Caroline Dormon
Historian, Author
1888 – 1971
Who was Caroline Dormon?
Caroline Coroneos Dormon was a botanist, horticulturist, ornithologist, historian, archeologist, preservationist, naturalist, conservationist, and author from Louisiana. She was born in modest circumstances at Briarwood, the family home in northern Natchitoches Parish, to James L. Dormon and the former Caroline Trotti. She was reared in Arcadia, the seat of Bienville Parish, in northern Louisiana. She never married.
As a child, she developed a great interest in plants and wildlife. She was educated at the Baptist-affiliated Judson College in Marion, Alabama, from which she received a bachelor's degree in literature and art. She taught for several years in Louisiana schools, and then re-established her home at Briarwood in 1918. She began to collect and preserve native trees and shrubs. In 1921, she became a public relations representative for the Louisiana Forestry Department. She attended a Southern Forestry Congress in 1922 and persuaded the United States Forest Service to establish a national forest in Louisiana. U.S. Representative James B. Aswell of Natchitoches worked with Dormon to bring to fruition the Kisatchie National Forest, which was designated in 1930 during the administration of President Herbert C. Hoover.
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- Born
- Jul 19, 1888
Louisiana - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Judson Female College
- Lived in
- Louisiana
- Natchitoches
- Died
- Nov 21, 1971
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on July 23, 2013
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