Career
He is considered to be a pioneer in modern beekeeping. Tanquary was interested in apiculture and resigned in 1923 to enter professional beekeeping in North Dakota. He later joined the University of Minnesota in apiculture and remained there until 1944.
He is alumni of Vincennes University and the University of Illinois, (Bachelor of Arts 1907, Department of Administration and Management 1908, Doctor of Philosophy 1912) Tanquary’s family donated his photographs, lantern slides and journals to The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College, in 2006.