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Childs Frick (March 12, 1883 - May 8, 1965) was an American vertebrate paleontologist. He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a major benefactor of its Department of Paleontology, which in 1916 began a long partnership with him. He established its Frick Laboratory.
Feb 2, 2024 · Childs Frick was a wealthy heir, a WWI veteran, and a passionate collector of fossil mammals. He founded Frick Laboratory at AMNH and built a comprehensive collection of late Tertiary fossils that influenced paleontological research.
Childs Frick was a naturalist, paleontologist, and conservationist who led a historic safari to Abyssinia and East Africa in 1911-12. He donated his specimens to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History, and wrote about his adventures in the Abyssinian Expedition.
Jul 11, 2019 · During this period, you might have seen Mrs. Adelaide Frick at the side of a racetrack, or coaching in Schenley Park. While all of the family members used horses and carriages in various ways, archival evidence reveals that Adelaide Frick was the most enthusiastic family equestrienne.
Over a thirteen-month period spanning 1891–1892, Henry Clay and Adelaide Howard Childs Frick lost two of their four children. A reasonable conclusion can be drawn from Frick family history that a virulent infection contributed to oldest daughter Martha’s death a week before her 6th birthday.
Childs Frick (March 12, 1883 - May 8, 1965) was an American vertebrate paleontologist. He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a major benefactor of its Department of Paleontology, which in 1916 began a long partnership with him. He established its Frick Laboratory.
The Frick Pittsburgh is the legacy of Helen Clay Frick, daughter of industrialist Henry Clay Frick and his wife Adelaide Howard Childs Frick. The family lived at Clayton from 1883 to 1905.
