Fermen Layton Pickett (1881-1940) was a professor of botany at Washington State University from 1914 until his death. He came from Indiana, his native state, shortly after receiving his Ph.D. at Indiana University. His major botanical interests were mosses and in plant physiology. He served as Chairman of the Botany Department and as Dean of the Graduate School for many years. Although his colleagues criticized him for his shortcomings as a botanist, his department educated several significant botanical scientists and sponsored many important research projects. His most important achievement may have been securing the herbarium of Wilhelm N. Suksdorf for the University (see Northwest Botanical Manuscripts: An Indexed Register, Pullman, 1976). He was also a skilled photographer and one of the few in the 1920s who photographed a large number of natural features (geological formations, vegetations, rivers, lakes, and mountains).
Three title abstracts prepared for Fermen L. Pickett by the Whitman Abstract Company for properties in Pullman, Washington: Title abstract number 17758, 1927 June 27, for a "tract situated in the South East quarter of the South West quarter of Section 32, Township 15 North, Range 45, East of the Willamette Meridian"; Title abstract number 14941, 1936 June 2, for Lots 5, 6, 7, and 8 in Terrace Park Subdivision; and Title abstract number 14593, 1939 February 15, for the same property (includes plats).
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Abstracts of Title Prepared for Fermen L. Pickett, 1927-1939 (Cage 730)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Fermen Layton Pickett Papers, 1912-1938
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