Background
Farnsworth, Raymond Bartlett was born on May 21, 1915 in Enterprise, Utah, United States. Son of Bartlett Canfield and Lillie Parthena (Holt) Farnsworth.
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Raymond Bartlett Farnsworth
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor of Science, Brigham Young University, 1937. Master of Science, Massachusetts State College, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1941.
Postgraduate, University Arizona, Harvard University, University California at Berkeley.
Career
Agronomist, Paulding (Ohio) Sugar Company, 1941;
assistant agronomist, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, 1941-1943;
member of faculty, Brigham Young U., Provo, Utah., 1946-1987;
professor agronomy, Brigham Young U., Provo, Utah., 1950-1987;
department chairman, Brigham Young U., Provo, Utah., 1950-1955, 61-67;
department chairman agronomy and horticulture, Brigham Young U., Provo, Utah., 1967-1987;
acting dean, College Applied Science, 1952;
acting dean, College Biological and Agricultural Sciences, 1955-1959;
agricultural director Indian assistance program in agriculture and home management, 1970-1987. Soil scientist Oregon State College, 1958-1959. Soil science adviser college agriculture U. Teheran, Iran, 1959-1961.
Associate director advanced science education program, director graduate fellowship program National Science Foundation, 1965-1966.
Achievements
Membership
Bishop, Provo 8th ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1956-1958. Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946. Fellow American Society Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America.
Member Western Society Soil Science (chairman soil fetility section 1957), Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (chairman biological section 1949), Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married Maurine Winsor, December 31, 1943. Children: Dennis Ray, Diane, Kevin, Karalie.
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October 31, 1987 (aged 72) -
Resting place
Buried Provo (Utah) City Cemetery -
Nationality
American