词条 | Perry Daniel Strausbaugh |
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|name =Perry Daniel Strausbaugh |image = File:P.D.Strausbaugh.png |image_size =frameless |caption = P. D. Strausbaugh, 1961 |birth_date = March 21, 1886 |birth_place = Seneca County, Ohio |death_date = {{d-da|May 3, 1965|March 21, 1886}} |death_place = Orlando, Florida |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = American |ethnicity = |field = Botany |work_institutions = College of Wooster West Virginia University |alma_mater = College of Wooster University of Chicago |author_abbrev_bot = Strausb. }} Perry Daniel Strausbaugh (March 21, 1886 - May 3, 1965) was an American botanist and expert in the flora of West Virginia. {{botanist|Strausb.|inline=yes}} Early lifeStrausbaugh was born near Republic, Ohio on March 21, 1886. When he was 16, he received a his teacher's certificate and began teaching grade school in Danville, Ohio. He first became interested in botany in 1904 while taking college preparatory classes at North Manchester College. In 1906, he received a Bachelor of English from Canton College and Bible Institute. He went on to get a S.B. degree from the College of Wooster in 1913, where he was also working as an instructor. He continued to teach at the school as an instructor in biology from 1913 to 1915, and as assistant professor from 1915 to 1918. In 1916, Strausbaugh enrolled at the University of Chicago as a graduate student in botany under the direction of John Merle Coulter. He earned his Ph.D. in 1920, graduating cum laude.[1] CareerAfter his graduation, Strausbaugh returned to Wooster College as assistant professor of botany, becoming a full professor of botany from 1921 to 1923. In 1923, Strausbaugh accepted the position as head of the department of botany at West Virginia University and moved to Morgantown, West Virginia. Here, one of his first acts was to re-organize the University Herbarium first established by Charles Frederick Millspaugh and to start to bolster the collection.[1] In 1937, Strausbaugh was listed as an original member of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club.[2] During World War II, Strausbaugh served as lieutenant colonel. He was in charge of growing grass next to landing strips in order to prevent dust clouds from damaging aircraft and other machinery.[1] In 1948, Strausbaugh retired from West Virginia University, but remained as a professor emeritus. His summer courses lead to the establishment of the Terra Alta Biological Station in 1962.[1] LegacyAfter his retirement, West Virginia University started of the P. D. Strausbaugh Student Loan Fund. The longest nature trail in the Core Arboretum was named the Strausbaugh Trail in 1955.[1] Selected publications
References1. ^1 2 3 4 Core, E. (1966). Perry Daniel Strausbaugh. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 93(2), 138-140. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/2483756 {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Strausbaugh, Perry Daniel}}2. ^{{cite journal |last1=Baranski |first1=M.J. |year=1986 |title=Fifty years of southern Appalachian botany—A profile of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club |journal=Castanea |volume=51 |issue=4 |pages=247–262 |jstor=4033304}} 4 : 1886 births|1965 deaths|West Virginia University faculty|20th-century American botanists |
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