Background
Selby, Augustine Dawson was born on September 2, 1859 in in Athens Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Warren and Emily (Garretson) Selby.
Selby, Augustine Dawson was born on September 2, 1859 in in Athens Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Warren and Emily (Garretson) Selby.
B South., Ohio State University, 1893. Washington University and Shaw School of Botany, 1899. Columbia, 1902-1903.
Superintendent schools, Huntington, West Virginia, 1884-1886. Principal high school, Ironton, O., 1886-1887, Garfield School, Columbus, Ohio, 1887-1889. Teacher botany, Columbus High School, 1889-1894.
Secretary Columbus Horticultural Society, 1888-1894.
Botanist and chemist, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 1894-1902. Botanist and chief of department of botany in same, 1902-1923.
Interested chiefly in diseases of plants and their remedies and in plant breeding. Also commercial apple growing.
Proprietor Selby Heights Fruit Farm, Sharpsburg, O. Writer in reports, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station (Wooster.
O.), and in scientific journals Director Ohio State Life Insurance Company.
Mason.
Married Libbie Glover, December 15, 1883.