Jellison, William L. (William Livingston), 1906-1995

Montana native and career Public Health Service official Dr. William L. Jellison acquired the Canyon Creek, Montana, schoolhouse building in 1965. It had been used from the 1910s to 1928 for entomological research, housing the Montana State Board of Entomology, which concentrated its attention on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. In 1931, after the work had been relocated to a building in Hamilton, Montana, the facility was acquired by NIH and renamed the Rocky Mountain Laboratory. Dr. Howard Taylor Ricketts, 1871-1910, a pathologist from the University of Chicago, studied Rocky Mountain Fever in this area from 1906 to 1909. He determined that the woodtick was the fever's carrier. The microorganism's genus was named Rickettsia in his honor.

From the description of William L. Jellison Ricketts Memorial Museum collection, 1967. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14317123

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