THE CONDOR 
A Bi-Monthly Magazine of 
Western Ornithology 
Volume XXII July-August, 1920 Number 4 
[Issued August 10, 1920] © 
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IN MEMORIAM: FRANK SLATER DAGGETT ¢. », | 192 
By H. S. SWARTH ¥ 
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and energetic member, who for many years had taken a prominent part in 
the affairs of the Club. His end came April 5, 1920, at Redlands, Califor- 
nia, suddenly and without warning, due to a cerebral hemorrhage. 
Mr. Daggett was born at Norwalk, Ohio, January 30, 1855. His early 
manhood was spent at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; on June 5, 1884, at Augusta, Wis- 
consin, he was married to Lela Axtell. They had one daughter, Ethel Eliza- 
beth, and one son, Axtell, the latter of whom died in his childhood. In 1885 
the family moved to Duluth, Minnesota, where Mr. Daggett was engaged in the 
grain business. While there he was a member of the school board, upon which 
he was chairman of the finance committee, and he took an active part in the 
construction of a new high school, which, at the time, was said to be the second 
finest in the United States. He became greatly interested in photography, by 
no means as easy for the amateur then as it has since been made, and he owned 
the first camera to be brought into Duluth. 
He was a born collector, and his love for nature and the out-doors turned 
this bent toward the acquisition of specimens of various forms of animal life. 
First, in boyhood, a collection of butterflies was begun. Later on, this field 
was extended to include other insects, and, still later, birds. While at Duluth 
he made summer trips each year into the Nipigon region, Canada, fishing and 
collecting, with no company but his Indian guides. 
The winter of 1892-93 he and his family spent in Pasadena. The next win- 
ter (1893-94) found them at Orlando, Florida. At the latter place Mr. Daggett 
did a great deal of collecting, many of his specimens going to the Duluth High 
School. In 1894 the family moved to Pasadena to stay. Just at that time 
there were a number of individuals in Pasadena and Los Angeles, all interested 
in birds and gradually getting acquainted with one anether, to form the coterie 
of bird lovers that later developed into the Southern Division of the Cooper 
Ornithological Club. Mostly these were much younger men than Mr. Daggett. 
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| N THE DEATH of Frank Slater Daggett the Cooper Club has lost.an active 
