McKelvey, Susan Delano

LC control no.	n 79095207
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	McKelvey, Susan Delano *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Delano, Susan Adams Delano, Susan Magoun
Birth date	1883-03-13
Death date	1964-07-11
Place of birth	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Place of death	Boston (Mass.)
Affiliation	Arnold Arboretum
Profession or occupation	Botanists
Found in	Her The lilac. Her Botanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi west, 1790-1850, c1991: CIP t.p. (Susan Delano McKelvey) data sheet (b. 1883) Arnoldia, 1987: vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 9-23 (A Life Redeemed: Susan Delano McKelvey and the Arnold Arboretum, by Edmund A. Schofield; towards the end of the First World War there came to the Arnold Arboretum a thirty-six-year-old woman whose life had just fallen to pieces; she approached Professor Charles Sprague Sargent, the founding Director of the Arnold Arboretum, about the possibility of working as a volunteer at the Arboretum; she took a particular interest in the lilac collection; she became a respected botanist, making many collecting forays to the western United States and writing three scholarly works in her chosen field; Susan Adams Delano McKelvey, née Susan Magoun Delano; Susan Adams Delano (as she preferred to be known) was born Susan Magoun Delano in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 13, 1883; October 8, 1907, she married a young attorney, Charles Wylie McKelvey; in June of 1964, Professor Richard A. Howard, the Arboretum's director, received from Mrs. McKelvey a letter requesting her retirement from the Committee to Visit the Arnold Arboretum, on which she had served since 1928, and from her appointment as Research Associate, which she had held since 1931; a month later, at the advanced age of eighty-one, she died at Phillips House in Boston) Wikipedia WWW site, 28 Jan., 2015 (Susan Adams McKelvey; d. Boston, 11 July, 1964) <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Adams_McKelvey>
Associated language	eng