Paul Wilson Titman

…were Paul Abram Titman, a depot agent for the Southern Railroad, and Mary Elsie Wilson Titman. He grew up in Lowell, Gaston County, North Carolina.1 In 1940 Titman was an…

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…

Elizabeth Kathleen Goldie-Smith

…Goldie-Smith, who usually signed her labels as “E.K.G.S.” Our fungal collection is being cataloged into the searchable on-line database, www.mycoportal.org As we continue to catalog our fungi it is probable…

Nancy Blair Eliason

…North Carolina: North Carolina State Archives. Microfilm. Peace College 1937 Yearbook. http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Peace_College_Lotus_Yearbook/1937/Page_18.html accessed on 4 December 2013. Faculty Archives, East Carolina University. http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/archives/facultye.cfm accessed on 4 December 2013. Pers. comm.,…

Effie Boon

…Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com…

Oren Lloyd Justice

…two specimens collected by Oren Lloyd Justice in Alabama in 1940 and 1941. NCU already had at least one other specimen collected by Justice: Podostemum ceratophyllum collected in 1938 from…

Peter MacOwan

…Philosophical Society. Transactions. Volume 2, part 3, pp. 111-187. SOURCES: 1. http://www.abcjournal.org/index.php/ABC/article/viewFile/1900/1856 accessed on 3 November 2015. 2. http://www.capeorchids.co.za/history.htm accessed on 3 November 2015. [Photo of MacOwen and canine friend]…

Lawson Edwin Yocum

…August, 1890, had two brothers, Nelson C., born in October, 1893, and Myron C., born in March 1899. The family had a farm in Roaring Creek, Columbia County, Pennsylvania.3 In…