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Elwyn M. Meader
 Elwyn M. Meader was
born March 31, 1910 in Rochester, New Hampshire. He received his B.S. in
1937 from the University of New Hampshire and his M.S. in 1941 from
Rutgers University, where his thesis was "A Method for Determining
the Relative Cold Hardiness of Dormant Peach Fruit Buds."
From 1938 to
1941 he did research on peaches for the U.S. Department of Agriculture
at Rutgers, from 1941 to 1945 on berries at Beltsville, from 1945 to
1946 he was associate professor at the University of Vermont, and from
1946 to 1948 he was horticulturist with the U.S. Army in Seoul, Korea.
From 1948 to 1966 he was a professor of horticulture at the University
of New Hampshire.1
After
retiring he continued his plant breeding work and released many new
varieties into the public domain.
His inherent
love of plants, a Yankee view of their good and bad points, and the
desire to improve them, plus contact with Albert F. Yeager, made him a
very successful plant breeder.
During his
long career, Prof. Meader introduced many new plant
varieties. A generalist in his work, he introduced more than sixty new
plant varieties
including persimmons, chestnuts, lilacs, cucumbers,
soybeans, watermelons, raspberries, and everbearing strawberries
without runners.
He passed
away on July 19, 1996.
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