Charles Howard Shinn

Charles Howard Shinn
Born (1852-04-29)April 29, 1852
Austin, Texas
Died December 2, 1924(1924-12-02) (aged 72)
Ukiah, California

Charles Howard Shinn was a horticulturalist, author, and forest ranger in California.

He was born in Austin, Texas in 1852 to James and Lucy Shinn.[1][2][3] The family moved to Vallejo's Mills, California in 1856. Vallejo's Mills became the town of Niles in 1869 (now a District in Fremont[4]). Much of Charles Shinn's childhood was spent at the ranch and nursery of his family in Niles.[5] His sister, Milicent Shinn, was an American child psychologist.

Education

Shinn attended the state university for two years (now the University of California, Berkeley) and Johns Hopkins University.[3] While at Johns Hopkins University, his roommate was Woodrow Wilson.[6]

Career

Charles Shinn was a teacher in four counties in California from 1870 to 1876 [3] and at Washington Corners in 1876.[7] He was also a writer. Between 1879 and 1889 he wrote for newspapers and magazines in San Francisco, Baltimore, and New York.[6] Charles Shinn was Inspector of California Experiment Stations from 1890-1901 [8] He was head forest ranger for the Department of the Interior.

Marriage

Charles Shinn married Julia Charlotte Tyler in 1888.[9]

Death

Charles Shinn spent the last 22 years of his life in North Fork, California. His home was named the "Peace Cabin".[10] He retired as supervising forest ranger a year before he passed.[6] He is buried in Ukiah, California[11]

Memorial

Charles Shinn is remembered in the Sierra Club bulletin[1] and in the Journal of Forestry.[12]

Mt. Shinn in the Sierra Nevada is named after Charles Howard Shinn.[13]

Writings

Magazine articles

  • "Novarro", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Dec. 1874)[14]
  • "La Gaviota", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Sep. 1875)[15]
  • "Oxford University, and the Humanist Movement of 1498" (Mar. 1883)[16]
  • "Guppy's Daughter", Overland Monthly (Aug. 1883)[17]
  • "The Migration Problem", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Sept 1883)[18]
  • "Thomas Lodge and His Friends", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Feb. 1884)[19]
  • "California Mining Camps", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Aug 1884)[20]
  • "A Rhododendron Quest", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (June 1885)[21]
  • "Early Horticulture in California", Overland Monthly (Aug. 1885)[22]
  • "Shasta Lilies", Overland Monthly (Dec 1885)[23]
  • "Spring Flowers of California", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Apr. 1888)[24]
  • "Artesian Belt of the Upper San Joaquin", Overland Monthly (Aug. 1888)[25]
  • "Early Books, Magazines, and Book-Making", Overland Monthly (Oct. 1888)[26]
  • "From Klamath to the Rio Grande", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Dec. 1888)[27]
  • "The California Palestine", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Jan. 1889)[28]
  • "California Garden Gold", American Gardening (Jan. 1890)[29]
  • "An Early Winter Garden in California", American Gardening (Feb. 1890)[30]
  • "The Olive in California", American Gardening (Apr. 1890)[31]
  • "Spanish Pioneer Houses of California", the Magazine of American History (May 1890)[32]
  • "The Japanese Oranges", American Gardening (Jun. 1890)[33]
  • "An Old-Fashioned Countryside", American Gardening (Aug. 1890)[34]
  • "California Truck-Gardening", American Gardening (Oct. 1890)[35]
  • "Notes from a Pacific Peach Orchard", American Gardening (Dec. 1890)[36]
  • "California Rose Cottages", Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1891)[37]
  • "Social Changes in California" The Popular Science Monthly (April 1891)[38]
  • "The California Lakes", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (July 1891)[39]
  • "Mission Bells" The Overland Monthly (Jan. 1892)[40]
  • "Irrigation in the Arid States" The Popular Science Monthly (June 1893)[41]
  • "The Fruit Industry in California" The Popular Science Monthly (December 1893)[42]
  • "Agriculture and Horticulture at the Midwinter Fair", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Apr. 1894)[43]
  • "Apples at the Midwinter Fair" Garden and Forest (Apr. 4, 1894)[44]
  • "A California Garden" Garden and Forest (June 6, 1894)[45]
  • "Pacific Coast Seedling Fruits" Garden and Forest (June 20, 1894)[46]
  • "Among the Experiment Stations" The Overland Monthly (August 1894)[47]
  • "California Experiment Centres" Garden and Forest (Nov. 7, 1894)[48]
  • "The Wild Gardens of the Sierra" The Garden, An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches (Sep. 26, 1896) [49]
  • "Nevada Silver" The Popular Science Monthly (Oct. 1896)[50]
  • "Overland Monthly Reports: California Forests", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (May 1897)[51]
  • "Northern California Gold Fields", Overland monthly and Out West magazine. (Dec. 1897) [52]
  • "Forestry Problems of the San Joaquin", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Aug. 1899)[53]
  • "The Old Tioga Road", Overland monthly and Out West magazine (Nov. 1899)[54]
  • "The Alvarado Squatters League" Out West magazine (1907)[55]
  • "Sierra Gold" Overland Monthly (Apr. 1922)

