Fannie Perkins Shepard dating history

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Frances Perkins Andrews Shepard (14 July 1856 – 4 June 1920) was an American physician who worked as a missionary and university lecturer in Turkey. As a woman she was not permitted to work as a physician, but could work as a nurse and midwife, and lecture in medical botany at the Medical Department of the Central Turkey College. She also assisted widows and orphans to support themselves by enabling them to sell goods they crafted. She made a scientifically significant botanical collection in and around the area where she lived, sending these specimens to George Edward Post, thus assisting with his publication The Flora of Syria, Palestine and Sinai. Her collection is held in the Herbarium of the American University of Beirut, and her type specimens are held at Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva.