Herbert K. Job, 



Ornithologist, 



Is Dead at 68 



Friend of Late President 

 Roosevelt Quit Ministry 

 to Learn Habits of Birds 



By The Associated Press i i ./ ./ 

 DELMAR, N. Y., June 17.— Herbert 

 Kelghtley Job, naturalist and author, 

 and once director of nature and con- 

 servation education for South Caro- 

 lina and Virginia, died here today. He 

 was sixty-eight years old. 



He was a friend of the late President 



I Theodore Roosevelt and once made an 

 expedition with him into the Louisiana 

 marshes to study bird life. Colonel 

 Roosevelt wrote the introduction for 

 his book "Wild Wings" in 1905. Mr. 

 Job also wrote "Among the Water 



I Fowl," "Blue Goose Chase" and "The 

 Sport of Bird Study." 



Congregational Pastor 



Mr. Job, a native of Boston, was 

 I graduated from Harvard University in 

 1888 and from Hartford Theological 

 Seminary in 1891. He was pastor of 

 Congregational churches in North 

 Middleboro. Mass., from 1891 until 

 1898 and at Kent, Conn., from 1898 to 

 1908. 



His interest In birds then induced 

 Mr. Job to leave the ministry and, 

 from 1908 to 1914, he served as state 

 ornithologist of Connecticut and as a 

 member of the faculty of the Connec- 

 ticut Agricultural College. He next 

 became associated with the National 

 Association of Audvibon Societies, as 

 economic ornithologist in charge of 

 the department of applied ornithology, 

 serving from 1914 to 1924. In 1918 he 

 became director of the Ornithological 

 Experiment Station at Amston, Conn., 

 erected by Charles E. Ames, who was 

 interested in the propagation of 

 pheasants and other game birds. 



He was South Carolina field agent of 

 the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies and .state director of nature 

 and conservation education of South 

 Carolina from 1926 to 1930. During 

 his career. Mr. Job made frequent ex- 

 peditions to wilder parts of the North- 

 western states. Canada and the South 

 to secure photographs and motion pic- 

 I tures of wild birds from life. He was 

 a member of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists Union. 



Surviving are his wife, the former 

 Elsie Ann Curtiss. of Mayville. N. D.. 

 whom hp maried September 10. 1891; 

 one son. George, and a daughter, 



