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William Trelease, Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum Stop 32 Historic Tour Line

Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum is a key cultural institution in St. Louis, offering visitors a beautiful atmosphere for exploring history, art, architecture, and nature. We have a 3.7-mile newly painted line to follow while in your car, on your bike, or on foot for your self-guided tour. Maps are available outside of our cemetery office, highlighting 38 historic stops along this tour line. Stop 32 on the tour line belongs to Dr. William Trelease, an American botanist, entomologist, explorer, writer, and educator. William was born in Mount Vernon, New York, on February 22, 1857. In his teens, he was an apprentice in a machine shop, but in 1877 he decided to enter Cornell University and study the natural sciences. He graduated from Cornell in 1880 with a Bachelor of Science. William was a botany instructor at Harvard University from 1880 to 1881 and the University of Wisconsin from 1881 to 1883. He became a professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin from 1883 to 1885. In 1885, William accepted an appointment as Englemann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. He was interested in Shaw's Garden, a 75-acre botanical garden established by Henry Shaw, a wealthy St Louis merchant, on his estate. In 1889, after Henry had died, William was appointed director of the Garden, since renamed the Missouri Botanical Garden. William, his wife Julia, and his children moved into Henry's country estate late in 1889. His role as the director was an ideal position for him, as he was a gifted botanist with a genius for classifying plants. William directed the 75-acre Garden for 23 years, during which he assembled an extensive plant collection, herbarium, and botanical library, paving the way for the Garden's present international reputation. He resigned in 1912 and traveled through Europe researching herbaria and libraries. He returned the following year to head the Department of Botany at the University of Illinois until his retirement as Professor Emeritus at age 70. Trelease Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is named after him. During his career, he made botanical explorations throughout North America and Mexico, in the Azores, Madeira, Tenerife, Spain, New Zealand, and the West Indies. Trelease also wrote more than 300 scientific papers, described and named some 2,500 species and varieties of plants, and was a member of the Botanical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and other societies. His name is commemorated in the fungus genera Treleasia and Treleasiella and the 12,503-foot peak in Colorado, Mount Trelease. William died on New Year's Day, 1945, at age 88, and is buried here at Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum. To learn more, please watch this short video about William Trelease, stop #32 on Bellefontaine Cemetery's historic tour line. Sign up to receive more information about the history of BCA. https://bellefontainecemetery.org/vid.... Photos and information for this post courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden, the web, and BCA files.