Background
Shelford, Victor Ernest was born on September 22, 1877 in Chemung, New York, United States. Son of Alexander Hamilton and Sarah Ellen (Rumsey) Shelford.
Shelford, Victor Ernest was born on September 22, 1877 in Chemung, New York, United States. Son of Alexander Hamilton and Sarah Ellen (Rumsey) Shelford.
Student West. Virginia University, 1899-1901. University of Chicago, 1901-1907, Bachelor of Science, 1903, Doctor of Philosophy, 1907.
Schools, Chemung County, New York, 1895-1897. Tutor in zoology, West Virginia University, 1901. Assistant and institute department of zoology, University of Chicago, 1903-1914.
Research work in European museums, 1908.
In charge marine ecology, Puget Sound Biological Station, alternate summers, 1914-1930, editorial board publications, 1921-1930. Assistant and associate professor zoology, University of Illinois, 1914-1927, professor 1927-1946, acting head of department, 1939-1940.
Chairman of department, 1940-1941, professor emeritus, 1946. Biologist in charge Research laboratories, Illinois State Natural History Survey, 1914-1929.
Chairman National Research Council Committee on Grassland, 1932-1939, member commission on Wild Life, 1931-1935.
Founder, Grassland Research Foundation, 1939, president, 1958, chairman scientific advisory board, 1959-1968, Ecologists’ Union (now Nature Conservancy), 1946. Lecturer Purdue University Science Institute, 1935, Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University, 1937.
Fellow Entomological Society America, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Society Zoologist, Ecological Society America (1st president 1916, Chairman of Commission on preserves 1917-1919, senior chairman 1921-1923 and 1930-1936, editorial board Ecology 1920-1928, Chairman of Commission for study of communities, 1931-1937), Philadelphia Academy Natural Sciences (correspondent), Society Liminology and Oceanography, American Society Naturalists, National Association American Geographers, Illinois Academy of Sciences, Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Phi Sigma.
Married Mary Mabel Brown, June 12, 1907 (deceased August 17, 1940). Children: Lois F. (Mistress East. H. Bennett), John V. Teacher, public.