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Herbert Leonard Coggins (1881–1974) was an American editor and author of humorous pieces for magazines like the ''Atlantic Monthly'' as well as a handful of children's books. He also lectured on ornithology and ran for a various California political offices on the Socialist ticket. His first wife was East Bay architect Leola Hall. ==Early life and education== Herbert Leonard "Curly" Coggins was born May 31, 1881, to Paschal H. and Caroline (Leonard) Coggins and grew up in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.〔 His father was a lawyer who also wrote novels and stories for magazines like the ''Saturday Evening Post'' and ''Atlantic Monthly'', and his mother was active in the women's suffrage movement.〔 He had a brother, Arthur, and three sisters, Alice, Anna, and Edith.〔 His grandfather Paschal Coggins had been an editor of the ''Sacramento Union'' newspaper and a member of the state legislature.〔 His great-uncle was the abolitionist businessman Passmore Williamson.〔 In his high school years, Coggins met the ornithologist Witmer Stone, then curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences (ANS), which sparked a lifelong interest in ornithology.〔 He joined the Audubon Society at the age of sixteen and gained much of his ornithological expertise on field trips with members of the society and other bird-watching clubs. As soon as he was old enough to do so, he joined the ANS, and he served as secretary of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club.〔 He would later join the American Ornithologists' Union, and serve as president of the Cooper Ornithological Club on the West Coast.〔 In 1900, Coggins served as an assistant teacher in an ornithology course in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.〔 Coggins briefly studied bookkkeeping at a business college in Philadelphia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herbert L. Coggins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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