Paul,
There was a collector named Ken Squires who used to be a subscriber here
on Conch-L. I wonder if there is any familial connection?
Unfortunately I do not have any additional contact information for
him.
Also I had a customer named Dick Squires from Saugus, CA.
Rich G.
At 09:34 AM 1/5/2024, you wrote:
Conchlers,
Happy New Year from the home of Pilsbry’s Ghost!
I’m looking for information on one Karl Squires, a collector of various
things (birds’ eggs, artifacts and Liguus snails) in the Miami area
between 1920 and roughly 1945. We have at least part of his collection of
Liguus and are using him as a test case for the concept of “the
socially-extended specimen.”
This is what I have so far:
From History of Dade County, Florida by Tracy Hollingsworth
(1949)
https://archive.org/stream/historyofdadecou00holl/historyofdadecou00holl_djvu.txt
KARL SQUIRES
Karl Squires, civil engineer and discoverer of many of the pre-historic
Indian Mounds, and much of the pre-historic past of Southeastern Florida,
was born in Medina, N. Y., April 8, 1886, the son of Frank James and
Bertha Kate Bowen Squires. Karl attended the Syracuse University,
graduating in 1916, and entered the civil engineering field. He came to
Miami in 1916, and was for one year in charge of field parties surveying
and sectionalizing the northern portion of Dade and Broward counties, for
the State. He was engineer in charge of surveying work at Chapman Field,
early in 1918, and resigned to enter World War I, seeing service in
France.
Returning to Miami, after the war, he worked for the Smithsonian
Institute, in the unearthing of specimens of prehistoric human life in
this area. In addition to his military record in France, he was a member
of the N. Y. State National Guard, and organized the Dade County National
Guard Battery of Coast Artillery. He is a graduate of the U. S. Army
Engineers’ Officers’ School at Fort Humhreys, Va., as a captain.
In July 1907, he married Edith Dennis, at Greenport, Long Island, and
they have a son, William D. Squires, who married Peggy Chatham, May 20,
1933. Mr. Squires is a member of the Masons, Shrine, Tropical Biological
Society, American Society of Military Engineers, Beta Theta Pi
fraternity.
Does anyone out there in ConchLand know more? I feel myself succumbing to
the Lure of the Liguus…
Paul Callomon
Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University,
Philadelphia
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