Background
Mathews, Ferdinand Schuyler was born on May 30, 1854 in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, United States. Son of Ferdinand Schuyler and Frances (Coffin) Mathews.
Mathews, Ferdinand Schuyler was born on May 30, 1854 in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York, United States. Son of Ferdinand Schuyler and Frances (Coffin) Mathews.
Public schools and Cooper Institute, New York, and other institutions Traveled in Italy for art education.
Professor George West. Maynard, of Morristown, New Jersey, November 17, 1886. Connected for many years with L. Prang & Company, lithographic art publications, Boston, as a special artist. Specialty decorative design.
Author: Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden.
Familiar Trees and Their Leaves. The Fieldbook of American Wild Flowers, 1902.
Fieldbook of Wild Birds and Their Music, 1904. Fieldbook of Trees and Shrubs, 1914.
Book of Birds for Young People, 1921.
Book of Wild Flowers for Young People, 1923. Home: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Married Caroline A., daughter