Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1850-06-21
Death 1941-06-11
Gender:
Male
Americans

Biographical notes:

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)

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Subjects:

  • Authors, American
  • Artists
  • Boys
  • Boy Scouts
  • Boy Scouts
  • Camps
  • Illustration of books
  • Illustrators
  • Lectures and lecturing
  • Military education
  • Painters
  • Private schools
  • Youth
  • Boy Scouts

Occupations:

  • Artists
  • Authors
  • Boy Scout leaders
  • Editors

Places:

  • United States (as recorded)
  • Flushing Bridge (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • New York (State)--New York (as recorded)
  • Flushing (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
  • Daniel Carter Beard Memorial Square (Flushing, New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)

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