Career
In recognition of this work, she received an honorary Master of Arts Degree from Princeton University in 1948, only the 4th woman in the history of the university to receive this honor. Her activities in organized horticulture include membership in the New York Botanical Garden, the Garden Club of America, the Horticultural Society of New York and the Garden Club of Princeton. She spoke on plant illustration and wrote for the Garden Club of American Bulletin and the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden.
In 1910, she became the first woman to serve on the Princeton Board of Education.
Marquand was born in New York, the daughter of Richard J. Cross and Matilda Redmond Cross. She died on February 27, 1950 in Princeton Hospital.
After her death, her estate bequeathed Marquand’s botanical and horticultural library to the New York Botanical Garden. lieutenant consists of 408 volumes and a collection of notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, seed and nursery catalogs, reprints, pamphlets and periodicals.