Background
Barrett, Otis Warren was born on April 18, 1872 in Clarendon, Vermont, United States. Son of James and Alice W. (Kelley) Barrett.
Barrett, Otis Warren was born on April 18, 1872 in Clarendon, Vermont, United States. Son of James and Alice W. (Kelley) Barrett.
Bachelor of Science, University of Vermont, 1896. Also certificate of proficiency in modern languages (honorary Doctor of Science, 1934).
In Jamaica, 1894, in employ of West India Improvement Company. Appointed, 1898, traveling agent of the commission for the Mexican exhibit of Paris Exposition of 1900. Honorary curator entom. collections of Museo de la Comisión Geográfico-Exploradora at Tacubaya, Federal District, Mexico, 1898-1900.
Entomologist and botanist to P. R. Agricultural Experiment Station, 1901-1905.
Plant introducer, Office Seed and Plant Introduction and Distribution, United States Department of Agriculture, 1905-1908. Specially commissioned by Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago, British West Indies California California, to report upon cacao diseases in Trinidad, 1907.
Director of agriculture for Mozambique, Portuguese East. Africa, 1908-1910. Chief of divisions experiment stations and horticulture, bureau of Agriculture, Manila, Philippine Islands, 1910-1914.
Horticulturist of Canal Zone, 1914-1917.
Manager coconut plantations in Nicaragua, March-September, 1917. With United States Department of Agriculture, 1917. Carbon expert, United States War Department, 1918-1919.
Agricultural adviser to Liberia, 1920-1921.
Agricultural survey of Haiti, 1922. With Department of Agriculture, San Juan, Prize ring (The), 1923-1929.
Horticulturist of University of Hawaii, 1929-1930.
Member Vermont Botanical. Club, Botanical Society Washington, Entomological Society Washington, Society of America Mammalogists, Philippine Academy, Porto Rico Ateneo, Sons of the American Revolution Club: Philippine.
Married Bessie Lou Stearns, Bachelor of Philosophy, April.