ARTHUR, JOSEPH CHARLES: 1850-1942.
Joseph Charles Arthur , son of Charles and Ann Allen Arthur, was born in Lowville, N.Y., on Jan. 11, 1850, and moved with his parents to Iowa at the age of six. He graduated with the first class from Iowa State College in 1872, receiving the M.S. degree in 1877 and the Sc.D. in 1920. Following his education at Iowa State College he engaged in post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, the University of Bonn, and Cornell, receiving the Sc.D. from the last-named institution in 1886. He was also awarded honorary degrees by the University of Iowa and Purdue. On June 12, 1901, he married Emily Stiles Potter, who died in 1935.
After serving as an instructor of botany at the universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota, from 1884 to 1887 he was connected with the Experimental Station at Geneva, N.Y., and in 1887 became professor of botany at Purdue. The following year he was made the first botanist of the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station and held both positions until his retirement in 1915. He was one of the founders and twice president of the Botanical Society of America, as well as a member and officer of other scientific organizations. In addition to his books Dr. Arthur was the author of many scientific bulletins and articles, and several text books.
He died at Brook, Ind., on Apr. 30, 1942.
Information from the Purdue University Libraries and from Who's Who in America.
- Contributions to the Flora of Iowa; A Catalogue of the
Phaenogamous Plants. Charles City, 1876.
- Living Plants and Their Properties: A Collection of Es
says (withDaniel Trembly MacDougal). New York, 1898.
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- The Plant Rusts (with others). New
York, 1929.
- Manual of the Rusts in United States and Canada.
Lafayette, Ind., 1934.
