{"id":3792,"date":"2015-07-18T01:48:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T01:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2015-07-18T01:48:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T01:48:25","slug":"vestal-a-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/2015\/07\/vestal-a-g\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur G. Vestal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arthur G. Vestal<\/strong><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Born:<\/span> LaGrange, IL 9\/10\/1888; died 6\/5\/1964<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Education:<\/span> Illinois (B.A. 1911); Colorado (M.A. 1913); Chicago (Ph.D. 1915)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Dissertation title:<\/span> <em>Phytogeography of the eastern mountain front in Colorado<\/em> (Bot. Gaz. 68:153-193)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Advisor:<\/span> <a title=\"H. C. Cowles\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/cowles\/\">Henry C. Cowles<\/a> (confirmed by R. Brewer)<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Other influences:<\/span> Also influenced by <a title=\"F. Ramaley\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/ramaley-f\/\">Francis Ramaley<\/a>, his Master\u2019s adviser, and <a title=\"H. A. Gleason\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/gleason-h-a\/\">Henry A. Gleason<\/a>, with whom he worked as an undergraduate.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Teaching history:<\/span> Colorado 1911-14, Eastern Illinois State Normal School 1915-20, Stanford 1920-29, Illinois 1929-57.<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Ph.D. students:<\/span> <a title=\"C. H. Muller\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/muller-c-h\/\">C. H. Muller<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">Others influenced:<\/span> <a title=\"William T. Penfound\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/penfound-w-t\/\">William T. Penfound<\/a>, <a title=\"Robert H. Whittaker\" href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/whittaker-r-h\/\">Robert H. Whittaker<\/a><br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA offices and honors:<\/span> Secretary-Treasurer 1934-35<br>\n<span style=\"color: #990000\">ESA links:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/obits\/Vestal_AG.pdf\">Resolution of Respect<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur G. Vestal Born: LaGrange, IL 9\/10\/1888; died 6\/5\/1964 Education: Illinois (B.A. 1911); Colorado (M.A. 1913); Chicago (Ph.D. 1915) Dissertation title: Phytogeography of the eastern mountain front in Colorado (Bot. Gaz. 68:153-193) Advisor: Henry C. Cowles (confirmed by R. Brewer) Other influences: Also influenced by Francis Ramaley, his Master\u2019s adviser, and Henry A. Gleason, with whom he worked as an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,159],"tags":[92],"class_list":["post-3792","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\/3792","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\/11106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}