Background
Surface, Harvey Adam was born on July 25, 1867 in near Waynesville, Ohio, United States. Son of Daniel and Maria Josephine (Thomas) Surface.
Surface, Harvey Adam was born on July 25, 1867 in near Waynesville, Ohio, United States. Son of Daniel and Maria Josephine (Thomas) Surface.
Bachelor of Science, Ohio State University, 1891, Master of Science, 1892. Post-graduate work University of Illinois, 1893-1894, Cornell, 1896-1898. (Doctor of Science, Franklin and Marshall College, 1907).
Professor natural history, University of the Pacific, 1894-1896. Special teacher, ornithology and nature study, Teachers’ Summer Institutions: fellow and teacher, Cornell, 1897-1898. Supervisor of nature study, Ithaca, New York, 1898-1900.
Scientific assistant United States Fish Commission, 1900.
Served as professor zoology, State College of Pennsylvania, economic zoologist of State of Pennsylvania, and ornithologist Pennsylvania State Board Agriculture.
Member American Society Naturalists, American Ornithologists’ Union, Audubon Society, et cetera
Married Ida May Bleasdale, of Cleveland, May 30, 1894.