Pierre Louis Jouy

Pierre Louis Jouy (February 8, 1856, New York City – March 22, 1894, Tucson, Arizona)[1] was an American ornithologist,[2] naturalist, and ethnographer.

Spencer Fullerton Baird, with Robert Ridgway and Thomas Mayo Brewer, published in 1874 A History Of North American Birds.

[6] He studied under Baird at the United States National Museum (now named the Smithsonian Institution) and became an expert on birds in the Washington D.C.

[5] In June 1879, Jouy, employed at the U.S. National Museum, married Alice Elizabeth Craig, a twenty-six-year-old, local schoolteacher.

Supervisors and friends at the U.S. National Museum believed that a change of location and new career challenges might help Pierre Jouy to overcome grief.

[3][7] From April 1881 to June 1882, Jouy was with the Palos but became dissatisfied with the U.S. Navy mission having priority over his scientific work and wanted to return to Japan.

Jouy, having returned to Yokohama, spent almost two years as a U.S. National Museum employee in Japan, assisted by A. J. M. Smith, who was fluent in Japanese.

The diplomatic legation voyaged from Nagasaki aboard the USS Monocacy and arrived in May 1883 in Seoul, where they were warmly welcomed.

Jouy's first Korean ornithological specimen (May 28, 1883, Incheon) was a Phylloscopus borealis (arctic warbler), now a rare species in Korea.

In November 1883, with the aid of a royal Korean internal-travel passport, Jouy and a companion, Marinus Willett (born 1858 in New York), became the first two Americans to make a Seoul-to-Busan overland trip.

In July 1888, Pierre Jouy married Marion Stuart Forsyth Antisell (1864-1908), an employee of the U.S. National Museum and a native of Washington, D.C.