Roxana Stinchfield Ferris, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roxana Stinchfield Ferris

U.S. botanist (1895–1978)

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1895

Place of Birth: Sycamore, California, United States

Date of Death: 30-Jun-1978

Profession: technical writer, taxonomist, botanist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Roxana ("Roxy") Judkins Stinchfield Ferris (April 13, 1895 – June 30, 1978) was an American botanist. She was born in Sycamore, California, to Moses and Annie Stinchfield.
She was named after her grandmother, Roxany Judkins.In 1916, Stinchfield Ferris earned a Master of Arts in Botany at Stanford University, and afterwards she joined the staff of the Dudley Herbarium at Stanford, collecting thousands of botanical specimens for the research collection there.
She specialized in collecting Phanerogams, and the botany of California and Mexico. Stinchfield Ferris retired from the Dudley Herbarium in 1963, and died in Palo Alto in 1978.