Charles Wendell Townsend

Background

Townsend, Charles Wendell was born on November 10, 1859 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Thomas Davis and Frances Barnard (Smith) Townsend.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1881, Doctor of Medicine 1885.

Career

Visiting physical Sea Shore Home, Boston, Massachusetts, 1887-1890. Assistant in obstetrics, Harvard Medical School, 1887-1897. Physical to out-patients department Children’s Hospital, 1887-1903, Boston Lying-in Hospital, 1887-1898, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1891-1909.

Visiting physical, Floating Hospital, 1907-1909.

Author: The Birds of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1905. Along the Labrador Coast, 1907.

Birds of Labrador (joint author), 1907. A Labrador Spring, 1910.

Captain Cartwright and His Labrador Journal, 1911.

Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes, 1913. In Audubon’s Labrador, 1918. Supplement to Birds of Essex Company, 1920.

Beach Grass, 1923.

From Panama to Patagonia. 1931; also chapter on birds in Grenfell’s book on Labrador. Home: Ipswich, Massachusetts

Achievements

• Charles Wendell Townsend has been listed as a notable ornithologist, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Gertrude Flint, September 28, 1891 (died 1917). Married second, Sarah G. Flint, July 2, 1919 (died 1924). Children: Gertrude, Margaret (Mistress Hale Sutherland), Frances (Mistress Wendell Taber), Charles.

Father:

Thomas Davis Townsend

Mother:

Frances Barnard (Smith) Townsend

Spouse:

Sarah G. Flint

Spouse:

Gertrude Flint

child:

Gertrude Townsend

child:

Charles Townsend

child:

Margaret Townsend (Mistress Hale Sutherland)

child:

Frances Townsend (Mistress Wendell Taber)