Ruthven Deane

As a schoolboy he was a close friend to William Brewster and Daniel French and went on field trips with those two and other boys.

At about 18 years of age, he obtained employment in Boston at Dana Bros., a company that imported sugar and molasses from the West Indies.

The Boston Fire of 1872 caused him to find employment in the insurance business, where he continued until 1880, when he moved to Chicago to join his brother Charles E. Deane in the wholesale grocery firm of Deane Bros. and Lincoln.

[5] His publications occur mainly in The Auk and the Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithology Club, with 112 titles in those two journals.

He was a collector of Audubonia, photographic portraits of ornithologists and naturalists, and bookplates.