Background
Baskett, James Newton was born on November 1, 1849 in in Nicholas Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of William B. and Nancy E. (Maffitt) Baskett.
Baskett, James Newton was born on November 1, 1849 in in Nicholas Company, Kentucky, United States. Son of William B. and Nancy E. (Maffitt) Baskett.
Bachelor of Philisophy, University of Missouri, 1872, Master of Arts, 1893.
Student of comparative vertebrate anatomy, with ornithology as a specialty. Presented paper at World’s Congress of Ornithologists (Chicago, 1893) on Some Hints at the Kinship of Birds as Shown by Their Eggs. Author: The Story of the Birds, 1896.
The Story of the Fishes, 1899.
The Story of the Amphibians and Reptiles, 1902. Also novels—At You-All’s House, 1898.
As the Light Led, 1900. Sweet Brier and Thistledown, 1902.
Also papers on the early Spanish Expedition in the South and Southwest, et cetera
Home: Mexico, Missouri
Married Jeannie Gordon Morrison, February 17, 1874.