William Marshall Bailey
At SIUC 1914 to 1946
William M. Bailey received his A.B. and B.S. degrees at Campbell
College (Kansas City University). He taught for three years in the
public school system and nine years at Campbell College during the
early 1900s. He then accepted a teaching position at Southern
Illinois Normal College in 1914. During this time there was a
Biology Department (not Botany and Zoology) that also had as faculty
John P. Gilbert and Mary M. Steagall (see history of Zoology Department
HERE).
Mr. Bailey was listed as "S. M." during this time in the 1917
Oblisk (note spelling later changed to Obelisk), thus indicating that
he had yet to receive his M.S. or Ph.D. degrees. In 1921 he
became Head of the Biology Department that included only a handful of
instructors. By the year 1924, Mary M. Steagall was
listed in
the Obelisk as Zoology (and as their first Chair). In 1929 the Department of
Botany
was officially begun with William M. Bailey as its Chair. The
faculty listed for Botany were W. M. Bailey and Martha H.
Scott. In 1932 William Bailey completed his M. S. degree work and 84 weeks of
doctoral work resulting in a Ph.D. at University of Chicago.
As written in the 1939 Obelisk (p. 186): “Mr. Bailey is a member
of Sigma Xi, a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, American Association of Plant Physiologists, member of the
Illinois and Tennessee Academies of Science, and Illinois Biological
Curriculum Committees." Dr.
Bailey remained as chair of the Department until 1945 and he retired
from Southern Illinois University the following year.
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