February 7, 2022 Cadwallader Colden, Charles Dickens, Henri Frederic Amiel, Green by Ula Maria, and Laura Ingalls Wilder

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1688 Birth of Cadwallader Colden (books about this person), Scottish-American physician, botanist, and Lieutenant Governor of New York. The genus Coldenia in the borage family is named for him. After arriving in the United States in 1718, Cadwallader and his wife raised ten children in Queens on their Coldenham estate. His fifth child was a girl named Jane, and early on, she expressed interest in botany…