William Crocker

Background

Crocker, William was born on January 27, 1876 in Medina, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles David and Catherine Crocker.

Education

Graduate Illinois State Normal University, Normal, Illinois, 1898. Bachelor of Arts, University of Illinois, 1902, Master of Arts, 1903. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1906.

Career

Colonel David Rockwell. Instructor biology, Northern Illinois State Normal School, 1903-1904. Associate plant physiology, 1907-1909, instructor, 1909-1911, astt. professor, later associate professor, 1911-1921, University of Chicago.

Managing director Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Yonkers, New York, since 1921.

Walker-Ames visiting professor of University of Washington, winter 1943. President Yonkers Board of Education, 1937-1946.

Achievements

• William Crocker has been listed as a noteworthy botanist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow A.A.A. South. (vice chairman Section G, 1925-1926). Member Botanical Society America (president 1924-1925), American Chemical Society, American Phytopathol. Society, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Gamma Alpha.

Member National Research Council (chairman division of biology and agriculture, 1927-1928).

Member American Philosophical Society, Society of Arts and Sciences (medalist, 1931), American Institute New York (gold medal, 1938). Club: Hudson River Country.

Connections

Married Persis Doctorate. Smallwood, September 3, 1910 (she died July 2, 1948). Children: Major John Smallwood, Lieutenant.

Father:

Charles David

Mother:

Catherine Crocker

Spouse:

Persis D. Smallwood

child:

Major John Smallwood Crocker

child:

Lieutenant Crocker