{"id":1784,"date":"2018-11-01T12:22:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T19:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2018-11-01T14:17:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T21:17:50","slug":"mccracken-william-lionel-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"McCRACKEN, WILLIAM LIONEL, 1915-1965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dentist; professor of dentistry. Born&#8211; October 13, 1915, Greenville, Ill. Parents&#8211; William Arthur and Ruby Glenn (Ehrstine) McCracken. Married&#8211; Ruth Louise Malan, February 24, 1939. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Greenville College, Greenville, Ill.; D.D.S., 1938, St. Louis University School of Dentistry; M.S., University of Michigan, 1952. Self-employed as dentist, 1938-1943, 1946-1950; U.S. Army Dental Corps, 1943-1946; professor of dentistry, University of Alabama, 1952-1965. Member&#8211; Phi Kappa Phi, American and Alabama Dental Associations, Southeast Academy of Prosthedontics. Died April 22,1965.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. 1; ancestry.com; findagrave.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Partial Denture Construction; Principles and Techniques. St. Louis; Mosby, 1960. (Later editions were published under the title McCracken&#8217;s Removable Partial Prosthodontics.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Dentist; professor of dentistry. Born&#8211; October 13, 1915, Greenville, Ill. Parents&#8211; William Arthur and Ruby Glenn (Ehrstine) McCracken. Married&#8211; Ruth Louise Malan, February 24, 1939. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Greenville College, Greenville, Ill.; D.D.S., 1938, St. Louis University School of Dentistry; M.S., University of Michigan, 1952. Self-employed as dentist, 1938-1943, 1946-1950; U.S. Army Dental Corps, [&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-1784","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\/1784","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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9036,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}