Charles Lanman
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Charles Lanman | |
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Born | Monroe, Michigan | June 14, 1819
Died | March 4, 1895 Georgetown, D.C. | (aged 75)
Occupation | Librarian, explorer, author, painter, government official |
Spouse |
Adeline Dodge (1826–1914)
(m. 1849) |
Parents | Charles J. Lanman Marie Jeanne Guie |
Relatives | James Lanman (grandfather) |
Charles Lanman (June 14, 1819 - March 4, 1895) was an American author, government official, artist, librarian, and explorer.
Biography
Charles Lanman was born in
Lanman's early life included newspaper work as editor of the
Lanman's career included service as librarian for the
Lanman married
Charles Lanman died at
Literary and artistic works
Writing
Charles Lanman collected biographies of former and sitting
Written accounts of his own travels and extensive explorations in the United States included:
- Essays for Summer Hours (Boston, 1842)
- Letters from a Landscape-Painter (1845)
- A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior (New York, 1847)[5]
- A Tour of the River Saguenay (Philadelphia and London, 1848)
- Letters from the Alleghany Mountains (New York, 1849)
- Haw-ho-noo, or Records of a Tourist (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo 1850),[6]
- Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1856, London, 1859)[7]
- Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History (Detroit, 1871)".[8]
Additional works included:
- Resources of America compiled for the Japanese government (Washington, 1872)
- The Japanese in America (New York and London, 1872)
- Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington, 1876; 2d ed., revised, New York, 1887)
- Life of Octavius Perinehief (Washington, 1879)
- Curious Characters and Pleasant Places (Edinburgh, 1881)
- Leading Men of Japan (Boston, 1883)
- Farthest North (New York, 1885)
- Haphazard Personalities (Boston, 1886).
He edited The Prison Life of Alfred Ely (New York, 1862), and The Sermons of Reg. Octavius Perinchief (2 vols., Washington, 1879). He also produced scientific articles such as "The Salmonidae of Eastern Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia".[9]
Art
Lanman frequently exhibited paintings and sketches from nature in oil. He made “sketching trips” to every state east of the Rockies. Many of those early sketches were published in The Illustrated London News and in various American magazines. Among his pictures are Brookside and Homestead, Home in the Woods (1881), and Frontier Home (1884). He was called by Washington Irving "the picturesque explorer of the United States".[10]
References
- Boston, Massachusetts, 1687. Don Charles Stone, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. pp. 21–25.
- ^ "Charles Lanman Collection, 1829-1869; bulk 1855-1869 (finding aid)". New York State Library Website. New York State Library. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
- ^ "Collection: Charles Lanman papers | Archival Collections". archives.lib.umd.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ^ Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, ed., Vol. I-X. Boston, The Biographical Society, 1904; Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women 1902.
- ^ Charles Lanman (1847). A Summer in the Wilderness, Embracing a Canoe Voyage Up the Mississippi and Around Lake Superior. New York, Philadelphia: D. Appleton & company, G. S. Appleton.
- ^ Charles Lanman (1850). Haw-ho-noo, or, Records of a tourist. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo. p. 291.
- ^ Lanman, Charles (1856). Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces. Philadelphia: A J. W. Moore.
- ^ Charles Lanman (1871). Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History. Detroit, Washington: E. B. Smith & company, Philp & Solomons. p. 291.
- Spencer F. Baird (ed.). Report of the Commissioner for 1872 and 1873, United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries(PDF). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. pp. Appendix B, pages 219–225. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
- ^ James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos, ed. (1887–1889). Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. Six Volumes. (vol. 3). New York: D. Appleton and Company. pp. 613–614.
- McNeilly, Dorothy (Summer 1984). "Charles Lanman" (PDF). The American Fly Fisher. 11 (3). Manchester, VT: American Museum of Fly Fishing: 15–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-19.
- "A Checklist of Works by Charles Lanman" (PDF). The American Fly Fisher. 11 (4). Manchester, VT: American Museum of Fly Fishing: 19–21. Fall 1984. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-19.
Sources
- http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/invent/3725.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080917190658/http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/hd108-222/intro.pdf