Florence Hedges
{{Short description|American plant pathologist and botanist}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|08|24}}
| birth_place = Lansing, Michigan
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|12|17|1878|08|24}}
| death_place = San Francisco, California
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| alma_mater = University of Michigan
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| known_for = Botany, Plant pathology
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Florence Hedges (August 24, 1878 – December 17, 1956Ainsworth, Geoffrey Clough (1981). Introduction to the History of Plant Pathology. Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|9780521230322}}) was a pioneering American plant pathologist and botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry.Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1920). R.U.S. [Rural Uplook Service]: A Register of the Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada.
Life and career
Hedges was born in Lansing, Michigan. She graduated from University of Michigan in 1901. Much of her work involved investigations into bacteria-induced plant disease. Charlotte Elliot, Hellie A. Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katharine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith, and Angie Beckwith were among the people she worked with while a researcher at the USDA.{{Cite journal|last = Harveson|first = Robert M.|last2 = Schwartz|first2 = Howard F.|last3 = Urrea|first3 = Carlos A.|last4 = Yonts|first4 = C. Dean|date = 2015-10-22|title = Bacterial Wilt of Dry-Edible Beans in the Central High Plains of the U.S.: Past, Present, and Future|journal = Plant Disease|volume = 99|issue = 12|pages = 1665–1677|doi = 10.1094/PDIS-03-15-0299-FE|pmid = 30699522|issn = 0191-2917|doi-access = free}}
With Erwin Frink Smith, she also translated the 1896 biography of Louis Pasteur by Émile Duclaux.Smith, E. F., Hedges, F. (1920). Pasteur: The History of a Mind (orig. Pasteur, histoire d'un esprit). W. B. Saunders Co. ASIN: B003GEE4AE
She died in San Francisco, California.Staff report (1957). Deaths. The Michigan Alumnus - Volume 63 - Page 252
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- [http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_297432?back=%2Fcollections%2Fsearch%3Fquery%3D%2522Science%2BService%2522%26page%3D133%26perpage%3D10%26sort%3Drelevancy%26view%3Dlist Florence Hedges (1878-1956)] via Smithsonian Institution
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Category:20th-century American botanists
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