Background
Preble, Edward A. was born on June 11, 1871 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Perkins and Marcia (Alexander) Preble.
Preble, Edward A. was born on June 11, 1871 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Perkins and Marcia (Alexander) Preble.
Education high school, Woburn, Massachusetts, 1886-1889.
He is noted for work in studying birds and mammals of the Pacific Northwest. He also acted as an editor for nature magazines. In 1908, Preble published a report on the natural history of the Athabaska-Mackenzie region, or "Boreal America".
This monograph was based his two expeditions, in 1901 and again in 1903-1904, with the United States. Biological Survey.
In 1907, Preble and Ernest Thompson Seton discovered the remains of a wolf pack near a long abandoned cabin at the Great Slave Lake in Canada. The two verified the claim of the American frontiersman Charles "Buffalo" Jones, who a full decade earlier in 1897-1898 had traveled to the Arctic Circle in an attempt to capture live musk oxen.
Jones had claimed that he and his party shot and fended off the hungry wolves from inside their cabin.
Member American Ornithologists Union, Biological Society Washington, American Society Mammalogist, American Society Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, et cetera Associate editor Nature Magazine, Washington.
Married Eva A. Lynham, December 29, 1896. Children: Dorothy Marcia (deceased), Marjorie Elizabeth, Evelyn Morgan.