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…

Donald Culross Peattie

…Annotated List of the Plants Growing Spontaneously in Polk County, North Carolina, ad Adjacent Parts of South Carolina, in Greenville and Spartanburg Counties. Part I. Introduction: Soils, Cilmate, Etc., Ferns…

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

…a couple of brief teaching jobs she acquired a position at Georgetown College [in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky]. There she taught classes for almost 30 years and became head of…

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

…He had Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Meyer was considered one of the nation’s best taxonomists in identifying cultivated plants, and he researched plants around the world. His main interest was in…

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

…Union County, North Carolina. Ethel Smith became the Head Librarian of the college library, and it was named in her honor on 23 January 1959.5, 6 Ethel K. Smith, spouse…

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…

Herman Harrison Braxton

…daughter, Elizabeth Anne, earned her A.B. at Wheaton College. In addition to serving on the Chase City town council for eight years (and Anne serving for six), Dr. Braxton “started…