Background
Brown, Harley Procter was born on January 13, 1921 in Uniontown, Alabama, United States. Son of Harley Procter Brown and Martha Ida (McGinniss) Coleman.
entomology researcher zoology educator
Brown, Harley Procter was born on January 13, 1921 in Uniontown, Alabama, United States. Son of Harley Procter Brown and Martha Ida (McGinniss) Coleman.
AB, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1942; AM, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1945.
Graduate assistant in zoology, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1942-1945; instructor zoology, U. Idaho, Moscow, 1945-1947; instructor zoology, Oregon Institute Marine Biology, Charleston, 1946; instructor biology, Queens College, Flushing, New York, 1947-1948; assistant professor, then associate professor, U. Oklahoma, Norman, 1948-1962; professor zoology, U. Oklahoma, Norman, 1962-1984; professor emeritus, U. Oklahoma, Norman, since 1984; curator of invertebrates, Stovall Museum Science & History (now Oklahoma Museum Natural History), Norman, since 1962. Research professor Franz Theodore Stone Institute, Put-In-Bay, Ohio, 1949.
Institutional representative, member district committee, counselor Norman area Boy Scouts American, 1949-1970. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (life). Member American Institute Biological Sciences (governing board), American Microscopical Society (president 1975-1976), North America Benthological Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Sigma (national vice president since 1980).
Married Laura Clifford Williams, June 1, 1942 (deceased 1989). 1 child, Mary Hamilton Brown Catron. Married Marie Magdalen Jenkins, December 20, 1989.