Elizabeth Gifford was the daughter of nurseryman Charles Gifford and Mary Caroline Child, born in Milwaukee on Dec 19, 1854. She was the niece of famed Hudson River School painter Sanford R Gifford.

Elizabeth was one of the first science graduates of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, receiving both a BS and an MS there. She was awarded a PhD by Cornell University for her work as an arachnologist / entomologist in 1916.

She and her husband taught, researched, and published together with a focus on jumping spiders. The salticid genus Peckhamia is named in their honor, along with at least 20 species and one subspecies.

She died in Milwaukee on Feb 10, 1940 having been a widow for 26 years. She outlived all but one of her children (Mary G Peckham Gross).

See Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_and_Elizabeth_Peckham

Elizabeth Gifford was the daughter of nurseryman Charles Gifford and Mary Caroline Child, born in Milwaukee on Dec 19, 1854. She was the niece of famed Hudson River School painter Sanford R Gifford.

Elizabeth was one of the first science graduates of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, receiving both a BS and an MS there. She was awarded a PhD by Cornell University for her work as an arachnologist / entomologist in 1916.

She and her husband taught, researched, and published together with a focus on jumping spiders. The salticid genus Peckhamia is named in their honor, along with at least 20 species and one subspecies.

She died in Milwaukee on Feb 10, 1940 having been a widow for 26 years. She outlived all but one of her children (Mary G Peckham Gross).

See Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_and_Elizabeth_Peckham