Joseph Bassett Holder

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Joseph Bassett Holder (born October 26, 1824 in Lynn , Massachusetts , † January 1, 1888 in New York City ) was an American surgeon and zoologist .

Life

Holder graduated from Friends' School in Providence , Rhode Island . He then took classes at Harvard Medical School . On December 4, 1849, he married Emily Augusta Gove. With her he had a son, Charles Frederick Holder , who was born on August 5, 1851 in Swampscott , Massachusetts. His son worked as a scientist in adult life and published some publications with his father. Joseph Bassett Holder was the senior surgeon for the United States Army at Fort Jefferson Military Prison on Dry Tortugas , Florida from 1860 to 1867 . He then worked as an assistant surgeon at Fort Monroe , Virginia . In 1870 he became a curator for the invertebrates , ichthyology and herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History , New York City .

Works (selection)

  • History of the North American Fauna . New York, 1882
  • History of the Atlantic Right Whales . 1883
  • The Living World . 1884

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Doctor Joseph Bassett Holder . Profile on Basset Family Association. Retrieved September 16, 2014
  2. ↑ Emery Family Research Association ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved September 16, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emery.research.pasttracker.com
  3. ↑ Holder, Joseph Bassett . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape  3 : Grinnell - Lockwood . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 233 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). Joseph Bassett Holder . Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, 2001. Retrieved September 16, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Holder, Joseph Bassett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Lynn , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1888
Place of death New York City