Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…University to McCormick 27 October 2020. Illinois State Marriage Records. Online index. Illinois State Public Record Offices. . Ancestry.com. Illinois, Marriage Index, 1860-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,…

Joachim Heinrich Schuette

…USA).1 A search of online herbarium portals in 2021 revealed Schuette’s specimens can also be found in the holdings of MO (Missouri Botanical Garden), ILL (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…if Williston collected any herbarium specimens. Fortunately, the online database where we catalog our specimens (sernecportal.org) also searches other herbaria consortia across North America, including the Mid-Atlantic Herbaria Consortium. Searching…

Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr.

…and getting a Christmas card from him with one of his beautiful photos on it.”” (2) SOURCES: Obituary: Charles Lewis McCartney, Jr. 20 October 2020. Cherokee Scout [newspaper]. https://www.cherokeescout.com/obituaries/charles-lewis-mccartney-jr ….

Duane Francis Houck

…Conservation Foundation’s website: http://www.tcf-barc.org/index.html and http://www.tcf-barc.org/barcgeninfo.htm Hurricane Iris October 8-9, 2001 in Belize: Our first priority was recovering the herbarium. For those of you who have not seen it, Duane…

Walter Lane Barksdale

…Range: L – Z. Ancestry.com. New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Index, 1901-2016 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. 7. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/185209830/walter-lane-barksdale: accessed 06…

Walking with Walter and William

…publication of his flora. His herbarium was taken to England by Fraser and eventually purchased by the British Museum of Natural History [BM] where it still exists. Since his death,…

Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler

…the name of Charles Mitchell purchased the estate… [and later] William Wrigley (of chewing gum fame) purchased the property, which adjoined his own Green Gables estate. It remains in the…

Lewis Henry Lighthipe

…in Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, Lighthipe continued his botanical work. One of his favorite places to botanize was “St. Nicholas” in Duval County. Fort San Nicholas (30.306467 latitude, -81.639050 longitude)…