LeConte, Emma (Personal Name)

Her When the world ended, 1987, c1957: CIP t.p. (Emma LeConte) pref. (Emma Florence LeConte, Emma LeConte Furman, b. 1847, d. 1932)

LC data base, 2/24/87 (hdg.: LeConte, Emma)

Finding aid for LeConte and Furman family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, June 19, 2020 (Joseph LeConte (1823-1901) of South Carolina, was a geologist, chemist, author, and professor at the University of California at Berkeley. This collection chiefly contains family letters, 1869-1897, of LeConte to his daughter Emma LeConte (1847-1932), wife of Farish Carter Furman, a Milledgeville, Ga., agriculturalist. Letters relate to scientific work, teaching, university life, family life, and travels to Yosemite and other California and mountain areas. Also included are correspondence, 1870-1894, of Furman regarding his agricultural experiments with cotton and soil fertilization, and histories (photocopies) of the LeConte family and Stevens family by Walter LeConte Stevens, 1880-1910) https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02564/

Find a grave WWW site, June 19, 2020 (Emma Florence LeConte Furman; born Dec. 10, 1847, died Mar. 2, 1832; buried in Milledgeville, Ga.; parents: Joseph Quarterman Le Conte, Caroline Elizabeth Nisbet Le Conte; spouse: Farish Carter Furman; lived in Georgia until 1856, when she moved to Columbia, S.C. Her diary from 1864-1865 was published as The Day the World Ended: The Dairy of Emma LeConte in 1957) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17841864/emma-florence-furman