Background
SUMMERS, Melvin B. was born on May 11, 1877 in Stark Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Sylvanus and Angeline (Brumbaugh) Summers.
SUMMERS, Melvin B. was born on May 11, 1877 in Stark Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Sylvanus and Angeline (Brumbaugh) Summers.
Ashland College Ashland, O. Missouri State University.
Entered United States Weather Bureau., 1900, Columbia, Missouri, as Assistant Observer. Transferred to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania station, 1902, as Second Assistant. To Macon, Georgia., station 1905, as Observer in charge.
To Pittsburgh as First Assistant 1905. To Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as First Assistant 1911. To Juneau, Alaska, as Meteorologist in charge of Weather Bureau. activities in the Territory of Alaska, 1916, and Meteorologist in charge of Seattle, Wash, office and Climatological Service of State of Washington, since 1923.
Presbyterian Church.
Member: American Meteorological Society. National. Aeronautical Association. Masons. Club: Engineers (Seattle, Washington).
Spouse Clara A. Mock, November 10, 1901, Louisville, O.