Rufus Percival Hibbard

Background

Hibbard, Rufus Percival was born on April 2, 1875 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Rufus Piercy and Sarah Amelia (Brown) Hibbard.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Williams, 1899. Harvard, summer 1901. University of Chicago, summer of 1902.

Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 3 summers.

Fellow University of Michigan, 1904-1906, Doctor of Philosophy, 1906.

Career

Teacher of science, Kiskiminetas Springs Academy, Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, 1900-1901. Teacher of biology, Blair Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey, 1901-1904. Assistant Woods Hole, Marine Biological Laboratory, summers 1903, 04.

Scientific assistant Bureau Plant Industry, United States Department Agriculture, 1906-1908.

Bacteriologist and plant pathologist, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, 1908-1911. Collaborator plant disease survey, Bureau Plant Industry, Department Agriculture, Washington, 1908-1911.

Research associate plant physiology, Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station and associate professor, since 1911.

Achievements

• Rufus Percival Hibbard has been listed as a noteworthy botanist, plant physiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Genetic Association, American Society Plant Physiologists (president 1925-1926), Botanical Society America, American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Children: John Sidney, William Thomas.

Father:

Rufus Piercy Hibbard

Mother:

Sarah Amelia (Brown) Hibbard

child:

William Thomas Hibbard

child:

John Sidney Hibbard