Leva Belle Walker

…Seminary. While a student at Bangor Theological Seminary, the American Board accepted him for missionary service. Elkanah met and became engaged to Mary Richardson, a woman who was recently rejected…

Charles Edward Raynal

…67](1). A botanist by avocation, Charles E. Raynal acquired a substantial botanical library including many first edition copies of works by Carolina Botanists. He botanized widely in the Carolinas (frequently…

Lewis Henry Lighthipe

…14 April 1903 he presented a paper on “The flora of the pine barrens of New Jersey,” of which the abstract (in Torreya) occupies two printed pages. Many specimens, from…

Herbert Spencer Jackson

…modest and retiring gentleman, Professor Jackson was a man of ready understanding and of broad sympathy, with whom friendship developed slowly but was an exceedingly rewarding experience. He will be…

Joseph Austin Holmes

…Academy, both in his home village. He worked on the farm, gaining an interest in plants and agriculture. In addition to hikes in the woods, out-door games, and horses, Holmes…

George Washington Carver

Man,” is available from the University Library Digital Collections. He was the first African American to earn a degree from Iowa State University.(1) Carver continued at Iowa for his graduate…

Adams Jewett, M.D.

…speech entitled “The Present Devotedness of Genius to the Amusement of the World.”8 In the autumn of 1827 he moved to Claiborne, Alabama ** and worked as a private teacher….

Maeburn Bruce Huneycutt

…a complicated man—I found letters from students who had him as a professor many years ago. They continued to write him and obviously had very deep affection for him,” says…

Steven Worth Leonard

…In 1970 Leonard and John T. Mickel traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico and collected many pteridophytes. Leonard’s specimens are distributed widely across herbaria in North America. Steven Worth Leonard grew up…