Name Maurice Tanquary | Died October 25, 1944 | |
Dr. Maurice Cole Tanquary (November 26, 1881 - October 25, 1944) was a professor of entomology at Kansas State Agricultural College then became the chief of entomology at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1919. He was a member of the Crocker Land Expedition with Walter Elmer Ekblaw. He is considered to be a pioneer in modern beekeeping. Tanquary was interested in apiculture and resigned in 1923 to enter professional beekeeping in North Dakota. He later joined the University of Minnesota in apiculture and remained there until 1944. He is alumni of Vincennes University and the University of Illinois, (A.B. 1907, A.M. 1908, Ph.D. 1912) Tanquary’s family donated his photographs, lantern slides and journals to The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College, in 2006.