Alice Eastwood was born on 19 January 1859, in Toronto, Ontario. She attended public schools and a convent school in Canada; in 1873 her family moved to Denver, Colorado, and she attended public schools there, graduating from Denver East High School in 1879. Having been recruited as a substitute teacher while still attending school, Eastwood was hired on as a regular teacher at her alma mater. She would teach for the next ten years, all the while collecting plants and teaching herself botany using Gray's Manual and Coulter's Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany as guides. In 1890 Eastwood took a vacation to southern California, where she studied the plants of the region. The following year she worked for several months as an assistant in the herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences. She was offered a position as joint Curator with Katherine Brandegee in 1892, and left both Colorado and teaching behind for California and botany (MacFarland x). In 1894, with the retirement of Mrs. Brandegee, Eastwood was advanced to Curator and Head of the Department of Botany, a position she kept until her retirement in 1949, at the age of ninety.∼Alice Eastwood was commemorated in Eastern Sierra Plant Names. See http://www.cpp.edu/~larryblakely/whoname/who_east.htm
Alice Eastwood was born on 19 January 1859, in Toronto, Ontario. She attended public schools and a convent school in Canada; in 1873 her family moved to Denver, Colorado, and she attended public schools there, graduating from Denver East High School in 1879. Having been recruited as a substitute teacher while still attending school, Eastwood was hired on as a regular teacher at her alma mater. She would teach for the next ten years, all the while collecting plants and teaching herself botany using Gray's Manual and Coulter's Manual of Rocky Mountain Botany as guides. In 1890 Eastwood took a vacation to southern California, where she studied the plants of the region. The following year she worked for several months as an assistant in the herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences. She was offered a position as joint Curator with Katherine Brandegee in 1892, and left both Colorado and teaching behind for California and botany (MacFarland x). In 1894, with the retirement of Mrs. Brandegee, Eastwood was advanced to Curator and Head of the Department of Botany, a position she kept until her retirement in 1949, at the age of ninety.∼Alice Eastwood was commemorated in Eastern Sierra Plant Names. See http://www.cpp.edu/~larryblakely/whoname/who_east.htm
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