Biography:

Methodist clergyman; naturalist; museum curator. Born– March 18, 1874, in Birmingham, Ala. Parents– J. Henry and Adelaide Lucia Bliss Wheeler. Married– Annie Lee Warren. Children– Five. Education– Lehigh University; Southeastern University; Vanderbilt University. Ordained Methodist minister, 1896; served churches in Alabama and Arkansas. Worked in Field Museum, Chicago, 1924-; Alabama Museum of Natural History, University of Alabama; Birmingham Public Library, 1953-1958; Curator, Indian Springs School Museum. Died March 11, 1958.

Source:

Alabama Dept. of Archives and History.

Publication(s):

The Birds of Arkansas; a Preliminary Report. Little Rock, Ark.; State Bureau of Mines, Manufactures and Architecture, 1924.

Timothy Abbott Conrad, with Particular Reference to His Work in Alabama One Hundred Years Ago. Ithaca, N.Y.; Paleontological Institution, 1935.