Henry Christopher McCook
Henry Christopher McCook (born July 3, 1837 in New Lisbon , Ohio , † October 31, 1911 in Devon , Pennsylvania ) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, author, arachnologist and entomologist .
Life
McCook went into the printer apprenticeship, studied at Jefferson College in Pennsylvania (graduation in 1859) and taught as a teacher. In addition, he continued his training as a theologian at the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny ( Pittsburgh ), Pennsylvania . During the Civil War he was on the side of the Northern States as a military chaplain (he volunteered in the 41st Illinois Infantry Regiment in 1861 and was hired as first lieutenant and served until January 1862), where he also looked after the wounded. His father and brothers and many other relatives also served in the Civil War and were known as the Ohio Fighting McCooks . He then served as pastor in Clinton, Illinois , St. Louis, and Steubenville . In 1869 he was pastor of the 7th Presbyteranian Church in Philadelphia . In 1898 he served again as a military chaplain in the Spanish-American War (2nd Pennsylvania Regiment). He was active in the movement for the establishment of Sunday schools.
As an entomologist, he dealt with spiders and ants. He studied ants important for agriculture in Texas in 1877 . He was vice president of the American Entomological Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences . In 1880 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Lafayette College . In 1895 he designed the official flag of the city of Philadelphia.
He was the author of historical, theological and natural history books for children, especially about spiders. The illustrations were often by Daniel Carter Beard (1850–1941), founder of the Boy Scouts of America . As a historian, he dealt with the Civil War and he wrote a novel about an ancestor in the whiskey rebellion (The Lattimers) that began in 1791 .
Fonts
- Mound-Making Ants of the Alleghenies, Their Architecture and Habits 1877
- The Natural History of the Agricultural Ant of Texas 1879
- American Spiders and Their Spinning Work, Academy of Natural History of Philadelphia, 3 volumes, 1889 to 1893, Volume 1, Archives , Volume 2, Archives , Volume 3, Archives ,
- Honey and Occident Ants, 1882
- Tenants of an Old Farm: Leaves From the Note-book of a Naturalist, 1884, Philadelphia 1902, Archive
- Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's 1895, Project Gutenberg
- Nature's Craftsmen: Popular Studies of Ants and Other Insects, 1907
- Ant Communities and How They Are Governed: A Study in Natural Civics, 1909
- The Latimers: A Tale of the Western Insurrection of 1794, 1897
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| SURNAME | McCook, Henry Christopher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American clergyman, author, and entomologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Lisbon , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1911 |
| Place of death | Devon , Pennsylvania |