H. B. (Howard Bowman) Ellenberger

Born in 1882, Howard Bowman Ellenberger was an American agricultural scientist whose published work centered on dairying, milk quality, and ice cream manufacture. Records for his books and pamphlets show him writing as H. B. Ellenberger, and Project Gutenberg lists An ice cream laboratory guide, written with W. W. Fisk, among the works associated with his name.

His career was closely tied to the University of Vermont. University records place him there as a professor of Animal and Dairy Husbandry, and campus history notes that the department was housed in Pomeroy Hall with Professor H. B. Ellenberger's office on the first floor. Other historical references connect him with research on milk cooling, dairy cattle nutrition, and bacterial growth in ice cream.

For listeners coming to him through an old manual or public-domain text, Ellenberger is best understood as a specialist writer: less a literary author than a clear, practical explainer. His books belong to the world of experiment stations, classrooms, and working dairies, where the goal was reliable results and better food production.