Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler Explained

Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler
Birth Name:Mary Cloyd Burnley
Birth Place:Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Women’s College of Baltimore
Fields:Mycology,Chemistry
Children:2
Spouse:James Madison Stifler

Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler (7 November 1876 – August 1956) was a 20th century botanist with a specialization in mycology.

Early life and education

Born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania[1] in 1876 to Charles W. and Sallie H. (Updegraff) Burnley, Cloyd Burnley was raised in Willamsport along with her sister, Lucy Burnley.[2] Cloyd Burnley's sister married Rev. James Madison Stifler, Jr, in 1900.[3] Lucy died in 1903, leaving behind two children: James Madison Stifler III and Francis M. Stifler.

Cloyd Burnley attended Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (now Lycoming College). She graduated from Goucher College in 1897.[4] [5] She continued as a graduate student at her alma mater before moving to Vassar College as an assistant.[6] [7] She completed her Master's degree in chemistry at the Women's College of Baltimore in 1899 while continuing to teach chemistry at Vassar. In 1908 she returned to Bryn Mawr as a research fellow and stayed until 1909. She co-authored two publications with fellow Bryn Mawr professor EP Kohler before he moved to Harvard University in 1910.[8] While no record of Cloyd Burnley obtaining a doctorate exists, the State Microscopical Society of Illinois announced "Mrs. C.B. Stifler, Ph.D., will speak on little known "Flowerless Plants."[9] Cloyd Burnley's work in mycology comes mostly from her time as a resident of Evanston, Illinois, when her husband held an appointment at the University of Chicago from 1931 to 1940,[10] although a lack of records makes her position at the institution unclear. She served as the President of the Chicago Chapter of the Goucher College Alumnae Association.[11]

Career

Though a chemist by training, Cloyd Burnley's interests and greatest impact were in the burgeoning field of mycology. Cloyd Burnley was the first to describe the Tuberaceae genus, a fungal genus containing truffles.

In 1944, Cloyd Burnley gave a "rare and extensive collection" of fungal specimens to her alma mater, Goucher College. According to the Evening Sun, Cloyd Burnley's "special hobby is the collection, identification and study of the habits of representatives of fungi. In certain groups of the series Mrs. Stifler has become a recognized authority." Over 90 different fungal families were a part of the collection donated to the college.[12] Her samples were intended for use in teaching students about mycorrhiza.

Over 2,600 specimens attributed to Cloyd Burnley Stifler are housed at 13 different academic institutions.[13] Her samples come from locations in Illinois as well as Florida, where she and her husband retired in the 1940s. She collected, described, and illustrated not just fungi but slime molds and mosses as well.

Scientific publications

  1. Stifler, Cloyd Burnley (1950) The use of the microscope in the study of mosses. Micro-Notes V (1): 22-28.[14]
  2. Stifler, Cloyd Burnley (1949) Myxomycetes, Mycetozoa, or Slime Molds . Micro-Notes IV (3): 52-65.[15]
  3. Stifler, Cloyd Burnley (1941) A new genus of Hypocreales. Mycologica 33(1): 82-86.[16]
  4. Stifler, Cloyd Burnley (1937) A new species of Tuberaceae for America. Mycologica 29(3): 325-326.[17]
  5. Kohler, E. P. and M. Cloyd Burnley (1910) Reaction between unsaturated compounds and organic magnesium compounds. XIII. Derivatives of cyclohexane. American Chemical Journal 43(5): 412-417.[18]
  6. Kohler, E. P., G. L. Heritage, M. C. Burnley (1910) The Friedel and Crafts reaction with chlorides of unsaturated acids. American Chemical Journal 44(1): 60-75.

