Dr Laura Eleanor Scull

The News Sentinel 1947 Dr. L. Eleanor Scull Mrs. Emma SCULL received a telegram late Thursday evening informing her of the death of her sister-in-law, Dr. L. Eleanor “Nell” SCULL, which occurred earlier that evening in a hospital at Naples, Fla. Dr. Scull spent many of her summers at Lake Manitou and in Leiters Ford where she carried on her botanical and nature studies. Dr. Scull for the past score of years was engaged in botanical work for the U.S. horticultural department and several of the state universities throughout the nation. She made many trips through the Everglades and in the tropical regions of the Florida Keys where she employed Seminoles as her guides. Dr. Scull also provided considerable data for the rcently published book “The Everglades.” For several years following her graduation from the Women’s Medical College in Philadelphia, she was a staff member of the Crown Point and Hammond hospitals, specializing in the care of infants and children. During World War I she and another lady physician were in complete charge of a children’s hospital at Fordham, N.Y. She returned to a Hammond hospital soon after the close of World War I where she was a staff member until ill health forced her retirement from that profession. It was at that time she followed her latter vocation as a naturalist and author. Dr. Scull was born at Zionsville, Ind., in September of 1866, the daughter of James F. and Emma SCULL. Her father for several years was superintendent of the Roches ter city schools. She was a member of the Episcopal church of Hammond. Survivors are a brother W. F. “Fritz” SCULL and a sister, Mrs. Alice UPHAM, both of Crown Point, Ind., and five nephews and nieces. Funeral arrangements will be announced in an early edition of The News -Sentinel.