'Herbert K. Job, 
Ornithologist, 
I Is Dead at 68 
i ■ 
I Friend of Late President 
j Roosevelt Quit Ministry 
j to Learn Habits of Birds [ 
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I Sy The Associated Press 
! DELMAR, N. Y., June 17.—Herbert 
Kelghtley Job, naturalist and author, 
j 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 
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. Mi-. 
Job also wrote “Among the Water 
Fowl,” "Blue Goose Chase” and "The 
Sport of Bird Study.” 
Congregational Pastor 
Mr. Job, a native of Boston, was 
j graduated from Harvard University in 
1888 and from Hartford Theological 
I 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 
J ornithologist of Connecticut and as aj 
T member of the faculty of the Connec- i 
ticut Agricultural College. He next ; 
became associated with the National: 
Association of Audubon Societies, as 
economic ornithologist in charge of 
I the department of applied ornithology, ■ 
serving from 1914 to 1924. In 1918 he' 
became director of the Ornithological | 
, Experiment Station at Amston, Conn., i 
erected by Charles E. Ames, who was 
I 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 
; Caroiyia from 1926 to 1930. During 
i 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 j 
a member of the American Ornitholo- 
, gists Union. 
J Surviving are his wife, the former 
I Elsie Ann Curtiss, of Mayville, N. D., I 
whom he marled September 10, 1891; ■ 
one son. George, and a daughter, 
Muriel Marion. 
