Wheeler, Louis C. (Louis Cutter), 1910-1980

Person

Biography

Louis Cutter Wheeler (1910-1980) was born to Hayes Arthur and Florence Wheeler in Los Angeles, California. He was an American botanist and professor of botany with an international reputation for his research on Euphorbiaceae. From 1939 to 1945 Wheeler was a botany instructor and research assistant at several different universities. He was a collaborator on the Flora of Ceylon Project in the late 1960s which was supported by the Smithsonian Institution, the Ceylon Department of Agriculture, and the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. He married Leota May Brice around 1935. He is interred at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, California.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Press release issued by Irving C. Root, Superintendent, National Park Service, National Capital Parks for Dumbarton Oaks Park, July 8, 1941 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Beatrix Farrand / John Thacher / Sub-Group: Correspondence

File — Box D: 1, Folder: 58Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:Press Release NPS 1941.07.08

Scope and Contents:

Typescript press release from Irving C. Root, Superintendent of National Capital Parks announces a sponsored nature walk through Dumbarton Oaks Park on the morning of July 13, 1941 led by Louis C. Wheeler, a Ranger-Naturalist for National Capital Parks. Handwritten note in top, left hand corner in either blue or faded black ink, "This is a popular weekly event."