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Beeson, Jasper Luther

educator, chemist, was born Aug. 31, 1867, in Keener, Ala. He graduated from the university of Alabama, with the degree of M. A.; was assistant professor of physics in his alma mater, and later chemist to the Alabama Geological Survey. In 1893 he graduated from the Johns Hopkins university in chemistry with the degree of Ph. D., whereupon he was elected professor of agricultural chemistry in the Audubon Sugar school of New Orleans. He is the inventor of standard chemical apparatus for agricultural analysis, which are in use both in America and Europe.

He is a prominent member of various scientific bodies and has published several pieces of original investigation work upon sugar and the sugar cane.