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Julien Reverchon
French botanist (1837–1905) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Julien Reverchon (August 3, 1837 – December 30, 1905) was a French botanist.
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Childhood
Reverchon was born on August 3, 1837, in Diémoz, France, to Jacques Maximilien and Florine (Pete) Reverchon.[1] He was the brother of Elisée Reverchon and Paul-Alphonse Reverchon.
Reverchon displayed an interest in the natural world at a young age, and along with his brother amassed a collection of nearly 2,000 species of plants during his childhood.
Arrival in the United States
At the age of 19, Julien and his father emigrated from France to join Fourierist Victor Prosper Considerant's colony at La Réunion in Dallas County, Texas; his older brothers Elisée and Paul-Alphonse remained behind in France.[1]
The Reverchons arrived at La Réunion in December 1856, shortly before the formal dissolution of the colony. Maximilien received a plot of land southeast corner of the colony in exchange for their shares in the failed company. The family established a farm on the site and Reverchon began studying the local flora.[1]
Family life and career
Reverchon married Marie Henri on July 24, 1864. They had two sons who would die as youths of typhoid fever in 1884.[2]
After abandoning botany for a few years, Reverchon resumed collecting plants in 1869, when he made an expedition with Jacob Boll to collect fossils in West Texas. With subsequent collections, he contributed to the production of noted floras by Asa Gray and Charles Sprague Sargent and the enrichment of many American collections. Reverchons´s plant specimens were distributed by Allen Hiram Curtiss in his exsiccata-like series North American Plants.[3]
Later life and death
Reverchon taught botany in Dallas toward the end of his life.
Reverchon was struck by a train on July 6, 1905, fracturing his arm and badly bruising his back while examining some bugs near the railroad track in Greenville, Texas.[4] Reverchon never recovered from his injuries and died at his adopted son RM Freeman's home on December 30.[5][6]
At the time of his death, his home the Rose Cottage contained a rich herbarium with more than 2,600 different species and 20,000 specimens.[6]
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Legacy
Dalea reverchonii was first documented by Reverchon.[7]
Hedeoma reverchonii, Muhlenbergia reverchonii, Tradescantia reverchonii, and Yucca reverchonii are named in his honor.
Reverchon's botanical collection was donated to the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis upon his death.[2]
The city of Dallas named Reverchon Park in his honor.[8][9][10]
In 2012, artist Kevin Obregon collaborated with the Friends of Reverchon Park to create a giant puppet of Julien Reverchon for Bridge-O-Rama's Parade of Giants, celebrating the opening of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge.[11][12][13][14][15]
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