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William Penn Alcott was a relative of Louisa May Alcott and a Congregational pastor by vocation. Alcott was the son of vegetarianism's early promoter William A. Alcott, and a well-known advocate of vegetarianism himself. During his years at North Chelmsford, Massachusetts (1878-1880), he notably collected and created a herbarium of wool-waste plants. His herbarium of several hundred sheets was largely deposited at the Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Massachusetts. Some of his wool-waste collections were received at Cornell University, Yale University, Harvard University, and the New England Botanical Club, as well. |
