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Ober, Frederick Albion was born on February 13, 1849 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Andrew Kimbal and Sarah (Hadlock) Ober.
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Ober, Frederick Albion was born on February 13, 1849 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Andrew Kimbal and Sarah (Hadlock) Ober.
Subsequently he attended the Massachusetts Agricultural College but due to the lack of funds he was forced to leave the college after a short time.
He received a common school education. While yet a boy, he evinced a fondness for natural history: he collected nearly all the birds of New England and noted their habits. From 1862 to 1866 he had an occupation as shoemaker.
From 1867 to 1870 he worked as employee in a drugstore and again as shoemaker.
In 1872, he abandoned his business pursuits to hunt in Florida. In 1874 he made a second trip, successfully explored Lake Okeechobee, and published in periodicals a description of the lake and its shores.
From 1876 to 1878 he made ornithological surveys to the Lesser Antilles where he discovered 22 bird taxa new to science. In 1881, moved by a desire to see the vestiges of early American civilization, he journeyed through Mexico, and during that and two subsequent trips gathered the material for several books
On his return from various explorations he prepared accounts of his travels at the request of scientific societies, and later a series of popular lectures, illustrated with photographic views, projected by the magic lantern.
His lectures, originally delivered before the Lowell Institute in Boston, included “Mexico, Historical and Picturesque,” “Ancient Cities of Mexico,” “The Mexican Indian,” “Adventures in the West Indies,” and “Through Florida with Gun and Camera.”
Ober died May 31, 1913, in his home in Hackensack, New Jersey. He was among the founders of the Explorers Club in 1904.
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