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Thomas Jonathan Burrill was of Irish and Scotch descent, the son of John and Mary (Francis) Burrill. He was born on April 25, 1839 on a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussets, and while still a child went to work in a cotton-mill.
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Thomas Jonathan Burrill was of Irish and Scotch descent, the son of John and Mary (Francis) Burrill. He was born on April 25, 1839 on a farm near Pittsfield, Massachussets, and while still a child went to work in a cotton-mill.
When Thomas Burrill was nine his family moved to Stephenson County, in northwestern Illinois, where in the time that was not occupied at school or in farm chores the little boy was busy at the loom.
His education was in log school-houses until he went to high school in Freeport at nineteen, whence shyness and consciousness of his country clothes and manners drove him home.
He returned to school, however, at Rockford, working at chores to earn his board, and in 1862 he entered the State Normal School where the museum of the State Natural History Society was located.
In 1876 Northwestern University conferred the degree of A. M. upon him, and in 1893 the degree of LL. D. The latter degree was given him also by his own university in 1912, and he had previously (1881) received a Ph. D. from the old University of Chicago.
In his attachment to natural history Thomas Burrill gravitated to the museum, where he made the acquaintance of B. D. Walsh the entomologist and George Vasey the botanist. These men guided his studies in the natural sciences. He graduated from the Illinois State Normal School in 1865, and in 1865-68 was superintendent of schools in Urbana.
In 1868 he became assistant professor of natural history in the University of Illinois, and in the following year he conducted with his students a natural history survey and collecting trip from Cairo to Chicago, in other words from the southern extremity of the state and its austral life zones to the northern end where it borders Lake Michigan.
The next year he began contributing articles to the Illinois Horticultural Society's publications, and continued to write with vigor and precision on subjects horticultural, botanical, and pathological up to 1915, some eighty-two articles in all, practically every one of which has an integral place of importance in its subject.
In 1877 he announced his suspicion that the terrific epidemic of "fire blight" of pears then sweeping the Middle West was caused by bacteria, which had previously been supposed to cause disease only in animals.
His pathological investigations were extended constantly and included such important crop diseases as ear rot of corn, potato scab, blackberry rust, peach yellows, and, especially, bitter rot of apples. When the first news of the appearance of this last disease in Illinois reached him he sat up all night preparing a circular for farmers on methods of combating it, rushed it through the printing, and had it distributed in a few hours. In the meantime he had telegraphed warnings to every corner of the state.
His last work was an attempt to domesticate or cultivate the beneficial wild bacteria of the soil. He was not what is known as an inspiring teacher, if personal magnetism and eloquence make a teacher inspiring, for his manner was deliberate, even somewhat rustic, but he had those qualities of the sterling scientist which most appeal to the modern laboratory student.
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His views were cautiously regarded in America and received with scorn in Europe, but by 1880 his intensive microscopical investigations and his inoculations of healthy pears with the virus of fire-blight, causing the appearance of fire-blight symptoms, had gone far toward proving his contention, though he still offered his views with orthodox modesty and tentativeness.
His prediction that many mysterious diseases, such as the mosaic blights, would prove to be bacterial, has been fully justified, so that he may be said to have been the pioneer American in perhaps the most economically important branch of botany in the last fifty years, that of the bacterial diseases of plants.
It has been said of him that he acknowledged but one God, never loved but one woman, and had but one ideal in his work, the spirit of true science.
Thomas Burrill was a member of the Illinois Horticultural Society.
His private life was marked by uprightness, kindness, and sincerity.
On July 22, 1868, Thomas Burrill was married to Sarah H. Alexander of Seneca Falls, New York.