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Remembering the Extraordinary Botanist Ellsworth Jerome Hill and His Incredible Perseverence

Ellsworth Jerome Hill portrait

“When Ellsworth was only twenty years old, one of his knees stopped working, and the doctor suggested he study botany. Ellsworth would crawl from the house to the orchard, where he would pick a few flowers and then crawl back to the house to identify them.” January 22, 1917  On this day, the Presbyterian minister,…

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