On this date in Maine history: Dec. 6 [Kate Furbish dies in Brunswick]

MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • December 6, 2020

Dec. 6, 1931: Botanist Kate Furbish, 97, dies in her hometown, Brunswick, after a six-decade career in which she walked all over the state to describe, depict and catalogue the state’s flora. Merritt Lyndon Fernald, one of America’s most accomplished academic botanists, met Furbish when he was 6 years old and growing up in Orono. When he began publishing books on the flora of Maine, he cited Furbish as one of his major influences