Josephine Mason Milligan
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| Born | February 27, 1835
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Died | 1911 |
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| Fields | Botany |
Josephine Mason Wade Milligan (February 27, 1835 – July 5, 1911) was a botanist, wildflower collector, and writer who donated her herbarium to the Smithsonian Institution.[1] She collected plants in various states around the world, those including Massachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, and Montana between 1863 and 1893.[2]
Milligan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Nelson and Royina Mason Wade. She married Harvey William Milligan in Brownsport Furnace, Tennessee on March 16, 1856.[3] They later moved to Milligan lived in Jacksonville, Illinois and had five children, three of whom survived into adulthood: George, Josephine and Laurance.[4][5]
Milligan founded the Jacksonville Sorosis in 1868, the oldest surviving women's literary society in the United States, and the Jacksonville Household Science Club in 1885.[6][1] She was one of the earliest members of the Jacksonville Natural History Society, a member of the Microscopical Society, and a contributing writer to the New York Tribune.[7][3] She was honored by the Illinois State Historical Society which created a miniature figurine of her which was displayed in the State Library.[8]
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