Charles Otis Whitman (1842 - 1910)

Born 6 Dec 1842 in Woodstock, Oxford, Maine, United States

Died 14 Dec 1910 at age 68 in Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

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Charles Otis Whitman was a zoologist influential to the founding of classical ethology (study of animal behavior) and who made major contributions in the areas of evolution and embryology of worms, comparative anatomy, heredity, and animal behavior.

Charles was born in 1842. He obtained his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, a doctorate degree from the University of Leipzig in Germany, and postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University. During the 1880s, he was the central figure of academic biology in the United States. He systematized the procedures that European anatomists and zoologists had gradually developed over the past two decades. He is known as the "Father of Zoology" in Japan for the work that he did there.

Over his career, he worked with more than 700 species of pigeons, studying the relationship between phenotypic variation and heredity. His efforts included trying to keep passenger pigeons from becoming extinct.

He died in 1910.

Sources

• U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2012 Lehi, UT, USA Record Collection 60525, Find A Grave: Memorial #146618214.

• 1910 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc 2006 Lehi, UT, USA Record Collection 7884 Note: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: <a href="http://www.archives.gov/research/census/publications-microfilm-catalogs-census/1910/index.html" target="_blank">NARA</a>.

• 1880 United States Federal Census Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc 2010 Lehi, UT, USA Record Collection 6742 Note: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

• Maine, U.S., Marriage Records, 1713-1922 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2010 Lehi, UT, USA Record Collection 1961 Note: Maine Marriage Records, 1713-1922. Augusta, Maine: Maine State Archives.

See also:

• Wikipedia: Charles Otis Whitman
• Wikidata: Item Q2733558, en:Wikipedia