| Name |
Ethel Winona McCollum4,3 |
| Birth |
23 Oct 1891 |
| Death |
2 May 1977 Age: 85 |
| Burial |
Elmwood Cemetery, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma |
| Burial Memo |
Main, Row 37 |
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| Spouses |
| 1 |
Nathaniel Elmer Winters Ph.D.  4, G Uncle |
| Birth |
3 Jul 1883 |
| Death |
2 Jul 1977 Age: 93 |
| Burial |
Elmwood Cemetery, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma135 |
| Burial Memo |
Main, Row 37. Funeral Service at Stanleys Memorial Chapel, Tulsa Oklahoma. |
| Residence |
1939, Honolulu, Hawaii514 |
| Occupation |
Agronomist and Agricultural Ambassador6 |
| Education |
B.S., M.S., Ph.D. (See notes)2 |
| Called |
Elmer6 |
| Father |
Martin Winters (1851-1943) |
| Mother |
Sarah Ann Martin (1855-1937) |
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| Notes |
DR. N. ELMER WINTERS (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.) 1929-1933.
Dr. Winters was a native Kansan who made the Run with his parents in 1889. As a teenager, he taught country school northwest of Cashion. He graduated from OAMC with a B.S. degree in Agronomy in 1911. (Dr. Winters rode his horse from his home in Cashion to Stillwater - personal communication.) After college, he organized the Agriculture Dept. at Southeastern Normal (now Southeastern State) in Durant. He then became superintendent of a Texas substation for six years. Dr. Winters earned an M.S. degree in 1918 from Texas A&M and took a position as Soils Extension Specialist at North Carolina State.
Later, he was awarded a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 1923. After graduation, he was Director of the Research Laboratory (boll weevil research) at Pee Dee Experiment Station in South Carolina. Next, he organized research and extension in Argentina and other South American countries.
In 1929, Winters was appointed as Head Of Agronomy Department and Assistant Director of the Agricultural Experiment station at OAMC. He established a soil testing laboratory in 1929 and inaugurated an Agronomy Field Day in 1931. Dr. Winters instituted the county soil survey in 1929 and was responsible for a quick survey of soil erosion in 48 counties using "crop meters" attached to car odometers. In 1932, he was appointed to a regional soil erosion board and selected a team to survey badly eroded Stillwater Creek which led to the designation of Lake Carl Blackwell as a multi-use area.
After a leave of absence from OAMC, Dr. Winters became a regional director of the Soil Erosion Service (now NRCS) in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. After military service, he joined the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service in South America and Indonesia in 1945. Dr. Winters retired from government service in 1954 and died in 1977 at the age of 93. 430 |
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