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:…

Duane Francis Houck

…Iowa State University in 1973. Duane Francis Houck taught at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee for 21 years. Photograph courtesy of Alumni Relations, Southern Adventist University Houck taught in…

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…

Lewis Henry Lighthipe

…meetings with much regularity until the infirmities of advancing age made it necessary for him to give up the trips from his New Jersey home, and finally led him to…

Miklos Treiber

…http://www.sossomanfh.com/obituary/5913-dr-miklos-treiber accessed on 2 April 2020. 2. Chang, Julien. 2011. After 4o years, bookstore’s story near the end. The News Herald, 3 Feb. 2011. https://www.morganton.com/news/after-years-bookstore-s-story-nears-the-end/article_be05eb4e-ec68-5ef1-96ec-a47148e45502.html accessed on 2 April 2020….

Mildred Gant Stites Reed

…of Dartmouth College in 2002. Her spouse, John F. Reed, an alumnus of Dartmouth College (A.B., 1933), had apparently given his herbarium to his alma mater.2 The Academy of Natural…

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….

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…