The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Kellerman, William Ashbrook

KELLERMAN, William Ashbrook, American botanist: b. Ashville, Ohio, 1 May 1850; d. 8 March 1908. He was graduated at Cornell in 1874, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Zürich in 1881. He was a professor in the State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wis., five years; in the State College, Lexington, Ky., one year, and at the Kansas Agricultural College eight years. He was botanist to the Kansas Experimental Station four years, and from 1891 until his death was professor of botany in the Ohio State University. He lectured extensively, contributed to various botanical journals and investigated parasitic fungi. He wrote ‘Elements of Botany’; ‘Plant Analysis’; ‘Spring Flora of Ohio’; ‘Catalogue of Ohio Plants’ (1899); ‘Non-Indigenous Flora of Ohio’ (1900), etc.