Ernest Ingersoll

A native of Monroe, Michigan, Ingersoll studied for a time at Oberlin College and afterward at Harvard University, where he was a pupil of Louis Agassiz.

Ingersoll sent dispatches to the Tribune, and the result was an offer to join its staff that year, which he accepted.

His reports treated modern fisheries, and also discussed shellfish utilization much earlier by Native Americans and early societies worldwide.

Ingersoll was an early advocate of protection of wildlife and natural habitats, and preferred field notes and photographs to taking specimens.

He did a similar list for Canadian snakes, which his daughter Helen helped write and illustrate.

Ernest Ingersoll was 94 years old when he died in a Brattleboro, Vermont, nursing home after a four-year illness.