American naturalist and illustrator, active in Boy Scout movement.
From the description of Paper on death of Buffalo Jones, 1920 / by Dan Beard. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 13488891
Biographical Note
1850, 21 June
Born, Cincinnati, Ohio
1880
1884
Student, Art Students League, New York, N.Y.
1882
Published
What To Do and How To Do It.
The American Boys Handy Book. New York: C.
Scribner's Sons
1889
Illustrated first edition of Mark Twain's
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1893
1900
Taught, New York School of Applied Design for Woman, New York,
N.Y.
1894
Married Beatrice Alice Jackson
1905
Founded Sons of Daniel Boone
1905
1906
Editor,
Recreation magazine
1910
Cofounder, Boy Scouts of America
1910
1941
National scout commissioner and member of the executive board,
Boy Scouts of America
1911
1915
Organized and directed Department of Woodcraft, Culver
Military Academy, Culver, Ind.
1915
Established Dan Beard Outdoor School for Boys
1939
Published
Hardly a Man Is Now Alive. New York: Doubleday,
Doran
1941, 11 June
Died, Suffern, N.Y.
From the guide to the Daniel Carter Beard Papers, 1798-1941, (bulk 1931-1935), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)