Background
Alice Carter was born in New York City on April 8, 1868 to parents Samuel Thompson Carter and Alantha Carter (née Pratt). Her father was a clergyman of nearby Huntington, New New York
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Alice Cook
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She studied at Mount Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) before enrolling at Syracuse for her doctorate.
Career
She subsequently taught at Mount Holyoke for three years before attending Cornell University where she earned a second graduate degree, an Master of Surgery in botany, in 1892. Her collections of plants are deposited in the Smithsonian Institution and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. also wrote an anthropological profile of native people of the Canary Islands, and later published poems, short stories, and two plays.
