Clara Barrus and John Burroughs papers, 1877-1981

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1864, Aug. 8	Born, Port Byron, N.Y.
1888	M. D., Boston University, Boston, Mass.
1889-1893	Physician, Utica, N.Y.
1893-1910	Assistant physician, Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, Middletown, N.Y. Professor of psychiatry, Women’s College of New York, New York, N.Y.
1905	Published The Retreat of a Poet Naturalist. Boston: Poet Lore Co.
1908	Published Nursing the Insane. New York: Macmillan
1909	Traveled with John Burroughs and John Muir in Southwest United States, and with John Burroughs to Hawaii
1912-1914	Physician, private sanitarium, Pelham, N.Y.
1914	Published Our Friend John Burroughs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
1920	Published John Burroughs, Boy and Man. New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co.
1921-1931	Literary executor, estate of John Burroughs
1925	Published Life and Letters of John Burroughs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
1925-1931	Lecturer on John Burroughs, John Muir, and her travels
1926	Traveled to Europe
1928	Edited My Dog Friends by John Burroughs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Edited The Heart of Burroughs’ Journals. Port Washington: Kennikat Press
1929	Traveled to Europe
1931	Published Whitman and Burroughs, Comrades. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
1931, Apr. 4	Died, Roxbury, N.Y.

Date	Event
1837, Apr. 3	Born, Roxbury, N.Y.
1857	Married Ursula North (died 1917)
1864-1873	Clerk, U.S. Treasury Department, Washington, D.C.
1871	Published Wake-Robin. Boston: Hurd and Houghton
1871-1921	Published numerous nature essays
1873-1884	Federal bank examiner, West Park N.Y.
1896	Published Whitman: A Study. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
1899	Member, E. H. Harriman’s expedition to Alaska
1901	Traveled in Southwest United States with John Muir and Clara Barrus and to Hawaii with Clara Barrus
1903	Traveled to Washington state with President Theodore Roosevelt
1921, Mar. 29	Died on route to Roxbury, N.Y.