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Yale College 23
special assignment m France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany; discharged
July 4, 1919, trustee Hillsborough 1911-25; chairman San Francisco chapter
Amencan Red Cross 1923-37 and member Central Committee, Washington,
D C, 1929-40, president Yale Alumni Association of California 1899-1900,
1906-08, became honorary president Yale Alumni Association of Northern
California 1932, member San Francisco, California State, and Amencan Bar
associations, Amencan Society of International Law, Amencan Academy of
Political and Social Science, and Old First Presbytenan Church, San Francisco
Marned October 8, 1895, in San Francisco, Mary Hurd, daughter of Charles
and Susan Mana (Hurd) Holbrook No chddren
Death due to bronchopneumonia Buned in Cypress Lawn Memonal Park,
San Mateo County, Cahf Survived by wife and a brother, Robert Stuart
Kmght (PhB Umv of California 1888) of Oakland, Cahf
Wilham Albert Setchell, B.A. 1887.
Born Apnl 15, 1864, tn Norwich, Conn.
Died April 5, 1943, in Berkeley, Cahf
Father, George Case Setchell, a wood-type manufacturer in Norwich, son
of Wdham and Mana (Case) Setchell of Norwich Mother, Mary Ann (Davis)
Setchell, daughter of George and Emma (Knoyle) Davis of Warminster,
England
Norwich Free Academy High oration appomtment Jumor year, phdo-
sophical oration appomtment and special two-year honors m natural and physical sciences Semor year, member Yale Society of Natural History, Gamma Nu,
Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi
Attended Harvard Umversity 1887-90 (MA 1888, MA and PhD 1890;
assistant in biology 1888-91), assistant m biology Yale Umversity 1891-92 and
mstructor 1892-95; professor of botany and chairman of the department Umversity of California 1895-1934 and professor ementus 1934-43, botanist
California Agncultural Experiment Station and director Botanical Gardens, m
the 1920's undertook a study of flora of Tahiti under auspices of Department of
Marine Biology of Carnegie Institution of Washington, an authonty on the
taxonomy, distribution, and economic uses of the marine algae of the Pacific
coast of North America, he was the author of a large number of papers appearing for the most part in University of California Publications tn Botany, Proceedings
of Amencan Academy of Arts and Sciences and California Academy of Sciences, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Occasional
Papers of the Bernice P Bishop Museum, Contributions from the Cryptogamic
Laboratory of Harvard University, and the Year Book of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington; author: Laboratory Practice for Begtnners in Botany (1897), in
1936 Essays in Geobotany in Honor of William Albert Setchell, edited by T H
Goodspeed, was pubhshed; fellow Amencan Academy of Arts and Sciences,
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1940-1945 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1940-1945 |
| Call Number | Yb 65 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
| Type | Periodical |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
| Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
| Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
| Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
| Title | Page 23 |
| Transcript | Yale College 23 special assignment m France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany; discharged July 4, 1919, trustee Hillsborough 1911-25; chairman San Francisco chapter Amencan Red Cross 1923-37 and member Central Committee, Washington, D C, 1929-40, president Yale Alumni Association of California 1899-1900, 1906-08, became honorary president Yale Alumni Association of Northern California 1932, member San Francisco, California State, and Amencan Bar associations, Amencan Society of International Law, Amencan Academy of Political and Social Science, and Old First Presbytenan Church, San Francisco Marned October 8, 1895, in San Francisco, Mary Hurd, daughter of Charles and Susan Mana (Hurd) Holbrook No chddren Death due to bronchopneumonia Buned in Cypress Lawn Memonal Park, San Mateo County, Cahf Survived by wife and a brother, Robert Stuart Kmght (PhB Umv of California 1888) of Oakland, Cahf Wilham Albert Setchell, B.A. 1887. Born Apnl 15, 1864, tn Norwich, Conn. Died April 5, 1943, in Berkeley, Cahf Father, George Case Setchell, a wood-type manufacturer in Norwich, son of Wdham and Mana (Case) Setchell of Norwich Mother, Mary Ann (Davis) Setchell, daughter of George and Emma (Knoyle) Davis of Warminster, England Norwich Free Academy High oration appomtment Jumor year, phdo- sophical oration appomtment and special two-year honors m natural and physical sciences Semor year, member Yale Society of Natural History, Gamma Nu, Phi Beta Kappa, and Sigma Xi Attended Harvard Umversity 1887-90 (MA 1888, MA and PhD 1890; assistant in biology 1888-91), assistant m biology Yale Umversity 1891-92 and mstructor 1892-95; professor of botany and chairman of the department Umversity of California 1895-1934 and professor ementus 1934-43, botanist California Agncultural Experiment Station and director Botanical Gardens, m the 1920's undertook a study of flora of Tahiti under auspices of Department of Marine Biology of Carnegie Institution of Washington, an authonty on the taxonomy, distribution, and economic uses of the marine algae of the Pacific coast of North America, he was the author of a large number of papers appearing for the most part in University of California Publications tn Botany, Proceedings of Amencan Academy of Arts and Sciences and California Academy of Sciences, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Occasional Papers of the Bernice P Bishop Museum, Contributions from the Cryptogamic Laboratory of Harvard University, and the Year Book of the Carnegie Institution of Washington; author: Laboratory Practice for Begtnners in Botany (1897), in 1936 Essays in Geobotany in Honor of William Albert Setchell, edited by T H Goodspeed, was pubhshed; fellow Amencan Academy of Arts and Sciences, |
