Byron David Halsted (June 7, 1852 – August 28, 1918) was an American botanist and plant pathologist. Halsted was born at Venice, New York. He studied at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

and at Harvard (D.Sc., 1879). In 1885, he began teaching botany at Iowa State and in 1889, he moved on to Rutgers in New Jersey. In addition to his writings on biology and agriculture, Halsted was known for his book, ''Barn Plans and Outbuildings'' (New York: Orange Judd Co., 1894). Halsted was an uncle of plant explorer

David Fairchild David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 – August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United St ...

who studied with him in Iowa and New Jersey. '

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