 1899 - 1988 (89 years)
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| Name |
Mildred Elizabeth Faust |
| Born |
21 Oct 1899 |
Iola, Allen County, Kansas  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
12 Nov 1988 |
Syracuse, Onondaga County, New York |
| Buried |
Iola Cemetery, Iola, Allen County, Kansas |
| Person ID |
I146830 |
Strausstown Roots |
| Last Modified |
3 Nov 2009 |
| Father |
Rev. Lawrence Sylvester Faust, b. 27 Nov 1861, Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania , d. 20 Jul 1951, Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin (Age 89 years) |
| Mother |
Orietta B Crowell, b. 29 Jun 1872, Kansas , d. 15 May 1947, Kansas (Age 74 years) |
| Married |
25 Jun 1895 |
| Family ID |
F47972 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S235] Wayne Faust, Wayne Faust, e-mail/Lawrence Sylvester Faust (I146826), 03 Nov 2009.
- [S201] Miscellaneous Newspapers, Syracuse Herald-Journal (NY), 14 Nov 1988.
Deceased Name: MILDRED E. FAUST, 89 PROFESSOR, NOTED BOTANIST
Mildred E. Faust of Syracuse, a noted botanist, died Saturday at University Hospital after a brief illness. She was 89.
Miss Faust was an instructor, assistant professor and associate professor of botany at Syracuse University from 1926 until her retirement in 1965. Since 1970 she was adjunct professor of botany at State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry, which holds the Mildred E. Faust Herbarium, the scientist's lifelong collection of plant specimens.
She was an authority on the flora of New York State and Onondaga County. An ecologist and palynologist, she would take students to bogs, drill down 15 to 20 feet, collect the pollen and from that be able to associate the plants that grew locally 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, said her longtime associate and fellow botanist, Knowlton Foote.
Miss Faust served many local, regional and national organizations in the environmental and biological sciences. For more than 40 years she was vice president of the Syracuse Botany Club, was a board member of the Onondaga County Environmental Management Council since 1971, a member of the state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner's Advisory Committee on Rare and Endangered Plants since 1973, a member and former vice president of the Onondaga Primrose Society, and a member of the Onondaga Historical Society, the Syracuse Weavers Guild, Canal Society of New York State, Adirondack Mountain Club, Bergen Swamp Preservation Society and United Nations Association of Central New York.
Miss Faust earned several awards of distinction for her work. In 1985 in recognition of her contribution to science and education in botany, the Centers for Nature Education and Save the County created the Mildred E. Faust Wildflower Garden at the Baltimore Woods Historic Land Use Center in Marcellus. She helped to organize and establish Baltimore Woods as well as Beaver Lake Nature Center in Baldwinsville.
She received the first Friend of the Land Award from the Central New York Nature Conservancy in 1978 and was named a Post-Standard Woman of Achievement in 1982.
On the national level, Miss Faust was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was listed in the National Register of Science and Technology Personnel and Who's Who of American Women, and was a past president of the American Fern Society. She was a member of numerous other professional organizations including the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Ecological Society of America, the Botanical Society of America, the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, and Sigma Xi.
She received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from St. Lawrence University.
Currently, Miss Faust was serving as a reader for Foote who is in the process of writing a book, ''Natural History of Eastern Wildflowers.'' ''At the end of each chapter she would read the manuscript to be sure that everything is correct,'' Foote said.
Miss Faust was a native of Emporia, Kansas. She earned a bachelor's degree at Penn College of Iowa, and her master's and doctorate degrees at the University of Chicago. She also studied at the University of Iowa and Cornell University. Before joining the Syracuse University faculty she taught high school and junior college in Iowa and Missouri.
Surviving are a niece, Kathryn E. Dewey of Nashville, Tenn.; and two nephews, Irving C. Faust of Kingston Springs, Tenn.. and Lawrence H. Faust of Stevens, Pa.
A service, a Celebration of Life, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hendricks Chapel of Syracuse University. Speaking will be Richard Mitchell of Albany, botanist for New York State; Edwin Ketchledge, professor emeritus of botany at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry; David DeLaubenfels, professor of geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School; Lee Rentz, director of Beaver Lake Nature Center; and others.
Burial will be in Iola, Kansas.
Contributions may be made to the Mildred E. Faust Garden at Baltimore Woods, Marcellus.
Greenleaf Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
wfaust@expertheating.net
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