Cadwallader Colden by Seymour I. Schwartz

Cadwallader Colden by Seymour Schwartz

This book came out in 2013, and the subtitle is A Biography.

Seymour gives us the first complete biography of the American botanist Cadwallader Colden in this book. Cadwallader was the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor of New York. He was brilliant and multi-talented - a true Renaissance man of America's colonial times.

A trained physician, Cadwallader improved public health, and he wrote the first scientific paper published in the colonies and the first map of New York.

Cadwallader was also the father of America’s first female botanist, Jane Colden.

This book is 230 pages of the life of a multifaceted colonial Renaissance man: Cadwallader Colden.

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