What is Eloise Blaine Cram?
[[File:Eloise Blaine Cram (1896-1957) on November 18, 1930.jpg|thumb]] '''Eloise Blaine Cram''' (June 11, 1896 - February 9, 1957) was in charge of the parasites of poultry section of the zoological division of the [[Bureau of Animal Industry]] at the [[United States Department of Agriculture]]. ==Biography== She was born in [[Davenport, Iowa]] on June 11, 1896 to Ralph Warren Cram (1869-1952) and Mary Belle Laventure (1874-1948). She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]] from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1919. She was awarded her [[Ph.D.]] from [[George Washington University]] in 1925. In 1920 became a zoologist for the [[Bureau of Animal Industry]] (BAI) specializing in the [[parasites of poultry]]. In 1936 she went to work for the Zoology Laboratory at the [[National Institutes of Health]]. She died in [[San Diego, California]] on February 9, 1957.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://specialcollections.nal.usda.gov/guide-collections/eloise-cram-papers |title=Eloise Blaine Cram |access-date=2014-08-05 |quote=Eloise Blaine Cram was born in Davenport, IA in 1897 {{sic}}. ... |publisher=[[United States Department of Agriculture]] |archive-date=2015-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908022655/http://specialcollections.nal.usda.gov/guide-collections/eloise-cram-papers |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |author=[[Marilyn Ogilvie]] and [[Joy Harvey]] |encyclopedia=Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science |title=Eloise Blaine Cram |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rUCUAgAAQBAJ&dq=Eloise+Cram&pg=PA608 |year=2000 |isbn=9781135963439 | access-date=2014-08-05 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://science.peru.edu/COPA/ProcHelmSocWash_V24_N2_1957I.pdf |title=Eloise Blaine Cram | journal =[[Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington]] | volume =24 | issue =1 | pages =146–147 |access-date=2014-08-05 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Cram, Eloise Blaine }} {{Authority control}} [[Category:1896 births]] [[Category:1957 deaths]] [[Category:People from Davenport, Io