Personal life

Cloyd Burnley married her sister's widower in 1909.[19] Together, the couple had two children: Lucy and Cloyd.[20] Cloyd Burnley's husband, a graduate of Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania, was the Senior Minister at the First Baptist Church in Evanston, Illinois from 1909 - 1931.[21] [22] [23] The couple moved to Florida in 1942, where her husband died in 1949.[24] [25] Cloyd Burnley died in 1956 at age 79 in Bradenton, Florida.[26]

External links

  1. The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium. http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/Collectors/Stifler_MCB.htm
  2. North Carolina Botanical Garden. https://ncbg.unc.edu/2020/10/22/mary-cloyd-burnley-stifler/

Notes and References

  1. Book: Leonard, John William. Woman's Who's Who of America: a Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American Commonwealth Company. 1914. 784.
  2. Web site: Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler - North Carolina Botanical Garden. 2021-11-19. en-US.
  3. Web site: Jesup. Randall. 2011. Jesup / Stifler Family Tree. 16 October 2020. Ancestry.com.
  4. Web site: Mary Cloyd Burnley Stifler - North Carolina Botanical Garden. 2022-01-18. en-US.
  5. Book: Knipp. Anna Heubeck. The history of Goucher College. Thomas. Thaddeus P. (Thaddeus Peter). 1938. Baltimore, Md., Goucher College. Goucher College.
  6. Book: Bryn Mawr College Calendar. Bryn Mawr College. 1911. Haverford, Pennsylvania. 30.
  7. Book: Eleventh Annual Program of the Woman's College of Baltimore. The Lord Baltimore Press; The Friedenwald Company. 1899. Baltimore, MD, USA. 15.
  8. Conant. James B.. 1952. Elmer Peter Kohler (1865-1938). National Academy of Sciences. 11.
  9. News: 17 October 1941. Microscopical Society. 26. The Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois). 22 October 2020.
  10. News: 17 January 1941. County Classroom Staff Hears Specialists Talk. 2. The Bradenton Herald (Bradenton, Florida). 22 October 2020.
  11. Book: Twenty-Seventh Annual Catalogue of Goucher College, Baltimore. Goucher College. 1915. Baltimore, Maryland. 79.
  12. News: 30 October 1944. Fungus Collection Given Goucher. 13. The Evening Sun (Baltimore, Maryland). 22 October 2020.
  13. Web site: MyCoPortal Collections Search Results. 2020-10-22. mycoportal.org.
  14. Burnley Stifler. Cloyd. 1950. The Use of the Microscope in the Study of Mosses. Micro-Notes Devoted to Microscopy. 5. 22–28. SMSI.org.
  15. Burnley Stifler. Cloyd. 1949. Myxomycetes, Mycetozoa, or Slime Molds. Micro-Notes Devoted to Microscopy. 4. 52–65. SMSI.org.
  16. Stifler. Cloyd Burnley. 1941. A New Genus of Hypocreales. Mycologia. 33. 1. 82–86. 10.2307/3754739. 3754739. 0027-5514.
  17. Stifler. Cloyd Burnley. 1937. A New Species of Tuberaceae for America. Mycologia. 29. 3. 325–326. 10.2307/3754291. 3754291. 0027-5514.
  18. Conant. James B.. 1952. Elmer Peter Kohler (1865-1938). National Academy of Sciences. 24.
  19. News: 29 July 1909. Married. 7. The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). 22 October 2020.
  20. Web site: Burnley59. Burnley Family. 16 October 2020. Ancestry.com.
  21. Web site: Historical Overview. 2020-10-16. Lake Street Church. en-US.
  22. Book: Blair, Leverett, and Stifler Family Papers, 1805-2006. Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. IHLC MS 973. Urbana, Illinois.
  23. News: 2 June 1932. Descendant of Blair Family is Prominent. 20. Altoona Mirror (Altoona, Pennsylvania). 22 October 2020.
  24. News: 8 April 1949. Dr. Stifler Dies, Minister, Author. 24. The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). 22 October 2020.
  25. News: 7 April 1949. Dr. Stifler, 74, Minister, Dies at Home. 1–2. The Bradenton Herald (Bradenton, Florida). 22 October 2020.
  26. News: 24 August 1956. Death Notices. 49. The Chicago Tribune. 22 October 2020.

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