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Franklin Sumner Earle (September 4, 1856 – January 31, 1929) was an American
Franklin Sumner Earle Records- New York Botanical Garden
1856 births 1929 deaths American mycologists American botanists People from Livingston County, Illinois University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni New York Botanical Garden {{mycologist-stub
Franklin Sumner Earle (September 4, 1856 – January 31, 1929) was an American mycologist
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans. Fungi can be a source of tinder, food, traditional medicine, as well as entheogens, poison, and ...
who specialized in fungal plant disease
Plant diseases are diseases in plants caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Organisms that cause infectious disease include fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, viroids, virus-like or ...
s. He was the first ever mycologist to be employed at the New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, ...
, and was the author of ''The Genera of North American Gill Fungi''.
Life
Frankin Sumner Earle was born inDwight, Illinois
Dwight is a village (Illinois), village located mainly in Livingston County, Illinois, with a small portion in Grundy County, Illinois, Grundy County. The population was 4,032 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Dwight contains an orig ...
, on September 4, 1856, to Parker Earle and Melanie Tracy. He spent much of his early youth at the Earle farm. Later he attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...
sporadically in the 1880s, but never earned a degree. He studied with the mycologist Thomas Jonathan Burrill.
Soon after college, Earle served as the superintendent of the Mississippi Agriculture Experiment Station (1892–1895). Soon after that Earle worked as a biologist and horticulturist of the Alabama Agriculture Experiment Station (1895–1900).
Between 1890 and 1899 Earle was co-editor of three exsiccata
Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...
works called ''Economic fungi'' with Arthur Bliss Seymour.Triebel, D. & Scholz, P. 2001–2024 ''IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae''. – Botanische Staatssammlung München: http://indexs.botanischestaatssammlung.de. – München, Germany.
Earle worked as an Assistant Curator in charge of mycological collections at the New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, ...
in 1901.
His sister was the fiction writer, Mary Tracy Earle.
References
External links
Franklin Sumner Earle Records- New York Botanical Garden
1856 births 1929 deaths American mycologists American botanists People from Livingston County, Illinois University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni New York Botanical Garden {{mycologist-stub