Frances J. Hough (1838–1860)
Frances J. Myers (1860–1917)

American botanist. Daughter of William Jervis Hough. Married Mathew Myers in 1860. Secretary of the Syracuse Botanical Society, Syracuse, New York, USA, from its foundation in 1879; corresponding secretary, 1881; president, 1882–3.

Sources

Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 6 (1875–9): 330, 8 (1881): 24, 9 (1882): 132

Find a grave (findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=83749847, accessed 17 March 2014)

New York, state census, 1875 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 March 2016)

United States Federal Census 1850 (Cazenovia, Madison, New York: roll M432_526, p. 83A, image 172), 1880 (Syracuse, Onondaga, New York: roll 907, film 1254907, p. 248D; ED 211, image 0498)

United States newspaper extractions from the Northeast, 1704–1930 (Ancestry.com, accessed 9 March 2016)

Volume

29