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Harry Church Oberholser was born on June 25, 1870, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jacob Oberholser, a dry-goods merchant, and Lavera Church.
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Harry Church Oberholser was born on June 25, 1870, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jacob Oberholser, a dry-goods merchant, and Lavera Church.
After attending local schools Harry Oberholser entered Columbia University in 1888, but was compelled to withdraw in 1891 because of poor health. Oberholser received the B. A. and M. S. from George Washington University in 1914 and the Ph. D. in 1916.
When Harry's parents moved to Wooster, Ohio, he clerked in his father's dry-goods store until 1895. That year he was appointed an ornithological clerk in the Division of Economic Ornithology of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, beginning a forty-six-year government career. In 1896 this agency became the Bureau of Biological Survey, and in 1939 it was combined with the U. S. Fish Commission to form the Fish and Wildlife Service in the Department of the Interior. For the first fifteen years Oberholser worked under C. Hart Merriam, a major American authority on the speciation and geographical distribution of birds and mammals. Oberholser's principal duties entailed the identification of thousands of birds sent to the bureau. Soon he was being called as an expert witness to identify parts of birds from feathers or bones being used as evidence in trials for alleged violation of federal game laws. In matters of classification, Oberholser was a dedicated "splitter" - one who based differences between subspecies of birds on very fine physical distinctions - long after "lumping" (the grouping of birds in much broader categories) had come into vogue. No mean authority on nomenclature, Merriam once said that Oberholser thought himself "God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Trinity when it comes to identifying birds. "
During his career Oberholser was responsible for reporting 11 new families and subfamilies of birds, 99 new genera and subgenera, and 560 new species and subspecies. His scientific papers totaled nearly 900. He belonged to forty scientific and conservation organizations in various parts of the world. Most of Oberholser's fieldwork was done between 1895 and 1903, principally in the West. His lifelong interest in Texas bird life began with a biological reconnaissance of the state that he made in 1900 with Vernon Bailey. A persistent stomach disorder ended Oberholser's career in the field, although he later made brief field investigations in several eastern and midwestern states (1917 - 1926).
Oberholser was appointed assistant biologist for the Biological Survey in 1914, biologist in 1924, and senior biologist in 1928.
From 1904 until 1910 he spent his summers in North Carolina as professor of zoology at the Biltmore Forest Summer School. From 1920 to 1935 he held a similar post in the graduate program at American University. Oberholser produced a 3-million-word monograph on the birds of Texas that remained unpublished at his death. A much-cut version of this work, The Bird Life of Texas, edited by Edgar B. Kincaid, Jr. , and others, appeared in 1974. Bird Life of Louisiana (1938) was the most important work Oberholser published during his lifetime.
Oberholser's retirement from government service in 1941 was delayed for a year beyond the statutory age of seventy so that he could finish his Texas bird manuscript. He then became curator of ornithology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where he served until 1947. He died in Cleveland.
Oberholser's papers, chiefly correspondence from the period 1920-1947, are in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. A number of letters from Oberholser to Witmer Stone (1894 - 1937) are at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Other Oberholser materials are in the American Ornithologists Union records, also at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Some of Oberholser's correspondence and research notes, and biographical sketches relative to his careers with the Biological Survey and Cleveland Museum of Natural History, are in the Western Reserve Historical Society collections, Cleveland, which also contain a file of Oberholser's published articles. A small group of materials dealing with Oberholser is included in the American Ornithologists Union Collection, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Candid impressions of Oberholser and other Biological Survey personnel are in the Waldo Lee McAtee Papers in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress.
Harry Oberholser discovered 11 new families and subfamilies of birds, 99 new genera and subgenera, and 560 new species and subspecies. Oberholser's scientific papers totaled nearly 900. He produced a 3-million-word monograph on the birds of Texas, that was edited and published by Edgar B. Kincaid, Jr. after Oberholser's death (The Bird Life of Texas, 1974). Oberholser's most important work, published during his lifetime, was Bird Life of Louisiana (1938). Empidonax oberholseri (dusky flycatcher) was named in Harry Oberholser's honor.
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Harry Oberholser belonged to forty scientific and conservation organizations in various parts of the world.
Oberholser was a dedicated worker who insisted on a high output from his subordinates and maintained exacting standards of performance. While often interested in the work being done by colleagues, he frequently seemed chary about sharing what he knew with others. Nevertheless, he was capable of taking considerable time with younger workers when they faced serious problems.
Harry Oberholser married Mary Forrest Smith on June 30, 1914. They had no children.
