Background
Veitch, Fletcher Pearre was born on May 22, 1868 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Fletcher Roberts and Caroline Virginia (Pearre) Veitch.
Veitch, Fletcher Pearre was born on May 22, 1868 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Fletcher Roberts and Caroline Virginia (Pearre) Veitch.
Bachelor of Science, Maryland. Agricultural College, 1891, Doctor of Science, 1914. Master of Science, George Washington University, 1899.
Assistant, Maryland. Agricultural Experiment Station, 1891-1892. Chemist with West. South. Powell & Company, Baltimore, 1892-1893. Assistant chemist, Maryland.
Agricultural College, 1894-1899.
Assistant soil physicist, Maryland. Agricultural Experiment Station, 1899-1901.
With Department Agriculture, Washington, since 1901. Assistant chemist, bureau of Soils, 1901-1902.
Same, bureau of Chemistry, 1902-1904.
Chief of Leather and Paper Laboratory, 1904-1914. Chemist in charge same, 1914-1927. Chemist in charge division industrial farm products, Bureau Chemistry and Soils, 1927-1935.
Chief naval stores division Food and Drug Administration and naval stores research division Bureau Chemistry and Soils, 1935-1938.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Chemical Society, American Leather Chemists’ Association (ex-president), Society Leather Trades Chemists, American Society Testing Materials (chairman naval stores committee), Association Agricultural Chemists (president 1922). Member of committee on leather of National Research Council, 1917-1918, division research extension, 1919-1924.
Member paper technical committee Federal Specifications Board, 1923-1936.
Married Laura T. Boyle, May 12, 1896.