Dallas Lore Sharp was an American

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 author and university professor

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, born at Haleyville, Cumberland Co.

Cumberland County, New Jersey

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, N. J.

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  He graduated at Brown University

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 in 1895, served as a Methodist Episcopal minister for four years, and graduated at the Boston University School of Theology

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 in 1899. He married Grace Hastings and the couple had four sons, including Waitstill Sharp

Waitstill Sharp

Waitstill Hastings Sharp was a Harvard College graduate and Unitarian minister. He was the son of naturalist author and professor Dallas Lore Sharp and Grace Hastings and a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634...

. He was assistant librarian

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 (1899-1902), assistant professor of English

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 (1902-09), and thereafter professor at Boston University

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. As a writer he became known through his charming magazine

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articles on native birds and small mammals and for his books, which include:

• Wild Life Near Home (1901)
• A Watcher in the Woods (1903)
• Roof and Meadow (1904)
• The Lay of the Land (1908)
• The Face of the Fields (1911)
• The Fall of the Year (1911)
• Winter (1912)
• The Spring of the Year (1912)
• Summer (1913)
• Beyond the Pasture Bars (1914)
• The Whole Year Round (1915)

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