Person

Forbush, Edward Howe

1858–1929

became Curator of Birds, Worcester Mus. of Nat. Hist. at age 16; app. supervisor of gypsy moth supression in Mass., 1891; became consulting ornith. to St. Bd. of Agric., 1893; became 1st official Ornith. of Mass. in 1908; Dir. of Ornith. in Dept. of Agric. 1908 to retirement