Winfrid Alden Stearns

William Augustus Stearns (1805-1876) and his first wife Rebecca Alden Frazer (1803-1855).

He graduated in 1876, taking part in university activities as the manager of the Salem Press and working with the Massachusetts State Agricultural College and serving as curator of its agricultural museum.

Stearns took an interest in natural history from an early age, collecting birds eggs as a boy.

He obtained some income from selling specimens to natural history museums, corresponded with Spencer Fullerton Baird, and later became a member of the Nuttall Ornithological Club.

He joined a trip of the Amherst College to Labrador in the summer of 1875, visiting again in 1880, and 1882.