Katharine Dooris Sharp

E. Katharine Dooris Sharp (1846–1935) was an American botanist, poet, and suffragist.

[1] Emily Katharine Dooris was born in Ulster, Ireland and raised in Zanesville, Ohio.

[4] The couple lived in London, Ohio, where Sharp became interested in botany.

She contributed more than 400 specimens to the State Herbarium of Ohio during the period of 1899-1906.

[4] Sharp began her writing career with a volume of poems, Eleanor's Courtship and The Songs that Sang Themselves, published in 1888.