Charles Conrad Abbott
Charles Conrad Abbott ( born June 4, 1843 in Trenton, New Jersey; † July 27, 1919 in Bristol, Pennsylvania) was an American archaeologist and naturalist.
Life
Both parents of Charles Conrad Abbott, Timothy Abbott and Susan Conrad, came from Quaker families, but they were later made of this religious community from. Towards the end of the 17th century, his ancestors were paternal maternal immigrated from England and those from Germany into the territory of what became the United States. His father, Timothy Abbott was working as a banker. His maternal grandfather, Solomon White Conrad, was an important botanist and mineralogist.
From 1852-1858 attended Abbott, who had three siblings, the Trenton Academy. Early on, he was interested in exploring the nature of the near landscapes, especially of the Delaware River Valley, but because he feared to have in this area no job prospects, he studied since 1860 medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His higher education was interrupted in 1863 by the use in the American Civil War, where he fell to primarily the task of monitoring of bridges along the Susquehanna River. In 1865, he received his medical degree while successfully but was thereafter never worked as a doctor, but usually drove archaeological and nature studies in the vicinity of his home. From his 1867 entered into with Julia Boggs Olden couple had a son and two daughters. In 1874 he inherited the southern city of his birth Trenton situated family residence "Three Beeches ". From the stature he was rather small and had a mustache.
Once Abbott had lost his family property by fire, he moved to Bristol in Pennsylvania. A few years later he died there in 1919 at the age of 76 years.
Work
As a naturalist Abbott made his observations on the flora and fauna, especially on his family estate. He first emerged in particular contributed to the ornithology of New Jersey. Among the results of its investigations of the nature he has published numerous popular science books and shorter articles, but content encountered in the established U.S. trade scholarly world with skepticism and reservations. He did not grant own mistakes, even if individual details of his works were demonstrably proven wrong. After all, he was a member of various scientific organizations such as the New York Academy of Sciences. For a wider circle of readers, he wrote many articles in magazines such as Popular Science Monthly, " Lippincott 's Magazine and Science Gossip.
More recognition Abbott found at an early age began work on the archeology of the area of the Delaware Valley. When it held excavations he made thousands of discoveries of tools and other products of North American cultures of the Old and New Stone Age. From 1875 to 1889 he was assistant to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge (Massachusetts), which he donated most of his numerous finds. Since 1889 to 1893 he served as curator of the Museum of Science and Art, University of Pennsylvania. His main work for North American archeology is the 1881 published book Primitive Industry.
Abbott also wrote several novels and short stories; however, he was denied in this field of literature the success.
Selection of his works
- The Stone Age in New Jersey (1875 )
- Primitive Industry; or, Illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone, Bone and Clay of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America ( 1881)
- A Naturalist Rambles about Home (1884 )
- Upland and Meadow ( 1886)
- Wasteland Wanderings (1887 )
- Days out of Doors ( 1889)
- Recent Archaeological Explorations in the Valley of the Delaware ( 1892)
- Travels in a Tree Top ( 1894)
- A Colonial Wooing (1895, novel)
- The Freedom of the Field (1898 )
- Clear Skies and Clouds (1899 )
- In Nature's Realm (1900)
- The Rambles of an Idler (1906 )
- Archœologia Nova Cœsarea (1907-1909)
- Ten Years Diggings in Lenape country, 1901-1911 (1912 )