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Posey Oliver “P.O” Davis (1890–1973), was an American educator and administrator, as well as a pioneering agricultural editor and broadcaster. He perhaps is best remembered as the longest serving director of the Alabama Extension Service (now known as the Alabama Cooperative Extension System) and for helping Alabama agriculture through a critical period of development. Davis also emerged as a national leader of and advocate for farming and Cooperative Extension work in the 1940s and 1950s.〔Yeager, Joseph and Stevenson, Gene, "Inside Ag Hill: The People and Events That Shaped Auburn's Agricultural History from 1872 through 1999", Chelsea, Michigan: Sheridan Books, 1999. pp.90-1.〕 ==Early life== Davis was born in a rural hamlet known as Skinhead near Athens, Alabama, on Aug. 15, 1890, to Richard Scoggins Davis and the former Mildred Elizabeth Barker. In a family genealogy written several years before his death, Davis recalled Skinhead as the place where his “depleted family settled after being blasted out of McMinn County, Tennessee, by the hell of the Civil War.” 〔Davis, P.O., “My Davis Family Ancestors,” (Self-Published Book), Auburn University Special Collections, 1966.〕 Davis also recalled that while this tiny community lacked intellectual and cultural sophistication, it was a place where “people go to church, treat their neighbors right, tend to their own business and still believe God is for the living and the dead.” After working for a while as a public school teacher from 1909 to 1912, Davis enrolled at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University), located in Auburn, Alabama, where he graduated in 1916. From 1916-17, he worked as a horticulturist for the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, leaving to take a job as an agriculturist with Southern Railway.〔 He also worked briefly as an assistant boys club agent.〔Yeager, Joseph and Stevenson, Gene, "Inside Ag Hill: The People and Events That Shaped Auburn's Agricultural History from 1872 through 1999", Chelsea, Michigan: Sheridan Books, 1999. pp.400-01.〕 He married the former Mildred Kilburn, of Florence, in 1918. Davis worked briefly for Progressive Farmer before returning to API in 1920 to serve as an agricultural editor for the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and the Alabama Extension Service.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「P. O. Davis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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