Dwight Smithson Jeffers

Dwight Smithson Jeffers (also Dwight S. Jeffers , DS Jeffers , born May 21, 1883 in De Land , Piatt County , Illinois , United States ; † April 20, 1980 in Des Moines , King County , Washington , United States) was a US -american forest scientist .

Life

Family and education

The from the US state located Illinois village native of De Land Dwight Smithson Jeffers, descendant of English and Scottish - Irish immigrant, son of the Methodist minister Elijah Marion Jeffers (1853-1948) and the Florence Smithson Jeffers (1853-1893), studied by the compulsory education at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington , Indiana , 1906 he earned the academic degree of a Bachelor of Arts . He then devoted himself to the study of forest sciences at the Yale University School of Forestry in New Haven , in 1911 he received the degree of Master of Forestry. In 1931 he received his doctorate from the Graduate School to the Doctor of Philosophy .

Dwight Smithson Jeffers, a Methodist Episcopal Church , “married Helen Anette Nelson (1891–1990) in December 1914. The marriage had the children Dwight Nelson (1916-2010) and Betty Jo. Jeffers died in 1980 at the age of 96. He found his final resting place in Greenhill Cemetery in Laramie , Wyoming, USA .

Professional background

After serving in the United States Reclamation Service and as an instructor at Canon City Colo High School, Dwight Smithson Jeffers joined the United States Forest Service as a Forest Assistant in 1911 , and was later promoted to Forest Supervisor. In 1921 Dwight Smithson Jeffers followed a call as Associate Professor of Forestry at Iowa State College in Ames . In 1931 Jeffers moved to Seattle as Professor of Forestry at the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington . In 1935 he moved to Moscow , where he was appointed Professor of Forestry and Dean of the College of Forestry at the University of Idaho , and in 1953 he retired .

Renowned forest scientist Dwight Smithson Jeffers published numerous articles in periodicals. Jeffers was a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters (SAF) and a member of the Freemasons , the scientific associations Sigma Xi , Alpha Zeta, Xi Sigma Phi, Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Kappa Epsilon and the Kiwanis Club of Moscow. In April 1983 his wife Helen founded the Dr. Dwight S. Jeffers Endowment Fund for Scholarships.

Fonts

• together with John H. Fahrenbach: A key and description of the woody plants, exclusive of the conifers, indigenous to New Haven County, Connecticut, and of the exotics that have escaped from cultivation. Yale University, School of Forestry, New Haven, Connecticut, 1910
• A planting plan for a tract near New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University, School of Forestry, New Haven, Connecticut, 1910
• The influence of the philosophy of free land upon forest policy in the United States. Dissertation , Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1935
• Free land and United States forest policy. Printed by the Letter Shop, Moscow, Idaho, 1939

literature

• Who's who on the Pacific Coast: A Biographical Dictionary of Leading Men and Women of the Pacific Coast and the Western States. AN Marquis Co., Chicago, Ill., 1949, p. 475.
• Robert Cecil Cook (Ed.): Who's who in American Education: A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Living Educators of the United States. Volume 15. Who's Who in American Education, Nashville, Tenn., 1952, p. 643.
• Who's who in the West. Marquis Who's Who, Incorporated, Chicago, Ill., 1954, p. 329.
• Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. : Volume 28 (1954-1955), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 1355.
• Who Was Who in America. : Volume VII, 1977–1981 with world notables . Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1981, p. 299.

Web links

• Dwight Smithson Jeffers in the database of Find a Grave (English)