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Born | Mary Lenore Jobe 1878-01-29 |
Died | January 19, 1966 | (aged 87)
Education | A.M. Columbia University, 1909; Ph.B. Scio College, 1897 |
Spouse | Carl Akeley (married 1924-10-18 to 1926-11-17) |
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Mary Jobe Akeley was an explorer, author, mountaineer, and photographer. She undertook expeditions in the Canadian Rockies and in the Belgian Congo. She worked at the American Museum of Natural History creating exhibits featuring taxidermy animals in realistic natural settings.[1][2] She worked on behalf of conservation efforts, including being one of the first advocates for the creation of game preserves.[2][3] She founded Camp Mystic, an outdoor camp for girls.[4]
Biography
Akeley was born Mary Leonore Jobe in Tappan, Ohio on January 29, 1978.[5] She earned a bachelor's degree at Scio College, studied at Bryn Mawr College and earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1909.[2][3] She taught at Temple University while in graduate school, and at from 1909-1913 Hunter College after graduating from Columbia.[3]
Akeley was an accomplished mountain climber and was a member of the American Alpine Club.[1][2] In 1913, she left her teaching job at Hunter to explore the Canadian Rockies. From 1914-1918, she studied and photographed the mountains and the indigenous people of the area, and took a commission from the Canadian government to explore and map the Fraser River in British Columbia. During this time, she made several attempts to summit Mount Sir Alexander, and came within 100 feet of the peak. In honor of her work the Geographic Board of Canada renamed one of the peaks of Mount Sir Alexander as Mount Jobe.[3][6]
In 1924, she married African explorer and taxidermist Carl Akeley. In 1926, she accompanied him on his fifth expedition in Africa (and her first); on the trip, he became sick in the mountains of the Belgian Congo and died of a fever.[2][7] She completed the expedition, mapping parts of the Belgian Congo as well as Kenya and Tanzania, and collecting plant specimens taking hundreds of photographs.[3] Upon her return to the United States, the Museum of Natural History named her to be her husband's successor as the adviser to the development of their African Hall. The Hall was renamed in the Akeleys' honor in 1936.[2][3]
She returned to Africa in 1935 to Transvaal Province, Southern Rhodesia, and Portuguese East Africa, as well as Kruger National Park in South Africa. There she photographed Zulu people and Swazi people.[3] She returned again in 1947 at the behest of the Belgian crown to inspect the wildlife reserves in the Congo, and to film endangered species.[3]
Akeley died of a stroke in 1966.[3]
Books
- The Restless Jungle (1936)[8]
Awards and Honors
- Knight of the Order of the Crown by King Albert of Belgium for her conservation work[1][7]
- Mount Jobe in the Canadian Rockies named in her honor by the Canadian government[2]
- Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame[7]
Memberships[2]
- Royal Geographic Society
- American Alpine Club
- Alpine Club of Canada
- French Alpine Club
- Society of Women Explorers
References
- ^ a b c Hall, Henry S. (1967). "Mary Jobe Akeley". American Alpine Journal: 452.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "MARY J. AKELEY, AN EXPLORER, 80; Author and African Wildlife Expert for Museum Dies". The New York Times. 1966-07-22. p. 31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i 1946-, Duncan, Joyce, (2002). "Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley (1878-1966)". Ahead of their time : a biographical dictionary of risk-taking women. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 25–26. ISBN 0313316600. OCLC 47283091.
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- ^ "Akeley, Mary Jobe (1878–1966) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
- ^ Schmitt, Julia. "Mount Jobe". www.peakfinder.com. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
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(help) - ^ Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (1936). Restless jungle. New York: R.M. McBride & Co.
- ^ Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (1946). Rumble of a distant drum; a true story of the African hinterland,. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
- ^ Akely, Mary Lee Jobe (1950). Congo Eden.: a comprehensive portrayal of the historical background and the scientific aspects of the Great Game sancturies of the Belgian Congo with the story of six months pilgrimage throughout that most primitiv region in the heart of the African : continent. New York: Dodd, Mead.
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