Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…beloved by her husband and admired by people across North Carolina. She died on August 28 in Chapel Hill. Born on May 24, 1925 in Birmingham, Alabama to Emma and…

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…

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…

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….

Katherine Augusta Taylor

…of Germantown Bethel Church, adjacent to Tipahato, and her gravestone faces the house she loved.4,5 Katherine Augusta Taylor is buried in the graveyard of Germantown Bethel Church, adjacent to Tipahato;…

Bernard Carl Mikula

(? – 2017) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected by Bernard Mikula; as we continue to catalog our collections…

Charles Clinton Lindley, Jr.

…September 2020. Find A Grave memorial # 34856536. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34856536/c-clinton-lindley accessed on 14 September 2020. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,…

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…

Margaret Campbell Campbell

…signed her collections as “Margaret C. Campbell”. Most are undated and have scant locality data, noting simply “Hendersonville, N.C.”. A few specimens are dated 1894. She seems to have had

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…