Funeral services for Dr. J. J. Taubenhaus, 52, prominent Texas A.&M. College scientist who died Monday afternoon in a Bryan hospital after a long illness, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at Temple Freda in Bryan. Rabbi Henry Cohen, of Galveston, will officiate. The body will lie in state from 1:30 at the Temple. Interment will be in the Jewish section of the Bryan City Cemetery with McCulloch-Dansby Company in charge. Dr. Taubenhaus had been chief of the division of plant pathology and physiology of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station division of the college since 1916. His discovery that the organism causing cotton root rot was a fungus living on the live roots of susceptible plants enabled scientists to prepare control features for this disease. During his studies of root rot Dr. Taubenhaus discovered that plants affected by the disease develop fever. Dr. Taubenhaus came to the United States as a youth (1903) from Haifa, Palestine, where he was born Dec. 25, 1884. He received his secondary education in New York schools and graduated front Cornell in 1908. He was naturalized as a United States citizen the same year. He received his master of science degree from Cornell in 1909 and his doctor of philosophy degree from the University of Pennsylvania, in 1913. Prior to coming to Texas A. & M., he was plant pathologist for the Delaware Experiment Station. Dr. Taubenhaus is survived by his wife, two children, Dr. Leon Taubenhaus, intern at King's County Hospital in New York City; Miss Ruth Taubenhaus, student at Branard College; a brother, Morris, of New York City; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Meir Taubenhaus, and two other brothers and two sisters, all of Haifa, Palestine.

DECEMBER 14, 1937 Bryan Eagle
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