Ralph Page Ashworth, Jr.

…States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. 5. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/168716088/ralph-page-ashworth: accessed 07 November 2022), memorial page for Ralph Page Ashworth…

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…information on Benedict’s specimens at VPI, see Mitchell, Richard S. and Leonard J. Uttal (1970) The Benedict plant and seed collections now at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Castanea 35(2): 150-152. In…

William Willard Ashe

…Ciccone, Capital City Camera Club For a number of years [after the death of Romulus Mitchell Saunders in 1867] the Elmwood house was rented to a series of people, among…

James Heathman Horton

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…

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…Bush on their 50th wedding anniversary. Photo courtesy of Cathy Martin; Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53510949/benjamin-franklin-bush : accessed 06 December 2021), memorial page for Benjamin Franklin “Bf” Bush…

Lichen Updates: new name and new county records

…Eaglenest Mountain (4925 feet; 35.4962070 latitude, -83.0431905 longitude) and adjacent North Eaglenest Mountain (5066 feet; 35.5002672 latitude, -83.0416956 longitude) are on Eaglenest Ridge, WSW of Lake Junaluska and NW of…

John Marshall Grant

…of naturalists who lay the foundation for the more spectacular work of the specialist. SOURCES: 1. John Marshall Grant. Find A Grave Memorial #133856997. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin//fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133856997 accessed on 11 January 2017….

Mary Williams Ward Shanor

…rosea. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 55(2): 353-360. Ward, Mary Williams (1939) Observations on a new species of Thraustotheca. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 55(2): 346-352….

Andrew Harvey Young

…3. Harvard University Herbarium, Index of Botanists. “Young, Andrew Harvey” accessed on 16 April 2013. 4. Consortium of North American Bryophyte Herbaria accessed on 2 August 2019. [ www.bryophyteportal.org ]…

William Battle Cobb

…1915 [Collier] Cobb had used a portion of Mary Know Gatlin Cobb’s dowry to purchase land and build houses on Cobb Terrace [35.917169 latitude, -79.054471 longitude in downtown Chapel Hill]…”5…