Stuck at Home, not Stuck Inside

We care deeply about the health and well-being of our visitors, staff, and volunteers. As part of the University community, the North Carolina Botanical Garden operates under the same conditions…

Nathan Barrows

…the Dittrick Medical History Center of Case Western Reserve University, who reports that Barrows does not appear in the Polk Medical and Surgical Directories from 1874 through 1890. From 1865…

New Virginia Gems in the Herbarium

…University of North Carolina Herbarium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 3. Ranger, L. Scott. “Parnassia asarifolia Ventenat 1804, grass-of-parnassus.” Scott Ranger’s Nature Notes [online blog]. http://www.scottranger.com/parnassia-asarifolia-grass-of-parnassus.html accessed 1 April 2021.  …

Ruby Deaton Harbison Pharr

…Carolina. 9 March 1981. 5. “Leighton Walter Harbison” North Carolina Deaths, 1997-2004. North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics, Raleigh, North Carolina. Ancestry.com. North Carolina, Death Indexes, 1908-2004 [database on-line]….

Gertrude I. Grimsley Scott

…of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. Family Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65538811 Piedmont Springs: https://www.livingplaces.com/NC/Stokes_County/Danbury_Town/Danbury_Historic_District.html Piedmont Springs Hotel:…

Lawson Edwin Yocum

…hardness. Journal of the Elisha Mitchecll Scientific Society 38(1, 2): 76-83. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/24331526 ) Yocum, L. Edwin (1924) The translocation of the food materials of the wheat seedling. Doctoral dissertation, Iowa…

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]…

Freeman Augustus Grant

…school mathematics. Freeman pursued a career in the insurance industry, and at the time of his marriage, was employed by the Interboro Mutual Indemnity Insurance Company in Union Square, New…