Background
Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy was born on June 18, 1865 in Brewer, Maine, United States. Daughter of Manly and Emma F. (Wheeler) Hardy.
Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy was born on June 18, 1865 in Brewer, Maine, United States. Daughter of Manly and Emma F. (Wheeler) Hardy.
Graduate Smith College, Massachusetts, 1888. Honorary Master of Arts, University of Maine, 1929.
Jacob A. Eckstorm, October 24, 1893. Children—Katharine Hardy (deceased), Paul Frederick (deceased). Honorary member Maine History Society.
Company-founder Folk-Song Society of Northeast.
Author: The Bird Book, 1901. The Woodpeckers, 1901.
The Penobscot Manitoba, 1904. David Libbey (True American Types Series), 1907.
The Minstrelsy of Maine—Folk Songs and Ballads of ithe Maine Woods and Coast (with Mary West. Smyth), 1927.
British Ballads from Maine (with Phillips Barry and Mary West. Smyth), 1929. Handicrafts of the Modern Indians of Maine (bulletin III, Lafayette National Park Museum), 1932. Indian Brother (with H. V. Coryell), 1934.
The Scalp Hunters (with H. V. Coryell), 1936.
Indian Place-names of Penobscot Valley and the Maine Coast, 1941. Old John Neptune and Other Maine Indian Shamans, 1945.
Has written on birds, the Maine woods, game laws, Indians, folk songs, local history, et cetera Home: Brewer, Maine.
Member Maine History Society.
Married Review; children: Katharine Hardy (deceased), Paul Frederick (deceased).