Background
Marlatt, Charles Lester was born on September 26, 1863 in Atchison, Kansas, United States. Son of Washington M. (one of founders and first principal Blue Mont College, now Kansas State College) and J. A. (Bailey) M.
chief United States Bureau of Entomology
Marlatt, Charles Lester was born on September 26, 1863 in Atchison, Kansas, United States. Son of Washington M. (one of founders and first principal Blue Mont College, now Kansas State College) and J. A. (Bailey) M.
Bachelor of Science, Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, 1884, Master of Science, 1886, Doctor of Science, 1921.
Assistant professor Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, 2 years. Assistant entomologist, United States Department of Agriculture, 1889-1894, 1st assistant and assistant chief entomologist, 1894-1922, associate chief, 1922-1927, chief bureau of Entomology, 1927-1933. Engaged in historical and genealogical work, since 1933.
Directed, 1909-1912, effort to secure a national law to prevent importation of infested and diseased plants into United States, resulting in the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912. Chairman Federal Horticultural Board to supervise enforcement of this act, 1912-1928. Responsible for reorganization and assembling from other bureaus of Department of Agriculture, of all plant quarantine and regulatory work, under a new office, created by the secretary of agriculture of Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, chief of this office, July 1, 1928-December, 1929.
Member editorial committee Journal of Agricultural Research, 1919-1926. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Washington Academy Sciences, Biological, Archaeol. and Geography societies, Phi Kappa Phi.
Clubs: Cosmos, Chevy Chase, Metropolitan (Washington).
Married Florence L. Brown, December, 1896 (died October 28, 1903). Married second, Helen Stuart Mackay Smith, July 5, 1906. Children: Florence, Virginia, Charles Lester (deceased), Helen, Dorothy, Constance.