Background
Chase, Mistress Mary Agnes was born on April 20, 1869 in Iroquois Company, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Martin John and Mary (Cassidy) Merrill.
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Mistress Mary Agnes Chase
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Educated Lewis Institute University of Chicago (University extension courses).
Career
January 2, 1889). Assistant in botany Field Museum, Chicago, 1901-1903. Botanical illustrator United States Department of Agriculture, 1903-1907, science assistant in systematic agrostology, 1907-1923, assistant botanist, 1923-1925, associate botanist, 1925-1936, senior botanist, 1936-1939. Retired; custodian grasses United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, since 1939.
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Membership
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Botanical Society American, Chicago Academy Sciences, Botanical Society Washington, Biological Society Washington. Member Natural History Museum (Vienna, Austria).
Connections
Married William Ingraham Chase, January 21, 1888 (deceased.
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American