Mary Frances Linder Fitzpatrick
botanist (1861–1955)
Mary Frances Linder Fitzpatrick (1861–1955) was an American botanist.
Early life and education
Mary Frances Linder was born in September 1861, one of ten children of Anton and Katherine Linder. She attended public school in Iowa City. She graduated from the State University of Iowa and wrote one of the university's first bachelor's theses, "A Brief Description of Nine Species of Hepaticae Found in the Vicinity of Iowa City" in 1886. Per botanist Diana Horton, this was likely done under the guidance of Prof. Thomas MacBride. In addition to being a student, she was employed as a botany assistant at the University of Iowa in 1889 and 1890. Ms. Linder was listed as a botany instructor in the Pharmaceutical Department and she did some post-graduate work in Bonn, Germany.
Marriage
Linder married Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick on August 26, 1896, in Iowa City, Iowa.
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