Background
Cooley, Robert Allen was born on June 27, 1873 in Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Alfred A. and Charlotte Maria Cooley.
Cooley, Robert Allen was born on June 27, 1873 in Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Alfred A. and Charlotte Maria Cooley.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1895. Studied entomology under Professor C. H. Fernald, of Massachusetts Agricultural College. Doctor of Science, Montana State College, 1936.
He was appointed the first state entomologist for Montana in 1903, and worked on Rocky Mountain spotted fever, studying the life cycle of the tick that transmits the Rickettsia bacteria that cause the disease. He also worked on the eradication of the disease and from 1931 until his retirement in 1946 was head entomologist at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana, where the vaccine was developed. Cooley died at the age of 95 in Hamilton.
The Cooley Laboratory at Montana State University is named in his honour.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member Association Economics Entomologists.
Married Edith M. Cooley, June 7, 1899 (died August 1920) children—Charlotte Packard (Mistress. Married second, Elsie Eddy Jolliffe, August 13, 1925.