RAMSEY, MARTHA LAURENS

Agronomist (1718 - 1811)

She was an agronomist (the study of agriculture enabled by science). She experimented with olives as a cash crop in South Carolina. The Life and Times of Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1759-1811 has been published by Joanna Bowen Gillespie (Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 2001).

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