Caroline Thomas Rumbold (July 22, 1877 – November 7, 1949) was an American botanist. She specialized in forest pathology. Her researches focused on “fungus diseases of trees and blue stain fungi of wood.”[1]
Born on July 22, 1877, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, Caroline Thomas Rumbold was the daughter of Thomas Frasier Rumbold and Charlotte E. Ledengerber.[2] In 1901 she graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts. She got both the master's degree and the doctorate from the Washington University in St. Louis.[2]
She started her career as an assistant at the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of Agriculture in 1903.[3] She later moved to University of Missouri to become an assistant in botany. From 1929 to 1942 she had a long career as an associate pathologist at the Department of Plant Pathology in the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She briefly worked as a fellow at the Missouri Botanical Garden.[1]
She was associated with a number of professional institutions including Phytopathological Society, the American Society of Plant Physiologists and the Botanical Society of Washington.[1]
She died on November 7, 1949, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.