Rachel Milner Fell Treakle

…Pontiac, Lexington, Towanda, LeRoy, El Paso, Larchwood, Decatur, Joliet, and Dwight. Fell also made several additions to Bloomington and founded the Town of Normal which had originally been known as…

Joachim Heinrich Schuette

…head cashier at the Kellogg-Citizens National Bank; Sibyl Schuette, was Head Librarian of the Brown County [Wisconsin] Public Library from 1932 to 1956; and Henry Schuette became a professor of…

Arbor Renovation Party at the Dead Mule

…There is also a pay lot directly behind the Dead Mule with free parking on Sundays. For more parking info visit www.parkonthehill.com Registration: Register online here or on-site Sunday, June…

Spreading the Herbarium Gospel

…landscape plan included allées of trees that reinforced the formal arrangement of the road network, addition of open spaces resembling collegiate quadrangles, straight lines of trees along the edges of…

Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler

…from that year onward are from Manatee County, Florida. “Mrs. Mary Cloyd Stifler was found dead yesterday at her residence after a neighbor had complained to police she had not…

Bernard Carl Mikula

(? – 2017) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium (NCU) curates about 90 vascular plant specimens collected by Bernard Mikula; as we continue to catalog our collections…

William Wirt Calkins

…Lucy V. born 1859 and Jennie born 1862. Both had the surname Calkins, so perhaps were adopted by Calkins after marrying their mother.) William Wirt Calkins, Louisa Hossack Calkins, and…

Charles “Chuck” Lewis McCartney, Jr.

…was born April 25, 1947, in James Archer Smith Hospital, Homestead, Fla., to Charles Lewis McCartney Sr. and Katharine Orphanedes McCartney. A fourth-generation South Floridian, he attended Neva King Cooper…

Elsie Julia Gibson Whitney

…of the Naval Radio Station, habitually had Auzenia Diakanof, a native girl, at the station for immoral purposes, that her mother had complained to Hope about the matter, and he…

Duane Francis Houck

…Iowa State University in 1973. Duane Francis Houck taught at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, Tennessee for 21 years. Photograph courtesy of Alumni Relations, Southern Adventist University Houck taught in…