William Ashbrook Kellerman Explained

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William Ashbrook Kellerman (May 1, 1850 Ashville, Ohio – March 8, 1908) was an American botanist, mycologist and photographer.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Biography

Kellerman was born in May 1850 in Ohio, the son of Daniel Kemberling Kellerman and Iva/Ivy Ashbrook Kellerman. His father a merchant and Farmer originally from Pennsylvania did well for himself and put his son in fine schools. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1874. After graduation, Kellerman was hired as Professor of Natural Sciences at the Wisconsin State Normal School, a position he held for five years.[1] During this time, in 1876, he married Stella Victoria Dennis, also a botanist.[5]

In 1879, the Kellermans moved to Germany, where he attended the Universities of Göttingen and Zurich, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1881. They returned to the U.S., and he was appointed Professor of Botany and Zoology at the State College (now University) of Kentucky in Lexington. In 1883, he joined the Department of Botany and Zoology at the Kansas State College of Agriculture (now Kansas State University) in Manhattan.[1] He also became state botanist and wrote a pamphlet on the flora of Kansas.[6] In 1891 he became a professor of botany at Ohio State University. One of his students was Lumina Cotton Riddle, the first woman to receive a doctorate in Botany from the university.[7]

He studied the smuts (fungal diseases) of wheat and oats, and demonstrated that hot water is an effective fungicide. With Benjamin Matlack Everhart and Job Bicknell Ellis,[8] in 1885 he founded the Journal of Mycology, now Mycologia.[1] In 1904 he began making annual botanical expeditions to Guatemala.[9] It was there in 1908 that he contracted a fever (generally believed to be malaria), died, and was buried in the "cactus fenced cemetery at Zacapa."

He edited three exsiccata works.[10] The one with the title Ohio fungi is found in major herbaria.[11]

Works

Notes and References

  1. Book: College Symposium of the Kansas State Agricultural College . Hall & O'Donald . 1891 .
  2. R. F. Griggs, F. L. Landacre and J.C. Hambleton . 1908 . On the Death of William Ashbrook Kellerman . The Ohio Naturalist . 8 . 7 . 361–362.
  3. Web site: William Ashbrook Kellerman (1850–1908) . Illinois Mycological Association.
  4. Kellerman, William Ashbrook.
  5. Stuckey. R.L.. 1992. Botanical and horticultural contributions of Mrs. William A. Kellerman (Stella Victoria (Dennis) Kellerman), 1855-1936. The Michigan Botanist. 31. 4. 123–142. 2027/mdp.39076001560114?urlappend=%3Bseq=127. Hathitrust.
  6. Kellerman, William Ashbrook. 1905.
  7. https://mbd.osu.edu/collections/herbarium/history-osu-herbarium Ohio State University website, ‘Museum of Biological Diversity section, History of the OSU Herbarium
  8. Everhart, Benjamin Matlack. 1900.
  9. Lowden . Richard M. . February 1970 . WILLIAM ASHBROOK KELLERMAN'S BOTANICAL EXPEDITIONS TO GUATEMALA (1905–1908) . Taxon . en . 19 . 1 . 19–35 . 10.2307/1217909 . 1217909 . 0040-0262.
  10. Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
  11. Web site: Ohio fungi: IndExs ExsiccataID=408126473 . IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae . Botanische Staatssammlung München . 21 April 2024.