Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon

Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon (July 29, 1852 – January 15, 1938) was an American entomologist, educator, historian, author, and museum curator. She worked closely with zoologist Alpheus Hyatt at the Boston Society of Natural History, and she was the curator of the Memorial Hall Museum in Deerfield, Massachusetts, for a quarter of a century.

Biography Jennie Maria Arms was born in 1852 in Bellows Falls, Vermont, to Eunice Stratton (Moody) Arms and George Albert Arms, who ran a hardware store.