Elsie Julia Gibson Whitney

…March 1883 – 19 June 1960) was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, educated at Dartmouth College, and became the Assistant Director of the New York State Museum.1 Elsie graduated with…

Paul Otto Schallert

…Connecticut, and in 1940 he was assigned to American Cyanamid’s mining division in Canada. Paul, Jr. enlisted in the US Army on January 21, 1942 and served with the ski…

Elam T. Bartholomew

…Science Foundation; a searchable database of those specimens can be found at www.mycoportal.org NCU also curates fungi collected by Elam Bartholomew’s son, Elbert Thomas Bartholomew (1878-1967), who usually signed his…

New Species of Foamflower

…be a good, distinct, full species. The stolon-producing plants that occur in the Northeast and into New York. Michigan. and Canada had always been identified as T. cordifolia and never…

Paul Wilson Titman

…1. Year: 1940; Census Place: Lowell, Gaston, North Carolina; Roll: T627_2915; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 36-55. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database online]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc….

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…

Duane Francis Houck

…Conservation Foundation’s website: http://www.tcf-barc.org/index.html and http://www.tcf-barc.org/barcgeninfo.htm Hurricane Iris October 8-9, 2001 in Belize: Our first priority was recovering the herbarium. For those of you who have not seen it, Duane…

Miriam Kresses Slifkin

…investigate UNC’s discriminatory practices in wages, hiring and admission. This investigation resulted in positive changes for female students, faculty and employees. In 1980 she was inducted into the Order of…

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:…