Background
Orton, Clayton Roberts was born on April 1, 1885 in East Hardwick, Vermont, United States. Son of Lyman Squire and Ellen Mandana (Stevens) Orton.
Orton, Clayton Roberts was born on April 1, 1885 in East Hardwick, Vermont, United States. Son of Lyman Squire and Ellen Mandana (Stevens) Orton.
Preparatory education, Essex Classical Institute, 1901-1903, Hardwick Academy, 1904-1905. Bachelor of Science, University Vermont, 1909, Doctor of Science, 1942. Master of Science, Purdue, 1915.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1924.
Special agent United States Department of Agriculture June 1909-January 1910. Assistant plant pathologist, University of Wisconsin, February-September 1910. Assistant botanist, Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station, 1910-1912.
Assistant professor botany, Pennsylvania State College, 1913-1916, associate professor, 1916-1919, also associate professor plant pathology, 1917-1919, professor, 1919-1927.
Plant pathologist, Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station, 1913-1927. Also collaborator, Bureau Plant Industry of the unites states department of Agriculture, 1913-1925 and since 1930.
Plant pathologist, in charge research and extension, agricultural department The Bayer Company, Incorporated., 1925-1928, Bayer-Semesan Company, Incorporated., 1928-1929. Professor plant pathology and head department, West Virginia University, 1929-1933.
Plant pathologist West Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station 1928-1938.
Head department of biology, West Virginia University, 1933-1936, head department plant pathology and forestry, 1936-1938. Dean, College Agricultural Forestry and Home Economics, since 1938. Director Agricultural Experimental Station, since 1938.
On leave, 1950-1953, special appointment as agricultural consultant to Liberia for OFAR, unites states department Agriculture.
Secretary Advisory Board American Plant Pathologists, 1918-1921. Chairman, 1922-1923; member National Research Council (division biology and agriculture, 1922-1924.
Liaison member division states relations, 1923-1924). Member of the Board of Governors Crop Protection Institute, 1920-1925, since 1935.
Member West Virginia Planning Board, since 1935, chairman, since 1941.
Chairman Land-Use Committee of West Virginia, 1934-1938.
Member National; Fellow American Association Advancement of Science (president State College branch, 1923). Member American Phytopathological Society (president 1939), Mycological Society America, South. Appalachian Botanical. Club, West Virginia Academy Science, New York Academy Science, Soil Conservation Society America.
Sigma Xi, Kappa Sigma, Alpha Zeta, Gamma Sigma Delta.
Married Ethel M. Chapman, September 22, 1911. Children: January, Gardner Chapman, Patricia.