The Natural Resources of Alabama, Displayed in the Exhibit of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company at the Southern Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky by Charles Theodore Mohr

The Natural Resources of Alabama, Displayed in the Exhibit of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company at the Southern Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky by Charles Theodore Mohr

Charles Theodore Mohr

1824-1901

Charles Theodore Mohr was born in Esslingen, Germany. He attended the Polytechnic School in Stuttgart and graduated in 1845. After being employed as a chemist in the Czech Republic for a couple years, Mohr immigrated to the United States with his brother, Paul Heinrich. Mohr briefly worked in a German chemical company in Cincinnati, Ohio, before traveling to California to join the gold rush. He then worked as a farmer in Indiana, studied botany in Louisville, Ky., and worked as a pharmacist in Mexico before returning to the United States. By the end of 1857, Mohr moved to Mobile, Ala., where he opened a German pharmacy and continued his botanical work. In 1893, Mohr was given an honorary doctorate from the University of Alabama for his work in botany. He moved to Asheville, North Carolina, in 1900 and worked on the large Biltmore Herbarium while continuing to write about the botany of Alabama. He died shortly afterwards in 1901.

Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, http://alabamaauthors.org

1883

The Natural Resources of Alabama, Displayed in the Exhibit of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company at the Southern Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky. Mobile, AL; Daily Register office, 1883.

AL Book Collection

Mohr, Charles Theodore, “The Natural Resources of Alabama, Displayed in the Exhibit of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company at the Southern Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky by Charles Theodore Mohr,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed November 8, 2026, https://www.alabamaauthors.org/items/show/24556.