Howard Samuel Fawcett

Background

Fawcett, Howard Samuel was born on April 12, 1877 in Salem, Ohio, United States. Son of Thomas F. and Sidney Ann (Bonsall) Fawcett.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Iowa State College, 1905. Master of Sciences, University of Florida, 1908. Doctor of Philisophy, Johns Hopkins, 1918.

Career

Annette. Assistant Professor botany and horticulture, University of Florida, 1905-1906. Plant pathologist Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, 1906-1911, California communications of Horticulture, 1911-1913. Associate professor plant pathology, University of California, 1913-1918, professor since 1918.

Collaborator for United States Department of Agriculture for study of citrus and date diseases, North. Africa and Mediterranean lands, 1929-1930.

Achievements

• Howard Samuel Fawcett has been listed as a noteworthy plant pathologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Botanical Society America, Phytopathol. Society (president 1930), American Society Naturalists, Western Society Naturalists, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.

Member Society Friends—Quakers (went to Russia to aid their relief work 1922).

Connections

Married T. Helen Tostenson, September 15, 1909.

Father:

Thomas F. Fawcett

Mother:

Sidney Ann (Bonsall) Fawcett

Spouse:

T. Helen Tostenson