Background
Garner, Richard Lynch was born on February 19, 1848 in at Abingdon, Virginia, United States. Son of Samuel and Mary J. (Garvin) Garner.
Garner, Richard Lynch was born on February 19, 1848 in at Abingdon, Virginia, United States. Son of Samuel and Mary J. (Garvin) Garner.
Educated in private school until breaking out of Civil war. Served in Company I, 3d Tennessee Cavalry, C.S.A., 1864-1865. Was in battles of Bulletin’s Gap, Greenville.
Was in 3 United States military prisons.
Studied Jefferson Institute, Blountville, Tennessee, 1865-1867. Studied privately, read preparatory courses divinity and medicine.
Devoted to philology, anthropology and similar lines of scientific research. Traveled in Central Africa. Best known for his researches upon the speech of apes and monkeys.
Spends most of his time in Africa.
Author: Nancy Bet (comic sketch), 1888 01. Psychoscope (poems), 1891 01.
The Speech of Monkeys, 1892 01. Gorillas and Chimpanzees, 1896 01.
Apes and Monkeys, 1901 G1.
Contributions to many American and English reviews and magazines on subjects of science and traveling Address: 1105 West End Trust Building, Philadelphia.
Married October 15, 1872, Maggie East. Gross, Lockport, Kentucky.