Mary Jobe Akeley
Mary Jobe Akeley was an explorer and naturalist and the second wife of Carl E. Akeley. She is famous as one of the earliest women explorers in Africa where she helped her husband hunt and photograph animals during their natural history studies. She is the author of Carl Akeleys Africa, published in 1929, Lions, Gorillas and Their Neighbors, published in 1932 and Congo Eden published in 1950. Mount Jobe in Canada was renamed in her honor to acknowledge her exploration efforts in the Rocky Mountains.
Mary Lenore Jobe Akeley was born to Richard Watson and Sarah Jane Pittis Jobe onJanuary 1878. She grew up on her parents farm in Tappan, Ohio and graduated from Scio College, Ohio. After graduation she taught at a public school until 1901 when she joined Bryn Mawr College. She later transferred to Columbia University, New York where she received her Master of Arts degree in 1909 after which she joined Hunter College as faculty in History.
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