Joseph Rock

Joseph Rock

male, deceased (1962)
linguistics, Salween, gansu, sichuan, yunnan, muli…ArnoldArboretum
Joseph Francis Charles Rock was an Austrian-American explorer, geographer, linguist and botanist. He was born in Vienna, Austria but moved to...
Charles Sprague Sargent

Charles Sprague Sargent

male, deceased (1927)
Harvard University, ArnoldArboretum, SARG, brookline, Harvard College, American…arboretum
Charles Sprague Sargent was an American botanist. He was the first director of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, and the standard...
Larz Anderson

Larz Anderson

male
Episcopal Church in the United States of America, ambassador, Anderson House, Anderson Memorial Bridge, ArnoldArboretum, Society of the Cincinnati
Larz Anderson III (1866-1937) was a wealthy U.S. businessman and diplomat who briefly served as U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1912-1913). Anderson was...
Oakes Ames

Oakes Ames

male
Harvard University, orchidaceae, ArnoldArboretum, central, American, orchid
Oakes Ames (September 26, 1874 - April 28, 1950) was an American botanist specializing in orchids. His estate is now the Borderland State Park in...
Ernest Henry Wilson

Ernest Henry Wilson

male, deceased (1930)
Regal lily, Lilium regale, American road accident victim, Szechuan, maple, Birmingham Botanical Gardens…ArnoldArboretum
Ernest Henry Wilson, better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable plant collector who introduced a large variety of Asian plant species to the...
Charles Eliot

Charles Eliot

male, deceased (1897)
Eliot family, Death from meningitis, Bussey Institute, spinal meningitis, Prince Pückler-Muskau, ArnoldArboretum
Charles Eliot (November 1, 1859 - March 25, 1897) was a leading American landscape architect, whose career was cut short by untimely death at age...
Beatrix Farrand

Beatrix Farrand

female, deceased (1959)
ArnoldArboretum, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard, waterford, Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959) was a US landscape architect. Clients such as Harkness and Rockefeller commissioned her to design the gardens at...
Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman

male, deceased (1893)
Harvard Law School alumni, American, Harvard University alumni, Harvard University faculty, Non-fiction writer, Horticulturist…ArnoldArboretum
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie...

Benjamin Bussey

male
Harvard University, Weld Family, Bussey Institute, ArnoldArboretum, Horticulturalist, patriot
Benjamin Bussey (1757-1842), was a prosperous merchant, farmer, horticulturalist and patriot in Boston, Massachusetts who made significant...

Camillo Karl Schneider

male, deceased (1951)
Wilson, Botanist, saxony, Austrian, Botanists active in China, sargent…ArnoldArboretum
Camillo Karl Schneider was an Austrian botanist and landscape architect. A farmer's son, he was born at Gröppendorf, Saxony, and worked as a g...