Ancestry of
John Torrey

Co-founder, NY Academy of Science

John Torrey

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Torrey 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Nichols   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Aug 1796 
  • Birth Location:
  • New York, New York 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Mar 1873 
  • Death Location:
  • Columbia College, New York, New York 
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  • Notes: 

  • Co-founder of New York Academy of Science (originally New York Lyceum of Natural History)

    Charter member of the National Academy of Sciences

• Sources for John Torrey

  • ¹ Gray, Asa, Memoir of John Torrey, 1796-1873, n.p.: n.p. (n.d.), https://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/torrey-john.pdf.
  • ² Kelly, Howard A., Some American Medial Botanists: Commemorated in our Botanical Nomenclature, Troy, New York: The Southworth Company, Publishers (1914), 136-144.
  • ³ Rothenberg, Marc, ed., The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia, New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc. (2001), 558.
  • ⁴ Torrey, Frederic Crosby, The Torrey Families and Their Children in America, Vol. 1, Lakehurst, New Jersey: n. p. (1924), 197.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "John Torrey", (accessed 12/20/2021).