| LC control no. | no2006048675 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Butters, F. K. (Frederic King), 1878-1945 |
| Variant(s) | Butters, Frederick K., 1878-1945 Butters, Frederic K. (Frederic King), 1878-1945 Butters, Fred K. (Frederic King), 1878-1945 Butters, Fred C. (Frederic King), 1878-1945 Butters, Frederic King, 1878-1945 Butters, Frederick King, 1878-1945 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1878-02-08 |
| Death date | 1945-08-01 |
| Place of birth | Minneapolis (Minn.) |
| Place of death | Minneapolis (Minn.) |
| Field of activity | Botany Pharmacognosy |
| Affiliation | University of Minnesota Harvard College (1780- ) University of Minnesota |
| Profession or occupation | Botanists College teachers University and college faculty members |
| Found in | Guide to spring flowers of Minnesota, field and garden, 1913: t.p. (F.K. Butters) LC database, Aug. 17, 2005: (hdg. : Butters F. K. (Frederic King), 1878-1945) Trees and shrubs of Minnesota, 1928: t.p. (Frederick K. Butters) A guide to spring flowers of Minnesota, 1931: t.p. (Frederic K. Butters) A floristic study of Cook County, northeastern Minnesota, 1953: t.p. (Fred K. Butters) A guide to spring flowers of Minnesota, 1951: t.p. (Frederic C. Butters) The American Alpine Club (website), viewed Dec. 8, 2023: Frederic King Butters, 1878-1945 (Professor Butters was born at Minneapolis, Minn., on February 8, 1878, and died there August 1, 1945. He was unmarried. The family name was originally Butter, his ancestors coming from Scotland and settling in Woburn, Mass., prior to 1665. Butters graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1899 with the degree of B. Sc., and took his B.A. at Harvard in 1900. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi. He served as instructor in botany and pharmacognosy at Minnesota, 1901-10, as assistant professor, 1910-19, associate professor, 1919-34, thereafter held the position of professor of botany until his death. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a member of the Alpine Club of Canada (1913) and of the American Geographical Society. He joined the American Alpine Club in 1910. He was the author of Trees and Shrubs of Minnesota, and had almost completed a book on ferns, on which he was an outstanding authority.) <https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12194615000/Frederic-King-Butters-1878-1945> |
| Associated language | eng |
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