Webber, Herbert John, 1865-1946

Herbert John Webber was born on a farm near Lawton, Mich. on Dec. 27, 1865, spent his childhood in Iowa and Lincoln, Neb., and attended the Univ. of Nebraska, receiving his B.S. in 1889 and M.A. in 1890. He married Lucene Anna Hardin in 1890, and in 1892 accepted a position with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and was sent to Eustis, Fla. with Walter T. Swingle to investigate citrus diseases. In 1907, he became professor at Cornell University, and from 1909-10 also served as acting director of the New York State College of Agriculture. In 1912, Webber accepted an offer from Univ. of Calif. to become director of the Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside and Dean of the Graduate School of Subtropical Agriculture; in 1919-20, he moved to Berkeley to become Director of the Calif. Agricultural Experiment Station. He resigned in 1920 to become general manager of the Pedigreed Seed Co. of Hartsville, S.C., but in Oct. 1921 returned to Berkeley as professor of Subtropical Horticulture and Director of the Citrus Experiment Station. During a sabbatical in 1924-25, he studied their citrus industries for the governments of South Africa and Rhodesia. The Webbers returned to Calif. in 1926, residing in Riverside, where he retired as Director of the Citrus Exp. Station in 1929; Webber died on Jan. 18, 1946.

From the description of Herbert J. Webber papers, 1886-1946. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 85035722

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