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Arthur Trezevant Wayne was a descendant of William Wayne, who came to South Carolina about the time of the Revolution. He was born in Blackville, S. C. , where his parents, Daniel Gabriel and Harriott Julia (Ward) Wayne, had removed to escape the rigors of the siege of Charleston.
Returning home after the war, his parents sent Arthur at the age of six to Miss Charlotte Smith's school. In 1880 he was graduated with honors from the Charleston High School and completed his formal schooling.
A collector of bird eggs from early boyhood, in 1874 he came under the influence of Dr. Gabriel Manigault, who encouraged him to collect for the Charleston Museum, where John Dancer taught him bird-skinning so well that it became with him a fine art. Being under the necessity to earn a living, however, he started life as a clerk in the cotton and naval stores firm of Barden & Murdock Company. This proved an unhappy connection for all concerned. His next venture was equally unsuccessful. In 1883 an experience so fired the boy's enthusiasm that he abandoned all thought of business, for he accompanied William Brewster, 1851-1919, on several field trips near Charleston in an effort to rediscover Swainson's warbler. The following year on Brewster's return they resumed the quest, successfully; and in 1885 Wayne took the first nest and eggs known to science. In the same year, when returning from a brief trip to New York, he met Robert Ridgway in Washington, and formed another friendship of lifelong influence. His wife took from his shoulders so many burdens that her unselfish devotion might be said to have made possible his career. After a few months at McPhersonville, S. C. , where he collected for the market, the young couple returned to the home of the bride's parents. In 1892, accompanied by his wife, he began a series of field trips to Florida, taking many specimens of the ivory-billed woodpecker near Oldtown; in 1893 he collected Carolina paroquet near Kissimmee; and in 1894 he made an unsuccessful search for manatee on Indian River. They lived in a cottage near Mt. Pleasant, S. C. , until in 1900 they moved into "Wayne's Place, " built for them by Wayne's father. Here for thirty years Wayne gave himself to his work with enthusiasm. He was three times interrupted in his work between 1908 and 1928 by periods of nervous breakdown. In spite of these, his continuity of field work was remarkable, and, although he worked in an area already covered by Audubon and Bachman, he added in forty-five years about one bird a year to the fauna of his state. Two sub-species, Wayne's clapper rail and Wayne's warbler, have been named for him. In 1928 he was elected fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union.
Among his achievements were the re-discovery of Bachman's warbler in 1901, and his discovery of the breeding grounds of the white ibis in South Carolina in 1922. Besides numerous contributions to the Auk and other scientific periodicals, his publications include Birds of South Carolina, which appeared in 1910 as the first of the Contributions from the Charleston Museum, and A List of Avian Species for which the Type Locality is South Carolina, which appeared in 1917 as the third volume of Museum series. He contributed in all 190 papers to scientific journals.
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Highstrung, nervous, and violently impulsive, he was in taste and temperament wholly unsuited to business life.
Small, slight, with nervous brown eyes and dark red hair and mustache, his appearance was not easily forgotten. His remarkable memory and rapid abundance of speech were equally impressive. Second to his passion for ornithology was his pleasure in grand opera and in genealogy.
On June 6, 1889, Wayne was married to Maria Louisa, the daughter of Philip E. and Elizabeth C. Porcher. They had no children.
