Florence Hedges

Florence Hedges was a pioneering American plant pathologist and botanist with the United [States Department of Agriculture]'s Bureau of Plant Industry.

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 [Katherine Cash|Edith Cash], Mary Katharine Bryan, Anna [Eliza Jenkins|Anna Jenkins], and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith, and Angie Beckwith were among the people she worked with while a researcher at the USDA.
With Erwin [Frink Smith], she also translated the 1896 biography of Louis Pasteur by Émile Duclaux.
She died in San Francisco, California.