newspaperman, teacher, naturalist, b. Uelzen, Hannover, Germany. He was educated and spent his early life in Germany, migrating to the U.S. and to Green Bay in 1874. He was for a time editor of the Green Bay Volks Zeitung and the Wisconsin Staats-Zeitung, but after 1877 he turned his interests to teaching. After 1884 he devoted most of his time to studying and collecting the native plants of Brown and nearby counties, eventually acquiring a herbarium of an estimated 30,000 specimens, which was given to the Field Museum in Chicago after his death. Schuette was recognized for the identification of new species of plants; a hawthorn, Crataegus Schuettei Ashe, and an oak, Quercus Schuettei n. hybr. (Q. bicolor x macrocarpa). Green Bay Gazette, July 24, 1908; Information supplied by H. Schuette, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Wis.Learn More
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