John Thomas Howell [SEP] occupation
John Thomas Howell
John Thomas Howell (November 6, 1903 – May 7, 1994) was an American botanist and taxonomist. He became an expert of "Eriogonum" (buckwheat) species, which are widely represented in the native California flora.
He was the assistant of Alice Eastwood (1859−1953), the renowned botanist and botanical collection director at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California.
Taxa named for Howell.
The genera "Howellanthus" (Scott Mountain phacelia) of the Boraginaceae and
1616 (d. 1630). They had four sons and three daughters:
1. Henry Howell (bapt. 2 Dec 1618, bur. 29 Aug 1619)
2. John Howell (bapt. 24 Nov 1622)
3. Edward Howell (bapt. Sep 1626)
4. Richard Howell (bapt. 1629, d. aft. 1698) m. Elizabeth Halsey (dau. of Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England & founder of Southampton, New York)
5. Dorothy Howell
6. Margaret