Jennifer Ebeling<p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/December" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>December</span></a> 11, 1843<br /><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OTD</span></a> Jacob <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Schneck" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Schneck</span></a>, Indiana <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Physician" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Physician</span></a>, <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Naturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Naturalist</span></a>, & <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Botanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Botanist</span></a>, is born.</p><p>Jacob's passion was <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Plants</span></a> & he spent his <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/SpareTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpareTime</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Botanizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Botanizing</span></a>. He labeled all his <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Specimens" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Specimens</span></a> with his <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Impeccable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Impeccable</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Handwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Handwriting</span></a>.</p><p>He <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Spied" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Spied</span></a> a unique <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Species" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Species</span></a> of <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RedOak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RedOak</span></a> & told the Botanist Nathaniel Lord <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Britton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Britton</span></a>. Britton named the oak in Jacob's honor - Quercus Schneckii, also known as the Schneck <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Oak" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oak</span></a>.</p><p>Jacob died at 63, tending his patients to the end - despite his own <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Pneumonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Pneumonia</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Botany" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Botany</span></a></p>