Department of Botany records 1893-1989 (bulk 1921-1982)

Tilden, Josephine E. (Josephine Elizabeth)

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Josephine Tilden was a member of the faculty from 1896 until her retirement as Professor Emeritus of Botany in 1937. She and Prof. Conway MacMillan were largely responsible for founding the Minnesota Seaside Station at Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island, B.C. From the description of Papers, 1927. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63286230 ...

Treloar, Alan E. (Alan Edward), 1902-

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Durand, Elias Judah, 1870-1923.

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Jenks, Albert Ernest, 1869-1953

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Albert E. Jenks was a member of the University of Minnesota Anthropology Dept. form 1907 to 1938. From the description of Albert Ernest Jenks papers, 1927-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83090035 ...

University of Minnesota. Dept. of Botany. Herbarium.

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Abbe, Ernst C. (Ernst Cleveland), 1905-2000

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Ernst C. Abbe, B.S. (1928), M.S. (1930), Cornell University; M.A. (1931), Ph.D. (1934), Harvard University. Professor and dean of botany at the University of Minnesota (1934-1974). Expert in the fields of morphology, cytology, genetics, and phytogeography. From the description of Ernst C. Abbe papers, 1924-1996. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 693812465 Ernst C. Abbe, B.S. (1928), M.S. (1930), Cornell University; M.A. (1931), Ph.D. (1...

Erikson, Henry A. (Henry Anton), 1869-

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Erikson died in 1957. From the description of A history of the Department of Physics at the University of Minnesota, 1870-1938. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78113868 Henry A. Erikson, B.E.E. (1896), Ph.D. (1908) University of Minnesota. Professor and chair of the department of physics at the University of Minnesota (1915-1938). Known for his research on the ionization of gases. Henry Anton Erikson was born on July 30, 1869 in Mount Morris, Wisconsin. He attended the Univer...

Butters, F. K. (Frederic King), 1878-1945

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Frederic King Butters was born and raised in Minneapolis. He received his bachelor's degree at the University of Minnesota and did further study at Harvard University where he earned his Ph.D. in 1917. He started teaching at the University of Minnesota in 1901 where he continued until his death in 1945. Although his field was botany, he was also accomplished in mathematics and other non-botanical subjects and taught courses in those disciplines during World War I. Upon t...

Burr, George O. (George Oswald), 1896-1990

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Freeman, Edward Monroe, 1875-1954

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Cooper, William Skinner, 1884-....

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Cooper was born on August 25, 1884 in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Detroit public schools and graduated in 1906 from Alma College. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1911. In 1915 Cooper joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota. Cooper made several scientific trips to Glacier Bay Alaska between 1916 and 1966. He is considered to be the father of Glacier Bay National Park. Cooper retired from the University of Minnesota in 1951 and moved to Boulder, Colorado...

Gorham, Eville

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MacMillan, Conway, 1867-1929

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Oldenburg, Margaret

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Gortner, Ross Aiken

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Ross Aiken Gortner came to the University of Minnesota in 1914 as Associate Professor of Soil Chemistry but transferred to the Division of Biochemistry in 1917. He contributed more than 300 papers to scientific journals in addition to writing several books. While his first publications were in organic chemistry, he began publishing in biochemistry in 1908. Gortner was active in professional organizations, an enthusiastic academic advisor mentoring 130 Ph. D.s, and the recipient of various awards...

Buell, Murray F. (Murray Fife), 1905-

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Clements, Frederic E. (Frederic Edward), 1874-1945

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Frederic and Edith Clements were husband and wife botanists and pioneering ecologists. Frederic (1874-1945) was educated at the University of Nebraska, receiving his Ph. D. in 1898. He taught at Nebraska from 1894-1907, was head of the University of Minnesota Botany Department from 1907-1917, and was a research associate at the Carnegie Institution of Washington from 1917 until his retirement in 1941. Edith (d. 1971) was the first female recipient of a Ph. D. at the University of Nebraska (1906)...