Articles in The standard cyclopedia of horticulture

  • The fig in California [56] p. 1235-1238
  • John Rock [56] p. 1593
  • James Shinn p.[56] 1596
  • The sequoias [57] p. 3154-3156

Publications of the University of California

  • Experiments with deciduous fruits at and near the Southern Coast Range sub-station, Paso Robles, from 1889 to 1902[58]
  • The Russian Thistle in California 1895 [59]
  • The Australian Salt-Bushes 1899 [60]
  • Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, for the Years of 1898-1901,[61] various reports
  • Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, for the Years of 1897-1898,[62] various reports

Publications of the USDA

  • An Economic Study of Acacias[63] (1913)
  • Let's know some trees[64] (1925)

Books

  • Pacific Rural Handbook[65] (1879)
  • Land Laws of Mining Districts (1884)
  • Mining Camps[66] (1885)
  • Graphic description of Pacific coast outlaws. Thrilling exploits of their arch-enemy Sheriff Harry N. Morse[67] (1887)
  • Cooperation on the Pacific Coast[68] (1888)
  • Pioneer Spanish Families of California[69] (1891)
  • The Story of the Mine[70] (1896)
  • Intensive Horticulture in California[71] (1901) reprint from "The Land of Sunshine" about Luther Burbank and Carl Purdy
  • A Study of San Luis Obispo County, California (1901) Sunset Magazine, September
  • Culture work at the substations, 1899-1901[72] (1902)
  • Chapters in Picturesque California, edited by John Muir
    • "The Foothill Region of the Northern Coast-Range: Sonoma, Napa, and Solano Valleys"[73]
    • "The Tule Region"[74]
    • "The Land of the Redwood"[75]

Newspapers

  • Historical Sketches of Southern Alameda County (1991)[76] contains a collection of Shinn's articles from the Oakland Enquirer (8 June - 18 Nov 1889).

