Editing Edwin Griswold Nourse (section)

==Early life and education==
Nourse was born in [[Lockport (city), New York|Lockport, New York]], Nourse moved to a western suburb of [[Chicago]] at the age of four months, and considered himself a [[Midwestern United States|Midwesterner]]. His father worked in the city as a supervisor of public school music. His sister, [[Alice Tisdale Hobart]], went on to become a bestselling novelist. In high school Nourse enjoyed English and history, and after spending a year at the [[Illinois Institute of Technology|Louis Institute]], went on to [[Cornell University]] with an interest in [[civil engineering]]. In 1903, he was caught in a wave of [[typhoid fever]] that hit campus; upon his return he decided to simply get his A.B., but also took several classes at the [[Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences|College of Agriculture]].<ref name=Library>{{cite web |first=Jerry N. |last=Hess |title=Oral History Interview with Dr. Edwin G. Nourse |url=http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/nourseeg.htm |publisher=Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum |date=1972-03-07 |access-date=2009-01-25}}</ref>