Manly Hardy Correspondence

Brewster, William, 1851-1919

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William Brewster (1851-1919) was a renowned American amateur ornithologist, first president of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, and a president of the American Ornithologists' Union. He was an avid collector of birds and their nests and eggs, and collected over forty thousand specimens from 1861 until his death in 1919. His collection, bequeathed to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, is considered one of the finest private collections of North American birds ever assemble...

Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921

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Painter; Dublin, New Hampshire. From the description of Abbott Handerson Thayer papers, 1861-1936 [microform]. 1962. (Defense Special Weapons Agency). WorldCat record id: 79732064 American painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dublin, N.H., to Mr. Clark, [no year] Jun. 16. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571900 Artist Abbott Handerson Thayer was born in Boston and raised in rural New Hampshire, where he became an avid outdoorsman a...

Henshaw, Samuel, 1852-1941

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Henshaw was an entomologist and served as Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1912 to 1927. From the description of Additional Letters from various correspondents, 1849-1931. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83225093 From the guide to the Additional letters from various correspondents, 1849-1931., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Gilbert White (1720-1793) was a pioneering British naturalist...

Allen, E.A.

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Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946

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Historian, of Brewer, Me. From the description of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm correspondence, 1941-1943. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70978327 Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, naturalist, historian, folklorist, and writer, was born on June 18, 1865, in Brewer, Maine. She attended Bangor High School, Abbott Academy in Andover, Mass., and graduated from Smith College in 1888. In 1893 she married Rev. Jacob A. Eckstorm of Chicago and they had two childre...

Deane, Walter, 1848-1930

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Deane (1848-1930) was educated at Harvard (A.B. 1870) and taught at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass. and Hopkinson School until 1895. From 1897 to 1907 he was Curator of William Brewster's ornithological museum and then pursued his botanical interests including: serving on several botanical visiting committees for Harvard, publishing articles, corresponding with botanists and collecting (both and herbarium and autographs of botanists). He also had ornithological interests and worked on: Brews...

Hardy, Manly, 1832-1910

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Manly Hardy was a fur buyer and dealer, naturalist, writer and ornithologist from Brewer, Maine. Although they never met, Hardy maintained an extensive correspondence with William Brewster, an ornithologist, writer, and naturalist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hardy's daughter, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, was a naturalist, historian, folklorist and writer who spent most of her life in Brewer. She too corresponded extensively with William Brewster. From the description of [Correspondence]...

Lord, John A. (John Abel), 1872-1945

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Officer in the U.S. Navy; was superintendent of construction at Bath Iron Works and other shipyards and in charge of the rebuilding of the U.S.S. Constitution. Resident of Bath, Me. From the description of John A. Lord historical address : dedication of boulder and bronze tablet erected to the memory of Nathan Lord and descendants, ancient Kittery, Maine, 1652, Old Fields, South Berwick, Maine, on the 28th annual reunion to the sons and daughters of Nathan Lord , 1922 Aug. 17. (Maine...