Bailey, Florence Merriam, 1863-1948

LC control no.	n 88092168
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Bailey, Florence Merriam, 1863-1948 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Merriam, Florence A. (Florence Augusta), 1863-1948 Bailey, Vernon, Mrs., 1863-1948
See also	Husband: Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	45100186
Located	Washington (D.C.)
Birth date	1863-08-08
Death date	1948-09-22
Place of birth	New York (State)
Affiliation	Nature writers Ornithologists Animal rights activists
Found in	Kofalk, H. No woman tenderfoot, 1988: CIP t.p. (Florence Merriam Bailey) galley (b. 1863) NUC pre-56 (hdg.: Bailey, Mrs. Florence Augusta Merriam, 1863- ; usage: Florence Merriam Bailey; Florence A. Merriam) Wikipedia WWW site, Oct. 5, 2011 (Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey; b. Aug. 8, 1863, Locust Grove, N.Y.; m. Vernon Bailey, Dec. 1899; d. Sept. 22, 1948, Washington, D.C.; ornithologist and nature writer) Finding Aid for Record Unit 7417, Smithsonian Institution Archives, access August 20, 2018: (Florence Merriam Bailey; female; ornithology) <https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217572> American men of science: a biographical directory, (5th ed.), 1933 ([entry for:] Bailey, Florence Merriam (Mrs. Vernon Bailey)) New York times, 22 July 2019 (Florence Merriam Bailey; born Florence Augusta Merriam, Aug. 8, 1863 in Locust Grove, New York, died Washington, D.C., Sept. 22, 1948, aged 85; ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History; student at Smith College; married the naturalist Vernon Bailey in 1899; "No woman and very few men had ever known so much about all the birds of the United States," Marcia Bonta writes in 'Women in the field: America's pioneering women naturalists' (1991). "And none had tried as hard as Florence to teach everyone -- man, woman, and child -- about the joys of watching birds and the beauty of the natural world")
Associated language	eng