William trelease biography

Trelease was born on February 22, 1857, in Mount Vernon, New York.
United States botanist.
Trelease bridged the era of Asa Gray, whom he know, and the twentieth century to become an internationally known botanist, teacher, and administrator.

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William Trelease

American entomologist

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William Trelease (February 22, 1857 – January 1, 1945) was an American botanist, entomologist, explorer, writer and educator. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviationTrel. when citing a botanical name.^[1]

Trelease was born in Mount Vernon, New York. He graduated B.S. from Cornell University in 1880 and a D.Sc from Harvard in 1884.^[2] He was instructor in botany at Harvard University 1880–81, instructor in botany at the University of Wisconsin 1881–83, and professor of botany there from 1883 to 1885. He was also special lecturer in botany at Johns Hopkins University, and in charge of the summer school of botany at Harvard, during 1883–84. He was Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University in St. Louis from 1885 to 1913, and appointed director of the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1889 to 1912. He was active in various municipal and professional academic associations:^[3] he was the first President of the Botanical Society of America i

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Trelease, William

(b. Mount Vernon, New York, 22 February 1857; d. Urbana, Illinois, 1 January 1945)

botany.

Trelease bridged the era of Asa Gray, whom he know, and the twentieth century to become an internationally known botanist, teacher, and administrator. He was the son of Mary Gandall and Samuel Ritter Trelease, of Dutch and Cornish ancestry. After attending schools in Branford, Connecticut, and Brooklyn, New York, he entered Cornell University, where he studied under the botanist A.N. Prentiss and the entomologist John H. Comstock. While still an undergraduate he published four papers on pollination in American Naturalist and the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, and made field studies for the United States government on cotton insects in Alabama. Following his graduation (B.S., 1880), he entered Harvard to study fungi under William G. Farlow. During his Harvard year he came under the influence of Gray, Sereno Watson, George L. Goodale, and Samuel H. Scudder.

Beginning in 1881 Trelease taught systematic botany, horticulture, forestry, and economic entomol

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Trelease, William (1857-1945) | University of Illinois Archives

Historical Note:

William Trelease (1857-1945) was professor of botany and head of the Department of Botany (1913-26); Herbarium curator (1912-16); and professor emeritus (1926-45) at the University of Illinois (UI). He was a pioneering botanist, entomologist, and educator best known for his contributions to plant taxonomy.

Trelease was born on February 22, 1857, in Mount Vernon, New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell (1880) and undertook graduate work at Harvard University where he also worked as an instructor (1880-81). His doctoral dissertation at Harvard was "probably ... the first in this country in the field of bacteriology" (Kunkel 307). Over the course of his career, Trelease would also study entomology and became known as a preeminent plant taxonomist. He held positions as professor and head of the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin (1881-83); professor of botany and head of the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri (1885-19