About Henry Clinton Fall
Lived 1862 – 1939 (aged 76). Henry Clinton Fall was an American entomologist.
Henry Clinton Fall (25 December 1862, Farmington, New Hampshire – 14 November 1939, Tyngsboro, Massachusetts) was an American entomologist.
Fall received in 1884 his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He taught from 1884 to 1889 mathematics and physics in Chicago secondary schools,
In 1917 he retired to live in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, which is about 43 kilometers (26 miles) in a straight line to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He continued to identify and curate insect specimens sent to him and published his last scientific paper in 1937.
Fall's collection includes about 20,000 different insect species. He inspired many coleopterists, including Edwin Van Dyke and Frank Ellsworth Blaisdell.
Fall has a scholarship in his name at Dover High School in Dover, NH. The inaugural scholarship winner was Madigan Jennison-Henderson (2021).
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Who was Henry Clinton Fall?
American entomologist (1862-1939)
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Henry Clinton Fall was born on 25 December 1862 in Farmington.
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Henry Clinton Fall died on 14 November 1939.
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Henry Clinton Fall was an entomologist.
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