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William
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| OCCUPATION |
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| KNOWN
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| Franklinton,
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| BIOGRAPHY |
| William
Starling Sullivant was born on January 15, 1803, in
Franklinton, Ohio. He attended Ohio University and
graduated from Yale College in 1823. That same year,
William's father, Lucas Sullivant, died and William began
to operate his father's surveying business. Plant
life also fascinated William Sullivant, and he began to
study and catalog the various plants growing in Central
Ohio. In 1840, he published his findings in A
CATALOGUE OF PLANTS, NATIVE AND NATURALIZED, IN THE
VICINITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO. Sullivant then turned
his attention to studying and identifying mosses. He
studied and cataloged various mosses from across the
United States as well as from Central America, South
America, and from various islands in the Pacific
Ocean. By the time of his death on April 30, 1873,
his fellow scientists viewed Sullivant as the foremost
bryologist in the United States. His peers honored
Sullivant by electing him to the National Academy of
Sciences in 1872. They also named a newly discovered
moss, "Sullivantia Ohioensis," in his
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