MEMOIR 
“There was a boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs 
And islands of Winander!—many a time, 
At evening, when the earliest stars began 
To move along the edges of the hills, 
Rising or setting, would he stand alone, 
Beneath the trees, or by the glimmering lake.” 
William Wordsworth. 
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O the subject of this biographical sketch, could William 
Wordsworth have addressed his poem. From his child¬ 
hood days there became manifest a great love for the 
out-of-doors. In his boyhood hours and short-lived manhood 
days, his predominant interest lay in the Kingdom of the Birds. 
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Albert G. Hochwalt was born at Dayton, Ohio, June 25, 
1893. His parents were of families, well-known and highly 
respected in the community. The father, early associated 
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with a group of literature-loving youth, was already at the &■ 
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birth of young Albert, a nature-writer and traveler. Despite 
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the frequent absence, the parent’s love of birds, became the 
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child’s possession. In addition to this early influence, the 
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abiding interest of a devoted mother who lived for her children, 
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manifested itself in that finer feeling and sense of delicacy that 
made up the soul of the boy-naturalist 
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