Thomas Jesse Battey
1842–1931
American school teacher and botanist. A Quaker. Taught science at the Moses Brown School, Providence, Rhode Island from 1868. Member of the Botanical Committee of the Providence Franklin Society. Collected phanerogams.
Sources
Bennett 1888, p. iii
Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries, Index of botanists (http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_index.html, accessed 2 August 2016)
Kelsey 1919
U.S. Find a grave index, 1600s–current (Ancestry.com, accessed 2 August 2016)
Bibliography
Bennett, James L. 1888. Plants of Rhode Island, being an enumeration of plants growing without cultivation in the state of Rhode Island. Providence, R.I.: Providence Franklin Society.
Kelsey, Rayner Wickersham. 1919. Centennial history of Moses Brown School: 1819–1919. Providence, R.I.: Moses Brown School.