References

  1. 1 2 Hutchinson, Wallace; Benedict, M.A. (1925). "Charles Howard Shinn". Sierra Club Bulletin. 12: 163–164.
  2. ↑ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1914). Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits . Chicago, Illinois: American Publishers' Association. p. 194.
  3. 1 2 3 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. J.T. White. 1900. p. 248.
  4. ↑ "Fremont, California", Wikipedia, 2018-07-02, retrieved 2018-07-08
  5. ↑ Colquhoun, Jos Alex (1893). Illustrated album of Alameda County, California; its early history and progress--agriculture, viticulture and horticulture--educational, manufacturing and railroad advantages--Oakland and environs--interior townships--statistics, etc., etc. San Francisco Public Library. Oakland, Calif. : Pacific Press. pp. 36–37, 61.
  6. 1 2 3 ""Death Summons Charles Shinn" Madera Tribune — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. 3 December 1924. p. 2. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
  7. ↑ Halley, William (1876). The centennial year book of Alameda County, California :containing a summary of the discovery and settlement of California, a description of the Contra Costa under Spanish, Mexican, and American rule, an account of the organization and settlement of Alameda County ... also, a gazetteer of each township, useful local and general statistical information, appropriate for the present time, to which are added biographical sketches of prominent pioneers and public men /. Oakland, Cal[if.] :. hdl:2027/uc1.31822042767897.
  8. ↑ American Gardening. 1890.
  9. ↑ Mogge, Marie. "Julia Shinn – Our Sierra Mother" (PDF).
  10. ↑ "'Peace Cabin at North Fork Scene of Many Historic Madera Events; Scenes Changed Through Years At Old Home' Madera Tribune 28 September 1948 — California Digital Newspaper Collection". cdnc.ucr.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-19.
  11. ↑ "Charles Howard Shinn (1852-1924) - Find A Grave…". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  12. ↑ "Charles Howard Shinn". Journal of Forestry. 23 (2): 106–106a. 1925-02-01. doi:10.1093/jof/23.2.106. ISSN 0022-1201.
  13. ↑ "Place Names of the High Sierra (1926), "S," by Francis P. Farquhar". www.yosemite.ca.us. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
  14. ↑ "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 13, Issue 6". quod.lib.umich.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  15. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 15, Issue 3". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 260–261. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  16. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 1, Issue 3". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 267–280. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  17. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (August 1883). "Guppy's Daughter".
  18. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 2, Issue 9". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 267–274. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  19. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 3, Issue 2". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 131–146. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  20. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 4, Issue 20". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 173–175. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  21. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 5, Issue 30". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 624–629. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  22. ↑ "The Overland monthly. ser.2:v.6 (Aug. 1885)". HathiTrust. pp. 117–128. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  23. ↑ "The Overland monthly. ser.2:v.6 (1885)". HathiTrust. pp. 638–646. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  24. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 11, Issue 64". quod.lib.umich.edu. p. 418. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  25. ↑ "The Overland monthly. ser. 2, v. 12 (July-Dec. 1888)". HathiTrust. pp. 113–128. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  26. ↑ "The Overland monthly. ser. 2, v. 12 (July-Dec. 1888)". HathiTrust. pp. 337–352. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  27. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 12, Issue 72". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 561–575. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  28. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 13, Issue 73". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 13–25. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  29. ↑ "American gardening. v.11 1890". HathiTrust. pp. 24–25. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  30. ↑ "American gardening. v.11 1890". HathiTrust. pp. 84–85. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  31. ↑ "American gardening. v.11 1890". HathiTrust. pp. 198–201. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  32. ↑ "The Magazine of American history. v.23 1890 Jan-Jun". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  33. ↑ "American gardening. v.11 1890". HathiTrust. pp. 333–336. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  34. ↑ "American gardening. v.11 1890". HathiTrust. pp. 450–452. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  35. ↑ "American gardening. v.11 1890". HathiTrust. pp. 602–604. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  36. ↑ "American gardening. v.11 1890". HathiTrust. pp. 715–716. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  37. ↑ "Vick's illustrated monthly magazine. v. 14 (1891)". HathiTrust. pp. 44–50. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  38. ↑ Popular Science Monthly Volume 38 April 1891.
  39. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 18, Issue 103". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 1–19. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  40. ↑ "The Overland monthly. ser. 2, v. 19 (Jan.-June 1892)". HathiTrust. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  41. ↑ "The Popular science monthly. v.43 1893 May-Oct". HathiTrust. pp. 145–162. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  42. ↑ The Popular science monthly. MBLWHOI Library. [New York, Popular Science Pub. Co., etc.] 1893–1894. pp. 200–217.
