Background
Gager, Charles Stuart was born on December 23, 1872 in Norwich, New York, United States. Son of Charles Carroll and Leora Josephine (Darke) Gager.
Gager, Charles Stuart was born on December 23, 1872 in Norwich, New York, United States. Son of Charles Carroll and Leora Josephine (Darke) Gager.
Bachelor of Arts, Syracuse University, 1895. Pd.B. and Pd.M., New York State Normal College, Albany, 1897. Harvard summer, 1898.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1902.
Doctor of Science, Syracuse, 1920. Doctor of Pedagogy, New York State College for Teachers, 1921.
Vice-principal, Ives Seminary, Antwerp, New York, 1895-1896. Professor biological sciences and physiography, New York State Normal College, 1897-1905. Director laboratories, New York Botanical Garden, 1906-1908.
Professor botany, University of Missouri, 1908-1910.
Director Brooklyn Botanic Garden since 1910. Assistant in botany, 1901-1902, instructor, 1904, Summer School, Cornell.
Laboratory assistant, New York Botanical Garden, 1904-1905. Acting professor botany, Rutgers College, 1905.
Teacher botany, Morris High School, New York, 1905.
Professor botany, summer session, New York University, 1905-1906. Editor Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record since 1912. Business manager American Journal Botany, 1914-1935, Ecology since 1920, Genetics since 1922.
Member of committee on plant quarantines and their administration of Merchants Association of New York City since 1922, chairman since 1933. Member commission on botanical exhibits, A Century of Progress, Chicago, 1933. Member various commissions National Research Council.
Member and director Corporation of Bermuda Biological Station for Research.
Member board directors New Jersey Federation of Shade Tree Commissions. Member Botanical Society America (president 1936), Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, Torrey Botanical.
Club (secretary 1905-1908. Clubs: Century, New York Bird and Tree.
Married Bertha Woodward Bagg, June 25, 1902. Children: Benjamin Stuart (deceased), Ruth Prudence (Mistress Kenneth G. Bucklin).