Background
Davis, Nelson Fithian was born on August 10, 1872 in Seeley, New Jersey, United States. Son of George D. and Frances (Moore) Davis.
Davis, Nelson Fithian was born on August 10, 1872 in Seeley, New Jersey, United States. Son of George D. and Frances (Moore) Davis.
Bachelor of Science, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1895, Sc.M., 1896, Doctor of Science, 1903. Student Marine Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, summers, 1895, 96.
With biological department Bucknell University, since 1898, professor biology and head of department, since 1910. Instructor biology, Marine Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, summers, 1898-1903. In charge zoölogy, University of Vermont Summer School, 1914.
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Married Nellie Taylor, 1899 (died 1904);, children—Nelson Fithian, Frances Moore. Married second, Ella Marion Briggs, 1905.