May Rogers Webster
May Rogers Webster (May 23, 1873 – January 7, 1938) was an American
Early life
Alice May Rogers Webster (nee' Rogers) was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, the daughter of Thomas Lewis Rogers and Ella Sophia Nickerson Rogers.[1][2] She was a member of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, tracing her ancestry to William Brewster.[3]
Hummingbirds, camp, and other activities
After reading a 1928 article about feeding hummingbirds in
In 1932, May Rogers Webster founded the New Hampshire Nature Camp at Lost River, and she ran the teacher training camp for several years. The teacher training camp continued summer programming at Lost River into the 1960s.
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In 1936, she was visited by
Personal life and legacy
May Rogers married Laurence Jackson Webster in 1901. They had a son, Frank George Webster, born 1903. She died in 1938, in Boston, Massachusetts.[1][14] In 1966, Frank Webster donated the Lost River camp property to the Squam Lakes Association, in memory of Laurence and May, for the creation of the Squam Lakes Natural Science Center.[15] May's great-grandson, Tim Fisher, has served as president of the Squam Lakes Association and chair of the Leadership Council of the Squam Lakes Uplands Conservation Project.[16]
References
- ^ a b c G. M. A., "Obituaries: May Rogers Webster" The Auk 55(2)(April 1938): 314.
- ^ "Nickerson", Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts (1910): 745-746.
- ^ The Mayflower Descendant (1931): 44.
- ^ Margaret L. Bodine, "Holiday with Humming Birds". National Geographic (June 1928): 731-742.
- ^ ISBN 9780826315724
- ISBN 9781881527879
- ^ "May Webster: Portrait with 'tame' hummingbird feeding at her mouth", Alton H. Blackington Collection, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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- ^ Regan Brumagen, "Bird-brained in the summer" Corning Museum of Glass (August 23, 2016).
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- ^ "MIT Museum". webmuseum.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-12-14.
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- ^ "Member Profile: Timothy O. Fisher" Tracks & Trails (Spring 2015): 3.
External links
- A photograph, "Mrs. Webster and Her Hummingbirds" (1936), by Harold Eugene Edgerton, in the collection of the MIT Museum.
- A reproduction of the original Webster hummingbird feeder prototype.