Tappan Adney
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Tappan Adney c. 1890
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Edwin Tappan Adney July 13, 1868 Athens, Ohio |
| Died | October 10, 1950 (aged 82) |
| Resting place | Upper Woodstock Cemetery |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | American; Canadian |
| Notable work | The Klondike Stampede |
| Spouse(s) | Minnie Bell Sharp (m. 1899) |
| Children | Francis Glenn Adney (b. 1902) |
Edwin Tappan Adney (July 13, 1868 – October 10, 1950) was an artist, a writer and a photographer.
Edwin Tappan Adney was born in Athens, Ohio, the eldest child of William Harvey Glenn Adney (1834–1885) from Vinton, Ohio, a professor at Ohio University, and Ruth Clementine Shaw Adney. When Edwin was five, the family moved to Washington, Pennsylvania where his father taught at Washington and Jefferson College. In 1879, his father retired from that position for health reasons and bought a tobacco farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina named Gum Spring Plantation. Edwin was exceptionally bright and entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at the age of thirteen, where he remained for two years.
After his parents divorce, his mother took him and his younger sister Mary Ruth to New York City to further their education. To earn a living, she ran a boarding house, where Edwin got to know his future wife Minnie Bell Sharp of , a piano and singing student, who was one of his mother's tenants. Edwin attended Trinity School and after leaving school he worked in a law office. In the evenings he took art classes at the Art Students League of New York.
He graduated from art school at the age of eighteen and provided 110 illustrations for The Handbook of the Birds of Eastern North America. His interest in birds continued when he emigrated to Canada and a visitor remarked on his relationship with the birds around his bungalow in Upper Woodstock. He would whistle bird-calls and the birds would flutter around him and sometimes land on his head.
In 1887, Edwin and his sister visited Minnie's family at their home in Woodstock, New Brunswick. Adney intended to spend a month in Woodstock preparing for the entry examination for Columbia University. While in Woodstock, he met Peter Jo, a canoe-builder of the Maliseet tribe of indigenous Canadians. He became interested in the language and culture and with Joseph's help, he built his first canoe, spending twenty months in Woodstock. In 1890, he wrote an article on canoe-building for a Harper's Young People supplement. He was credited with saving the art of birchbark canoe construction. He built more than 100 models of different types, which are now housed at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia.
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