Madeline Palmer Burbanck

…In Memoriam: Madeline Palmer Burbanck. http://www.mbl.edu/obituaries/madeline-palmer-burbanck/ accessed on 5 April 2017. 2. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015….

Benjamin Franklin Bush

…married to Robert B. Tindall, a pioneer florist who built and operated the first greenhouse in Independence. And young Bush’s early interest in plants was no doubt due in some…

Frances Ernestine Silliman

…Photograph Collection In 1928, Frances is listed in the city directory as a student residing in Sanford Hall at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. (6) She graduated from the…

Frederick Gustav Meyer

…corps in Europe during World War II and settled in St. Louis, where he earned a doctorate in botany from Washington University in 1949. He did postdoctoral work at University…

Donald Culross Peattie

…in Polk County, North Carolina, ad Adjacent Parts of South Carolina, in Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. Part II. Cat-tail Family to Orchid Family (Typhaceae to Orchidaceae) and Part III. Willow…

Albert Commons

…in 1683. Owing to ill-health and a delicate constitution, the only education Albert Commons received was that obtained at the country district school, where he became interested in botany through…

Mary Eugenia Wharton

…importance of field studies in botany; she searched for plants throughout Kentucky, gathering data that she would later use in her books. In 1942, she discovered an unnamed species of…

Budd Elmon Smith

…support. New recruitment strategies were implemented that aimed to increase the student body from its tenuous level of about 400. In 1955, Dr. Smith interested Mr. Charles A. Cannon of…

John White Chickering, Jr.

…found in US. Blue Ridge Three-lobed Coneflower, Rudbeckia rupestris Chick. was published in 1881 in Coult. Bot. Gaz.vi: 188. This plant is found in Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and…

Michel Georges Desire Lelong

…New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Year: 1951; Arrival: New York, New…