Background
Bergen, Joseph Young was born on February 22, 1851 in Red Beach, Maine, United States. Son of Joseph Y. and Mary L. Bergen.
Bergen, Joseph Young was born on February 22, 1851 in Red Beach, Maine, United States. Son of Joseph Y. and Mary L. Bergen.
He graduated in 1872 from Antioch College, and was for a time successively a member of the Ohio Geological Survey and professor of natural sciences at Lombard College.
On Ohio geological survey. Teacher of physics, Boston Latin School, 1887. Junior master and master Boston English High School, 1889-1901.
Author: (with his wife) The Development Theory.
The Study of Evolution Simplified for General Readers. A Text-book of Physics (with Edwin H. Hall.
Elements of Botany. Foundations of Botany.
Essentials of Botany. Principles of Botany and Laboratory and Field Manual of Botany (with Doctor Bradley Moore Davis, 1906.
Practical Botany (with Professor Otis West. Caldwell, 1911. Introduction to Botany (with Professor O. West. Caldwell), 1914.
Also articles in Botanical Gazette, et cetera
Address: North Cambridge, Massachusetts.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Married Fanny Dickerson, June 28, 1876.