The Ynés Mexía botanical collections : oral history transcript / Nina Floy Bracelin; tape recorded interview conducted by Annetta Carter, 1983 June 13. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1983.

Mexía, Ynés, 1870-1938

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Ynés Mexía was born May 24, 1870 in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., where her father, General Enrique A. Mexía, was serving as a representative of the Mexican government under President Porfirio Díaz. Her grandfather, José Antonio Mexía, was also a Mexican general, serving under President Antonio López de Santa Anna. Her mother, Sarah R. Wilmer of Maryland, was a descendent of Samuel Eccleston, Fifth Archbishop of Baltimore. Ynés Mexía spent her early childhood in Texas on a land grant where the t...

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Bracelin, Nina Floy.

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Carter, Annetta

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