Title: Joe Hurt Papers, 1923-2005

Abstract
Joe Hurt was born March 22, 1900, in Pike County, and attended Pikeville Academy, Berea College and the University of Kentucky where he received a BS in agriculture in 1928. He was an agriculture extension agent for 20 years, first in Boyd County and then McCracken County. In 1948 he moved to Mercer County where he operated a farm on Handy Pike.