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Samuel Woodhouse, 1821-1904
The son of a naval officer, Samuel Woodhouse was trained as a physician at the University of Pennsylvania and subsequently served as the medical officer in a succession of organizations that included the U.S. Army, a transatlantic steamship line, and the Eastern State Penitentiary. As an army officer, he served on several exploratory missions to the American West, as well as Central America. He performed the first survey of birds in the Oklahoma Territory and was the first naturalist to survey the Arizona region, where he discovered several hitherto unknown specimens, including a toad (Bufo woodhousii) that was named after him. He was a member of the American Academy of Natural Sciences, and his journals are a repository of firsthand observations of the natural and human eulogies of the American West.
by Edward Bowers, 1857 |