Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937

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Wild animal collector, conservationist, and taxidermist; curator of living animals for the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park (1882-1890), and director of the New York Zoological Park (1896-1926).

From the description of Notes and correspondence of William Temple Hornaday, 1878-1934. (Smithsonian Institution Libraries). WorldCat record id: 51557581

First Director of the New York Zoological Park.

From the description of Photographic collection, [ca. 1902-1920]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155517813

Conservationist, zoologist, and taxidermist.

From the description of Papers of William Temple Hornaday, 1866-1975 (bulk 1906-1936). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131271

Biographical Note

  • 1854, Dec. 1: Born, Plainfield, Ind.
  • 1870: Attended Oskaloosa College, Oskaloosa, Iowa
  • 1872: Attended Iowa State Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa
  • 1873: Began work at Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Rochester, N.Y.
  • 1874: Zoological expedition to Florida, Cuba, and the Bahamas
  • 1876: Zoological expedition to South America
  • 1877 - 1879 : Zoological expedition to India, Ceylon, Malay Peninsula, and Borneo
  • 1879: Married Josephine Chamberlain
  • 1882 - 1890 : Chief taxidermist, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C.
  • 1885: Published Two years in the Jungle. New York: C. Scribner's Sons
  • 1887: Published Free Rum on the Congo. Chicago: Women's Temperance Publication Association
  • 1888: Instrumental in establishment of a Department of Living Animals, United States National Museum, Washington, D.C.
  • 1889: Published The Extermination of the American Bison. Washington, D.C.
  • 1890: Resigned position at United States National Museum over controversy about plans for a National Zoological Park
  • 1890 - 1896 : Engaged in real estate business, Buffalo, N.Y.
  • 1891: Published Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting. New York: C. Scribner's Sons
  • 1896: Published The Man Who Became a Savage. Buffalo, N.Y.: P. Paul Book Co.
  • 1896 - 1926 : Director, New York Zoological Park, Bronx Zoo, New York., N.Y.
  • 1899: Published Popular Official Guide to the New York Zoological Park. New York: New York Zoological Society
  • 1904: Published The American Natural History. New York: C. Scribner's Sons
  • 1905: President, Camp Fire Club of America
  • 1906: Published Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies. New York: C. Scribner's Sons
  • 1907 - 1910 : President, American Bison Society
  • 1908: Published Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava. New York: C. Scribner's Sons
  • 1913: Supported the Bayne Law to prohibit sale of native game and provision of 1913 tariff to prohibit importation of wild bird plumage for millinery purposes Published Our Vanishing Wild Life. New York: C. Scribner's Sons
  • 1913 - 1914 : Helped to establish Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund
  • 1914: Published Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice. New Haven: Yale University Press
  • 1917: Member, Board of Trustees of American Defense Society Published A Searchlight on Germany. New York: American Defense Society
  • 1918: Published Awake! America. New York: Moffat, Yard and Co.
  • 1919: Published Old-Fashioned Verses. New York: Clark and Fritts
  • 1922: Published The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals. New York: C. Scribner's Sons
  • 1924: Published Tales from Nature's Wonderlands. New York, London: C. Scribner's Sons
  • 1928: Published The French War Debt and America's Duty. Stamford, Conn.: W. T. Hornaday Published Wild Animal Interviews. New York, London: C. Scribner's Sons
  • 1931: Published Thirty Years War for Wild Life. Stamford, Conn.: Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund
  • 1937, Mar. 6: Died, Stamford, Conn.

