User:Theodore W. Palmer/Ernest Jesse Palmer

Ernest Jesse Palmer (April 8, 1875 to February 25, 1962) was an American botanical taxonomist and collector specializing in woody plants particularly Crataegus (hawthorn) and Quercus (oak).

He was born in Leicester, England and brought to Missouri at age 3. From an early age he had a strong interest in all areas of natural history. The family moved from northwest Missouri to Webb City in the southwest part of the state in 1891. He supported his father, mother and older sister from age 11 and thus had limited formal education, but did manage to attend Webb City Baptist College for three years. 

Through Benjamin Franklin Bush he became acquainted with Charles Sprague Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum and worked for him and the Missouri Botanical Garden as a collector from 1910 until Sargent persuaded him to become a staff member at the Arboretum in 1921.  He retired in 1949 and moved back to Webb City. The bibliography in the article by Kobuski referenced above gives a bibliography of over 100 papers published between 1910 and 1962.

This is my first Wikitree article and I have not had time to see how to link names to Wikitree articles I am aware that there are articles about: Webb City, Webb City Business College (successor of the Baptist College); Benjamin Franklin Bush, Charles Sprague Sargent, the Arnold Arboretum, the Missouri Botanical Garden, Quercus (siting E. J. Palmer) and Oak.

[[I also did not see how to italicize Crataegus and Quercus. I have enough botanical training to be uncomfortable when they are not italicized.

I am the youngest son of Ernest Jesse Palmer and that would reasonably create doubt that I can write an unprejudiced article. Please consider what I have written and the references I have provided. Finally consider that mathematicians have a well-earned reputation for a special regard for TRUTH.

I am writing a biography of my father which I expect to publish commercially so I have many hundreds of other references, thus I could extend this brief refernce greatly. My biography has the working title "A Nineteenth Century Naturalist in the Twentieth Century, Ernest Jesse Palmer (1875 to 1962)".]]Theodore W. Palmer (talk) 21:06, 11 May 2015 (UTC)