Background
Wheeler, Homer Jay was born on September 2, 1861 in Bolton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jesse Brown and Martha Ann (Sykes) Wheeler.
Wheeler, Homer Jay was born on September 2, 1861 in Bolton, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Jesse Brown and Martha Ann (Sykes) Wheeler.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Agricultural College, also from Boston, University, 1883. Master of Arts, Doctor of Philisophy, University of Göttingen, 1889. Doctor of Science, Brown University, 1911.
Doctor of Science, Massachusetts State College, 1933.
Assistant chemist, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, 1883-1887. Chief chemist, Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station, 1889-1905. Director and agronomist, agricultural experiment station, September 1, 1901-1912, acting president, 1902-1903, professor geology, 1893-1912, and agricultural chemistry, 1903-1907, Rhode Island State College.
Resigned as director agricultural experiment station, 1812.
Chief agronomist The American Agricultural Chemical Company, until December 1931. Ex-president Association Official Agricultural Chemists United States.
Member American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geography Society, American Society Agronomy (ex-president). Author: Manures and Fertilizers.
Citrus Culture in Florida.
Citrus Culture in California. Also numerous bulletins, and reports of Rhode Island Agricultural Etxpt. Station, and miscellaneous publns.
Chairman, during World War I, of sub-commission on soils and fertilizers of National Research Council.
Home: 386 North. Fullerton Avenue, Upper Montclair, New Jersey.
Member American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geography Society, American Society Agronomy (ex-president).
Married at Brooklyn, Frieda H. F. Ruprecht, May 15, 1891. Children: Carl Otto Jordan, William Edwin, Roland Arthur.