Background
Little, Clarence Cook was born on October 6, 1888 in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Lovell and Mary Robbins (Revere) Little.
Little, Clarence Cook was born on October 6, 1888 in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Lovell and Mary Robbins (Revere) Little.
Graduate Noble and Greenough School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1906. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1910. South.M. Entertainment, Graduate School of Applied Science (Harvard), 1912, Doctor of Science, 1914.
Doctor of Laws, University of New Hampshire (U.S.), 1924, Albion (Michigan) College, 1925, University of New Mexico, 1929, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, 1935.
The Doctor of Letters, University Maine, 1932. Doctor of Science, University Chicago, 1950, Boston University, 1951.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Dickinson College, 1951. Doctor of Education, Marietta College, 1952.
; children—Edward Revere, Louise, Robert Andrews. Married second, Beatrice West. Johnson, 1930. Children—Richard Warren, Laura Revere.
Secretary to Corporation Harvard University, 1910-1912.
Research assistant.in genetics, 1911-1913, research fel. in genetics (cancer commission), 1913-1917, assistant dean College and acting University marshal, 1916-1917, overseer, 1942-1948, 1955-1961, all of Harvard University. Associate in comparative pathology, Harvard Medical School, 1917-1918.
Research associate, 1919-1921, and 1922-1925. Assistant director, 1921-1922, Station for Experimental Evolution, Carnegie Institution, Washington.
President University of Maine, 1922-1925.
President University of Michigan, 1925-1929. Director Jackson Memorial Laboratory, 1929-1956, director emeritus, 1956-1971. Director Liberty National Bank, Ellsworth, Maine Director American Cancer Society, 1929-1945.
Science director Tobacco Industry Research Committee, from 1954.
Member scientific advisory board, Gesell Institute Child Development, from 1952. Secretary general and chairman of the executive committee, Second International Congress of Eugenics, New York, 1921.
Member Eugenics Committee of the United States from 1922. Director American Birth Control League from 1925, president, 1936-1938.
President International Neo Malthusian League, 1925, American Euthanasia Society, 1938-1943.
Member Executive Committee First World Population Conference, Geneva, 1927. Director council for Democracy, Euthanasia Society president 1939-1943. President Race Betterment Congress, 1928, 29.
Secretary general and chairman Council 6th International Congress of Genetics, Ithaca, 1932.
Member National Advisory Cancer Council, 1937-1939. Trustee of Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (president 1931-1933).
Commissioned captain Aviation Section Roman Catholic, 1917. Major Adjunct General’s Department, 1918.
Honorary discharge, 1918.
Lieutenant colonel, Specialist Reserves, 1928-1939. Vice chairman Civilian Defense for State Maine, 1941.
Member scientific advisory board, Gesell Institute Child Development, from 1952. Secretary general and chairman of the executive committee, Second International Congress of Eugenics, New York, 1921. Member Eugenics Committee of the United States from 1922.
Member Executive Committee First World Population Conference, Geneva, 1927.
Member National Advisory Cancer Council, 1937-1939. Trustee of Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (president 1931-1933).
Commissioned captain Aviation Section Roman Catholic, 1917. Fellow National Academy Sciences, American Academy Arts and Sciences, New York Academy of Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Institute Social Sciences.
Member American Society Naturalists, American Society Zoologists, American Association Cancer Research (vice president 1929.
Mason (Shriner). Odd Fellow. Clubs: Harvard (New York).
Married Katharine Day Andrews, May 27, 1911 (divorced 1929). Married second, Beatrice West. Johnson, 1930. Children: Edward Revere, Louise, Robert Andrews.