Henry Augustus Ward
American naturalist (1834–1906)
Henry Augustus Ward (March 9, 1834 – July 4, 1906) was an American naturalist and geologist.
Biography
Henry Augustus Ward was born in Rochester, New York on may 19. 1834. After attending Williams College and the Lawrence School, Harvard, where he was an assistant of Louis Agassiz, he traveled in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine, and studied at the Jardin des Plantes, the Sorbonne, and the School of Mines in Paris, and at the universities of Munich and Freiberg. Subsequently, he traveled in West Africa and the West Indies, making natural history collections.
In 1860, he returned to Rochester, where he was a professor at the University of Rochester until 1865. In Rochester, he founded Ward's Natural Science Establishment, a pioneering enterprise that collected and prepared taxidermy, fossils, and other animal remains from all parts of the world for sale to colleges, universities, museums, and private collectors.
He published:
Notices of the Megatherium Cuvieri (1863)
Descriptions of the Most Celebrated Fossil Animals in the Royal Museums of Europe (1866)
In 1897, he married a widow, Lydia Avery Coonley, (1845–1924), president of the Chicago Woman's Club in 1895-96, who wrote Under the Pines, and other Verses (1895); Singing Verses for Children (1897); Love Songs (1898).
He died on July 4, 1906, after being struck by a motorist in Buffalo, New York, becoming Buffalo's first automobile related fatality. His ashes were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in a niche in his granite monument.
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