{"id":283,"date":"2013-02-22T15:40:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history2\/?p=283"},"modified":"2013-02-22T15:40:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:40:22","slug":"gleason-h-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2013\/02\/gleason-h-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Allan Gleason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Henry A. Gleason<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born: <\/span> Dalton City, IL 1\/2\/1882; died 4\/21\/1975<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education: <\/span> Illinois (B.S. 1901; M.A. 1904); Columbia (Ph.D. 1906)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title: <\/span> <em>A revision of the North American Vernonieae <\/em>(Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden 4:144-245)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Adviser: <\/span> <a title=\"N. L. Britton\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/britton-n-l\/\">Nathaniel L. Britton<\/a> (confirmed by B. Maguire)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Comments: <\/span> Influenced by <a title=\"S. A. Forbes\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/forbes-s-a\/\">Stephen A. Forbes<\/a> and <a title=\"T. J. Burrill\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/burrill-t-j\/\">Thomas J. Burrill<\/a> while studying and working in Illinois. For more information see obituary by B. Maguire (Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 102:274-282) and biographical article by R. P. Mclntosh (ibid. 102:253-273, reprinted in History of American Ecology, Arno Press, New York, 1977).<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history: <\/span> Illinois 1906-10; Michigan 1910-19; (New York Botanic Garden 1919-51)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> <a title=\"W. B. McDougall\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/mcdougall-w-b\/\">Walter B. McDougall<\/a>, <a title=\"F. C. Gates\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/gates-f-c\/\">Frank C. Gates<\/a>, <a title=\"A. G. Vestal\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/vestal-a-g\/\">Arthur G. Vestal<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors: <\/span> Eminent Ecologist 1953 and 1959.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/eminent1953.pdf\">Eminent Ecologist 1953<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/Awards\/bulletin\/eminent1959.pdf\">Eminent Ecologist 1959<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/obits\/Gleason_HA.pdf\">Resolution of Respect<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Archived papers: <\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/library.nybg.org\/finding_guide\/archv\/gleason_ppf.html\">New York Botanical Garden<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">External links:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/people.wku.edu\/charles.smith\/chronob\/GLEA1882.htm\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smith bios<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_A._Gleason\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry A. Gleason Born: Dalton City, IL 1\/2\/1882; died 4\/21\/1975 Education: Illinois (B.S. 1901; M.A. 1904); Columbia (Ph.D. 1906) Dissertation title: A revision of the North American Vernonieae (Bull. N. Y. Bot. Garden 4:144-245) Adviser: Nathaniel L. Britton (confirmed by B. Maguire) Comments: Influenced by Stephen A. Forbes and Thomas J. Burrill while studying and working in Illinois. For more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-microbios","tag-microbiographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}