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Elliker,
P. R. (Paul Reuben), 1911-
Paul R. Elliker Papers
1934-1973
1.2 cubic feet
The materials are housed in one cubic foot
box and in two document boxes.
These papers were created during Elliker's
tenure at Purdue University and as chairman of the Department of Microbiology
at Oregon State University. They document his research interests and career in
teaching. The collection consists of professional correspondence, laboratory
notes and tests, teaching curriculum notes, memorabilia, and a published
paper.
Materials in English.
Biographical Note:
Paul Reuben Elliker was born in 1911 in Lacrosse, Wisconsin. He received
his B.S. (1934), M.S. (1935), and Ph.D. (1937) degrees in bacteriology from the
University of Wisconsin. He joined the faculty of Purdue University's Dairy
Husbandry Department in 1940. During the years 1944-1945 Elliker served at Fort
Detrick, Maryland in the United State Army's Biowarfare Group. In 1947 he was
appointed a member of the faculty in the Bacteriology Department at Oregon
State College. He taught at Oregon State until his retirement in 1976, serving
as department chair from 1952-1976. His areas of research included germicides,
bacterial viruses, aerobiology, nutrition of lactic acid bacteria, and
psychrophilic bacteria.
Elliker received numerous awards for teaching and research, including
the OSC Sigma Xi All Campus Research Award in 1952 and the American Dairy
Science Borden Award in Dairy Manufacturing in 1954. He authored over 136
articles in publications such as the
Journal of Dairy Science and the
Journal of Milk and Food. He wrote several
technical papers for the OSU Agricultural Experiment Station and was the author
of
Practical Dairy Bacteriology, published in
1949.
Series I contains correspondence between Elliker and colleagues at
Purdue and other universities, companies for which he conducted research,
professional organizations and editors of scientific publications. It also
includes office files and correspondence related to the Department of
Microbiology generated during the time Elliker served as department chair.
Series II includes curriculum materials for dairy courses, exams from dairy
husbandry classes taught by Elliker, proposed lectures for a dairy technology
extension course, and laboratory exercises for food bacteriology courses.
Series III consists of research records pertaining to fat hydrolysis,
germicide research, and research that Elliker conducted for Klenzade Products,
a Beloit, Wisconsin manufacturer of sanitation chemicals and equipment. Also
included in series III is Elliker's research notes on Swiss cheese starter
cultures (1934-35). Series IV contains two papers, "Practical Scientific
Approach to Cream Quality Improvement," which Elliker presented to the American
Butter Institute in 1946 and "The History of the Department of Microbiology",
compiled by the faculty and staff of Oregon State University's Department of
Microbiology. Series V contains a photograph of a Klenzade products display at
a trade show.
The collection consists of five series: I. Correspondence; II. Teaching
and Curriculum; III. Research Records; IV. Papers; and V. Photograph.
Paul R. Elliker Papers, Oregon State University Archives, Corvallis,
Oregon.
Other materials relating to Paul Elliker can be found in the
Microbiology Department Records (RG 191) and in the Memorabilia Collection.
Oregon State
University. Dept. of Microbiology.
Purdue University. Dept. of Dairy Husbandry.
Dairy microbiology.
Microbiology--Research--Oregon.
Microbiology--Research--Indiana.
Dairy
plants--Sanitation--Wisconsin.
Bacteriology--Laboratory
manuals.
Dairying--Study and
teaching.
Photographs.
Oregon
Photographs
Agriculture
Colleges and
Universities
Science
Series I
Correspondence
1935-1973
1
Miscellaneous,
A-Z
1941-1947
5 folders
1
Letters to file
January-March 1947
1
Correspondence
January 1947-January 1948
1
Personal correspondence, to
Gertrude Elliker?
ca. 1945
1
Office
correspondence
1960-1961
1966-1973
4 folders
1
Marine Microbiology Training Grant
1958-1963
1
University of Wisconsin
memorabilia
1935-1936
Series II
Teaching and Curriculum
Records
1935-1946
1
Plant Science
curriculum
1941
1
Curriculum -- Dairy
courses
1942-1946
1
Exams (Dairy Husbandry
109)
1941
1
Proposed lectures for
Extension course in Dairy Technology
ca. 1946
1
Dairy Bacteriology 121, Lab
exercises
ca. 1935
1
Exams prepared for Food
Bacteriology
1939-1940
Series III
Research Records
1934-1947
1
Food poisoning, comparative
procedures and fat hydrolysis data
1943 & undated
1
Germicide research
results
1945-1946
1
Klenzade Products,
Inc.
1
Correspondence
1945-1947
3 folders
2
Handbook of Dairy
Sanitation (drafts)
1947
2
Klenzade miscellaneous
research records
1946-1947
2
Dairy Seminar on bacteria of
Swiss cheese
1936
2
Studies on activity of
starter cultures
1935
2
Report on observations of
Swiss cheese starter cultures
1934
2
Laboratory test
records
1941-1959
Series IV
Papers
1946-1967
2
"Practical Scientific
Approach to Cream Quality Improvement," presented at American Butter Institute,
Chicago
Nov. 25, 1946
"History of the Department of
Microbiology"
1967
Photograph
ca. 1946
3
Klenzade Products, Inc.
display at trade show