From the guide to the William T. Hornaday Papers, 1866-1975, (bulk 1906-1936), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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referencedIn Papers, 1776-1918, 1865-1918 (bulk) New York State Historical Documents Inventory
creatorOf Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929. Correspondence, 1916 Aug. 28, 1922 July 18. American Museum of Natural History
creatorOf Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937. Letters / W.T. Hornaday. Dartmouth College Library
creatorOf Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926. Autograph collection of Raymond Gorges [manuscript], 1725-1928. University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn William Frederic Badè papers, 1871-1936 Bancroft Library
creatorOf Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937. Notes and correspondence of William Temple Hornaday, 1878-1934. Smithsonian Institution. Libraries
creatorOf Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937. Papers 1888-1937. Wildlife Conservation Society Library, Bronx Zoo Library
referencedIn Correspondence, 1870-1960, 1890-1946 (bulk) New York State Historical Documents Inventory
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creatorOf Papers, 1888-1937. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891 Smithsonian Institution Archives
referencedIn Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929. Correspondence, 1916 Aug. 28, 1922 July 18. American Museum of Natural History
creatorOf Photographic collection, [ca. 1902-1920]. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Clark, George A., 1864-1918. Fur seal controversy papers, 1897-1918. Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
referencedIn Records, 1914-1966. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
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referencedIn Accession memoranda, [ca. 1899-1920]. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Clara Barrus and John Burroughs Papers, 1877-1981, (bulk 1920-1958) Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn New York Zoological Park. Office of the Director and General Curator. Scrapbooks, 1896-1927. Wildlife Conservation Society Library, Bronx Zoo Library
creatorOf Hornaday, William T. William T. Hornaday photograph collection. U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center
referencedIn Madison Grant correspondence, 1901-1910. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Miller, Michael Haydon, 1960-. Collection, 1834-2000. Indiana Historical Society Library
referencedIn New York Zoological Park. Office of the Director and General Curator. Records 1895-1940. Wildlife Conservation Society Library, Bronx Zoo Library
creatorOf American Bison Society. American Bison Society records, [manuscript] 1899-1965 1910-1940. Denver Public Library, Central Library
referencedIn Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879 Smithsonian Institution Archives
referencedIn [Unidentified man] [graphic]. Library of Congress
referencedIn William T. Hornaday papers, 1903-1914. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn George Bird Grinnell papers, 1859-1939 Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
referencedIn William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
referencedIn Century Company records New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Records, 1905-1912. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Miscellaneous correspondence, 1883-1970. Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
referencedIn Haworth, Paul Leland, 1876-1938. Family papers, 1829-1957. Indiana Historical Society Library
referencedIn A. H. Saxon, Selected Letters Of P. T. Barnum. [Contact repository for more information].
referencedIn Joseph Beal Steere Papers, 1861-1941 Bentley Historical Library
creatorOf Marvin, Samuel W. Autograph collection, 1815-1917. University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938. George Bird Grinnell papers, 1859-1939 (inclusive), 1886-1929 (bulk). Yale University Library
referencedIn Scrapbooks, 1896-1927. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn W. T. Hornaday, at 20 (right) [graphic] ; Taken in eastern Iowa, Dec. 1872. Library of Congress
referencedIn The best picture of William Hornaday (father of W.T.H.) when about 35 [graphic]. Library of Congress
creatorOf Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937. [Letter, 1923 August 8] : New York City, New York, [to] John T. McCutcheon, Chicago, Illinois / [William T. Hornaday]. Chicago Zoological Society
creatorOf New York Zoological Society. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1902. University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library
referencedIn William Frederic Badè papers, 1871-1936 Bancroft Library
referencedIn William T. Hornaday at six [graphic]. Library of Congress
referencedIn Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938. George Bird Grinnell papers, 1859-1939 (inclusive), 1886-1929 (bulk). Yale University Library
referencedIn French, H. H. Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge photograph collection, 1870-1984. Museum of the Great Plains
referencedIn Winfrid Alden Stearns Papers, 1871-1906 American Philosophical Society
referencedIn The best picture of William Hornaday (father of W.T.H.) when about 35 [graphic]. Library of Congress
referencedIn Irving Brant papers, 1910-1977 Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn Norton family. Letters received by the Norton family, 1830-1920 Houghton Library
creatorOf Steere, Joseph Beal, 1842-1940. Joseph B. Steere papers, 1861-1941. Bentley Historical Library
referencedIn Minse[?] Varner Harden [graphic]. Library of Congress
referencedIn Records, 1905-1912. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
referencedIn Irving Brant papers, 1910-1977 Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn General correspondence files, [ca. 1887]-1966. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
creatorOf William T. Hornaday Papers, 1866-1975, (bulk 1906-1936) Library of Congress. Manuscript Division
referencedIn [Unidentified man with beard] [graphic]. Library of Congress
referencedIn The first photograph of W. T. Hornaday when 3 years old (1858) [graphic]. Library of Congress
referencedIn Calvin, William T., and Mary Hornaday, taken about 1860 [graphic]. Library of Congress
referencedIn William Woodville Rockhill papers Houghton Library
referencedIn Putnam, Frederic Ward, 1839-1915. Papers, 1807-1971 (bulk: 1855-1935) Peabody Museum Archives, Harvard University
referencedIn George Cochrane Hazelton papers, 1848-1941 The New York Public Library. Billy Rose Theatre Division.
referencedIn MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958. MacDougal papers, 1889-1938 (bulk 1903-1915). Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division
referencedIn Helen [and] May [graphic]. Library of Congress
referencedIn Mary Hornaday, about 1870 [graphic]. Library of Congress
referencedIn New York Zoological Park. Office of the Director and General Curator. Outgoing correspondence, 1898-1936. Wildlife Conservation Society Library, Bronx Zoo Library
referencedIn Theodore Roosevelt Collection: Books, pamphlets, periodicals, 18-- - <ongoing> Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
creatorOf Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921. Correspondence, 1870-1919 (bulk 1899-1902). American Museum of Natural History
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Place Name Admin Code Country
Yukon
Rocky Mountains
Borneo
New York (State)--Buffalo
New York Zoological Park.
Alaska
France
New York (State)--Buffalo
New York Zoological Park
Northwest, Pacific
Subject
Birds
Birds, Protection of
Bison
Conservation of natural resources
Conservation of natural resources
Debts, Public
Ecology
Feather
Fur-bearing animals
Game and game-birds
Millinery
Mountain sheep
National Museum
Natural history
Real property
Real property
Scientific expeditions
Seals (Animals)
Taxidermy
World War, 1914-1918
Wild animal collecting
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife research
World War, 1939-1945
Zoological specimens
Zoology
Zoology
Zoos
Occupation
Conservationists
Taxidermists
Zoologists
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Birth 1854-12-01

Death 1937-03-06

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