Alice Carter Cook

Alice Carter Cook
Born Alice Carter
(1868-04-08)April 8, 1868
New York City
Died April 23, 1943(1943-04-23) (aged 75)
Nationality American
Fields Botany
Alma mater Syracuse University
Cornell University
Mount Holyoke Seminary
Spouse Orator Fuller Cook

Alice Carter Cook (April 8, 1868 – April 23, 1943), born Alice Carter, was an American botanist, who received the first PhD in botany granted to a woman by an American university, from Syracuse University in 1888.

Early life and education

Alice Carter was born in New York City on April 8, 1868 to parents Samuel Thompson Carter and Alantha Carter (née Pratt). Her father was a clergyman of nearby Huntington, New York.[1] She studied at Mount Holyoke Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) before enrolling at Syracuse for her doctorate. She subsequently taught at Mount Holyoke for three years before attending Cornell University where she earned a second graduate degree, an M.S. in botany, in 1892. That same year she married Orator Fuller Cook, also a botanist, and would later accompany him on expeditions to Africa and the Canary Islands.

Career

Cook was a colleague and fellow graduate student with Henrietta Hooker, and in addition to botanical publications she contributed several articles to Popular Science Monthly and Ladies' Home Journal. Her collections of plants are deposited in the Smithsonian Institution and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.[2][3][4][5] Cook also wrote an anthropological profile of native people of the Canary Islands, and later published poems, short stories, and two plays.[2]

Cook had two sons and two daughters; her son Robert Carter Cook became a noted geneticist and demographer.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Cook, Orator Fuller". National Cyclopedia of American Biography. 38. Clifton, NJ: J. T. White. 1953. pp. 369–370.
  2. 1 2 Mary R.S. Creese (2000). Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research. Scarecrow Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 978-0-585-27684-7.
  3. ↑ Rossiter, Margaret W. (1984). Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 (Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 343–344. ISBN 9780801825095. There were by 1892 also two American women Ph.D.s in botany, Alice Carter Cook (1888) and Henrietta Hooker (1889), both from Syracuse University…
  4. ↑ Leonard, John William (1914). "Cook, Alice Carter". Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. 1. American Commonwealth Company. p. 201.
  5. ↑ Mears, James A. (1981). "Guide to Plant Collectors Represented in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 133: 141–165. JSTOR 4064771. (subscription required (help)).
  6. ↑ Cook, Joan (January 9, 1991). "Robert C. Cook, 92, A Longtime Scholar Of Human Genetics". The New York Times.

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