Althea Sherman
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican ornithologist, artist and educator (1853-1943)
Althea Rosina Sherman was an American illustrator, educator, self-taught ornithologist, and writer who commissioned the building of the "Chimney Swifts' Tower" in Clayton County, Iowa. This structure enabled her to observe and report on the life cycle of chimney swifts, the first to complete such investigations.
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Althea Sherman (left) with her sister Dr. Amelia Sherman on the front porch of their family home, 1923.
1910 Sketch of a Northern Flicker by Sherman![Sherman's Data on Growth Rates of Screech Owl Nestlings, as published in 1911[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/GrowthRateScreechOwls.jpg/330px-GrowthRateScreechOwls.jpg)
Sherman's Data on Growth Rates of Screech Owl Nestlings, as published in 1911[8]
Photograph of Althea Sherman from History of Clayton County, Iowa (1916) by Realto E. Price.Artists from United States 6
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Althea Rosina Sherman was an American illustrator, educator, self-taught ornithologist, and writer who commissioned the building of the "Chimney Swifts' Tower" in Clayton County, Iowa. This structure enabled her to observe and report on the life cycle of chimney swifts, the first to complete such investigations. She published more than 70 articles in scientific and ornithological journals during her career. Sherman was elected as a member of the American Ornithologists' Union and was listed in the third edition of American Men of Science. Additionally, her work as an illustrator, particularly of the American goldfinch, inspired the Iowa General Assembly to adopt the American goldfinch as the Iowa state bird.
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