Lucia Alma McCulloch (February 26, 1873 – February 10, 1955) was an American botanist and plant pathologist in the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry.Cattell, J. McKeen, Brimhall, Dean R., editors (1921). American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory. 3rd edition. Bowker /The Science Press (reprint), Her work focused on crown gall and gladiolus diseases and pests. A colleague in the department run by Erwin Frink Smith, she also collaborated with botanist Nellie Adalesa Brown.
Life and career McCulloch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the daughter of Robert S. and Alma Taggart (née Eveleth) McCulloch.Florida Department of Health, death certificate 5275 (1955), Lucia McCulloch; Office of Vital Statistics, Jacksonville. In 1898, while studying biology at Florida Agricultural College, she was appointed head of the library, now part of the George A. Smathers Libraries.University of Florida. George A. Smathers Libraries History. She received her Bachelor of Science degree there in 1902. She was forced to resign June 30, 1903, after the (newly named) University of Florida became an all-male school.T. H. Taliaferro, director, 1903. Florida Agricultural Experiment Station. Report for Financial Year Ending June 30, 1903. Lake City, Fla.: University of Florida. Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, 6. She was a scientific assistant and laboratory plant pathologist at the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, in Washington, DC, in 1907.
She died in Orlando, Florida.Staff report (12 February 1955). Miss Lucia McCollough [obituary], Orlando Evening Star, p. 11, col. 2.
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Lucia McCulloch (1873–1955) via Smithsonian Institution