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Charles Bradfield Morrey
b. 1869
A pioneering American bacteriologist, he helped build bacteriology as a university discipline in the early 20th century and wrote clear teaching texts that brought laboratory science to students. His best-known work, The Fundamentals of Bacteriology, reflects both his medical training and his long career at Ohio State University.
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The Fundamentals of Bacteriology
by Charles Bradfield Morrey
About the author
Born on November 5, 1869, in Chesterhill, Ohio, Charles Bradfield Morrey became a physician, teacher, and bacteriologist at a time when the field was rapidly taking shape. Sources from library records and biographical listings identify him as the author of The Fundamentals of Bacteriology, a widely circulated textbook, and describe him as Professor of Bacteriology and head of the department at Ohio State University.
Biographical sources also credit him with joining the Ohio State faculty in 1899 and helping establish the university's bacteriology department in 1903. His career linked medicine, agriculture, and laboratory science, and he was remembered as an important early figure in teaching bacteriology in the United States.
Morrey died on April 21, 1954. Although detailed personal material is limited in the sources I could confirm, his published work and long academic service show a writer focused on making a new scientific field practical, teachable, and useful.