1
200
11
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People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Occupation
Taxidermist
Osteologist
Date of Birth
1842-09-24
Place of birth
example: Rochester, New York
Marylebone, Middlesex, England
Date of Death
1927
Link to more information
<a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gerrard-777">https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gerrard-777</a>
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
Gerrard & Sons
T. Gerrard & Co.
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Title
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Gerrard II, Edward, 1842-1927
Alternative Title
An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific.
Gerrard, Jr, Edward.
Osteology
taxidermy
-
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Occupation
Taxidermist
Osteologist
Biographical text
Founder of Gerrard & Sons
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
Edward Gerrard & Sons
Natural History Museum
Date of Birth
1810
Place of birth
example: Rochester, New York
Oxford, England
Date of Death
19 June 1910
Place of death
example: Rochester, New York
London, England
Link to more information
<a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gerrard-778">https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gerrard-778</a>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Gerrard I, Edward, 1810-1910
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Person
Osteology
taxidermy
-
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Person Name
Stout, Arthur B., 1814-1898
Occupation
Physician
Ethnographer
Osteologist
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
California Academy of Sciences
Date of Death
1898-04-14
Place of death
example: Rochester, New York
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Library of Congress link
<a href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84102375.html">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84102375.html</a>
LC name ID
n84102375
Date of Birth
1814
Place of birth
example: Rochester, New York
New York, United States of America
Link to more information
<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97152375">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97152375</a>
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Title
A name given to the resource
Stout, Arthur B., 1814-1898
Ethnography
Medicine
Osteology
-
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Title
A name given to the resource
People
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Ward's Employee (based on city directory listings)
lists dates of employment
1875 – 18__
Occupation
Osteologist
Schmidt notes about WNSE staff
Notes from Ward's Staff list compiled by Karl Schmidt
I knew him in early 1900’s. Query Oscar. Went to Washington? (photo attached to sheet)
Date of Birth
1860-05-25
Place of birth
example: Rochester, New York
Nancy, Departement de Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France
Date of Death
1929-02-17
Place of death
example: Rochester, New York
Rochester, New York, United States of America
Link to more information
<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199467253/charles-edmond-mirguet">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/199467253/charles-edmond-mirguet</a>
<a href="https://gramstedt.com/getperson.php?personID=I38810&tree=all">https://gramstedt.com/getperson.php?personID=I38810&tree=all</a>
<a href="https://www.owllightnews.com/the-search-for-osteologist-charles-edmund-mirguet-1860-1929/">https://www.owllightnews.com/the-search-for-osteologist-charles-edmund-mirguet-1860-1929/</a>
<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116218060">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116218060</a>
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
National Museum of Natural History (United States)
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Title
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Mirguet, <span> Edmund C. (Charles E.), 1860-1929</span>
WNSE Employee
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Title
A name given to the resource
People
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Ward's Employee (based on city directory listings)
lists dates of employment
1882 – 1914
Occupation
Osteologist
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Title
A name given to the resource
Kirchhoff, Chrysostome
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Person
WNSE Employee
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Title
A name given to the resource
People
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Ward's Employee (based on city directory listings)
lists dates of employment
18__ – 18__
Occupation
Osteologist
Biographical text
Specialized in small skeletons (WNSE Staff List)
Link to more information
<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96798391">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96798391</a>
<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96798391">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96798391</a>
Date of Birth
1852
Date of Death
1884-08-04
Place of death
example: Rochester, New York
Auckland, New Zealand
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
Auckland War Museum
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Alternative Title
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De Campenier, Charles E.
De Kempeneer, Charles E.
Title
A name given to the resource
DeKempeneer, Charles E., 1852-1884
Auckland Museum
De Kempeneer, Charles
Osteology
WNSE Employee
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Title
A name given to the resource
People
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Ward's Employee (based on city directory listings)
lists dates of employment
1873–1877
1880-1883
Occupation
Osteologist
Schmidt notes about WNSE staff
Notes from Ward's Staff list compiled by Karl Schmidt
See March 15, 1932, Museum News, Introduction to article “Disarticulation of the Human Skull,” for biographical notes.
Came to U.S. in 1868, as technician to A.N.S.P. under Cope; worked also for Dr. Pepper at Philadelphia City Hospital, thence to Wards. First work was to sort out and remount 86 skeletons which had been mixed up-- they had been thrown out of the window when Ward’s first buildings burned up, caught below and some were in paper sacks which got wet. The first buildings were on the University campus.
Lucas credits Bailly for setting a high standard of osteological technique.
Bailly was born in Normandy, went to Paris as a boy, and worked in Natural History establishments there.
Bailly succeeded Pere Roque [Roche?], who was the first osteologist at Ward's, and who returned to France.
Bailly’s wife (married in France) spoke no English.
Bailly once returned to France, but came back. When he left, he was the highest paid employee, next to Lucas receiving $5.50 per day.
Came back at $3.00 and not being satisfied, looked for another job and went to McGill University where he stayed until he died.
Bailly mounted birds by the old French method of “soft filling.” De Kempeneer was the first at Wards to use the “hard body.” Webster also. Bailly made fun of De Kempeneer and Webster, calling their method the “pin cushion method.” Critchley’s birds were poor until he adopted the hard body. Bailly, however, from long experience, placed the legs rather well by the old process.
Ask John [Mayer?} about the soft method.
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
Verreaux Establishment
Academy of Natural Sciences
McGill University
Link to more information
<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96798785">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96798785</a>
Date of Death
1908-01-29
Place of death
example: Rochester, New York
Montreal, Canada
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Title
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Bailly, Jules F. D. (Francais Desiree)
Alternative Title
An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific.
