Born in Pennsylvania, raised in Iowa, and educated mostly in Illinois, Morton J. Elrod decided at age 33 to venture west in 1897 to take a teaching position at Missoula’s fledgling university.

Elrod was UM’s first biology professor, and also a member of the American Bison Society. He spent 10 years traveling around the Flathead Indian Reservation between 1897 and 1907, and produced a ...

KALISPELL — It isn't so simple, finding where T.J. Hileman or Morton Elrod stood decades ago, aiming their camera lenses on glaci ers. But for the last four sum mers, Karen Holzer and Lisa ...

An R.B. Cycle Graphic 4x5 camera made by Eastman Kodak and used by Dr. Morton J. Elrod, an American ecologist, professor at University of Montana and founder of Flathead Lake Biological Station.

I was searching my biographical records on Professor Morton Elrod, the University of Montana's first faculty member who specialized in biology. Elrod was commissioned by the Boston Bison Society ...

Morton John Elrod was the first professor of biology at the University of Montana, founded the Flathead Lake Biological Station in 1899, and was Glacier National Park’s first naturalist.

But, it was the University of Montana's first biology professor, Morton Elrod, who started the collections. Angela said Elrod's first specimens provided the seeds of the museum.