Plant pathologist.
From the description of Papers of Erwin F. Smith, 1876-1927 (bulk 1920-1927). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80437861
Erwin F. Smith was a botanist and bacteriologist.
From the description of Papers, 1865-1940. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122578824
Erwin F. Smith (1854-1927) was a botanist and bacteriologist, who worked as a plant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
From the guide to the Erwin F. (Erwin Frink) Smith papers, 1865-1940, 1865-1940, (American Philosophical Society)
Biographical Note
1854, Jan. 21
Born, Gilbert's Mills, N.Y.
1880
Published
The Flora of Michigan, with Charles F. Wheeler.
Lansing, Mich.: Michigan Horticultural Society Report
1886
B. S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Employed by Agriculture Department to study peach blight
1889
Sc.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
1893
Married Charlotte M. Buffett (died 1906)
1901
Appointed plant pathologist, Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S.
Department of Agriculture
1902
1927
Head, plant pathology laboratory, Bureau of Plant Industry,
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1905
1914
Published
Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases. Washington,
D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington
1914
Married Ruth Annette Warren
1915
Published
For Her Friends and Mine: a Book of Aspirations, Dreams, and
Memories. Washington, D.C.: privately printed
1920
Published translation from the French with Florence Hedges
of
Pasteur: The History of a Mind, by Emile Duclaux.
Philadelphia, London: W. B. Saunders Co.
Published
An Introduction to Bacterial Diseases of Plants.
Philadelphia, London: W. B. Saunders Co.
1927, Apr. 6
Died, Washington, D.C.
From the guide to the Erwin F. Smith Papers, 1876-1927, (bulk 1920-1927), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)