Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William BARTRAM
His son William, his fifth child, inherited his father's passion for plants. He was an accomplished artist who made hundreds of drawings of birds and plants and took copious notes on American Indians. He published a book called "Travels" which was widely read and appealed to the romantics Coleridge and Wordsworth.
The noted ornithologist James Wilson would stay at the home, in order to learn about birds from William. William along with a brother founded the nation's first nursery and published the first plant catalogue in the United States. John is
credited with popularizing such plants as the geranium, rhododendron, and laurel in the colonies. The carrs, in-laws latter descendants of the Bartrams are credited with the introduction of the poinsettia.Following in his father's footsteps, William carried on extensive travels and observations in the fields of botany and ornithology, finally returning home to a quiet life. He was recognized as America's first ornithologist. He never married.
Bartram published a collection of engravings, Elements of Botany, in 1803; and later joined the Lewis and Clark expedition into the new territory of Louisiana, at President Jefferson's request.
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