Henry Augustus Ward (March 9, 1834 – July 4, 1906) was an American naturalist and

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Biography

Henry Augustus Ward was born in

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on March 9, 1834. After attending

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and the Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard, where he was an assistant of Louis Agassiz, he traveled in

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, and Palestine, and studied at the Jardin des Plantes, the

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, and the School of Mines in

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, and at the universities of Munich and Freiberg. Subsequently, he traveled in West Africa and the

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, making natural history collections. In 1860, he returned to

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where he was professor at the

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until 1865. In

, he founded

Ward's Natural Science Ward's Science is a supplier of science education materials for K-12 and college-level studies in Rochester, New York. It was founded by Henry Augustus Ward in 1862 as Ward's Natural Science and was renamed in 2012. Current areas of focus includ ...

, a pioneer enterprise of its kind, which collected specimens from all parts of the world, and then mounted and sold them to colleges and museums. 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 Lydia Arms Avery Coonley-Ward (January 31, 1845 – February 26, 1924) was a social leader, clubwoman and writer. Coonley served as a president of the Chicago Women's Club and was known for her poetry. She also helped her second husband, He ...

, (1845–1924), president of the

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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 an automobile 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. Subsequently the ashes were stolen. His monument is surmounted by a glacial erratic boulder which shows jasper inclusions. He found the boulder north of

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, Canada.Rockhounds - Ward's and Ward's Ashes
Ward's brain was contributed to the

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References

External links

Ward's Natural ScienceWard's Natural Science History
by Robert G. Koch *
The Ward Project at the University of Rochester
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