BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Dean, New York State College of Agriculture.
William I. Myers, Cornell University Class of 1914, Ph.D. 1918, was
born December 18, 1891 in New York City. After receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell
University in 1918, he taught farm finance and farm management at Cornell. He
headed or was a member of a number of farm agencies, including the Farm Credit
Administration, the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, President Roosevelt's
Committee on Farm Tenancy, the American Institute of Cooperation, the New York
State Commission on Agriculture, President Truman's Famine Emergency Committee,
the New York State Food Commission, and the National Agricultural Advisory
Commission. From 1938-1943 he was head of the Department of Agricultural
Economics at Cornell University, and from 1943-1959 was Dean of the New York
State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University. In 1948 he
became Director of the Insular Lumber Company, and in 1950 became Director of
Smith-Corona Marchant, Incorporated. He died in Ithaca, New York on January 30,
1976.
