Background
Adney, Edwin Tappan was born on July 13, 1868 in Athens, Ohio, United States. Son of Colonel and Professor W. H. G. and Ruth (Shaw) Adney.
Adney, Edwin Tappan was born on July 13, 1868 in Athens, Ohio, United States. Son of Colonel and Professor W. H. G. and Ruth (Shaw) Adney.
Educated U. North Carolina. Student Art Students League, New York City, 3 years.
1 son, Glenn. Artist, special correspondent Harper’s Weekly and London Chronicle, the Klondike, 1897-1898, Colliers’ Weekly at Cape Nome, 1900. Painter, writer on outdoor subjects. Commissioned Lieutenant Canadian Engineers, C.E.F., September 23, 1916.
Charge construction military models for instruction, by special order of chief of staff, March 16-December 19, 1919.
Also same work on staff Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario Expert, consultant in heraldic design, Montreal, 1923-1932. Conducted research in languages, canoes, general ethnology of America Indian, 1932-1950.
Author: The Klondike Stampede, 1899. Also unpublished mss relating to canoes (Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia) and Am Indian languages and ethnology (Peabody Museum, Salem, Massachusetts).
Home: Woodstock, North.B.
Married Minnie Bell Sharp, September 12, 1899.