Hall, Frances Cushing, 1892-1985.

Frances Cushing Hall was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1892. She attended Radcliffe College from 1910 to 1914, and though slated to graduate in mathematics and chemistry "cum laude," did not receive her degree, having failed her language requirement. She taught science in high schools for five years, and then in 1919 did research for the Navy. After the scientific field closed up ("I found that it was reserved for men exclusively except during two world wars"), Hall went into commercial design until her retirement. Her marriage to John Churchill Daman ended in divorce in 1928. In retirement Hall developed a new specialty and became an expert in botanical painting. Her paintings of invertebrates were exhibited at the Pratt Museum of Geology at Amherst College, and her paintings of wild flowers are at the Mount Pisgah Arboretum in Eugene, Oregon.