About: Leonard Peairs

Leonard Marion Peairs (5 June 1886 – 29 January 1956) was an American economic entomologist and was a professor of entomology at the West Virginia University. Peairs was born in Lawrence, Kansas. He graduated from Kansas State Agricultural College (1905) and obtained a masters in 1907. He then worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois and became an assistant professor of entomology at the Maryland Agricultural College in 1908. Two years later he returned to the Kansas State Agricultural College and became a professor of entomology at the University of West Virginia in 1912 and worked there until his retirement. He collaborated with Dwight Sanderson and helped the latter revise the Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard in 1921 and with others subsequently. He obtained