Bailly, Captain Jules
Cope, Edward Drinker
Critchley, J. William
De Kempeneer, Charles
Lucas, Frederic Augustus
McGill University
taxidermy
Verreaux
WNSE Employee
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Title
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People
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Ward's Employee (based on city directory listings)
lists dates of employment
1884-1886, 1891-1902.
Occupation
Osteologist
Museum director
Mammologist
Biographical text
Osteologist, Geographical and Exploring Commission of Mexico, 1887 –1891; Director, Public Museum, City of Milwaukee, 1902 –1920; Director, Kent Scientific Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich., since 1922
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
Geographical and Exploring Commission of Mexico
Milwaukee Public Museum
Public Museum of Grand Rapids
Neville Public Museum of Brown County
Date of Birth
1863-10-08
Place of birth
example: Rochester, New York
York, New York, United States of America
Date of Death
1943-17-12
Place of death
example: Rochester, New York
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
Link to more information
<a href="https://www.islapedia.com/index.php?title=WARD,_Henry_L.">https://www.islapedia.com/index.php?title=WARD,_Henry_L.</a>
<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37483820">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37483820</a>
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Ward, Henry L. (Levi), 1863-1943
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Person
Alternative Title
An alternative name for the resource. The distinction between titles and alternative titles is application-specific.
Henry Levi Ward
Director
Mammalogy
Osteology
WNSE Employee
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Title
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People
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Ward's Employee (based on city directory listings)
lists dates of employment
1875-1900
Occupation
Osteologist
Biographical text
Osteologist, Field Museum of Natural History, 1900; Asst. Curator in Charge, Division of Osteology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1906-[ ]
First wife (Albertine?) taught French in Rochester
Second wife was Helene Santens Gueret; they had one daughter, Frances
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
Field Museum of Natural History
Link to more information
<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96804992">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96804992</a>
Date of Death
1940
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Gueret, Edmund N.
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Person
WNSE Employee
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Title
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People
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Ward's Employee (based on city directory listings)
lists dates of employment
1876-1884 approximately
Occupation
Taxidermist
Osteologist
Biographical text
For some time in business as commercial taxidermist
Chief Taxidermist, Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, After 1903
Schmidt notes about WNSE staff
Notes from Ward's Staff list compiled by Karl Schmidt
Came about 1877. Born in Nottingham, England. Came to U.S. as small child. Went to same school as Edmund Gueret, the 14 school. Allen, the principal was not a college man but was a born teacher.
Allen went to the Free Academy as principal, the forerunner of the high school system, and became superintendent.
Schollich got Critchley the job at Ward's, his family being hard up (Critchley was younger than.Gueret but in same grade). Critchley was a real sissy, & played with girls and dolls and did fancy work.
He was thus naturally fastidious and hated maceration.
Critchley took naturally to taxidermy and was encouraged to Lucas, doing mostly birds.
When Akeley came he was placed under Critchley, and they became good friends. Critchley married Edmund Gueret’s sister. Owned a house and had his own shop in backyard where he and Akeley experimented.
Critchley’s niece was helped with high school studies by Akeley, and they became engaged. This made some trouble (Critchleys’ had old fashioned ideas) because Akeley refused to marry before he made his trip to Africa.
Critchley and Akeley wanted to go to A.M.N.H. from Ward’s, and this was spiked by Henry A. Ward.
Critchley hung on at Rochester but went at last to the general natural history business of Southwick & Jenks in Providence, Rhode Island.
When Jenks went insane, Critchley bought out the Jenks share, Southwick lending him the balance necessary.
Critchley was manager, and his Ward experience was very useful. Southwick ran the bookkeeping. The business flourished for ten or more years, until the bird protection laws interfered.
Their head taxidermist was a Mr. Angel, and Southwick and Critchley sold the business to Angel and a wealthy friend (of Angel’s.
Critchley went thence to the Brooklyn Museum, where he was taxidermist until his death in 1910.
At Ward’s Critchley once got it into his head that birds’ feet went the opposite of the actual condition, and as he took the feet off in mounting, he mounted five or six hundred birds with the feet transposed for the M.C.Z. [Museum of Comparative Zoology—Harvard]
Joel Asaph Allen accepted these, and they went into the exhibition collection. Edmund Gueret threw this up to Allen when they quarreled about the whale flippers.
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Southwick & Critchley
Link to more information
<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96800886">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96800886</a>
<a href="http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Newspaper/BSU/1910.Death.html">http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Newspaper/BSU/1910.Death.html</a>
Place of birth
example: Rochester, New York
Nottingham, England
Date of Death
1910-05-24
Place of death
example: Rochester, New York
Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Date of Birth
1863-03-27
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Title
A name given to the resource
Critchley, J. William
Critchley, J. William
Osteology
Southwick & Jencks
Southwick, James M., 1846-1904
taxidermy
WNSE Employee
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People
People
Includes correspondents, staff at Ward's, species authors, and other individuals
Scientific Name Authorship
example: Spirifer striatis Martin 1809 where Spirifer striatis is italicized
Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus)
Date of Birth
1852-03-25
Date of Death
1929-02-09
LC name ID
n84119675
Library of Congress link
<a href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84119675">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84119675</a>
Institution
The modern name of the institution--leave blank if uncertain
Ward's Natural Science Establishment
National Museum of Natural History (United States)
Place of death
example: Rochester, New York
Flushing, New York, United States of America
Link to more information
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Augustus_Lucas">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Augustus_Lucas</a>
Place of birth
example: Rochester, New York
Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States of America
Ward's Employee (based on city directory listings)
lists dates of employment
1871-1904
Occupation
Osteologist
Comparative anatomist
Curator
Director
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Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929
Alternative Title
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Lucas, Frederic Augustus
Lucas, F. A.
Director
taxidermy
WNSE Employee