physician, naturalist, b. Mansfield, Ohio. He graduated from Ohio Medical School, Cincinnati (1841), and from 1841 to 1846 practiced in New Haven, Ohio. In 1846 he moved to Wisconsin, settling in Racine where he practiced medicine until his death. He devoted much of his spare time to a study of the bird life in the Racine area, and, stimulated by his friendship with Increase A. Lapham (q.v.), began a collection of bird specimens that eventually became one of the largest local collections in the U.S. He was one of the founders of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters (1870), and was for three years its president. He was a member of the state board of fish commissioners (1874-1878), and belonged to many professional and scientific organizations. He was the author of numerous articles on the flora and fauna of Wisconsin. Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci 9 (1893), pp. lxxv-lxxvii; Racine Daily Journal, Dec. 8, 1892; Racine Journal News, May 2, 24, 1922; WPA MS.

View newspaper clippings at Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles.

Learn More

Dictionary of Wisconsin History

Explore more than 1,600 people, places and events in Wisconsin history.

[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin biography]