Henry Augustus Ward
{{short description|American naturalist}}
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1834|03|09}}
|birth_place = Rochester, New York, U.S.
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1906|07|04|1834|03|09}}
|death_place = Buffalo, New York, U.S.
|resting_place = Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York
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|known_for = Ward's Natural Science
|occupation = {{hlist|Geologist|naturalist}}
|spouse = {{marriage|Lydia Avery Coonley|1897}}
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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 March 9, 1834.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eA-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA410 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=III |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=410 |year=1893 |access-date=2020-08-28 |via=Google Books}} After attending Williams College and the Lawrence Scientific 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 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).{{Cite web|url=http://www.nyslittree.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Content.Display/Page/Home.cfm|title = Official New York State Literary Tree Website - the NYSCA Literary Map of New York State and the NYSCA Literary Tree}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.steinerag.com/flw/Artifact%20Pages/Coonley.htm|title=Avery Coonley Residence (1907 -S.135)|website=Wright Library|access-date=2017-11-30}}
He died on July 4, 1906, after being struck by a motorist in Buffalo, New York,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/15483325/the_buffalo_commercial/|title=Noted Naturalist Killed by Auto|date=1906-07-05|work=The Buffalo Commercial|access-date=2017-11-30|pages=12|via=Newspapers.com}} becoming Buffalo's first automobile related fatality. His ashes were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery in a niche in his granite monument. Subsequently the ashes were stolen. His monument is surmounted by a glacial erratic boulder which shows jasper inclusions. He found the boulder north of Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada.[http://lists.drizzle.com/pipermail/rockhounds/2004-December/009854.html Rockhounds - Ward's and Ward's Ashes] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728173326/http://lists.drizzle.com/pipermail/rockhounds/2004-December/009854.html |date=July 28, 2011 }} Ward's brain was contributed to the Wilder Brain Collection at Cornell University.
References
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External links
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- [http://www.wardsci.com Ward's Natural Science]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050206022312/http://wardsci.com/article.asp?ai=3 Ward's Natural Science History]
- [http://crookedlakereview.com/articles/34_66/57dec1992/57koch.html Henry A. Ward] by Robert G. Koch
- {{Find a Grave|7663299}}
- [https://wardproject.org The Ward Project at the University of Rochester]
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Category:Burials at Mount Hope Cemetery (Rochester)
Category:Williams College alumni
Category:Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni
Category:University of Paris alumni
Category:University of Rochester faculty
Category:Road incident deaths in New York (state)
Category:Scientists from Rochester, New York