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Bessey, Charles Edwin

Subject ID: 16474

Last Name: Bessey
First Name: Charles
Middle Names: Edwin
Birth Date: 21 May 1845
Birth Place: Milton, (Wayne County) Ohio
Death Date: 25 February 1915
Death Place: Lincoln, Nebraska
Gender: male
HI Archives Collection #: 36, #43, #48, #236, GAC
Other Holdings: Charles E. Bessey papers (microfilm); Love library, Univ.of Nebraska (see biog file & Brichford’s column in American Archivist 33: 1970). See also: Records of the Botanical Seminar, 1886-1936.
Notes: Portrait in HI portrait collection. Coll. #36 -CE Bessey; notes & drafts (16 itiems). #236 - CE Bessey, misc. items (1 file folder). GAC - 2 letters from A. Gray to Bessey, 1881. #43 -letter from Bessey to W. Trelease, 1894. #48 -letter & manuscripts.

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Alternate Names

  • Bessey, C. E.
  • Bessey, Charles
  • Bessey, Charles E.
  • Bessey, Charles Edwin

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