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Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker

b. 1889

Remembered today for a specialized early-20th-century study of Ohio fungi and lichens, this little-known scientific writer left behind a careful, lasting contribution to natural history. The surviving record is sparse, which makes her published work stand out even more clearly.

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Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6

Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6

by Bruce Fink, Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker

About the author

Leafy Jane Corrington Hilker was born on January 6, 1889. Genealogy records indexed online place her death on January 16, 1989, in Newport Beach, California.

She is best known in book and library records as the co-author of Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6: The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V, a scientific work published with Bruce Fink. Catalog and ebook listings connect her name with research on fungi and lichens in Ohio, suggesting a focused contribution to early American natural history writing.

Very little widely available biographical detail about her life appears to survive in major public literary sources. What can be confirmed is modest but meaningful: her name remains attached to a specialized scientific publication that has been preserved by libraries and Project Gutenberg, keeping her work accessible long after its original publication.