{"id":688,"date":"2012-12-19T14:18:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T21:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=688"},"modified":"2017-05-02T09:39:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T16:39:22","slug":"askew-william-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"ASKEW, WILLIAM KING, 1897-1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engineer; educator. Born&#8211; August 20, 1897, Dayton, Marengo County. \u00a0Parents&#8211; Francis Barton and Bettie King (Jones) Askew. Married&#8211;Frances Juanita Deloach.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four. \u00a0Education&#8211; Dayton Academy, 1903-1913; Marion Institute, 1913-1914; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1914-\u00a01917. Served in the U.S. Navy, 1917-1918; design engineer in Birmingham for ten years; teacher-athletic coach for three years; high school principal; assistant director of Alabama School of Trades for three years; engineering faculty of Auburn University; senior engineering drawing checker at Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Marietta, Ga. for ten years; retired 1965.\u00a0 Died October 2, 1992.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dayton, Marengo County, Alabama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dayton, Marengo County, Alabama. Auburn, Ala.; Privately printed, 1985.<\/p>\n<p>History of the [Auburn] \u00a0Class of 1917. S.l.; s.n., 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Biography: Engineer; educator. Born&#8211; August 20, 1897, Dayton, Marengo County. \u00a0Parents&#8211; Francis Barton and Bettie King (Jones) Askew. Married&#8211;Frances Juanita Deloach.\u00a0 Children&#8211;four. \u00a0Education&#8211; Dayton Academy, 1903-1913; Marion Institute, 1913-1914; Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 1914-\u00a01917. Served in the U.S. Navy, 1917-1918; design engineer in Birmingham for ten years; teacher-athletic coach for three years; high school principal; 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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6479,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}