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Botanist Frederick Dressel, nephew of Anne Marie Dressel Schuchmann

Year: 1890 • Collection: Dressel

One of our more prominent horticultural ancestors was Frederick H. Dressel, born in 1861 in Darmstadt Germany. He was botanically inclined from an early age, spending some time in London learning about orchids. Frederick was the son of Hermann Dressel, a Darmstadt merchant, and his wife Elizabetha Pattburg. Herman was the younger brother of our ancestor Marie Dressel Schuckmann, who emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina with her husband Louis who ran a successful haberdashery. Frederick emigrated to America and settled in Weehawken, New Jersey where he established a greenhouse for the propagation and cultivation of orchids, palms, and ferns.

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