Florence Hedges

Florence Hedges (August 24, 1878 – December 17, 1956[1]) was a pioneering American plant pathologist and botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry.[2]

Florence Hedges
Hedges in 1915
Born(1878-08-24)August 24, 1878
Lansing, Michigan
DiedDecember 17, 1956(1956-12-17) (aged 78)
San Francisco, California
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Known forBotany, Plant pathology
Scientific career
InstitutionsUnited States Department of Agriculture

Life and career

Hedges was born in Lansing, Michigan. She graduated from University of Michigan in 1901. Much of her work involved investigations into bacteria-induced plant disease. Charlotte Elliot, Hellie A. Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katharine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith, and Angie Beckwith were among the people she worked with while a researcher at the USDA.[3]

With Erwin Frink Smith, she also translated the 1896 biography of Louis Pasteur by Émile Duclaux.[4]

She died in San Francisco, California.[5]

References
  1. Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough (1981). Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521230322
  2. Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1920). R.U.S. [Rural Uplook Service]: A Register of the Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada.
  3. Harveson, Robert M.; Schwartz, Howard F.; Urrea, Carlos A.; Yonts, C. Dean (2015-10-22). "Bacterial Wilt of Dry-Edible Beans in the Central High Plains of the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future". Plant Disease. 99 (12): 1665–1677. doi:10.1094/PDIS-03-15-0299-FE. ISSN 0191-2917. PMID 30699522.
  4. Smith, E. F., Hedges, F. (1920). Pasteur: The History of a Mind (orig. Pasteur, histoire d'un esprit). W. B. Saunders Co. ASIN: B003GEE4AE
  5. Staff report (1957). Deaths. The Michigan Alumnus - Volume 63 - Page 252
  6. IPNI.  Hedges.
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