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Isabella S. Howland (1832–1852)
Isabella S. Gifford (1852–1912)

American botanist. Vice-president of the Syracuse Botanical Club until March 1881. Daughter of Pardon S. and Lydia Church Howland of New Bedford, Massachusetts. Married Shubael Henry Gifford (1824–1910), sea captain on whalers, in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in 1852.

Sources

Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 8 (1881): 60

Massachusetts, U.S., marriage records, 1840–1915 (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 March 2021)

United States Federal Census 1880 (Syracuse, Onondaga, New York 216/352D) (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 March 2021)

U.S., Find a grave index, 1600s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 12 March 2021)

whalinghistory.org/wri/AM2217, accessed 12 March 2021