Weber County UT Archives Biographies.....West, Franklin L. 1885 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

FRANKLIN L. WEST, PH. D.

    Franklin L. West, who since 1907 has been a member of the faculty of the
Utah Agricultural College at Logan and is regarded as one of the eminent
scientists of the state, was born in Ogden, Utah, February 1, 1885, a son of
Joseph Alva West, who is mentioned at length on another page of this work and in
connection with whose sketch is given the ancestral record of the family.

    Franklin L. West acquired his early education in the district schools of
Ogden, later entered the high school and ultimately was graduated from the Utah
Agricultural College as a member of the class of 1904, at which time the
Bachelor of Science degree was conferred upon him. He then went to California
where he entered the Leland Stanford Junior University, there studying in 1904
and 1905. Through the following scholastic year he was professor of physics in
the Brigham Young University and in the fall of 1906 entered the University of
Chicago, in which he studied for a year. In 1910 he once more registered in the
University of Chicago, where in 1911 he won his Doctor of Philosophy degree. He
is recognized as one of the eminent educators of Utah and since 1907 has been a
professor in the Agricultural College at Logan. He is a director of the School
of General Science and professor of physics, and he is physicist of the
experiment station, while of the board of control of athletics he is chairman.
He not only imparts clearly, concisely and readily to others the knowledge that
he has acquired and has the faculty of holding the attention and interest of
students but has also done some notable research work, having to do with the
freezing of fruit buds, the variation in minimum temperatures with the location
in relation to fruit growing, and on orchard heating, in regard to the climate
of Utah, soil physics and physical and chemical properties of some organic
amalgams. He is now senior director in the directors' council of five. His wide
study and research has made his life work of great value to his native state in
the dissemination of knowledge of the utmost worth to the agriculturist and
horticulturist. His opinions have come to be accepted as authority throughout
the west and his writings have won wide attention throughout the country.


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UTAH SINCE STATEHOOD
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

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VOLUME IV
CHICAGO-SALT LAKE: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1920


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