Arthur Hawthorne Carhart

Background

Carhart, Arthur Hawthorne was born on September 18, 1892 in Mapleton, Iowa, United States. Son of George William and Ella Louise (Hawthorne) Carhart.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Iowa State College, 1916.

Career

On Midland Chautauqua Circuit, 1916. Recreational engineer United States Forest Service, Denver, 1919-1922. Member firm McCrary, Culley & Carhart, land architects and city planners, 1923-1931.

Freelance writer, 1931-1938. Co-ordinator Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration, Colorado, 1938-1943. Regional information executive O.P.A., 1944-1946.

Consultant Conservation Collection Denver Public Library.

Achievements

• Arthur Hawthorne Carhart has been listed as a notable author, conservationist, landscape architect by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Timber in Your Life

    (Timber In Your Life By: Arthur H. Carhart Publisher: J. B...)

  • Son of the forest.

    (J. B. Lippincott First Edition hardcover format. Teen adv...)

  • Water or Your Life

Membership

Member Citizens committee for the ORRC Report (L. Rockefeller commission report, from 1963. Member committee American Motors Conservation Awards Program. Trustee J.N. Darling Foundation.

Board directors Desert Protective Council Educational Foundation 1st lieutenant Sanitary Corps., United States Army, 1917-1919. Member Colorado Author's League (1st president), Outdoor Writers American Association, Rocky Mountain Association Landscape Architects, American Forestry Association (honorary vice president from 1963), Gamma Sigma Delta.

Connections

Married Vera Amelia VanSickle, August 16, 1918 (deceased January 1966).

Father:

George William Carhart

Mother:

Ella Louise (Hawthorne) Carhart

Spouse:

Vera Amelia VanSickle