Orland Emile White

Background

White, Orland Emile was born on April 25, 1885 in Sibley, Iowa, United States. Son of Henry Clay and Margaret Belle (Rush) White.

Education

Bachelor of Science, South Dakot State College, 1909, Master of Science, 1911. Master of Science, Harvard, 1912. Doctor of Science, Bussey Institution of Harvard, 1913.

Career

Nurseryman, Yankton, South Dakot, 1904. Research assistant, South Dakot State College and experiment station, 1909-1910, instructor in botany, 1910-1911. Laboratory teaching assistant in botany, Radcliffe College, 1912, in genetics, 1913.

Assistant curator plant breeding Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1913-1915, curator, 1916-1924, curator plant breeding and economic plants, 1924-1927.

Collaborator unites states department of Agriculture, 1915-1918, 1919-1923, specialist, 1918-1919. Botanist Mulford Exploration of Amazon Basin Expedition, 1921-1922.

Professor agricultural biology and director Blandy Experimental Farm, University of Virginia, since 1927. Research scholar, United States Ednl.

Foundation, in Burma and visiting professor, University College, Mandalay and University of Rangoon, 1950-1951.

Achievements

• Orland Emile White has been listed as a noteworthy biologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member National; Clubs: Genetics (president 1944-1946), Harvard (Washington). Member educated board American Journal of Botany, 1920-1921.

Connections

Married Loto Rollinstall Underwood, July, 1913. Children: Margaret Underwood (Mistress Dean Winchester), Prudence Wayne (Mistress James Quarles).

Father:

Henry Clay White

Mother:

Margaret Belle (Rush) White

Spouse:

Loto Rollinstall Underwood

child:

Margaret Underwood White (Mistress Dean Winchester)

child:

Prudence Wayne White (Mistress James Quarles)