Frances Ernestine Silliman

…University of Minnesota, College of Education with a Bachelors of Science in June, 1928. (8) Frances Silliman had a long association with Bridgewater College in Virginia. She taught Biology at…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…he was an active member for many years: Prof. J. W. Chickering, jun., and Prof. J.C. Gordon of the National deaf-mute college [Gallaudet College], Washington, read papers upon the condition…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…majored in botany and geology. After receiving her bachelor’s degree there, she transferred to the University of Michigan, where she earned her master’s and doctoral degrees. She initially wanted to…

Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…1966 Lelong was among 35 “New Fulltime Faculty Members” of the University of South Alabama. His salary as an Assistant Professor of Biology was $7,000-$7,500, with a note that beginning…

Clifford R. Parks

…The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was “Floral pigmentation studies in the genus Gossypium” and his thesis advisor was Dr. Stanley George Stephens. In addition to studying Gossypium at North…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…signed annotation labels. The title of Meyer’s 1949 doctoral thesis at the Henry Shaw School of Botany at Washington University was “The genus Valeriana in North America and the West…

Willard Webster Eggleston

…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….

Budd Elmon Smith

…and South Carolina, but by far the majority of his specimens were collected during his doctoral work on the flora of Darlington County, South Carolina. Budd Elmon Smith, undated photograph,…

Albert Commons

…is likely additional specimens will be found. NCU’s vascular plants can be searched at www.sernecportal.org NCU curates only about 40 fungal specimens collected by Commons, and most of these were…

Harry E. Ahles

…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.,…