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Mary Hefferan

Mary Hefferan was born in Eastmanville,Ottawa County, Michigan. She received her PhD in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1903.

After completion of her PhD, she remained at the University of Chicago as the curator of the bacteriology museum and as an instructor in the department of bacteriology. Mary was also an acting editor of the Botanical Gazette in the early 1900s.