Mildred Adams Fenton

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Mildred Adams Fenton
Mildred Adams Fenton
Born14 November 1899 (1899-11-14)
Cedar County, Iowa
Died7 December 1995 (1995-12-08) (aged 96)
Iowa City, Iowa
Scientific career
Fieldspaleontology
geology
InstitutionsUniversity of Iowa
Author abbrev. (botany)M.A.Fenton

Mildred Adams Fenton (November 14, 1899 – December 7, 1995)[1] trained in paleontology and geology at the University of Iowa. She coauthored dozens of general science books with her husband, Carroll Lane Fenton, including Records of Evolution (1924), Land We Live On (1944), and Worlds in the Sky (1963).

Early life and education

Mildred Adams was born near West Branch, Iowa,[2] the daughter of Ollie M. Adams and Mary Ann Yetter Adams.[1] She graduated from the University of Chicago, where she met her husband Carroll Lane Fenton while they were both undergraduates.[3][4]

Selected publications

In addition to their scholarly contributions, the couple wrote fifty books on general science topics, and her photographs were often used as illustrations.[2] Unless otherwise indicated, Fenton was co-author on the following articles and books, with her husband Carroll Lane Fenton.

Scholarly works

  • "Some Black River Brachiopods from the Mississippi Valley" (1922)[5]
  • "Nortonechinus, a Devonian Echinoid" (1923)[6]
  • The Stratigraphy and Fauna of the Hackberry Stage of the Upper Devonian (1925)[7]
  • "A New Species of Schizophoria from the Devonian of Iowa" (1928)[8]
  • "Notes on Several forms of Lichenocrinus from Black River Formations" (1929, solo author)[9]
  • "Some Snail Borings of Paleozoic Age" (1931)[10]
  • "Boring Sponges in the Devonian of Iowa" (1932)[11]
  • "Orientation and Injury in the Genus Atrypa" (1932)[12]
  • "Hail Prints and Mud-Cracks of Proterozoic Age" (1933)[13]
  • "Algal Reefs or Bioherms in the Belt Series of Montana" (1933)[14]
  • "Atrypae described by Clement L. Webster and related forms (Devonian, Iowa)" (1935)[15]
  • "Burrows and Trails from Pennsylvanian Rocks of Texas" (1937)[16]
  • "Belt Series of the North: Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Paleontology" (1937)[17]
  • "Archaeonassa: Cambrian Snail Trails and Burrows" (1937)[18]
  • "Pre-Cambrian and Paleozoic Algae" (1939)[19]

General science books

  • Records of Evolution (1924)
  • The World of Fossils (1933)
  • The Rock Book
  • Land We Live On (1944)
  • Rocks and Their Stories (1951)
  • Riches from the Earth (1953)[20]
  • The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life (1958)[21]
  • Worlds in the Sky (1963)
  • Mountains (1969)[22]

Personal life

Mildred Adams and Carroll Lane Fenton married in 1921. The couple established a scholarship fund for Hopi students at Northern Arizona University.[4] She was president of the New Jersey and Iowa chapters of the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America. She traveled extensively in her later years, including several trips to Australia and a visit to Russia.[2] Carroll died in 1969,[23] and she died in 1995, at the age of 96, in Iowa City.[3]

The standard author abbreviation M.A.Fenton is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[24]

References

  1. ^ a b "Obituary for Mildred Adams Fenton". Iowa City Press-Citizen. 1995-12-06. p. 8. Retrieved 2023-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c Barnes, Suzanne (1994-02-02). "Fossils lead to life of adventure". The Gazette. p. 41. Retrieved 2023-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b Swanson, Tia (1995-12-06). "Mildred Adams Fenton's Life Recalled". The Central New Jersey Home News. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b Genovese, Peter (1992-03-15). "A life spent boning up on fossils". The Central New Jersey Home News. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-01-20 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane and Fenton, Mildred Adams (1922). "Some Black River Brachiopods from the Mississippi Valley" Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 29(1), 67-83.
  6. JSTOR 2993092
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  7. ISBN 978-0-472-75134-1
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  8. JSTOR 2420198
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  9. JSTOR 2419918
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  10. JSTOR 2420203
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  11. JSTOR 2419951
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  12. JSTOR 2419953
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  13. PMID 17754231
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  14. ISSN 0016-7606
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  15. ^ Carroll Lane Fenton, Mildred Adams Fenton. "Atrypae described by Clement L. Webster and related forms (Devonian, Iowa)" Journal of Paleontology 1935; 9 (5): 369–384.
  16. JSTOR 2420606
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  17. ISSN 0016-7606
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  18. JSTOR 2420587
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  19. ISSN 0016-7606
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  20. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1953). Riches from the Earth. J. Day Company.
  21. ISBN 978-0-486-29371-4
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  22. ISBN 978-0-8369-1129-9
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  23. ^ "Papers of Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams Fenton, 1963-1966". University of Iowa Libraries Collection Guides. University of Iowa. May 2000. Retrieved 23 September 2010.
  24. ^ International Plant Names Index.  M.A.Fenton.

External links

  • Flickr entry (with discussion on birth date)
  • S. George Pemberton and James A. MacEachern (1994). "Carroll Lane Fenton and Mildred Adams Fenton: Pioneers of North American Neoichnology," Ichnos: An International Journal for Plant and Animal Traces 3(2): 145–153.
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