University of Minnesota. Limnological Research Center

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Stakman, E.C. (Elvin Charles), 1885-1979

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Plant pathologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Elvin Charles Stakman : oral history, 1970. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309738905 Elvin C. Stakman, B.A. (1906), M.A. (1910), Ph.D. (1913) University of Minnesota. Professor (1913-1953) and head of the Department of Plant Pathology (1940-1953), University of Minnesota. United States Department of Agriculture agent, head of the federal government's South American rubber expediti...

Lawrence, Donald B. (Donald Buermann), 1911-1996

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Donald B. Lawrence was a faculty member in the Botany Department at the University of Minnesota. Lawrence's main area of research involved studies of vegetation development on new land surfaces following glacier recession, landslides, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Although he was a botanist, glacier related studies were his first love. Lawrence took over the Glacier Bay seedling plot study begun by William S. Cooper in 1916, and visited the plots every few years starting in 1941 and ending...

University of Minnesota. College of Biological Sciences

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The Cedar Creek Forest was established in 1942 by the Minnesota Academy of Science and the University of Minnesota. The agreement establishing the Forest provided that "certain lands had been or would be transferred to the Regents of the University who would keep and preserve the land in natural condition as a refuge for indigenous plant and animal life, would administer the area to encourage wise use for scientific and educational purposes particularly for natural history studies...and would ke...

University of Minnesota. Dept. of Botany.

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Frenkel, Albert

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Ford, Guy Stanton, 1873-1962

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Historian; university president. From the description of Reminiscences of Guy Stanton Ford : oral history, 1955. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737315 Guy Stanton Ford was an historian, educator and president of the University of Minnesota. From the description of Guy Stanton Ford papers, 1885-1962. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63313982 Guy Stanton Ford was born on 9 May 1...

Johnston, Clarence H. (Clarence Howard), 1859-1936

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Clarence Johnston was born in Waseca County MN. After apprenticeship training in architecture in the St. Paul offices of A. Radcliffe and E.P. Bassford, Johnston studied architecture at MIT and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Johnston worked for Herter Brothers, and C.B. Atwood in New York City, where he also helped found the New York Sketch Club (later known as the Architectural League of New York). In 1883, Johnston opened an office in St. Paul, and had a partnership for a time...

Minnesota Botanical Society

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Dahl, A. Orville

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University of Minnesota. Lake Itasca Biological Station.

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Brown, Allan H.

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University of Minnesota. College of Science, Literature, and the Arts

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The College of Science, Literature and the Arts (SLA) was established at the University of Minnesota in 1869 with nine faculty members. The college offered the vast majority of courses, including English, foreign languages, mathematics, geology, biology, literature, rhetoric, history and chemistry. The first dean of SLA was John F. Downey, who also served as professor of mathematics and astronomy. In 1914, John Black Johnston was appointed as dean of SLA. During Dean Johnston's 23 year tenure, t...

University of Minnesota. Department of Botany

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Botany was first introduced as an academic subject at the University of Minnesota in 1873 under the direction of Newton Horace Winchell as part of the Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey. The Department of Botany was established in 1889 as a result of the division of the Department of Biology into Botany and Animal Biology. Conway MacMillan was appointed as the first chair in 1891. In 1895 the Botany Department hired the first female faculty member at the University of M...

Mann, Frederick Maynard

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Rosendahl, Carl Otto, 1875-1956

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Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota

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The Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey was created by a state legislative act approved March 1, 1872, and carrying an appropriation of $1,000 annually to carry out its work, which was to be done under the direction of the Board of Regents of the University. In July 1872, Newton H. Winchell was invited by President William W. Folwell to direct the survey, a post in which he continued for 28 years. During much of this time he also served the University’s Department of Geology, as inst...

University of Minnesota. Minnesota Seaside Station, Vancouver Island

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