William Battle Cobb

…was known as an innovator in the field of soil science. “The greatest time-saver in soil survey field work was introduced in North Carolina in 1920. W. B. Cobb and…

Andrew Harvey Young

…curating A. H. Young’s specimens include the Field Museum (F), Indiana University (IND), University of Michigan (MICH), University of Notre Dame (ND), New York Botanical Garden (NY, which incorporated DPU…

Albion Reed Hodgdon

…on 32 acres in Dover, New Hampshire, when the boys were in their early youth. The first documentation of Albion’s interest in plant life is found in excerpts from a…

Philip French-Carson Greear

…in 1942. He soon transferred into the newly formed U.S. Air Force, in Biloxi, Mississippi. There he met Mildred White, a young teacher who taught at Gulfport High School. They…

Land Acknowledgement

…in the mid-1980s. In this garden, we grow plants used for medicine, ceremonies, and everyday living by Native Americans in the southeast. In 2001, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian…

Douglas Dwight Sharp

…collected for his Master’s thesis, “The phytosociology of the weed communities of Scotland County, North Carolina” which he completed in 1974 with advisor Dr. Helmut Leith in the University of…

Rassie Everton Wicker

…book now in its third printing. All are available from the Moore County Historical Association.”(1) “He frequently took interested persons on long hikes to points of interest in the Sandhills,…