Background
Jones, Lewis Ralph was born on December 5, 1864 in Brandon, Wisconsin, United States. Son of David and Lucy (Knapp) Jones.
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Lewis Ralph Jones
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Student Ripon College, 1883-1886. Bachelor of Philisophy, University of Michigan, 1889, graduate studies, 1901, 1904, Doctor of Philosophy, 1904. Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Vermont, 1910, University of Cambridge (England), 1930, University of Wisconsin, 1936.
Doctor of Laws, University of Michigan, 1935.
Has also carried out investigations in laboratory of bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, under direction of Doctor Erwin F. Smith, 1899, and in Europe, 1904.
Career
Professor botany, University of Vermont and botanist Vermont Experiment Station, 1889-1910. Professor plant pathology, University of Wisconsin, 1910-1935, emeritus professor since 1935. Collaborator of Bureau of Plant Industry, unites states department Agriculture.
Ex-secretary board park commissioner, Burlington, Vermont.
Ex-secretary Vermont Botanical Club. Ex-president Vermont Forestry Association.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Ex-president Botanical Society America.
Member National Academy of Sciences, North.E. Botanical Club, Wisconsin Academy Arts and Sciences, American Society Naturalists, American Philosophical Society.
Correspondent Association of Applied Biologists, England, Societe de Pathologie Vegetale et d’Entomologie Agricole de France. Honorary member Vereinigung für Angewandte Botanik, Japanese Phytopathol. Society; ex-chairman division of biology and agriculture National Research Council.
Ex-president American Phytopathol.
Achievements
Membership
Club; member National Academy of Sciences, North.E. Botanical. Club, Wisconsin Academy Arts and Sciences, American Society Naturalists, American Philosophical Society. Member Vereinigung für Angewandte Botanik, Japanese Phytopathol.
Connections
Married May I. Bennett, June 24, 1890. Married second, Anna M. Clark, July 27, 1929.
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Political Party
Republican