Havelock no relation Acadia University
Early life and education
Perry was born in Havelock, New Brunswick, Canada on January 5, 1895. Her early education was in a one-room school. She received teacher training at Provincial Normal School  in Fredericton. After a short period of teaching, she attended Acadia University and received a B.S. in Biology with honors in 1921. She spent an additional 3 years teaching before being admitted to Radcliffe College, where she took coursework from Prof. E. C. Jeffries and M. L. Fernald and received her M.A. in 1925. In 1930, she received a fellowship for doctoral study under J. M. Greenman at Washington University in St. Louis. She completed her doctoral thesis on North American species of Verbena in 1933. She became a U.S. citizen in 1938.
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