Henry Shoemaker Conard

Henry Shoemaker Conard was a leading authority on bryophytes and water lilies, as well as an early advocate of environmental preservation. From 1906 to 1955, Professor Conard worked at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. In 1954, he became the first to receive the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America, an award that has continued annually ever since.

Conard was born September 12, 1874 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Pennington Conard and Rebecca Savery Baldwin Conard. He attended Friends Select School in Philadelphia from 1881 to 1888. He entered Westtown Friends Boarding School in Westtown, Pennsylvania in 1889 and graduated as valedictorian in 1892. He then enrolled at Haverford College, where he earned a B.S. in 1895 and an M.A. in 1895. While at Haverford, he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

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