Background
Ashmead, William Harris was born on September 19, 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Captain Albert S. and Elizabeth (Graham) Ashmead.
Ashmead, William Harris was born on September 19, 1855 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Captain Albert S. and Elizabeth (Graham) Ashmead.
A.M., Florida Agricultural College, 1901. Doctor of Science, Western University of Pennsylvania, 1901.
Was with J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. With brother became public agricultural books, agricultural weekly, and daily, Jacksonville, Florida, 1876. Edited scientific department of weekly, devoting self chiefly to investigation of injurious insects.
Special field entomologist, United States Department of Agriculture, 1887. Entomologist State Agricultural College, Lake City, Florida, 1888. Assistant entomologist and investigator, United States Department of Agriculture, 1889.
Special studies in Berlin, winter 1889-1890. Returned to Department Agriculture Author: Orange Insects (treatise on beneficial and injurious insects in Florida), 1880. Assistant curator, division insects, United States National Museum, from 1897.
Wrote: Monograph of the North American Proctotryphidae. Also 250 contributions to journals Home: Washington, Distric.
Married Harriet Holmes, 1878.