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Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker
b. 1889
A careful early 20th-century naturalist, this little-known writer helped document Ohio’s lichens in a detailed scientific survey. Her surviving published work offers a glimpse of the quiet, exacting scholarship behind regional botany.
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Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
by Bruce Fink, Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker
About the author
Born on January 6, 1889, Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker is best documented today through her contribution to Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6, a 1921 scientific volume produced with botanist Bruce Fink. In that work, she is credited as Leafy J. Corrington or Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker, and her section focuses on the Peltigeraceae, part of a broader study of Ohio lichens.
Modern catalog and public-domain records suggest that this publication is the main work currently associated with her name. That makes her an unusual figure in print history: an author remembered less for a large body of books than for one specialized, lasting contribution to natural history.
Genealogy records matching her full name report that she was born in 1889 and died in Newport Beach, California, on January 16, 1989. I could not confirm more personal biographical details from reliable, accessible sources, so her published scientific work remains the clearest window into her life and legacy.