Identifier: ologistforstud281911latt (find matches)
Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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could call him friend,he was helpful and true to the lastdays of his life. Mr. Wade was born at the villageof New Worthley, near Leeds, Eng-land, March 7, 1832, and passed awayat his home in Dorchester, Boston,Mass., January 22, 1905. His early ed-ucation was attended at the ArmleyChurch Day School, at his old Eng-lish home. When not in the schoolroom, was found rambling the fieldsand woods observing the workings ofnatures subjects. He soon acquiredan unlimited knowledge of the habitsof birds, tree and plant life, would notnot lead you through the scientificterms as were written in the rustyold tomes, but would relate all the in-teresting facts regarding their livesand local names. Soon after leaving school at the ageof 17, he went to work, and in 1850came with his parents to the UnitedStates, locating at the town of Law-rence, Mass., where he entered theweaving mills with his brother; andwith no teaching or apprenticeship;he from a common weaver becamethe leading designer of American
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J. M. WADE 160 THE OOLOGIST goods, and in 1864 became an agentfor the mills at a large salary inthose days. Mr. Wades entre into the publish-ing field was the Fanciers Journal.That he was in love with his chosensubject and made a success in the lineundertaken; (poultry and pets), couldbe seen from his early studying ofbirds in the wild bush. We next find him associated in con-nection as editor with S. L. Willard,the founder of The Oologist; taldngover full charge of this egg magazinewith the volume V, November, 1879. In March, 1881, he had drawnaround him practically through thecolumns of The Oologist all the oldand young ornithologists and oologistsof the United States; so, the cominginto existence of a larger magazineunder the title of the Ornithologistand Oologist, (for a full history ofThe Oologist, struggles see that is-sue) March, 1881, Vol. VI. O. & O. Mr. Wades earlier field notes firstappeared in Familiar Sciences, andTruths of Nature, both publicationsbeing his also. He

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