Painter, Joseph Hannum
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PrintJoseph Hannum Painter (1879-1908) was born on July 3, 1879, at Chadd's Ford, Pennsylvania. He was an Aid in the Division of Plants, United States National Museum, 1904-1908. He studied at Pennsylvania State College, and left his junior year to take that position. Painter served as an assistant to J. N. Rose during collecting trips to Mexico in 1903 and 1905. Painter drowned in a canoeing accident on December 6, 1908, near Plummers Island, Maryland, possibly trying to save a friend, Robert S. Wallis, who also drowned.
Joseph Hannum Painter. In Washington Biologists' Field Club biographies. Accessed March 23, 20112 from http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/resshow/perry/bios/painterjoseph.htm
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