Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris
Botanist
Died when: 83 years 78 days (998 months)Star Sign: Aries
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Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978) was an American botanist.She was born in Sycamore, California, to Moses and Annie Stinchfield.
She was named after her grandmother, Roxany Judkins.In 1916, Stinchfield Ferris earned a Master of Arts in Botany at Stanford University with advisor and mentor, LeRoy Abrams and afterwards she joined the staff of the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford, collecting thousands of botanical specimens for the research collection there.
She specialized in collecting Phanerogams, and the botany of California and Mexico.Stinchfield Ferris retired from the Dudley Herbarium in 1963, and died in Palo Alto in 1978.
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