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Richard Rathbun was born January 25, 1852 in Buffalo, New York, the son of Charles Howland Rathbun and Jane (Furey) Rathbun. He was a descendant of Richard Rathbun who settled at Ipswich, Massachussets, before 1616.
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Richard Rathbun was born January 25, 1852 in Buffalo, New York, the son of Charles Howland Rathbun and Jane (Furey) Rathbun. He was a descendant of Richard Rathbun who settled at Ipswich, Massachussets, before 1616.
He was educated in the public schools of Buffalo, and at the age of fifteen entered the service of his grandfather's firm with which he continued for four years, acquiring a thorough knowledge of business methods.
In 1871 he entered Cornell University and came under the influence of Prof. Charles F. Hartt.
He became interested in fossils and made the collection in the museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, and was made curator of paleontology in that institution. Prof. Charles F. Hartt in 1875 secured for him an appointment as assistant geologist on the Geological Commission of Brazil.
During that year Rathbun investigated the geological formations of Brazil for the purpose of determining the mineral, especially coal, resources of that country. He had also acquired knowledge of marine life during the summers from 1873 to 1875, while serving as a voluntary assistant to Spencer Fullerton Baird of the United States Fish Commission in the marine explorations along the New England coast, and in 1874-75, he was an assistant in zoology in the Boston Society of Natural History. On his return from Brazil in 1878, Baird promptly appointed him scientific assistant to the Fish Commission, whose collections were then in New Haven, Connecticut.
In 1880 he was transferred from New Haven to Washington, where he also became curator of marine invertebrates in the National Museum, a position which he continued to fill until 1914.
In 1896 he was called to the Smithsonian Institution, and on July 1, 1898, was made assistant secretary in charge of the National Museum, in which capacity he remained until his death. He served frequently as acting secretary, especially after the death of Samuel Pierpont Langley, when for more than a year the important duties of full secretaryship devolved upon him.
As he rose to administrative duties, his advice was sought on many important questions pertaining to marine biology. He was called upon to prepare the material for the case of the United States at the Paris fur seal tribunal in 1891. He cooperated with the international commission sent to the Fur Seal Islands in 1896, and in 1892 President Harrison appointed him as the American representative on the Joint Commission with Great Britain to study the condition of the fisheries in the boundary waters between the United States and Canada.
When he passed to the service of the Smithsonian Institution his acumen was quick to appreciate the value of a gallery of art in connection with that Institution, and the magnificent collection now deposited in the National Gallery of Art is very largely the result of his efforts.
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He was president of the Philosophical Society of Washington in 1902. In 1892 he was made a fellow of the American Association of Museums, and was elected a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London in 1917.
On October 6, 1880, he married Lena Augusta Hume of Eastport, Maine, who, with one son, survived him.