Wilbur Baker Kelley Sr. was a prominent farm researcher and superintendent of the Black Belt Substation (now the Black Belt Research and Extension Center) of the Alabama Agricultural Experiement Station in Marion Junction, Alabama. Kelley studied agriculture at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University) from 1933 to 1938, earning a bachelor's degree in 1954. Among numerous contributions to his field is Kelley's research on fall-cropped calfing programs which positively impacted the cattle industry by proposing a schedule by which calves would be ready for market in the spring each year instead of the fall. In 1961, the Kelley-Baker Memorial Auditorium at the Black Belt Research and Extension Center was named in honor of Kelley and K. G. Baker, who preceeded Kelley as superintendant at the center. Wilbur Kelley died December 28, 1956 at the age of 44.