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Chase, Mary Agnes Merrill
Subject ID: 18959
| Last Name: | Chase |
|---|---|
| First Name: | Mary |
| Middle Names: | Agnes Merrill |
| Birth Date: | 20 April 1869 |
| Birth Place: | Iroquois County, Illinois |
| Death Date: | 24 September 1963 |
| Death Place: | Washington, D.C. |
| Gender: | female |
| HI Archives Collection #: | 235, GAC, #204, #131, Oral History (under Davis, G. & Van Eseltine), #199. |
| Other Holdings: | HIBD Art Dept. -Hitchcock-Chase Collection of Grass Drawings (description on HI website). Smithsonian Institute: Hitchcock - Chase Papers (prev. HI Arc. Coll. #107). |
| Notes: | Portrait in HI portrait collection. Coll. #235 -Chase papers & misc. items. GAC -letter re: Stenotaphrum. OH -see transcript & database. #204, ff 57 -3 letters, 1957-59. #131, box 1 -letters. #199 (restricted). See Maria de C. Bandeira’s biog. folder for article re: correspondence. Add. photos from Smithsonian (mostly field photos) are stored in Hitchcock, Albert Spear Port. file. Additional photos at Smithsonian Inst.(Hitchcock & Chase Coll.). Family name was Meara; changed to merrill around 1880. Married 21 January 1888, William Ingraham Chase, who died 24 September 1963, Washington D.C. |
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Collection #204
Alternate Names
- Chase, A.
- Chase, Agnes
- Chase, M. A. M.
- Chase, Mary Agnes
- Chase, Mary Agnes Meara
- Chase, Mary Agnes Merrill
- Chase, Mary Agnes Merrill (née Meara
- Chase, Mary Agnes Merrill (née Meara)
- Chase, Mrs. William Ingraham
- Ingraham, Mrs. William
- Meara, Mary Agnes
- Merrill, Mary Agnes
- Mrs. William Ingraham)
Specialties
Author, Botanical Art, Botany, Grasses