Henry Baldwin Ward

Henry Baldwin Ward (1865-1945) was an American zoologist.

Henry Baldwin Ward
Born(1865-03-04)March 4, 1865
Troy, New York
DiedNovember 30, 1945(1945-11-30) (aged 80)
Champaign, Illinois
Education
OccupationZoologist
Spouse(s)
Harriet Cecilia Blair
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(m. 1894)​
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Biography

Ward was born on March 4, 1865 in Troy, New York.[1] He got his bachelor's degree from Williams College of Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1885. Later, he got his master's degree and Ph.D. from Harvard University, in 1892. For two years he participated in postgraduate study in European universities in cities like Göttingen, Freiburg, and Leipzig, and in biological facilities at Naples, Heligoland, and Villefranche-sur-Mer. He married Harriet Cecilia Blair on September 11, 1894, and they had two children.[1]

He became an instructor of Science at Troy High School, where he served from 1886 to 1888. He accepted a job as Instructor of Morphology at the University of Michigan in 1892. Next year, he got a job as an Associate Professor of Zoology at the University of Nebraska. In 1893, the Michigan Fish Commission commissioned the him to study the sources of food for fish in the Traverse Bay area due in part to the decline in commercial fishing industry in Northern Michigan.[2] Ward got promoted to a Professor in 1899. Three years later he became a Dean of the College of Medicine. In 1909 he was named Professor of Zoology at the University of Illinois, where he got his Emeritus Professor title in 1933. He remained there until his death at his home in Champaign on November 30, 1945.[3][4]

Although mostly notable for his work in zoology, Ward also made contributions to phycology.

A prominent conservationist, he was president of the Izaak Walton League from 1928 to 1929.[4][5]

References
  1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. XIII. James T. White & Company. 1906. p. 150. Retrieved August 20, 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. Ward, Henry (August 1, 1896). "A Biological Examination of Lake Michigan in the Traverse Bay Region". Studies from the Zoological Laboratory: The University of Nebraska (Paper 14). Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  3. "Biography". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
  4. "Conservationist Dies". The Dispatch. Champaign. UP. December 1, 1945. p. 13. Retrieved August 20, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "National Presidents and Convention Locations". Izaak Walton League. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
  6. IPNI.  H.B.Ward.
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