Eugene P. Bicknell

His maternal grandfather was Hezekiah Pierrepont, a prominent merchant and land developer in Brooklyn.

Another relative, Reverend James Pierrepont of New Haven had donated his books to form the nucleus of the Yale College Library, which had been founded by Bicknell's direct ancestor, the Rev.

[1] Bicknell studied at home and worked with the banking firm John Munroe & Co. and Monroe & Co. of Paris.

Some of the species were found right in New York and local observers had never noticed the fine differences that Bicknell noted.

[3] Bicknell's works include Review of the Summer Birds of Part of the Catskill Mountains (1882) and The Ferns and Flowering Plants of Nantucket (1908–19).