Henry Baldwin Ward

Henry Baldwin Ward (4 March 1865 – 30 November 1945) was an American zoologist and parasitologist. He was the founder and first president of The American Society of Parasitologists, and founder-editor of the Journal of Parasitology.

Biography Ward was born on March 4, 1865, in Troy, New York. His father, Richard Halsted Ward, was a professor of biology at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He got his bachelor's degree from Williams College of Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1885. He became an instructor of Science at Troy High School, where he served from 1886 to 1888. Ward got promoted to a professor in 1899. Three years later he became a dean of the College of Medicine. In 1909 he was named Professor of Zoology at the University of Illinois, where he got his Emeritus Professor title in 1933. He remained there until his death at his home in Champaign on November 30, 1945.

Besides his zoology work, Ward also made contributions to phycology and parasitology. He founded the Journal of Parasitology in 1914, He was permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1933 to 1937, continuing as its executive committee member till 1941.

He married Harriet Cecilia Blair on September 11, 1894, and they had two children.