Background
Folsom, Justus Watson was born on September 2, 1871 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Nelson and Charlotte Elizabeth (Watson) Folsom.
Folsom, Justus Watson was born on September 2, 1871 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Nelson and Charlotte Elizabeth (Watson) Folsom.
Bachelor of Science, Harvard, 1895, Doctor of Science, 1899. Unmarried. Won Bowdoin prize and was laboratory assistant in botany and zoölogy, at Harvard. Professor natural sciences and physiology, Antioch College, O., 1899-1900.
Instructor, 1900-1906, associate, 1906-1908, assistant professor entomology, 1908-1923, University of Illinois.
Associate entomologist, 1925-1927, entomologist, 1927-1928, senior entomologist, since 1928, United States Bureau of Entomology.
Assistant in botany and zoölogy, at Harvard.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Entomological Society America (president 1931).