# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/catharine-furbish
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:57:46.139Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/catharine-furbish"
name: "Catharine Furbish"
slug: "catharine-furbish"
description: "Catherine 'Kate' Furbish was an American botanist who collected, classified and illustrated the native flora of Maine. She devoted over 60 years of her life, traveling thousands of miles throughout her home state and creating very accurate drawings and watercolor paintings of the plants she found."
tagline: "American botanist and scientific illustrator (1834-1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kate_Furbish_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1834-05-19"
deathDate: "1931-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.405256
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_Furbish"
    title: "Catharine Furbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Furbish"
    title: "Catherine Furbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Furbish"
    title: "Catherine Furbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Furbish"
    title: "Catherine Furbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Furbish"
    title: "Catherine Furbish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5052102"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump