John Bartram
1699-1777
American Naturalist, Botanist and Explorer
John Bartram is best known as a naturalist and as the first American botanist. His explorations resulted in the identification, collec...
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Bartram, John
March 23, 1699
Marple, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
September 22, 1777
Kingsessing, Pennsylvania
Botanist and gardener
Portrait: John Bartram. Reproduced by permission of The Librar...
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John Bartram (1699-1777) was the first native-born American botanist. He achieved considerable international fame as a collector of botanical specimens.John Bartram was born on March 23, 1699, near Da...
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A farmer in colonial Pennsylvania, John Bartram was one of America's pioneer botanists. As he remarked in a letter (1764), he had "in thirty years' travels, acquired a perfect knowledge of most, if no...
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Bartram, John
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