Background
Mann, Charles William was born on January 4, 1879 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Imrie and Sarah Melinda (Lansing) Mann.
Mann, Charles William was born on January 4, 1879 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Imrie and Sarah Melinda (Lansing) Mann.
Student of University of Pittsburgh, 1901-1902. Bachelor of Agricultural Science, Cornell Univercity, 1906, graduate study 4 months 1910.
Soil scientist with bureau of Soils, 1906-1910. Assistant pomologist, Bureau Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, 1910-1914, pomologist, 1914-1919, pomologist in charge fruit transportation and storage investigations, 1919-1922, senior pomologist since 1922. In investigations of Department Agriculture determined methods of modified refrigeration forming basis of present practice on western railroads.
Granted patents on precooling process, assigned to free use of public.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Pomol. Society, American Society for Horticultural Science, Federal Business Association, Alpha Zeta.
Club: Cornell (Los Angeles).
Writer many reports and bulletins of United States Department of Agriculture on fruit transportation and storage.
Married Caroline Whalen Judd, July 24, 1912. Children: Douglass Lansing, William Imrie, Robert Edward.