Background
Townsend, Charles Orrin was born on January 16, 1863 in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States. Son of Orrin Russell and Phebe Ellen (DeMill) Townsend.
Townsend, Charles Orrin was born on January 16, 1863 in Washtenaw County, Michigan, United States. Son of Orrin Russell and Phebe Ellen (DeMill) Townsend.
Graduate Michigan State Normal School, 1884. Bachelor of Science, University of Michigan, 1888, Master of Science, 1891. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Leipzig, 1897, specializing in botany and plant physiology.
Professor natural science, St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland., 1888-1891, Wesleyan College, Macon, Georgia, 1891-1895. Instructor botany, Barnard College, New York, 1897-1898. Professor botany Maryland.
Agricultural College and state plant pathologist for Maryland., 1898-1901. In charge of sugar beet investigations, 1901-1909, sugar plant investigations, 1909-1910, collaborator, 1910-1912, unites states department of Agriculture. Consulting agrlist., United States Sugar & Land Company, Garden City, Kansas.
1910-1912; plant pathologist, 1912-1914, pathologist in charge of sugar beet investigation, 1914-1917, of sugar plant investigations, 1917-1923, unites states department of Agriculture. Special expert sugar division, 1923-1925, chief, 1925-1934, United States Tariff Commission.
Member of (F.) A.A.S. Botanical Society of Washington Club: Cosmos (Washington, District of Columbia).
Married Mary Louise Taylor, Michigan, February 3, 1891.