Jessie Milliken Brown (July 25, 1874 –August 1, 1951)[1] was a botanist noted for identifying several species in the Polemoniaceae family.[2]
Jessie Milliken | |
|---|---|
 Milliken, from the 1897 yearbook of Cornell University | |
| Born | July 25, 1874 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | August 1, 1951 (aged 77) Carson City, Nevada, U.S. |
| Occupation | Botanist |
Biography
editMilliken was born in San Francisco, the daughter of Isaac Temple Milliken and Ellen Adelia Evans Milliken. Her father was born in Maine, and her mother was born in New York. She graduated from Cornell University in 1897[3] and pursued further studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
Milliken married the experimental psychologist Warner Brown who was an emeritus professor of psychology at University of California, Berkeley and retired in 1952.[4] They had a daughter, Ellen, and a son, Frederick who died in 1926, at age 16.[5] Ellen went on to become an associate professor of medicine at the University of California medical center in San Francisco.[4]
Jessie served on the first board of directors of the College Women's Club of Berkeley, when it was organized in 1920.[6]
She was on vacation in the Lake Tahoe area when she died in 1951, at the age of 77, in Carson City, Nevada.[7]
The standard author abbreviation Milliken is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[8]
Selected works
editReferences
edit- ↑ Birth and death dates and places from her Nevada death certificate, via Ancestry. Some sources give 1877 for her birth year, but her gravestone also gives 1874 as the year, and this earlier date is consistent with her ages in federal census returns.
- ↑ "Milliken, Jessie (1877-1951)". Global Plants. JSTOR. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
- ↑ Cornell University, The '97 Class Book (1897 yearbook): 160.
- 1 2 "Dr. Brown, Former UC Dean, Dies". The Berkeley Gazette. February 4, 1956. p. 1. Retrieved May 2, 2026.
- ↑ "Frederick Hosmer Brown (death notice)". San Francisco Bulletin. March 30, 1926. p. 6. Retrieved May 2, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Onions, Marie Elwell (July 29, 1929). "Berkeley College Women's Club is Largest in County". Oakland Tribune. p. 138. Retrieved May 2, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Vacation Visitor Passes in Carson". Reno Gazette-Journal. August 1, 1951. p. 11. Retrieved May 2, 2026 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. Milliken.
- ↑ Milliken, Jessie (1897). Variation in the foliage on the annual shoots of the apetalous and gamopetalous trees and shrubs. OCLC 212782269.
- ↑ Milliken, Jessie (1904). "A review of Californian Polemoniaceae". University of California Publications in Botany. The University Press: 1–71. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t28913950. Retrieved August 30, 2018 – via Google Books.