Terry, Emily Hitchcock, 1838-1921

Terry was the youngest child of geologist Edward and Orra White Hitchcock. She was an 1859 graduate of Mount Holyoke College and studied art at The Cooper Union in New York City in 1865. Terry married the Rev. Cassius Terry in 1870, and they moved to Minnesota 1872. She lived there until her husband's death in 1881. From 1884 to 1909 she was head of Hubbard House at Smith College.

From the description of American flowers / painted by Mrs. Emily Hitchcock Terry ... and by her presented to the Department of Botany of Smith College, June 1913. [1884-1909] (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 53318514