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William Culp Darrah was born in Reading Pennsylvania, 12 January 1909. He obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science at the University of Pittsburg in 1931. During the two years following he was a fellow of the Carnegie Museum, and from 1934 to 1942 an instructor in the division of biology at Harvard and research curator of paleobotany at the Harvard Botanical Museum. Starting in 1942 he worked as a materials engineer with the Raytheon Development Laboratories, engaged in research on coal, oil shales, industrial raw materials, and fossil plants. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of Sigma Xi and the Botanical Society of America. His books include Textbooks of Paleobotany, Principles of Paleobotany, Introduction to the Plant Sciences, and Paleobotany of Coal. He went on to become professor of botany at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, from 1954 until his retirement at age 65. He married Helen Marie Hilsman in 1934 and had two daughters Barbara Anne and Elsie Louise. He died in 1989.
William Culp Darrah Papers, 1946-1972, Utah State Historical Society.
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