Barber, G. W. (George W.)

Entomologist. Full name: George Ware Barber. Born 1890; died 1948.

From the description of G.W. Barber papers, 1926-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131102

Biographical Note

• 1890, Aug. 3: Born, Hyde Park, Mass.
• 1913: B.S., Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass.
• 1914: Researcher, Bureau of Entomology, Department of Agriculture
• 1917 - 1919 : Lieutenant of cavalry, U.S. Army, during World War I
• 1919: Married Estelle Hulse
• circa 1920 - 1945 : Scientific investigations focused on the European corn borer and corn earworm, Department of Agriculture
• 1927: Sc.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
• 1936 - 1942 : Discovered and developed oil-insecticide treatment of sweet corn and seed corn for the control of the corn borer
• 1945: Retired from government service
• circa 1945 - 1948 : Studied the toxicity of insecticides such as DDT, Rutgers University, Brunswick, N.J.
• 1948, Dec. 5: Died, New York, N.Y.

From the guide to the G. W. Barber Papers, 1926-1948, (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)