Lewis Edgar Wehmeyer (January 1, 1897, Quincy, Illinois – September 11, 1971, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American botanist and mycologist.
[1] After graduating in 1914 from Quincy High School,[2][1] Lewis E. Wehmeyer matriculated in 1916 at the University of Michigan.
[3] His academic education was delayed by a year spent in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during WW I.
He held the Emmac J. Cole Fellowship for three years and graduated in 1925 with a Ph.D.[3] His thesis Biologic and phylogenetic study of the stromatic Sphaeriales was supervised by Calvin Henry Kauffman (1869–1931)[4] As a postdoc Wehmeyer held a National Research Council Fellowship at Harvard University for three years.
[3] As a postdoc he collected fungi in Nova Scotia[2][1] and in September 1927 in Truro, Nova Scotia married Florence Elaine Prince (called Elaine Prince).