Benjamin P. and Nola A. Young papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 6457

Scope and content

Ledgers, with detailed accounts of family and household expenditures, 9 volumes, 1923-1973; two scrapbooks (primarily with postcards), three travel diaries, folder of international driving licenses and automobile information, and letters home from a European tour that the Young family took in 1935; and diaries of Nola A. Young (some five-year volumes), 16 volumes, including three travel diaries, 1916-1970.

Dates

1923-1973.

Creator

Young, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Percy), 1887- (Person)
Young, Nola Ayers. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Professor of Zoology, Cornell University. Benjamin P. Young received a B.A. from the University of Kansas in 1908 and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1919. For seven years following his graduation he served as a high school principal and as city school superintendent in Kansas. From 1915 to 1917, he served as an instructor in entomology at the University of Kansas. In 1917, he became an instructor in entomology at Cornell; in 1919, Assistant Professor of Zoology, in 1940 Associate Professor of Zoology, and, in 1952, Emeritus Professor. His academic interests centered on invertebrate zoology, with special emphasis on entomology and parasitology, and he played a major role in developing the basic zoology course at Cornell. In 1910, he married Nola May Ayers. They had two children, John A. Young and Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Young Lacey (Cornell '38).