Background
Fetherston, Edith Hedges was born on June 21, 1885 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Joel Curtis and Minora Alta (Meixell) Kelly.
Fetherston, Edith Hedges was born on June 21, 1885 in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Joel Curtis and Minora Alta (Meixell) Kelly.
Student Bucknell Seminary, 1902. Bachelor of Philosophy, Bucknell University, 1905, Master of Arts, 1908, student, 1940-1945. Student of University Berlin, 1908, Columbia, 1918, Carnegie Institute Technology, 1931-1932.
Student of Edmund West. Greacen, 1932-1936.
Exhibited 22d Annual Exhibition Associate Artists of Pittsburgh, 1932. One man shows, Ferargil Galleries, 1933, Bucknell University, 1949, 54. Exhibition garden art by Garden Club of Allegheny County, Carnegie Institute, 1934, Garden Club American, 1935.
Exhibition paintings, Arden Gallery, 1935, Garden of Nations, 1935, The Allied Artists American, Incorporated., New York 1935, 36, 37.
Exhibit, Arden Galleries, 1936, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1936, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, 1937, 2d annual exhibitions paintings of Central Pennsylvania Artists, Pennsylvania State College Department Architecture, 1937. Exhibited Bucknell University, 1938, 39, 40, 45, 46, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56-72, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1951.
Made plant discovery which was named Hydrocotyle Fetherstoniana. Designed and planted two Chinese Gardens.
Owner Packwood House Museum Patron member Archaeological
Institute.
Member Museum Modern Art, Botanical Society of Western Pennsylvania, The Sullivant Moss Society, Central Pennsylvania Art Association, (vice president), Artists Equity Association, National Trust for Historic Preservation, American Association U. Women, Daughters of American Revolution, Phi Beta Phi. Clubs: Rochester Garden, Genessee Valley Hunt, Century (Rochester).
Married John Turney Fetherston, June 14, 1917.