Background
Tanner, Fred Wilbur was born on February 15, 1888 in Buffalo. Son of Wellington Boughton and Emma Melvina (Olds) Tanner.
Tanner, Fred Wilbur was born on February 15, 1888 in Buffalo. Son of Wellington Boughton and Emma Melvina (Olds) Tanner.
Bachelor of Science, Wesleyan University, 1912, Doctor of Science, 1943. Master of Sciences, University Illinois, 1914, Doctor of Philosophy, 1916.
Bacteriologist Illinois State Water Survey, 1912-1915. With University of Illinois, since 1915, professor bacteriology, since 1923, head department bacteriology to 1948. Bacteriologist, branch laboratory Illinois Department Health.
Author: Bacteriology and Mycology of Foods, 1919. The Yeats (Guilliermond-Tanner), 1920. Bacteriology, 1929
Practical Bacteriology, 1929.
The Microbiology of Foods, 1944. Food-Borne Infections and Intoxications, 1933, also numerous contributor to science journals Contributor Encyclopedia Britannica. Editor-in-Chief of Food Research.
Member American Chemical Society, Society American Bacteriologists, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Institute Food Technologists (president 1945-1946), International Association Milk Sanitarians, Alpha Chi Rho, Alpha Chi Sigma, Phi Sigma, Sigma Xi, Pi Gamma Museum Clubs: University, Rotary.
Married Hope Stuart Montgomery, June 10, 1916 (died 1935). Married second, Louise Milliken Pickens, December 27, 1936. Children: Fred Wilbur, Wells Montgomery, Stuart Wellington, Hope Montgomery (deceased).