creator:

Craft, William A. (1894-1963)

title:

Papers

dates:

1937-1966

extent:

13 linear feet

collection number:

RS 9/11/58

repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

William A. Craft Papers, RS 9/11/58, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Biographical note

William A. Craft was born on September 9, 1894 near Jonesboro, Ark. and died January 28, 1963 in Des Moines, Iowa. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Iowa State College in 1922 and 1923 respectively. He received a Ph. D. in 1932 from the University of Wisconsin. He was an associate professor at Oklahoma State University from 1923-1936. Craft joined the U.S. department of Agriculture in 1936 and was the director of regional swine breeding laboratory for the USDA and cooperating states from 1937-59. He was made an associate professor in animal husbandry at Iowa State College in 1943 and was designated professor emeritus in 1960. Craft received the Certificate for Superior Service from the USDA in 1949 and served as president of the Osborn Research Club at Iowa State in 1958. He was also a member of Alpha Zeta and Sigma Xi.
 

Collection description

The collection contains biographical information, writings on hog raising and the development of the field of animal husbandry into animal science, one folder of correspondence, research notes on swine, teaching materials from graduate animal husbandry/science courses (1950s-60s), and one folder of materials from Jay Lush’s seminar, “Quantitative Genetics”.