Katharine Dooris Sharp

E. Katharine Dooris Sharp (1846–1935) was an American botanist, poet, and suffragist. She was the author of Summer in a Bog.

Biography Emily Katharine Dooris was born in Ulster, Ireland and raised in Zanesville, Ohio. She was the daughter of Margaret (Dejoynstyn) and John Dooris. She married Henry James Sharp, a medical doctor, around 1872. 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. One of these, Armoracia aquatica, was rare to the area. The South Ward. Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe; New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1891. The Doctor's Speaking Tube and other poems. Boston: Badger, 1904. Summer in a Bog. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd, 1913. "Our National Flower," Science, 47 (1225), June 21, 1918. p. 611-12. Freeman, Ralph. Searching For Sgt Dorris (p337-338), Apple Tree Press, Belfast, 2021.