Benjamin Minge Duggar

1872 - 1956  (84 years)

• Name	Benjamin Minge Duggar
  Birth	1 Sep 1872	Gallion, Hale County, Alabama, United States
  Gender	Male
  familyserch.org ID	M7KB-49H
  Death	10 Sep 1956	New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
  	findagrave.com memorial #10717
  Created	09 Jun 2019
  Burial	Oak Hill Cemetery, Rockland County, New York, United States
  Notes	He studied at several Southern schools, including Alabama Polytechnic Institute (B.S., 1891), and at Harvard, Cornell (Ph.D., 1898), and in Germany, Italy, and France. As a specialist in botany, he held various positions in experiment stations and colleges until 1901, when he was appointed physiologist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, for which he wrote bulletins. He was professor of botany at the University of Missouri from 1902 to 1907 and thereafter held the chair of plant physiology at Cornell. He was vice president of the Botanical Society of America in 1912 and 1914. From 1917 to 1919, he was acting professor of biological chemistry at the Washington University Medical School. Surprisingly, he is best remembered for an achievement in another discipline occurring in the late 1940s, his discovery of chlortetracycline (Aureomycin), the first of the tetracycline antibiotics, from a soil bacterium growing in allotment soil. Professor Duggar contributed many ar
  Person ID	15737904	robsgenealogy
  Last Modified	16 Jul 2021

  
  

  Family	Elsie Rist,   b. 9 Dec 1903, St. Louis, (City of St. Louis), Missouri, USA d. 4 Apr 2002, Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States (Age 98 years)
  Created	09 Jun 2019
  Family ID	F53837514	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 1 Sep 1872 - Gallion, Hale County, Alabama, United States Death - 10 Sep 1956 - New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States Burial - - Oak Hill Cemetery, Rockland County, New York, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		Duggar family history - The Democrat-Reporter (Linden, Alabama 13 May 1943 pg 1 (part 1 of 2)
  		Duggar family history - The Democrat-Reporter (Linden, Alabama 13 May 1943 pg 1 (part 2 of 2)