Ruth Starrett McGuire (née Colvin; February 19, 1893 – September 2, 1950) was an American plant pathologist. She studied sugar cane diseases and sugarbeets.[1][2]
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Early life and education
editRuth Colvin was born in 1893. She earned her B.A. in 1914 and her M.A. in 1916, both from Indiana University Bloomington.[1] After earning her Master's, she worked as a high school teacher for three years. She never earned her Ph.D. but she took classes at numerous other schools including George Washington University, Northwestern University, and the University of Maryland.[2] She was married to Francis Brenton Starrett (in 1925), and secondly, to Charles McGuire (in 1940).[3]
Career
editMcGuire started work at the United States Department of Agriculture. She retired with the title of Associate Cytologist. She did not stop working after retirement. She served as a research associate at the California Academy of Science from 1931 until 1942.[citation needed] While there, she studied the relationships between birds and insects. She also studied sugarcane, sugarbeets, bees, silkworms, beetles and mosquitoes. McGuire was a member of the Botanical Society of Washington, the Entomological Society of America, and the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists.[2]
Death
editA native of Flora, Indiana, McGuire died in 1950, aged 57, at a hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, from undisclosed causes;[4] she was survived by her husband and her brother. She is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
References
edit- ^ a b "Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893-1950)". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
- ^ a b c Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey (2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. p. 1437. ISBN 978-0-415-92040-7. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ Family Search website, Ruth M Colvin, February 19, 1893 - September 2, 1950
- ^ Newspapers.com website, Deaths: Monday September 4, 1950, published in the Kokomo Tribune
Further reading
edit- McGuire, Ruth C. and Ernst Artschwager. "Contribution to the morphology and anatomy of the Russian dandelion (Taraxacum Kok-saghyz)." Technical Bulletin. United States Department of Agriculture: 24.