America.  Member&#8211;  American Foundrymens Association, Cast Iron Pipe Research Association, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Steel Founders Society, and Newcomen Society. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 39.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Development of the Cast Iron Pressure Pipe Industry in the Southern                      States, 1800-1938.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Birmingham Publishing Co.,                     1939. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Engineer. Born&#8211; Hannibal, Mo., April 17, 1882. Parents&#8211; Joe and Emma (Purkey) Moore. Married&#8211; Martha Valentine, June 3, 1908. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; Galion, Ohio; Morgan Engineering Company, 1903. Employed as a clerk, Erie Railroad, 1900-1903; mechanical engineer, Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, Ensley, Ala., 1906-1908; engineer, American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 1908-1918; president, 1924-1946; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","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=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}