Background
Millspaugh, Charles Frederick was born on June 20, 1854 in Ithaca, New York, United States. Son of John Hill (artist) and Marion E. (Cornell) M.
Millspaugh, Charles Frederick was born on June 20, 1854 in Ithaca, New York, United States. Son of John Hill (artist) and Marion E. (Cornell) M.
Studied Cornell, 1872-1873. Doctor of Medicine New York Homœ. Medical College, 1881.
Foreign several years he practiced medicine and from 1891 to 1893 taught botany at West Virginia University. In 1894 he was appointed curator of the department of botany of the Field Museum of Natural History. From 1897 to 1923 he was professor of medical botany at the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College.
He was also lecturer on botany at the University of Chicago.
Millspaugh carried on explorations in the West Indies, Brazil, and other parts of South America, and was the author of American Medical Plants (1887). Flora of West Virginia (1891).
And many articles in scientific and popular journals. The genera Millspaughia B.L.Rob. and Neomillspaughia South.F.Blake (Polygonaceae) were named in his honor.
Member Pan-American Committee on Medical Botany. Member of New York Homœ. Medical Society, Faculty of Medicine Mexico, Faculty of Medicine Brazil, Binghamton Academy Science.
Married Mary Louisa Spaulding, September 19, 1877 (died 1907). Married second, Clara Isobel Mitchell, 1910.