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John Muir (/ m jʊər / MURE; April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914), [1] also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", [2] was a Scottish-born American [3] [4]: 42 naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, botanist, zoologist, glaciologist, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.
Linnie Marsh Wolfe (January 8, 1881 – September 15, 1945) [1] was an American librarian. She won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for her 1945 biography of John Muir titled Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1945).
– via California Digital Newspaper Collection. Huntley, Jen A. (2011). The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular National Park. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1805-7. OCLC 714731511. Worster, Donald (2008). A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir. Oxford and New York ...
David Ross Brower (/ ˈ b r aʊ. ər / BROW-ər; July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies (1997), Friends of the Earth (1969), Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences.
The John Muir National Historic Site is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Martinez, Contra Costa County, California.It preserves the 14-room Italianate Victorian mansion where the naturalist and writer John Muir lived, as well as a nearby 325-acre (132 ha) tract of native oak woodlands and grasslands historically owned by the Muir family.
John Theophil Strentzel (29 November 1813 – 31 October 1890) [2] was a Polish-born physician who gained fame as a pioneer in the area of experimental California horticulture. [3] He is best known as the father-in-law of writer and environmental activist John Muir. John Theophil Strentzel's home, now the John Muir National Historic Site
John Amos’s cause of death has been confirmed, just over a month after he died on August 21 aged 84. The Good Times actor died from congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital, according ...
John Muir Health responded to the article stating that the surgery was properly performed and that the child was frail and could have died even under optimal circumstances. [12] On April 15, 2022, the Medical Board of California launched an investigation of John Muir and its doctors relating to the death of Ailee Jong. [13]