IN MEMORIAM 



J. HOWARD FRAZIER. 



The subject of this sketch was born at Natrona, Pennsylvania, 

 November 1, 1891, and died at Johnson City, Tennessee, on 

 September 11, 1917. He was a young man of unusual promise, 

 self reliant and always able to do the work allotted to him. 



He attended the pubic schools of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Ar- 

 , gentine, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, where he completed 

 the grade schools. He then attended the high school of Bristol, 

 Virginia, and Allegheny, Pennsylvania. He was a student at 

 the A. and M. college of ^Mississippi, 1909-1910, and came to Ames 

 as a student on Februarv^ 22, 1913. While at Bristol, Tennessee, 

 he also attended the Sullins Musical College, where he devoted 

 much time to the study of violin music, becoming an unusually 

 good player. When not at school he was a cash boy in Kansas 

 City in a Department Store, an office boy in a tannery at Bris- 

 tol, Tennessee, a clerk in a freight office, later a clerk in a music 

 store at Bristol and later had charge of the depariment of music- 

 al instruments in "The Fair Store," Chicago. During his first 

 summer vacation in Ames he worked at various kind of mecliani- 

 cal labor. During the second summer he became the official slide 

 maker of the Department of Botany. He was most efficient in 

 this work and as student assistant in Morphology, later as assist- 

 ant in the two-year botany course, he did splendid work, always 

 doing his w^ork in a most efficient and careful manner. Owing 

 to ill health he resigned his college work and went to one of the 

 Des Moines hospitals. When in somewhat improved condition 

 he moved to Bristol, Tennessee, to live with his sister. Here he 

 made, for the Department of Botany, a fine collection of oaks. At 

 the advice of the doctors he went to Miami, Florida, where he 

 paid some attention to botany, so far as his health would permit. 

 He then moved to Johnson City, where he died. 



At Ames ]\Ir. Frasier was active in musical circles and was a 

 member of the Colonial Club. Mr. Frazier became a most en- 

 thusiastic botanist. In reply to a little remembrance sent to 

 him by the Department of Botany (a copy of Gray's Manual) 



