Background
Whetzel, Herbert Hice was born on September 6, 1877 in Avilla, Indiana, United States. Son of Joseph Conrad and Gertrude (Eckles) Whetzel.
Whetzel, Herbert Hice was born on September 6, 1877 in Avilla, Indiana, United States. Son of Joseph Conrad and Gertrude (Eckles) Whetzel.
Bachelor of Arts, Wabash College, 1902, Master of Arts, 1906. Cornell University, 1902-1906. Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Puerto Rico, In 1926.
Honorary Doctor of Science, Wabash College, 1931.
Assistant in botany, Cornell, 1902-1904, instructor, 1904-1905. Assistant professor botany, 1906-1907, assistant professor plant pathology, 1907-1909, professor since 1909, New York College Agriculture (Cornell University). Also head of department plant pathology, Cornell Univercity, 1906-1922.
Chairman war emergency board of America Plant Pathologists, 1918.
Mycological explorations in Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Bermuda.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Phytopathol. Society, Botanical Society America, Mycological Society, America, British Mycological Society, Canadian Phytopathol.
Society, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Beta Kappa, Gamma Alpha, Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta.
Club: Rotary.
Married Lucy Ethel Baker, May 17, 1904. Married second, Bertha A. Baker, June 10, 1914. Children: Lucy Gertrude, Joseph Conrad.