Background
Transeau, Edgar Nelson was born on October 21, 1875 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel and Martha Edith (Zimmerman) Transeau.
Transeau, Edgar Nelson was born on October 21, 1875 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel and Martha Edith (Zimmerman) Transeau.
Bachelor of Arts, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1897. Studied Marine Laboratory, Brooklyn Institute Arts and Sciences, summer 1899. University of Chicago, 1900-1901.
Doctor of Philisophy, University of Michigan, 1904.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Franklin and Marshall College, 1941, Ohio State University, 1949.
1 daughter, Elizabeth Hastings (Mistress August Mahr). Professor biology, Alma College, 1904-1906. Investigator Station for Experimental Evolution, at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, 1906-1907.
Professor botany, State Teachers College, Charleston, Illinois, 1907-1915.
Professor plant physiology and ecology, Ohio State University, 1915-1946, chairman of department, 1918-1946, retired. Plant ecologist in Europe, for United States Bureau Entomology, 1927.
Collaborator Central States Forestry Experiment Station, 1929-1932.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Botanical Society of America (president 1940), Association American Geographers, Ecological Society America (president 1924), Phycological Society of America (president 1951), American Geographic Society, Ohio Academy Sciences (president 1924) Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Sigma.
Married Gertrude Hastings (Doctor of Medicine), August 23, 1906.