Mark Vernon Slingerland

Slingerland was born in [[Otto, New York|Otto, Cattaraugus County]]. A cousin of [[Anna Botsford Comstock|Anna Comstock]], he became a student at Cornell in 1888 and graduated BS in agriculture in 1892. At the time of joining he had little knowledge of entomology and took entomology courses offered by the husband of his cousin out of curiosity. He then found it fascinating and rapidly gained knowledge. He then became the first assistant to his cousin's husband, professor [[John Henry Comstock|J H Comstock]] and then worked as an instructor in entomology from 1890. He specialized in applied entomology. He began to establish an insectary where he bred insects of economic importance to study their life histories in order to find ways of managing and controlling their populations. He later took the undergraduate courses in economic entomology and managed studies at the Agricultural Experiment Station. He became an assistant professor in 1907. Slingerland was one of the early adopters of photography and used a large bellows camera to captures images of insects and their life histories. He used the photographs for his publications and made lantern slides that he used for his lectures.{{Cite journal |last=Needham |first=James G. |date=1946 |title=The Lengthened Shadow of a Man and His Wife--II |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/18985 |journal=The Scientific Monthly |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=219–229 |issn=0096-3771}}{{cite book|title=Mark Vernon Slingerland. Assistant Professor of Economic Entomology|page=451|date=1909| author1=Comstock, J.H.|author2=Craig, J.|author3=Rowlee, W.W.|url=https://ecommons.cornell.edu/entities/publication/8875009e-b701-4f5d-a338-640b0c44e7c9 |publisher=Cornell University}}

Slingerland was born in [[Otto, New York|Otto, Cattaraugus County]]. A cousin of [[Anna Botsford Comstock|Anna Comstock]], he became a student at Cornell in 1888 and graduated BS in agriculture in 1892. At the time of joining he had little knowledge of entomology and took entomology courses offered by the husband of his cousin out of curiosity. He then found it fascinating and rapidly gained knowledge. He then became the first assistant to his cousin's husband, professor [[John Henry Comstock|J H Comstock]] and then worked as an instructor in entomology from 1890. He specialized in applied entomology. He began to establish an insectary where he bred insects of economic importance to study their life histories in order to find ways of managing and controlling their populations. He later took the undergraduate courses in economic entomology and managed studies at the Agricultural Experiment Station. He became an assistant professor in 1907. Slingerland was one of the early adopters of photography and used a large bellows camera to captures images of insects and their life histories. He used the photographs for his publications and made lantern slides that he used for his lectures.{{Cite journal |last=Needham |first=James G. |date=1946 |title=The Lengthened Shadow of a Man and His Wife--II |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/18985 |journal=The Scientific Monthly |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=219–229 |issn=0096-3771}}{{cite book|title=Mark Vernon Slingerland. Assistant Professor of Economic Entomology|page=451|date=1909| author1=Comstock, J.H.|author2=Craig, J.|author3=Rowlee, W.W.|url=https://ecommons.cornell.edu/entities/publication/8875009e-b701-4f5d-a338-640b0c44e7c9 |publisher=Cornell University}}

Slingerland married artist [[Effie Brown Earll Slingerland Yantis|Effie Earll Murray]] in 1892 and they had a daughter. She made many of his lantern slides which were also sold to universities and schools as "Slingerland Lantern Slides".{{cite journal|title=The Slingerland Insect Slides|page=146|journal=The Guide to Nature|year=1915|volume=8|issue=1|url=https://archive.org/details/guidetonature08agas/page/146/mode/1up}} Slingerland died at the age of 45 from Bright's disease at his home on Summit Avenue.{{cite web|url=https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/names/16946-slingerland-effie-brown-earll|title=Slingerland, Effie Brown Earll |website=NC State University Libraries}}{{cite newspaper|title=Prof. Mark Vernon Slignerland|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/03/12/archives/prof-mark-vernon-slingerland.html| newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 March 1909}}

Slingerland married artist [[Effie Brown Earll Slingerland Yantis|Effie Earll Murray]] in 1892 and they had a daughter. She made many of his lantern slides which were also sold to universities and schools as "Slingerland Lantern Slides".{{cite journal|title=The Slingerland Insect Slides|page=146|journal=The Guide to Nature|year=1915|volume=8|issue=1|url=https://archive.org/details/guidetonature08agas/page/146/mode/1up}} Slingerland died at the age of 45 from Bright's disease at his home on Summit Avenue.{{cite web|url=https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/names/16946-slingerland-effie-brown-earll|title=Slingerland, Effie Brown Earll |website=NC State University Libraries}}{{cite newspaper|title=Prof. Mark Vernon Slignerland|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1909/03/12/archives/prof-mark-vernon-slingerland.html| newspaper=The New York Times|date=12 March 1909}} After his death, his widow married Rev. Arnold Stephens Yantis in 1912.{{cite book|title=Woman's who's who of America. 1914-1915|editor=Leonard, John William|place= New York| publisher=The American Commonwealth Company|year=1914|page=909|url=https://archive.org/details/womanswhoswhoofa00leon/page/909/mode/1up}}

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