The UNC Herbarium seeks more information (particularly
a photographic portrait) of Rev. Lighthipe.
Please email Carol Ann McCormick mccormick@unc.edu
Barnhart, John Hendley (1928) Lewis Henry
Lighthipe. Torreya 28:13-14.
Lewis Henry Lighthipe was born at Orange,
New Jersey, 24 January 1843. He graduated from Columbia University
in 1863, and from the General Theological Seminary, New York City,
in 1866, receiving his master's degree from Columbia in the same
year. He at once entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
church, being ordained in 1866 by W. H. Odenheimer, bishop of
New Jersey. His clerical career was chiefly in the states of New
York and New Jersey, but from 1894 to 1899 he was located at South
Jacksonville, Florida.
Mr. Lighthipe was an enthusiastic amateur
botanist. He became a corresponding member of the Torrey Botanical
Club in 1885, and was elected an active member 8 February 1887.
He was notably faithful in his devotion to the interests of the
Club, attending the meetings with much regularity until the infirmities
of advancing age made it necessary for him to give up the trips
from his New Jersey home, and finally led him to resign. His resignation
was accepted 13 January 1920, and the minutes record the fact
that “in recognition of his thirty-four years of faithful
service to the Club, it was voted to transfer his name to the
list of corresponding members.”
He was a charming man and a pleasing speaker,
but so modest and unassuming that his name rarely appeared as
a botanical writer. The only scientific paper with his name as
author seems to be one of a single page, entitled “Notes
on the New Jersey flora,” published in the Bulletin of the
Torrey Botanical Club for January 1886; but his name appears frequently
in the minutes of the Club in connection with brief notes, and
at the meeting of 14 April 1903 he presented a paper on “The
flora of the pine barrens of New Jersey,” of which the abstract
(in Torreya) occupies two printed pages. Many specimens, from
New Jersey and Long Island, collected by him are no in the Local
Flora herbarium, and he collected plants also during his residence
in Florida. His personal herbarium of about 7000 specimens was
sold in 1920 to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
After several year in retirement, Mr. Lighthipe
died in his birthplace, Orange, 14 December 1927. His connection
with the Torrey Botanical Club, as corresponding member, active
member, and again as corresponding member, thus covered a total
period of more than forty-two years.
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Geneology (as found on www.familysearch.org
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints)
Parents:
Lewis Condit LIGHTHIPE (26 May 1815 - 3
April 1900) In the 1880 US Census, Lewis Condit Lighthipe's profession
is listed as "widower" and "works in hat forming
mill".
Henriette INGRAHAM (17 Jan. 1817 in Kickapoo,
Peoria, IL - 7 Feb. 1858 in Orange, Essex, NJ).
Siblings:
Agnes Content LIGHTHIPE (15 April 1846
- 28 Jan. 1903) Listed in the 1880 US Census as living with her
father, Lewis C. Lighthipe in Orange, Essex County, NJ; single;
and occupation "teacher"
Abbie Bennett LIGHTHIPPE (17 Spe. 1849
- 6 Jan 1915)
William Ingraham LIGHTHIPE (8 Feb. 1853
- 1 Jan. 1918)
Margaret Lam LIGHTHIPE (b. 20 Mar. 1855);
In the 1880 US Census Margaret is listed as "single";
living with her father, Lewis Condit Lighthipe in Orange, Essex
County, NJ; profession "teacher."
James Alfred LIGHTHIPE (20 Dec. 1857 -
10 April 1925). James' mother, Henriette Ingraham Lighthipe, died
within 2 months of James' birth. In the 1880 US Census, James
is listed as single; living with his father, Lewis Condit Lighthipe
in Orange, Essex County, NJ; and occupation "telephone employee".
Spouse of Lewis Henry Lighthipe: Helen
MCFARLANE
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Partial List of Publications:
Lighthipe, L. H. (1886) Notes on the New
Jersey flora. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club
13(1): 4-5.
Rowlee, W. W. Charles E. Bessey, L.H. Lighthipe,
George V. Nash (1893) Botanical Notes. Bulletin of the
Torrey Botanical Club 20(2): 68-70.
