Background
Strong, Reuben Myron was born on October 8, 1872 in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Myron W. and Mary A. (Leonard) Strong.
Strong, Reuben Myron was born on October 8, 1872 in West Allis, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Myron W. and Mary A. (Leonard) Strong.
Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin, 1897. Master of Arts, Harvard, 1899, Doctor of Philosophy, 1901. Investigator at Senckenbergische Neurological Institute, Frankfort, Germany, 1909, and at Naples Zoöl.
Station, 1910, also various summers at Marine Biological laboratories, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
Freeman. Instructor biology, Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1902-1903. Carnegie research assistant, 1903-1904, associate in zoölogy, 1904-1907, instructor, 1907-1914, University of Chicago. Professor anatomy, U. Mississippi, 1914-1916.
Associate professor anatomy, 1916-1917, professor microscopic anatomy, 1917-1918, professor anatomy, 1918, Vanderbilt University Medical School.
Professor anatomy, head of department Loyola University School Medicine, 1918-1946, professor, chairman emeritus, since 1946. Research associate in anatomy Chicago Natural History Museum, since 1946.
Professor zoölogy University of Michigan Summer Biological Station, 1916, 17.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Association Anatomists (Executive Committee, 1916-1919), American Society Zoölogists, American Ornithologists Union, Wilson Ornithological Society (president 1894-1901, 20, 21. Member), Nature Conservatory (honorary), Chicago Ornithological (honorary), Friends of Our Native Landscape (honorary), Institute Medicine Chicago (member of the Board of Governors 1936-1940), National Parks Association, Wilderness Society, Chicago Neurological Society Conservation Council Chicago (chairman since 1937), Illinois Audubon Society (president 1941-1951, now honorary president), Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Pi.
Clubs: Chaos, Quadrangle.
Married Ethel Freeman, June 20, 1907.