Elam T. Bartholomew

…classify flowering plants. By 1885 he had in his herbarium a specimen of every phanerogam [flowering plant] growing in that part of the state. As head of a rapidly enlarging…

Frances Katherine Foust Lombard

…allomycis Foust which had been found in soil collected from “Battle Grove, across the road from Coker Arboretum, Chapel Hill, N.C. [North Carolina], October 5, 1936… This organism is not…

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. Family Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65538811 Piedmont Springs: https://www.livingplaces.com/NC/Stokes_County/Danbury_Town/Danbury_Historic_District.html Piedmont Springs Hotel:…

Elsie Julia Gibson Whitney

…of the Naval Radio Station, habitually had Auzenia Diakanof, a native girl, at the station for immoral purposes, that her mother had complained to Hope about the matter, and he…

Emma Lewis Lipps

…tract of land located in Floyd County, Georgia that had never been cleared for cultivation. Dr. Lipps used the forest as a natural lab for teaching biology and a great…

Nathan Barrows

…in 1862, he married Susan Haines, and together they had five children, of whom only Porter and Albert reached adulthood. “After six years devoted to medical practice he gave it…

Josiah Hale

…M.D., Louisiana botanist, Rafinesque’s pupil. Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. 8: 235-243. http://www.tulane.edu/~darwin/Herbarium/Herbarium/Herbarium%20History.htm http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/archives/RIDDELL.html Torrey and Gray (1842) A Flora of North America 2: 304….

Walking with Walter and William

…strange locality, “Hanging over the tomb of Thomas Walter, St. John’s Parish.” The specimen had been collected on 29 August, 1909 by the founder of the Herbarium and first chair…

William Wirt Calkins

…Lucy V. born 1859 and Jennie born 1862. Both had the surname Calkins, so perhaps were adopted by Calkins after marrying their mother.) William Wirt Calkins, Louisa Hossack Calkins, and…

Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr.

…was born April 25, 1947, in James Archer Smith Hospital, Homestead, Fla., to Charles Lewis McCartney Sr. and Katharine Orphanedes McCartney. A fourth-generation South Floridian, he attended Neva King Cooper…