William Otto Emerson
Illustration — Emerson c. 1899 in artist's attire William Otto Emerson (March 2, 1856 – December 24, 1940) was an American landscape painter and an ornithologist who was a founding member of the Cooper Ornithological Club. Emerson was born near Chicago but moved to Placerville, California in 1870 and then went to study art at the School of Design in San Francisco under Virgil Williams.
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William Otto Emerson
Unknown, in an article by Chester Barlow (d. 1902) · File:CooperBull1(2).djvu · Public domain
- Born
- 1856 · Union.
- Died
- 1940 · Hayward.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- ornithologist · painter
- Languages
- English
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Born at Union in 1856, died in Hayward in 1940.
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- 1.Fischer, Dan Lewis. Early Southwest Ornithologists, 1528-1900. University of Arizona Press. 114. 2001.
- 2.C.B. Prominent Californian Ornithologists. W. Otto Emerson. Condor. 1. 2. 20. 1899.
- 3.Palmer, T.S. Obituaries. The Auk. 65. 3. 492–493. 1948. 10.2307/4080535.
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