Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....RUSSELL, H. L.
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Author: Beck, J. D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS.

H. L. RUSSELL, Dean of the college of Agriculture was born
in Poynette, Columbia county, Wisconsin, March 12, 1886.
Entered University of Wisconsin, 1884, graduating in 1888.
Was fellow in Biology in the University from 1888 to 1890,
specializing in bacteriology. Studied in Europe in Koch's
Laboratory, University of Berlin, Zoological Station at
Naples, The Pasteur Institute in Paris. Given the degree
of Ph. D. from John Hopkins' University, 1892. Continued
bacteriological studies at the Woods Holl Biological
Station, Mass. Fellow in Bacteriology, University of
Chicago, 1893-98. Called to the University of Wisconsin in
1898 as assistant professor of bacteriology and
bacteriologist in the Experiment Station. Elected
professor of bacteriology 1896. This was a new line of
work inaugurated by Dean Henry, the first college to take
up consideration of agricultural problems from the
bacteriological point of view. Most of his work since
coming here at the Agricultural College has been along
dairy and animal disease lines, especially in connection
with investigations concerning the ripening of cheese and
bovine tuberculosis. Dean College of Agriculture and
director Agricultural Experiment station, 1907.

Additional Comments:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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