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Martha Burton Williamson

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and journalist. She was a founding member of the American Association of Conchologists and vice president of the Historical Society of Southern California, as well as the second president of the Southern California Press Club.
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with an emphasis in philosophy, but never graduated. In 1866 she married Civil War veteran Charles Wesley Williamson, and they had three daughters.
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and started collecting seashells. It was in Los Angeles that she became active in malacology, the study of mollusks.
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Williamson's journalism career began in 1877, and she was a correspondent for
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Martha Burton Woodhead was born March 6, 1843, in the English town of
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Weaver, Charles E.; Palmer, Katherine Van Winkle (1922).
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in Indiana. She became an active participant in the
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Rothwell, West Yorkshire
Los Angeles, California
Malacologist
Journalist
Martha Williamson
malacologist
Rothwell, West Yorkshire
Cincinnati, Ohio
Burlington College
James A. Garfield
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Los Angeles, California
gastropods
Mitridae
Crepidula naticarum
Crepidula norrisiarum
William Healey Dall
J. G. Cooper
Vitrinella williamsoni
Macrocallista williamsoni
Smithsonian Institution Archives



"Early Women Scientists of Los Angeles Harbor"
doi
10.3160/0038-3872-115.2.98
S2CID
89061191

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