Background
Stewart, George was born on November 7, 1888 in Tooele, Utah, United States. Son of William and Ellen (Speirs) Stewart.
Stewart, George was born on November 7, 1888 in Tooele, Utah, United States. Son of William and Ellen (Speirs) Stewart.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Utah, 1907. Bachelor of Science, Utah Agricultural College, 1913. Master of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1918.
Shevlin fellow University of Minnesota, 1924-1925, Doctor of Philosophy, 1926.
Annual Instructor in agronomy, Utah Agriculture College, 1913-1916, assistant professor, 1917-1918, associate professor, 1918-1919, professor, 1919-1930. Became senior ecologist branch of research United States Forest Service, 1930. Supervisor Utah State Agricultural College-Foreign Operations Administration Contract for Agriculture, Iran, 1954-1956.
Professor botany and agronomy Brigham Young University, since 1956.
With United States Department of Agriculture, 1951-1953.
Author: Alfalfa Growing in the United States and Canada, 1926. Co-Author: Principles of Agronomy, 1915. Second edition of same completely revised, 1930.
Development of Collective Enterprise, 1943. Co-editor: Western Agriculture, 1918. Student of crops, soils, and irrigation of intermountain-region, and their social development and of important features in wheat genetics and new varieties, sugar-beet breeding.
Varieties of vegetation on desert, semi-desert, and foothill ranges, grazing on public lands, reseeding range lands and range conservation. Contributor to professional journals Associate editor: Journal of Forestry, 1939-1946.
Member Agricultural Commission to Iran (7 year plan), 1949. Chairman Scout committee Church of Latter Day Saints, 1942-1948. Member Ogden area Scouts council.
Member American Society Agronomy, American Geography Society, American Genetic Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Society American Foresters, American Ecological Society, Sigma Xi, Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta.
Married Wynona Barber, September 5, 1918.
