Louis Hermann Pammel

…of which considered him a great influence in their lives. Among these students was George Washington Carver. In 1891, Carver became the first African-American to enroll at Iowa State College…

Walking with Walter and William

…as a merchant. He later acquired a rice plantation on the Santee River where he lived the rest of his life. He became interested in botany and undertook a detailed…

Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

…as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For University updates and advisories on the Coronavirus, please visit www.unc.edu/coronavirus. Check for our most recent Garden-specific updates at ncbg.unc.edu/coronavirus. Many…

Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr

…for providing photograph of her. SOURCES: 1. Obituary: Pharr, Ruby Deaton Harbison. News Herald, Morganton, North Carolina. 9 March 2015. https://www.morganton.com/obituaries/pharr-ruby-deaton-harbison/article_4673f789-2a54-52c7-bd8c-b28605eaac85.html accessed on 2 June 2020. 2. Winters, Kelly. 1988….

Joachim Heinrich Schuette

USA).1 A search of online herbarium portals in 2021 revealed Schuette’s specimens can also be found in the holdings of MO (Missouri Botanical Garden), ILL (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),…

James Everard Benedict, Jr.

…for research. Showed us some ferns that have never been mounted that are still layered in the original newspapers… and the seed collection that I didn’t even know he had,…

Andrew Clark Mathews

…United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002. 5. Staff Biographical Information, Clemson News Bureau, 1960. “Mathews, A. C.” Clemson University Archives. 6. Pers. comm….