  43. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 23, Issue 136". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 393–400. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  44. ↑ Sargent, Charles Sprague (1894). Garden and Forest. Garden and Forest Publishing Company. p. 132.
  45. ↑ Sargent, Charles Sprague (1894). Garden and Forest. Garden and Forest Publishing Company. p. 228.
  46. ↑ Sargent, Charles Sprague (1894). Garden and Forest. Garden and Forest Publishing Company. pp. 241–242.
  47. ↑ The Overland monthly. The Bancroft Library. San Francisco, Cal. : Samuel Carson. 1883–1923. p. 164.
  48. ↑ Sargent, Charles Sprague (1894). Garden and Forest. Garden and Forest Publishing Company. pp. 442–443.
  49. ↑ The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches. publisher not identified. 1896.
  50. ↑ "The Popular science monthly. v.49 1896". HathiTrust. pp. 734–756. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  51. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 29, Issue 173". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 522–525. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  52. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 30, Issue 180". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 506–515. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  53. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard. "Overland monthly and Out West magazine. / Volume 34, Issue 200". quod.lib.umich.edu. pp. 152–154. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  54. ↑ John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress); Harte, Bret (1883–1919). Overland monthly and Out West magazine. Prelinger Library. San Francisco, A. Roman & company [etc.] 1868-75; San Francisco, Overland publishing company; [etc., etc.] pp. 387–395.
  55. ↑ Shinn, Charles H. "Out West magazine v.26 1907". HathiTrust. pp. 23–30. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  56. 1 2 3 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde) (1914). The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States and Canada for ornament, for fancy, for fruit and for vegetables; with keys to the natural families and genera, descriptions of the horticultural capabilities of the states and provinces and dependent islands, and sketches of eminent horticulturists. University of Michigan. New York, The Macmillan Company; [etc., etc.]
  57. ↑ Bailey, L. H. (1947). The standard cyclopedia of horticulture :a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower ... / ([Rev. and enl. ed.]. ed.). New York :.
  58. ↑ "Details - Experiments with deciduous fruits at and near the Southern Coast Range sub-station, Paso Robles, from 1889 to 1902 / - Biodiversity Heritage Library". www.biodiversitylibrary.org. Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  59. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1895). The Russian thistle in California. Berkeley, Cal. :. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t1cj9g18h.
  60. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard; Jaffa, Myer E. (Myer Edward) (1899). Australian salt-bushes. Davis Libraries University of California. Berkeley, Cal. : Agricultural Experiment Station.
  61. ↑ Station, California Agricultural Experiment (1902). Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California.
  62. ↑ Station, California Agricultural Experiment (1900). Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California….
  63. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1913). An economic study of acacias. The Library of Congress. [Washington, Govt. print. off.]
  64. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1931). "Let's know some trees". Miscellaneous Circular. no.31 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  65. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1879). Pacific rural handbook;containing a series of brief and practical essays and notes on the culture of trees, vegetables and flowers, adapted to the Pacific coast. Also hints on home and farm improvements. San Francisco: Dewey & Co. hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t5v702z73.
  66. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard; Jackson, Joseph Henry (1885). Mining camps : a study in American frontier government. University of California Libraries. New York : Charles Scribner's Son.
  67. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1887). Graphic description of Pacific coast outlaws.Thrilling exploits of their arch-enemy Sheriff Harry N. Morse …. hdl:2027/inu.30000115345419.
  68. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1888). Coöperation on the Pacific coast;. University of California Libraries. Baltimore, Publication agency of the Johns Hopkins university.
  69. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard; Doyle, John T. (1891). Pioneer Spanish Families in California: With Special Reference to the Vallejos and the Missions of Alta California. ISBN 9781497931596.
  70. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1896). The story of the mine. The Library of Congress. New York, D. Appleton and company.
  71. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1901). Intensive horticulture in California[or, A wizard of the garden] …. hdl:2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t3126f86r.
  72. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1903). Culture work at the substations, 1899-1901 /. Berkeley, Cal. :. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t81k0g633.
  73. ↑ Muir, John, ed. (1888). Picturesque California :the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope : California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, etc. /. 10. New York and San Francisco: J. Dewing Publishing Company. pp. 337–352. hdl:2027/iau.31858028832198.
  74. ↑ Muir, John, ed. (1888). Picturesque California :the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope : California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, etc. /. 8. New York and San Francisco: J. Dewing Publishing Company. pp. 382–384. hdl:2027/iau.31858028832198.
  75. ↑ Muir, John, ed. (1888). Picturesque California :the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slope : California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, etc. /. 10. New York and San Francisco: J. Dewing Publishing Company. pp. 453–464. hdl:2027/iau.31858028830473.
  76. ↑ Shinn, Charles Howard (1991). Historical Sketches of Southern Alameda County. Alameda County Historical Society.
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