Andrew Nelson Caudell

Andrew Nelson Caudell
Born (1872-08-18)18 August 1872
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died 1 March 1936(1936-03-01) (aged 63)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College, Massachusetts Agricultural College
Years active 1890s-1930s
Employer United States Department of Agriculture
Known for Entomologist

Andrew Nelson Caudell (1872–1936) was an entomologist who specialized in the study of grasshoppers and other insects in the order Orthoptera, becoming a prolific author of taxonomic studies, a member and President (in 1915) of the Entomological Society of Washington, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[1][2]

Caudell was born August 18, 1872, in Indianapolis, Indiana, a son of Andrew Jackson and Mary Jane (née Bannon) Caudell.[1] Raised in Oklahoma, he completed his Bachelor of Science degree at Oklahoma Territorial Agricultural and Mechanical College in Stillwater, Oklahoma, now Oklahoma State University, and undertook postgraduate study at Massachusetts Agricultural College, now the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1][3]

After a brief employment with the Gypsy Moth Project in Massachusetts,[3] he joined the Division of Insects of the United States Department of Agriculture in 1898 and remained with the Department until his death.[1][2] In addition to his USDA duties, he served as custodian of the Orthoptera collection of the Division of Insects of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.[2]

He married on April 12, 1900 to Penelope Cundiff in a unique ceremony performed over telegraph lines with the bride in Mulhall, Oklahoma and the groom in Kansas City, Kansas with the minister and two witnesses, possibly the first such ceremony ever performed.[4]

Caudell died on March 1, 1936 at Washington, D.C.[3] Among other honors, he is memorialized by two pyralid moth taxa published in a single paper by fellow entomologist and co-worker Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr., the species Megasis caudellella (Dyar, 1904) and the genus Caudellia (Dyar, 1904)[5] and the tettigoniid grasshopper Conocephalus caudellianus (Davis, 1905), "Caudell's Conehead."[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Who's Who in the Nation's Capital, 1921-22, Washington, D.C.: The Consolidated Publishing Company, 1921, p. 70, http://books.google.com/books?id=ojlMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=%22Penelope+Easter+Caudell%22&source=bl&ots=r5va1EnCzQ&sig=SHMBtw8WK9MjWJ77nXSJVEiU1eQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lFkNT-aJB5PAgAfxt7yvBw&ved=0CGoQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Penelope%20Easter%20Caudell%22&f=false, accessed 30 Jan 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 Smithsonian Institution Archives: Record Unit 7162, Caudell, Andrew Nelson, 1872-1936, Andrew Nelson Caudell Papers, http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_217319, accessed 30 Jan 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 John L. Capinera. 2008. Encyclopedia of entomology. Leipzig: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. p. 802; http://books.google.com/books?id=i9ITMiiohVQC&pg=PA802&lpg=PA802&dq=died+%22Andrew+Nelson+Caudell%22&source=bl&ots=VWAqVtjRUQ&sig=q7RD1q3Q5yEqJ10X-Wof3QX-OP4&hl=en#v=onepage&q=died%20%22Andrew%20Nelson%20Caudell%22&f=false, accessed 30 Jan 2012.
  4. ↑ Massachusetts Agricultural College "College Notes" in Aggie Life 10(13): 153; https://archive.org/details/aggielife10mass, accessed 30 Jan 2012.
  5. ↑ Harrison G. Dyar. 1904. Additions to the list of North American Lepidoptera, No. 2. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 6(2):103-118; see pp. 110, 116.
  6. ↑ William T. Davis. 1905. The red-headed Orchelimum and some other New Jersey Orthoptera. The Canadian Entomologist 37(8): 288-289.
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