Fanny D. Bergen

Bergen worked as a teacher in old Woodville school then, Cleveland, Chicago and eventually at her alma mater Antioch College.

[1] During her time there her husband botanist Joseph Young Bergen had also attended, completing his master's while she was there.

As a result of her work documenting American immigrant animal and plant lore Bergen is regarded as being an early female pioneer of ethnobiology.

Her grandmother told her stories from her life in Lake George, New York and talked about quilts.

Very few patterns had been recorded when Bergen photographed and wrote about them in her article which was one of the earliest collection quiltmakers of names and designs in 1894.