History of Monroe County Iowa United States of America

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Barton Warren Evermann, naturalist, was born in Monroe county, Iowa, Oct. 24, 1853; son of Andrew and Nety (Gardner) Evermann, and a descendant of Michael Evermann of Hanover, Va. He was brought up on a farm, was educated in the public schools of Carroll county, Ind., was teacher and county superintendent of schools in Indiana and California, 1871-81; assistant in the department of biology, Indiana university, 1881-83, and 1885-86; studied at Howard college, Kokomo, Ind., and at Indiana state university, 1883-86, and was graduated from the latter, A.B., 1886, A.M., 1888, and Ph.D., 1891. He was professor of biology in the Indiana state normal school, 1886-91; assistant to the U.S. fish commission, 1888-91, and was appointed ichthyologist of that commission in 1891. He was superintendent of bird migration for the district of Indiana and Michigan, 1881-91; a U.S. fur seal commissioner in 1892, making studies of the fur seal in the north Pacific and Baring sea for the Paris tribunal; and special lecturer at the Leland Stanford, Jr., university, Cal., in 1894. He became a member of the Indiana academy of sciences, the California academy of sciences, the National geographic society, Washington, the Biological society, the Washington academy of sciences, the Cosmos club and other scientific societies. He is the author of more than two hundred papers and books upon biological and educational subjects, their titles including: Animal Analysis (1883); The Birds of Ventura County, Cal. (1886); Bird Migration (1886); Revision of the Genus Gerres (1886); The Birds of Carroll County, Ind. (1887); The Fishes of the Gulf of California (1891); The Foodfishes of Indiana (with Dr. David Starr Jordan, 1888); U.S. Fish Commission Investigations in Montana, Wyoming and Texas (1892); The Fishes of the Rio Grande Basin (1894); The Salmon of the Columbia River (1894-1897); The Fishes of North and Middle America (with Dr. Jordan, 1896-99); The Natural History of Porto Rico (2 vols., 1899).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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