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

1838/9–1917

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)

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