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Mildred Adams 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).

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

Early life and education

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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

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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

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  • "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

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  • Records of Evolution (1924)
  • The World of Fossils (1933) LCCN 33-21909
  • The Rock Book (1940) LCCN 40-30728; Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (2003). 2003 Dover reprint. Dover Publications. ISBN 0486422674. LCCN 2003265242; xvi+397 pages, illustrated{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  • Land We Live On (1944) LCCN 44-5441; 1966 2nd edition. LCCN 66014864.
  • Rocks and Their Stories (1951) LCCN 51-12152
  • 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

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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

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  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. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1923). "Nortonechinus, a Devonian Echinoid". The American Midland Naturalist. 8 (10/11): 219–221. doi:10.2307/2993092. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2993092.
  7. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1925). The Stratigraphy and Fauna of the Hackberry Stage of the Upper Devonian. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-472-75134-1.
  8. ^ Fenton, Mildred Adams; Fenton, Carroll Lane (1928). "A New Species of Schizophoria from the Devonian of Iowa". The American Midland Naturalist. 11 (3/4): 160–162. doi:10.2307/2420198. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2420198.
  9. ^ Fenton, Mildred Adams (1929). "Notes on Several forms of Lichenocrinus from Black River Formations". The American Midland Naturalist. 11 (9): 494–499. doi:10.2307/2419918. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2419918.
  10. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1931). "Some Snail Borings of Paleozoic Age". The American Midland Naturalist. 12 (12): 522–528. doi:10.2307/2420203. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2420203.
  11. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1932). "Boring Sponges in the Devonian of Iowa". The American Midland Naturalist. 13 (2): 42–54. doi:10.2307/2419951. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2419951.
  12. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1932). "Orientation and Injury in the Genus Atrypa". The American Midland Naturalist. 13 (2): 63–74. doi:10.2307/2419953. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2419953.
  13. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1933-05-19). "Hail Prints and Mud-Cracks of Proterozoic Age". Science. 77 (2003): 491–492. doi:10.1126/science.77.2003.491.a. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 17754231.
  14. ^ Fenton, C. L.; Fenton, M. A. (1933-12-31). "Algal Reefs or Bioherms in the Belt Series of Montana". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 44 (6): 1135–1142. doi:10.1130/gsab-44-1135. ISSN 0016-7606.
  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. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1937). "Burrows and Trails from Pennsylvanian Rocks of Texas". The American Midland Naturalist. 18 (6): 1079–1084. doi:10.2307/2420606. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2420606.
  17. ^ Fenton, C. L.; Fenton, M. A. (1937-12-01). "Belt Series of the North: Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Paleontology". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 48 (12): 1873–1970. doi:10.1130/gsab-48-1873. ISSN 0016-7606.
  18. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1937). "Archaeonassa: Cambrian Snail Trails and Burrows". The American Midland Naturalist. 18 (3): 454–456. doi:10.2307/2420587. ISSN 0003-0031. JSTOR 2420587.
  19. ^ Fenton, C. L.; Fenton, M. A. (1939-01-01). "Pre-Cambrian and Paleozoic Algae". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 50 (1): 89–126. doi:10.1130/gsab-50-89. ISSN 0016-7606.
  20. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1953). Riches from the Earth. J. Day Company.
  21. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Rich, Pat Vickers; Fenton, Mildred Adams; Rich, Thomas H. V. (1996-01-01). The Fossil Book: A Record of Prehistoric Life. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-29371-4.
  22. ^ Fenton, Carroll Lane; Fenton, Mildred Adams (1969). Mountains. Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 978-0-8369-1129-9.
  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.
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  • 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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