{"id":1765,"date":"2016-03-08T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2018-11-29T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:23:58","slug":"mcgraw-edgar-leon-1917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"McGRAW, EDGAR LEON, 1917-1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor; teacher. Born&#8211; July 21, 1917, Anderson, Lauderdale County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Lee Andrew and Louisa Idenia (Nix) McGraw. Married&#8211; Jonnie Faye Richardson, April 6, 1938. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of North Alabama, 1935-1937; B.S., 1941; M.S., 1949, additional study, Auburn University; University of Kentucky. Employed as an elementary school teacher, Lauderdale County, 1937-1939; assistant editor, Auburn University&#8217;s Cooperative Extension Service, 1941-1944; U.S. Army, 1944-1945; taught vocational agriculture, Town Creek, 1944-1948; subject matter specialist in vocational agriculture, Auburn University, 1948-1957; associate editor, Auburn University&#8217;s Agricultural Experiment Station, 1957-1968; head, Department of Research Information and Editor, Auburn University&#8217;s Agricultural Experiment Station, 1968-1982; edited, Auburn University Self Study, 1982-1983; Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1984-1986. Member&#8211; Phi Delta Kappa, Gamma Sigma Delta, Kappa Delta Pi; served as secretary-treasurer, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists; president, Auburn Lions Club.\u00a0 Died December 10, 1987.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edgar Leon McGraw, Auburn, Ala.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farm Business Management. Auburn, Ala.; Auburn Printing Co., 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Geography of Alabama; Her Land and People. Montgomery, Ala.; Viewpoint, 1966.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vertebrate Wildlife of Alabama. Opelika, Ala.; Craftmaster Printers, 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Vertebrate Animals of Alabama in Need of Special Attention. Opelika, AIa.; Craftmaster Printers, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Editor; teacher. Born&#8211; July 21, 1917, Anderson, Lauderdale County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Lee Andrew and Louisa Idenia (Nix) McGraw. Married&#8211; Jonnie Faye Richardson, April 6, 1938. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; University of North Alabama, 1935-1937; B.S., 1941; M.S., 1949, additional study, Auburn University; University of Kentucky. Employed as an elementary school teacher, Lauderdale County, 1937-1939; assistant [&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-1765","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\/1765","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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9092,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/9092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}