Chandler, William H., 1878-1970, Undated
Scope and Contents
Occupation: Pomology Professor (University of California)Interviewer: Dixon"Description: Childhood on farm in Missouri; early education and teaching experiences; further education and teaching at University of Missouri, 1901-13; difficulties of farming; quality of early agricultural studies; appointment to faculty of Cornell University, 1913; influence of Liberty Hyde Bailey, professor at Cornell; tenure as head of department; study of pomology established at Cornell; relationship between Cornell and State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, New York; interaction between farmers and university study of agriculture; decision to accept position at University of California, Southern Branch, 1923; work with California agriculture; importance of soil chemistry; Martin R. Huberty; John Eliot Coit; Vernon T. Stoutemeyer; Claude B. Hutchison; start of floriculture program at UCLA; contributions of plant pathologists; fruit growers' problems; B. H. Crocheron; Ralph E. Smith; Thomas F. Hunt; E. W. Hilgard.
Dates
- Undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Cornell University. Program in Oral History (Organization)
- From the Collection: Bailey, Ethel Zoe. (Person)
- From the Collection: Barrett, William, 1888-1978. (Person)
- From the Collection: Bender, Ray, 1905-1975. (Person)
- From the Collection: Beneway, Frank W., 1884-1994. (Person)
- From the Collection: Benjamin, Earl Whitney, 1889-1972. (Person)
- From the Collection: Bradfield, Richard, 1896-1981. (Person)
- From the Collection: Bradley, J. Chester (James Chester), 1884-1975. (Person)
- From the Collection: Bull, Bartow B., 1874-1965. (Person)
- From the Collection: Carey, Daniel, 1897-1976. (Person)
- From the Collection: Cowles, Harold., 1896-1987. (Person)
- From the Collection: Creal, Harold L. (Person)
- From the Collection: Eames, Arthur J., 1881-1969. (Person)
- From the Collection: Fogg, Verne A., 1897-1987. (Person)
- From the Collection: Foster, Edward Shields, 1901-1973. (Person)
- From the Collection: Genung, Albert Benjamin, 1890-1963. (Person)
- From the Collection: Green, Donald, 1903-1989. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hart, Van Breed, 1894-1976. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hawley, Warren Waldo, Jr., 1891-1982. (Person)
- From the Collection: Herrick, Glenn W. (Glenn Washington), 1870-1965. (Person)
- From the Collection: Huttar, John C., 1902-1988. (Person)
- From the Collection: Jennings, Burton Aaron, 1895-1964. (Person)
- From the Collection: King, Asa Carlton, 1877-1967. (Person)
- From the Collection: Gibson, Anson Wright, 1892-1977. (Person)
- From the Collection: Knapp, Halsey, 1888-1976. (Person)
- From the Collection: LaMont, Thomas E., 1906-1970. (Person)
- From the Collection: Maynard, L. A. (Leonard Amby), 1887-1972. (Person)
- From the Collection: McConnell, James, 1891-1974. (Person)
- From the Collection: Gervan, R. Bruce, 1907-1993. (Person)
- From the Collection: Milliman, Thomas E. (Person)
- From the Collection: Monroe, Benton Sullivan, 1873-1968. (Person)
- From the Collection: Munger, Harlan B., 1888-1969. (Person)
- From the Collection: Myers, William Irving, 1891-1976. (Person)
- From the Collection: Norton, Horace A., 1883-1971. (Person)
- From the Collection: Palmer, E. Laurence (Ephraim Laurence), 1888-1970. (Person)
- From the Collection: Riley, Howard W., 1879-1971. (Person)
- From the Collection: Rodenhurst, Seymour K., 1893-1973. (Person)
- From the Collection: Shapley, S. Reuben, 1906-1997. (Person)
- From the Collection: Simons, L. R. (Person)
- From the Collection: Slack, Clarence M., 1894-1976. (Person)
- From the Collection: Smith, Paul, 1889- (Person)
- From the Collection: Stempfle, William Secord, 1895-1982. (Person)
- From the Collection: Stiles, Jared W., 1907-1974. (Person)
- From the Collection: Tailby, George W., 1882-1965. (Person)
- From the Collection: Taylor, Clayton Charles, Jr., 1898-1979. (Person)
- From the Collection: Thomson, Edward Herrmann, 1887-1967. (Person)
- From the Collection: Thompson, Homer C., 1885-1976. (Person)
- From the Collection: Underwood, E. Victor, 1889-1974. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wadsworth, Reverdy J., 1914-1970. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wadsworth, William P., 1906-1982. (Person)
- From the Collection: Wakely, Philip C., 1902-1983. (Person)
- From the Collection: Waldorf, William E., 1916-2000. (Person)
- From the Collection: Warren, Carl. (Person)
- From the Collection: Worthen, Edmund L., 1882-1965. (Person)
- From the Collection: Chandler, William Henry, 1878-1970. (Person)
- From the Collection: Levine, Jonathan. (Interviewer, Person)
- From the Collection: Windahl, Ethan. (Interviewer, Person)
- From the Collection: Dixon, Elizabeth I. (Interviewer, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
60 volumes. (60 volumes.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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