BIOGRAPHY 



Leroy Sheldon Palmer was born in Rushville, Illinois, on March 

 23, 1887. He received his common school education in the public 

 schools of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, graduating from the Central 

 High School of that city in June, 1905. He entered the School of 

 Engineering of the University of Missouri in September, 1905, and 

 received the degree of B.S. in Chemical Engineering in June, 1909. 

 During the summer of 1909 he was Chemical Assistant for the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries, the work being conducted under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. Chas. W. Greene at Columbia, Missouri. He was ap- 

 pointed Fellow in Chemistry at the University of Missouri for the 

 year 1909-1910, but resigned in October, 1909, to become Assistant 

 Chemist in the Co-operative Government Dairy Research Laboratory 

 of the University of Missouri, being appointed by the Dairy Division 

 of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture. He pursued graduate work in the University of Mis- 

 souri during the years 1909-1910 and 1910-11, and received the degree 

 of M.A. in June, 1911. He was appointed by the Dairy Division of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture in October, 1911, as the 

 Government Representative in the Co-operative Dairy Research Lab- 

 oratory of the University of Missouri. He pursued work in the 

 Graduate School of the University of Missouri during 1911-1912 and 

 1912-13. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Dairy Chemistry 

 and Assistant Chemist to the Experiment Station in the Department of 

 Agricultural Chemistry by the University of Missouri in April, 1913. 



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