Alonzo Engelbert Taylor (died May 20, 1949) was an American food researcher and educator. He served on the U.S. War Trade Board during
World War I
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. He taught at the
University of California, Berkeley
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,
University of Pennsylvania
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and was director of the Food Research Institute at
Stanford University
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. He worked for
General Mills
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from 1929 to 1945.
Early life
Alonzo Engelbert Taylor
was born in
Alden, Iowa,
to Mrs. Louisa Taylor.
He studied at
Cornell University
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,
DePauw University
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and the
University of Berlin
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. He graduated from the
University of Pennsylvania
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with a
Doctor of Medicine
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in 1894 and he graduated from the
University of Wisconsin
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with a
Bachelor of Laws
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in 1920.
Career
In 1899, Taylor joined the
University of California, Berkeley
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as head of the medical department and as professor of pathology and physiological chemistry.
In 1910, he left Stanford to work at
University of Pennsylvania
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as a professor of physiological chemistry.
In 1916, Taylor was an attaché at the United States Embassy in
Berlin
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. He investigated food conditions throughout Germany. In May 1917, he began a study on investigating the use of grain in manufacture of intoxicants.
From 1917 to 1919, he served as a scientific and economic adviser of the U.S. War Trade Board. After the armistice, he worked with
Herbert Hoover
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, then director of the American Relief Administration, in the European relief effort. Taylor's focus was studying the defeated nations' dietary requirements.
In 1921, Taylor joined Food Research Institute at
Stanford University
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as director. He researched the international relations of food supplies. He remained in that position until 1936.
In 1927, President
Calvin Coolidge
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appointed Taylor as a delegate to the
Geneva World Economic Conference. In 1931, he was a consulting expert of the American delegation at the International Wheat Conference in London.
In 1929, Taylor became a member of the research committee at
General Mills
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to improve
nutritional values and diet for the general public. He was director of research for General Mills from 1936 to 1940. He then served as a consultant until 1945.
Works
These works of Alonzo E. Taylor are available via
Internet Archive
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:
* 1907
"On Fermentation" ''Pathology'' 1(8): 87 to 341, a University of California publication
* 1912
''Digestion and Metabolism'' the physiological and pathological chemistry of nutrition for physicians and students
* 1917: (with
Vernon Lyman Kellogg
Vernon Lyman Kellogg (December 1, 1867 – August 8, 1937) was an American entomologist, evolutionary biologist, and science administrator. His father was Lyman Beecher Kellogg, first president of the Kansas State Normal School (now known as Em ...
The Food Problem
Personal life
Taylor married Madeline Peck on November 2, 1899, in Chicago. She died at a Chicago hospital in 1912 after a fall from a fourth story window of the
Auditorium Hotel.
They had two sons and one daughter, Alonzo E. Jr., Morris P. and Mrs. Ellide Taylor Tyrrell.
Taylor died on May 20, 1949, aged 78, at his home in
Palo Alto, California
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. He was buried in Alden, Iowa.
References
External links
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Year of birth uncertain
1870s births
1949 deaths
People from Hardin County, Iowa
People from Philadelphia
People from Palo Alto, California
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Wisconsin alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Stanford University faculty
General Mills people
19th-century American educators
20th-century American educators