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Annie Davis Phelps (1843–1861)
Annie Davis Fairbanks (1861–1920)

1843–1920

American botanist. Treasurer of the Syracuse Botanical Club in 1881. Daughter of Henry Phelps, music store keeper, and his wife Harriet of Syracuse, New York. Married Captain Edward Richmond Fairbanks (1827–62) in 1861; he died at sea.

Sources

Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 8 (1881): 60

North America, family histories, 1500–2000: Genealogy of the Fairbanks family in America, 1633–1897 (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 March 2021)

United States Federal Census 1880 (Syracuse, Onondaga, New York 211/250C) (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 March 2021)

U.S., Find a grave index, 1600s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 11 March 2021)

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