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Listing last updated on Sat Apr 2025

Colorado
United States

[From Wikipedia] Charlotte Hill (February 15, 1849 Fulton County, Indiana - April 11, 1930 Sacramento Ca.) ....Charlotte Hill (1849–1930) was a homesteader born in Indiana who contributed to paleontology through finding several significant fossil within the Florissant Fossil Beds. She sold many fossils to other collectors and investigators to earn money on the side....Hill was born on February 15, 1849, in Indiana. She migrated west from Indiana, pioneering into the then-new settlement of Colorado City in 1874. Charlotte married her husband, Adam Hill, at the age of thirteen. Both built their home in Florissant in 1874 and filed a homestead claim in 1880. .... When the Princeton students arrived in Colorado, they met with Charlotte Hill, who showed them an impressive fossil collection containing hundreds of perfectly preserved species of insects and leaves. The Princeton students took many of these fossils back home for study and excavated several leaf and fish fossils of their own during their time in Florissant. Many of these shared discoveries became essential type specimens for the descriptions of new species.. In the same summer, Hill met scientists Samuel H. Scudder and Arthur Lakes, who were amazed by her extensive collection of fossils.....Leo Lesquereux's 1883 monograph described and named many new specimens obtained by Scudder and the Princeton Scientific Expedition of 1877, which purchased fossils from Hill.