Charles Almanzo Babcock

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Charles Almanzo Babcock (born 1849, date of death unknown) was a late-nineteenth-century superintendent of schools in Oil City, Pennsylvania.^[1]^[2] He is credited^[2] with launching Bird Day, a day to celebrate birds in American schools, on May 4. The first Bird Day was celebrated in Oil City schools in 1894,^[3] and by 1901 the practice was well established.^[4]

Works

Bird Day: How to prepare for it (1901)

Notes

↑ Doughty, Robin W. (1983) Wildlife and Man in Texas Texas A & M University Press, College Station, p. 174 ISBN 0-89096-154-9
↑ 2.0 2.1 Armitage, Kevin C. (2007) "Bird Day for Kids: Progressive Conservation in Theory and Practice" Environmental History 12(3): pp. 528–551
↑ "The First Bird Day: May 4, 1894" America's Story from America's Libraries
↑ "Bird Day for Children: Eight States Have One and New York Educators Want It" New York Times 21 April 1901

External links

Works by Charles Almanzo Babcock at Project Gutenberg

v t e Features of Venango County, Pennsylvania

People	Charles Almanzo Babcock Orrin Dubbs Bleakley John Wilkes Booth Mai Rogers Coe Cornplanter William Holmes Crosby Charles Vernon Culver Hildegarde Dolson William L. Durkin Albert Gallatin Egbert Frank Evans Gabby Gabreski John Galbraith Leon H. Gavin Calvin Willard Gilfillan Alexander Hays Samuel Hays Stevin Hoover John W. Howe Shauna Howe Willis James Hulings Chris Kirkpatrick Johnny Appleseed Kathryn Kuhlman Rolland Lawrence Ted Marchibroda Alexander McDowell James H. Osmer Spencer Peterson Arnold Plumer Jesse L. Reno Abbie G. Rogers Henry H. Rogers Milton William Shreve Joseph C. Sibley Dave Smalley Peter Moore Speer Tubby Spencer Ida M. Tarbell John Wesley Van Dyke Howard Zahniser

Geography	Allegheny River Clear Creek State Forest Cornplanter State Forest East Sandy Creek French Creek Oil Creek

History	Drake's Well Fort Franklin Fort Le Boeuf Fort Machault Fort Venango McClintocksville Petroleum industry Pithole Pontiac's Rebellion USS Venango Wamsutta Oil Refinery National Register of Historic Places

Industry	Joy Mining Machinery Pennzoil Quaker State

Attractions	Applefest Custaloga Town DeBence Antique Music World Drake Well Museum Oil Creek State Park Oil Region Astronomical Observatory Franklin Silver Cornet Band Venango Regional Airport

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