Background
Howe, Marshall Avery was born on June 6, 1867 in Newfane, Vermont, United States. Son of Marshall Otis and Gertrude (Dexter) Howe.
Howe, Marshall Avery was born on June 6, 1867 in Newfane, Vermont, United States. Son of Marshall Otis and Gertrude (Dexter) Howe.
Bachelor of Philisophy, University of Vermont, 1890 (Doctor of Science, 1919). Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1898.
Of Review Edward North. Packard, Doctor of Divinity, June 8, 1909 (died 1928). Children—Gertrude Dexter, Prentiss Mellen. Instructor cryptogamic botany, University of California, 1891-1896.
Curator herbarium, Columbia, 1899-1901, professor botany, since 1935.
Assistant curator, New York Botanical Garden, 1901-1906, curator, 1906-1923, assistant director, 1923-1935, acting director in chief, 1929, director, October since 1935. Editor of Torreya, 1901-1907.
Associate editor, 1898-1907, editor, 1908-1910, again associate editor, 1911, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club.
Member scientific expeditions to Newfoundland, the West Indies, and Panama, 1901-1915.
Married Edith Morton, daughter Children: Gertrude Dexter, Prentiss Mellen.