Open your gates, O grave

Author: William C. H. Dall

"William Cranch Healey Dall, oldest child of [Charles H. A. Dall and Caroline Healey Dall], was born in the house of his grandfather, in Temple Street, Boston, Aug. 21, 1845. He was educated chiefly at home, and at the Brimmer School. He was the youngest member ever elected into the Boston Society of Natural History. He left home for Chicago at a very early age, and in 1865 went with Robert Kennicott to Alaska. After the purchase of that territory, he pursued the plans of Mr. Kennicott, who had died, and published, on his return in 1869, his well-known work on Alaska, profusely illustrated from his own drawings. He has written more than eighty scientific monographs, and is at present in the Aleutian Islands, employed by the United States Co… Go to person page >