Matilda Jane “Maude Jeannie” Fuller Young

Topics

Plants

Description

One of the early female botanists in Texas, Maude Jeannie Young collected plants, taught botany in Houston, and served as the Texas state botanist in 1873. In the same year, she published one of the first scientific texts devoted to Texas flora, and also one of the first penned by a Texan – Familiar Lessons in Botany, with Flora of Texas. During her career, she was in contact with a circle of fellow botanists, including Samuel Buckley, Gideon Lincecum, and George Engelmann. Unfortunately, her herbarium of Texas ferns and flowering plants, along with many of her writings, were lost in the Galveston hurricane of 1900.

Location Notes

One place associated with Ms Young is Glenwood Cemetery, where she is buried. The Cemetery is located at 2525 Washington Avenue; Houston, Texas 77007

Files

M.J. Young, Familiar Lessons in Botany with Flora of Texas (1873)

Bibliography

Laurence Dorr. “New Species and Combinations Published in M.J. Young’s Familiar Lessons in Botany with Flora of Texas (1873)”. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Vol. 16, No. 1 (15 July 2022), pp. 29-46.