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Stinchfield is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Augustus Stinchfield (1842-1917), American physician * Frederick Harold Stinchfield (1881–1950), American attorney *Roxana Stinchfield Ferris Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978) was an American botanist. She was born in Sycamore, California, to Moses and Annie Stinchfield. She was named after her grandmother, Roxany Judkins. In 1916, Stinchfield Ferris ... (1895–1978), American botanist * Sara Mae Stinchfield Hawk (1885–1977), American speech therapist {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Stinchfield
Augustus W. Stinchfield (December 21, 1842 – March 15, 1917) was an American physician and one of the co-founders—along with Drs. Charles Horace Mayo, William James Mayo, Christopher Graham, E. Starr Judd, Henry Stanley Plummer, Melvin Millet and Donald Balfour—of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Life and career Stinchfield was born in Phillips, Maine and received his early education in the nearby town of Strong. He moved from Maine to Wisconsin as a young man and, in 1864, enlisted as a private in Company F of the Thirty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteer Army. After the Civil War, he attended Bowdoin College and the University of Michigan. He received his M.D. degree from Bowdoin College in 1868. After practicing medicine in Verona, Missouri, as well as Dundas and Eyota, Minnesota, Stinchfield was asked by William Worrall Mayo William Worrall Mayo (May 31, 1819 – March 6, 1911) was a British-American medical doctor and chemist. He is best known for establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Harold Stinchfield
Frederick Harold Stinchfield (May 8, 1881January 15, 1950) was an American attorney and former president of the American Bar Association (ABA). Stinchfield graduated from Harvard Law School in 1905. In the same year he passed the New York State bar exam and began his law career. During World War I, Stinchfield served as a major in the Judge Advocate's Program. Stinchfield served as president of the ABA from 1936 to 1937. Stinchfield was most remembered for his ardent stance again President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, commonly referred to as "court packing". He wrote several editorial pieces on behalf of the Bar Association denouncing the bill, and used President George Washington's farewell address A farewell speech or farewell address is a speech given by an individual leaving a position or place. They are often used by public figures such as politicians as a capstone to the preceding career, or as statements delivered by persons rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roxana Stinchfield Ferris
Roxana Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978) was an American botanist. She was born in Sycamore, California, to Moses and Annie Stinchfield. She was named after her grandmother, Roxany Judkins. In 1916, Stinchfield Ferris earned a Master of Arts in Botany at Stanford University with advisor and mentor, LeRoy Abrams and afterwards she joined the staff of the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford, collecting thousands of botanical specimens for the research collection there. She specialized in collecting Phanerogams, and the botany of California and Mexico. Stinchfield Ferris retired from the Dudley Herbarium in 1963, and died in Palo Alto in 1978. Works * ''The trees and shrubs of western Oregon'' * ''An Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States'' (as co-editor) * ''Death Valley Wildflowers'' * ''Flowers of Point Reyes National Seashore'' *''Native Shrubs of the San Francisco Bay Region'' *''New Combinations in Aster'' Species named in honor Several species have be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
