Elam Bartholomew (1852 - 1934)
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Biography
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Biography
1852 June 9, born in Strasburg, Pennsylvania
attends rural school while living on his father's farm at Farmington, Illinois
1876 marries Rachel Isabel Montgomery, moves to Stockton, Kansas and homesteads a farm of 160 acres.
1882 decides to make a herbarium of phanerogamic plants of northwestern Kansas; he later expands this to include fungi, and eventually acquires 292,380 specimens through exchange with other collectors, and personal travels throughout North America
1898 earns M.Sc. Degree from Kansas State College at Manhattan
1927 earns D.Sc. from Kansas State College
1928 publishes North American Plant Rusts
1934 November 18, dies in Hays, Kansas
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Sources
Harry Baker Humphrey (1961) Makers of North American Botany
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Further Sources
E. T. Bartholomew (1935) "Elam Bartholomew" in Mycologia
Elam Bartholomew (1958) Pages from the diary of Elam Bartholomew
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Selected Publications
Elam Bartholomew (1898) The Plant Rusts of KansasMaster's thesis
Elam Bartholomew (1901 - 1917) Fungi ColumbianaAll sorts of North American Fungi
Elam Bartholomew (1911 - 1926) North American UredinalesThe rust fungi of North America
Elam Bartholomew (1927) The Fungus Flora of KansasDoctoral thesis.
Overholts cites this work as The fungous flora of Kansas, gives its length as 46 pages (different times!), and adds "Though the letter of transmittal in the front of this publication indicates that it is a special research bulletin of the Kansas Agricultural Station, the publication bears no bulletin number." I hope that this helps anyone interested in finding it.
Elam Bartholomew (1928) North American Plant RustsHis most important work
republished in 1933
Elam Bartholomew (1958) Pages from the diary of Elam Bartholomewpublished by the Kansas State Historical Society
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