William Starling Sullivant
Botanist, Author
1803 – 1873
Who was William Starling Sullivant?
William Starling Sullivant was a US bryologist.
He was the son of Lucas Sullivant and Sarah Starling. He studied at Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. He made Bachelor of Arts in 1823 at Yale.
Sullivant became the leading expert on mosses and liverworts of his time. Many bryophyte species he discovered carry the abbreviation Sulliv. after their Latin name.
He married three times: Jane Marshall in 1824, Eliza Griscom Wheeler in 1834 and Caroline Eudora Sutton in 1851. His son, T. S. Sullivant, was the influential cartoonist published in Life and other magazines. Additionally, William Starling Sullivant is the great grandfather of Tasha Tudor, the noted children's book author.
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