Joe:
That article is a very good layman's working history of the development of creeping bent grass for golf in this country---via the so-called "vegetative process." That entire thing with the inclusion of the names of the men who primarily created and promoted it are Piper and Oakely (Carrier, Walton et al), the Wilson brothers, Toomey and Flynn, Walter Harban, E.J. Marshall, Mr. Whitney, owner of Prudence Island RI and to some extent C.B. Macdonald. This was the work of the US Dept of Agriculture at its golf turf grass plots at their Arlington Virginia experimental station, that evolved into first the USGA Green Committee which morphed into the USGA Green Section in 1925.
For more detail in this entire creation and evolution reported by this article one should refer to the so-called "agronomy letters."
There is one mistaken item in that report though and that is that brown patch did not affect this creeping bent grass. Hugh Wilson became somewhat frantic in the end (of his life) that unless some better remedy was found to slow down large and small brown patch that the problem might ruin their entire years long effort to promote creeping bent grass for golf.
PS:
Toomey and Flynn's farm in Montgomery County where they housed some of their crew became for a time a very productive station for the development and dissemination of this creeping bent via the vegetative process. That is obviously why you see the mention in that article of their Manufacturers and Marble Hall (Green Valley).
The lady in the photo in that article was Rodman Griscom's (Wilson Committee member) sister. Their other brother, Lloyd, was the ambassador to Italy. She won the US Amateur in 1900. Their father, Clement Griscom owned the land of one of the nines of the original Merion Haverford course. Clement Griscom was the chairman of what was known as International Mercantile Marine (affectionately known as "the Shipping Trust"). That entity financed by the likes of Drexel and Morgan arguably had more tonnage at sea than any other entity. It included the White Star Line which owned the Titanic.