Angie Maria Beckwith (27 January 1881 – 2 October 1964) was an American phytopathologist, at the primary pathology laboratory at the USDA's Bureau of Plant Industry under Erwin F. Smith and Florence Hedges during the 1920s.
[1][2][3] In 1921, Beckwith was one of more than twenty women who worked in Smith's lab, and who were credited with studying bacterial wilt in new dry beans.
[1] Among her cohort were several notable mycologists and botanists including Charlotte Elliott, Nellie A.
Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katherine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith.
[1] She was a member of the Mycological Society of America and published regularly in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club.