Frederick Gustav Meyer
…He had Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Meyer was considered one of the nation’s best taxonomists in identifying cultivated plants, and he researched plants around the world. His main interest was in…
…He had Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Meyer was considered one of the nation’s best taxonomists in identifying cultivated plants, and he researched plants around the world. His main interest was in…
…on 28 March 1863 in Vermont to Mary Elizabeth Squier (1833 – ?) and Romaine James Eggleston (1836-1925), a farmer. “Willie” had at least three siblings: Clara E. (b. ca….
…Union County, North Carolina. Ethel Smith became the Head Librarian of the college library, and it was named in her honor on 23 January 1959.5, 6 Ethel K. Smith, spouse…
…ca. 1950, “On dividing road of Indiana and Illinois, Kankakee, background in Indiana” Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.,…
…a couple of brief teaching jobs she acquired a position at Georgetown College [in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky]. There she taught classes for almost 30 years and became head of…
…herbaria curating Rev. Brinker’s specimens include the Academy of Natural Sciences (PH: bryophytes & vascular plants), Australian National Herbarium (CANB: bryophytes), Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT: bryophytes), California Academy…
…Gray Card Index in the hallway in dark green drawers, I had to check whether this story was wholly apocryphal, but indeed, every drawer had a fine gray powder in…
…Order of Red Men.”4 On 12 August, 1912 Bellamy married Caroline Louise Mallett (1891-1978) of Etowah, Henderson County, North Carolina and together they had two children, Caroline Bellamy Varnau (?…
9 January 1931- 5 May 2017 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) has cataloged over 300 vascular plant specimens collected by James Heathman Horton. As we…
…ward, Hannah Emerson Willard, daughter of William H. Willard, a Massachusetts manufacturer who had settled in North Carolina before the Civil War. The widowed Willard had placed his daughter in…