Joseph William Tell Duvel

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Joseph William Tell Duvel (born November 16, 1873 in Wapakoneta , † 1946 ) was an American cultural technologist.

Career

The son of August and Amanda (Myers) Duvel attended Ohio State University , where he received his Bachelor of Science , and the University of Michigan , where he received his doctorate in 1902. From 1898 to 1899 he was botanical assistant for the Ohio Agricultural Experimental Station of the Bureau of Plant Industry. He also worked for the US Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC, and became a cereal specialist. Techniques he developed and an instrument (Brown-Duvel Moisture Tester) to test the moisture content of grains had become standard. As part of the War Food Administration, he was responsible for grain standardization studies for the US Grain Corporation of New York. In 1918 he went to Australia and helped develop grain production for the war. For these services he was awarded a gold medal and was elected an honorary member of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales. Between 1918 and 1925 he worked as a grain trader in Winnipeg, Canada, and as a grain exchange manager in Chicago and as head of the Commodity Exchange Administration in Washington, DC.

In May 1904 he married Elva Smith (* around 1880) from Wooster, with whom he had the children Maxine († 1985) and William August (1916-1965). In 1940 the couple lived at 1225 Decatur Street NW in Washington. Joseph WT Duvel died either on January 8, 1946 at Leland Memorial Hospital in Riverdale or on May 6, 1946.

literature

  • Who's Who in Chicago , Volume 4 (1926); P. 261

Individual evidence

  1. ^ UM Libraries: The Michigan Alumnus. UM Libraries, 1945, p. 296 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ https://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/perry/bios/duveljoseph.htm
personal data
SURNAME Duvel, Joseph William Tell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cultural technologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wapakoneta
DATE OF DEATH 1946