History of Hastings Center, (Oswego County) New York United States of America

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David Simons Kellicott, entomologist, was born in Hastings Center, N.Y., Jan. 28, 1842. He was drafted in the Federal army serving nineteen days in August, 1863, when he was honorably discharged. He entered Genesee college in 1865, and was graduated B.S., in 1869. He taught natural science and mathematics in the academy at Mexico, N.Y., 1869-70. He was married, July 26, 1870, to Valeria E. Stowell of Corunna, Mich. He was teacher of mathematics in Keystone State normal school, Kutztown, Pa., 1870-71; was professor of natural science in State normal school, Buffalo, N.Y., 1871-78; professor of botany in College of Pharmacy, University of Buffalo, 1886-88, and professor of zo?logy and entomology in Ohio State university, 1888-98. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Royal Microscopical society of London, England, and was secretary of the American Society of Microscopists. He was editor of the Bulletins of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science and of the Buffalo Field Naturalists' club. He is the author of valuable contributions to society bulletins and scientific journals which, at the time of his death, numbered: ten subjects in the Canadian Entomologist ; six in the American Monthly Microscopic Journal; two in the Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science; one in Entomoligica Americana; twelve in Proceedings of American Society of Microscopists; one in The Microscope; one in Papilio; one in the Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. He died in Columbus, Ohio, April 14, 1898.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Hastings Center, (Oswego County) New York

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