Elias Judah Durand

Elias Judah Durand was an American mycologist, and botanist. He was one of the foremost American experts on the discomycetes.

Elias Judah Durand was born in Canandaigua, New York to Rufus Durand, a farmer, and Anna Maria Sisson. He received his Bachelors degree in botany and entomology from Cornell University in 1893 and his Doctor of Science in botany in 1895 under George Francis Atkinson at Cornell. Following graduation he taught botany and mycology at Cornell until 1910, first as a fellow and later as an instructor. In 1910, Durand was appointed professor of botany at the University of Missouri, where he remained until 1918. In 1918, Durand was named professor at the University of Minnesota, where from 19201921 he was the Chairman of the Department of Botany. He remained at the University of Minnesota until his death from cancer onOctober 1922. Durand is buried in the Durand family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in Canandaigua, New York. He married Anna Louise Perry onSeptember 1899 and had one child, Anna Louise Durand , onJune 1901. Anna Louise died shortly after giving birth to their daughter on 11

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