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Born in Michigan in 1856, Charles Willis Ward was a noted American businessman and conservationist. Ward operated the Cottage Gardens Nurseries in Queens, Long Island, New York. As a leading grower of carnations, he helped to establish the American Carnation Society. He also helped to create the American Peony Society, over which he presided for many years. Ward also was involved with the American Breeders Association, later known as the American Genetic Association. According to documents in the Harry S. Truman Library, Ward "explored the Everglades for the Smithsonian Institution about the turn of the century." 〔(Log of the President's Third Visit to Key West, December 3–8, 1947 ), accessed 14 October 2009.〕 Around 1910 he teamed with businessman and conservationist E. A. McIlhenny to purchase of Louisiana coastal marshland for the purpose of establishing a wildfowl refuge. Ward and McIlhenny deeded of this land in 1911 to the state of Louisiana, which dubbed it the Ward-McIlhenny refuge, now known as State Wildlife Refuge.〔Shane K. Bernard, ''Tabasco: An Illustrated History'' (Avery Island, La.: McIlhenny Company, 2007), p. 132.〕 Ward authored ''The American Carnation: How to Grow It'' (1903) and ''Humboldt County, California: The Land of Unrivaled Undeveloped Natural Resources on the Westernmost Rim of the American Continent'' (1915). He purchased the magazine ''Recreation'', which he merged with ''Outdoor World'', a magazine he previously founded. "The entire purpose of this great magazine," noted one observer about ''Outdoor World'', ". . . is to further the game bird refuge movement."〔Mrs. Neil Wyatt Chapline, ''Florida the Fascinating'' (New York: Broadway Publishing, 1914), p. 95.〕 Ward was known for travelling the coastal United States in his luxury motor boat, the ''Ethel M. Ward'', built in 1910 at Port Clinton, Ohio . From 1917 to 1919 the boat, temporarily renamed the ''USS Rickwood'' (SP-597), served the U.S. Navy as a patrol, ferry, towing and rescue boat at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida. In 1919 the Navy returned the boat to its owner. Toward the end of his life, he resided in California, where he operated "large nursery interests at Eureka"〔Charles Willis Ward obituary, ''Bulletin of Peony News'' (American Peony Society) (April 1920), pp. 29-34.〕 Ward died June 24, 1920, in Eureka, California.〔 San Francisco Genealogy, (Obituaries and Death Notices )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Willis Ward」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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