| LC control no. | n 98078690 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Grant, Chapman, 1887- |
| Variant(s) | Grant, Chapman, b. 1887 |
| Birth date | 1887-03-27 |
| Death date | 1983-01-05 |
| Place of birth | Salem Center (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Escondido (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Herpetology |
| Affiliation | Williams College |
| Profession or occupation | Herpetologists Museum curators |
| Found in | Library of Congress Manuscript Division for Grant, U.S. Papers, 1843-1969 (Chapman Grant; grandson of Pres. Ulysses S. Grant) WWWA, v. 8, 1985 (Chapman Grant; grandson of Pres. Grant; biologist, editor, and army officer; b. 1887; no death date given) New York times website, Jan. 22, 2007: archives (Chapman Grant; d. Jan. 5, 1983, age 95) OCLC, July 20, 2017 (access points: Grant, Chapman; Grant, Chapman, 1887-; usage: Chapman Grant) Find A Grave database, July 20, 2017 (Chapman Grant; birth: March 27, 1887, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York; death: January 5, 1983, Escondido, San Diego County, California; American herpetologist, historian, and publisher. He was the last living grandson of United States President Ulysses S. Grant. Graduated from Williams College in 1910. He became the assistant curator of entomology at the Children's Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in September 1913. In November 1913, left the museum for a military career beginning on the Mexican border. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 14th U.S. Cavalry. When he was assigned as commandant of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at the University of Wichita in the 1930s, he wrote scientific papers on herpetology and was curator at the Arkansas Valley Museum and Historical Society. In 1932 he established the magazine Herpetologica, the quarterly journal of the Herpetologists' League, an association of several notable herpetologists in the USA, which he co-founded in 1936; also publisher of magazine Scientists Forum; survived by Ulysses S. Grant V) |
| Associated language | eng |
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