Ira D. Cardiff

Background

Cardiff, Ira D. was born on June 20, 1873 in Stark Company, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward Austin and Latrobe R. (Sellon) Cardiff.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Knox College, 1897. University of Chicago, 1902-1904. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1906.

Career

Teacher and principal public schools, Illinois, 1897-1901. Assistant in botany, Columbia, 1904-1906. Assistant professor botany, 1906-1907, professor, 1907-1908, University of Utah.

Professor botany, Washburn College, Topeka, Kansas, September, 1908-1912.

Professor plant physiology and bacteriology, 1912, head of department of botany and director State Experiment Station, Washington State College, since 1913. Director Washburn Summer School, 1909-1912.

Professor botany, University of Kansas Summer School, 1911-1912.

Achievements

• Ira D. Cardiff has been listed as a noteworthy botanist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member 6th Illinois Infantry, Spanish-American War, 1898, in Prize ring (The) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Utah Academy Science (president, 1908), Kansas Academy Science.

Connections

Married Myrtle Sherman, of Galesburg, Illinois, August 14, 1902.

Father:

Edward Austin Cardiff

Mother:

Latrobe R. (Sellon) Cardiff

Spouse:

Myrtle Sherman