The Albert S. Hunter Collection consists of research records, publications, maps, plans, and photographs of the Columbia Basin Wheat Project and of rubber research projects in California and Texas. It also includes several early-20th century photographs of Oregon and California scenes that were collected by Hunter.
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1 cubic foot box, 1 document box, 1 12x17 oversize box
Biographical / Historical Notes
Albert Sinclair Hunter was born in Greene County, Indiana, to Sinclair and Effie Alice Carpenter Hunter on October 21, 1908.
He farmed in Missouri and Iowa before starting school at Utah State Agricultural College in 1934. He earned his bachelors in chemistry four years later. Hunter went on to earn a masters degree in chemistry at Washington State in 1940, and a doctorate in soil science from Rutgers in 1943.
After graduating, he worked with the United States Department of Agriculture on a guayule rubber project during World War Two. He then worked at the US Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Laboratory at Cornell before starting at Oregon State as a Professor of Soils in 1949. At Oregon State, he was a part of the Western Soil and Water Management Division, which was associated with the Experiment Station.
He married Mildred Pixton Bowers on September 5, 1947. Mildred also graduated from Utah State Agricultural College, and then earned a masters in Nutritional and Institutional Management from Columbia. At the time of their marriage, she was Assistant Professor of Home Economics at USAC. While they were living in Oregon, she also worked at the Experiment Station.
In July 1957, Hunter started a new position in the Department of Agronomy at Pennsylvania State. After retiring in 1974, he taught soil fertility in Portuguese at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Brazil for three years.
Albert Hunter died January 22, 1991, in State College, Pennsylvania, leaving Mildred a widow.
