Background
Cook, Melville Thurston was born on September 20, 1869 in Coffeen, Illinois, United States. Son of William Harvey (Doctor of Medicine and Elizabeth Frances (Robinson) C.
Cook, Melville Thurston was born on September 20, 1869 in Coffeen, Illinois, United States. Son of William Harvey (Doctor of Medicine and Elizabeth Frances (Robinson) C.
Student, DePauw University, 1888-1889, 91-93, Master of Arts, 1902. Bachelor of Arts, Leland Stanford Junior University, 1894. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1896, 1899, 1900.
University of Chicago, summers, 1897, 1898.
Ohio State Laboratory, Sandusky, summers, 1902, 1903. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1904.
Honorary Doctor of Science, University Prize ring (The), 1940, DePauw University, 1940. Fellow New York Botanical Garden, 1906-1907.
Principal high school Vandalia, Illinois, 1894-1895. Instructor in biology De Pauw University, 1895-1897, professor 1897-1904. Chief department plant pathology and economics entomology Estacion Central Agronomica.
Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, 1904-1906.
Plant pathologist Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station, Newark, 1907-1911. State plant pathologist of New Jersey, and professor plant pathology Rutgers College, 1911-1923.
Plant pathologist New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, 1911-1923, Insular Experiment Station, Rio Piedras, Prize ring (The), 1923-1940, retired 1940. Visiting professor botany Louisiana State University, since 1944.
Editor Journal of Department Agriculture of Prize ring (The), 1928-1940, research lecturer school tropical medicine, 1926.
Lecturer on embryology, Central College Physicians and Surgical, Indianapolis, 1902-1903. On comparative anatomy Medical College Indiana, 1903-1904.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, (vice president 1921, secretary botanical section 1918-1920, chairman of section 1921), Indiana Academy Science, Botanical Society American. Member American Phytopathol. Society (vice president 1916, president 1917), Ecological Society American, American Association Economics Entomologists, Entomological Society American, Indiana Academy Sciences, New Jersey Science Teachers’ Association (president 1920-1922), Sons of the American Revolution, Delta Upsilon, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu, Gamma Sigma Delta.
Mason (32°, Knights Templar, Shriner, grand senior warden Prize ring (The), 1929).
Married Dora Reavill, September 8, 1897. Children: Harvey Reavill, Harold Thurston, Elizabeth (Mistress Harry A. Ross).