Ernest Gibbes Patton

…and retired from that institution in 1987.1 Patton’s thesis advisor at UCN-Chapel Hill was J. E. Adams, and the title of his Master’s Thesis was “Influence of flax root byproducts…

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.

…road I noticed a fringe of Ebony Spleenwort growing on the low bank at the edge of the road. Among the plants was a fern that I took at first…

William Willard Ashe

…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…

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…

Andrew Harvey Young

…Young. The photo (above) of Dr. Young was taken ca. 1890-1910 by George William Allison (courtesy of the Duggan Library Photo Archive, Hanover College). In addition to NCU other herbaria…

Chesley Calhoun Bellamy

…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 (?…

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…

Dr. Elizabeth Henry Bellmer, S. N. D.

…small episode of the 19th century Darwinian debate. Annals of Science 56: 25-45. Resume, Elizabeth H. Bellmer. Archives, Trinity University, Washington, D. C. Obituary “Elizabeth Bellmer” The Washington Post. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/elizabeth-bellmer-obituary?id=5613615…

Wade Thomas Batson, Jr.

…of South Carolina] faculty member, and department head, member of the SC Hall of Science and Technology, and beloved biology professor and mentor to hundreds of practicing scientists and teachers….