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Dean Conant Worcester, D.Sc., FRGS (October 1, 1866 – May 2, 1924) was an American zoologist, public official, and writer on the Philippines. He was born at Thetford, Vermont, and educated at the University of Michigan (A.B., 1889). Worcester's involvement with the Philippines began in 1887 when he joined a scientific expedition to the region ...
The Schurman Commission, also known as the First Philippine Commission, was established by United States President William McKinley on January 20, 1899, and tasked to study the situation in the Philippines and make recommendations on how the U.S. should proceed after the sovereignty of the Philippines was ceded to the U.S. by Spain on December ...
After the Philippines became a theater of operations in the Spanish–American War, with hostilities commencing on May 1, 1898, with the Battle of Manila Bay, Aguinaldo and others returned from exile to the Philippines in order to resume their revolution against the Spanish colonial government. On May 24, in the wake of his military victories ...
Dean Conant Worcester [q] Sources: Journal of the Philippine Commission Being the First Session, October 16, 1912, to February 3, 1913, and A Special Session, February 6, 1913, to February 11, 1913, of the Third Philippine Legislature. Manila: Bureau of Printing. 1913.
On January 23, 1909, the newspaper was sued for libel by Dean Conant Worcester, then-secretary of the interior of the Insular Government of the Philippines. [5] [3]: 426 Worcester felt he was alluded to by the description of someone who had "the characteristics of the vulture, the owl and the vampire."
The School of Forestry building was built in commemoration of the school's 20th anniversary. [7]CFNR traces its roots to the Forest School founded on April 14, 1910, [8] through an Act 1989 by the Insular Government of the Philippines and efforts by Secretary of the Interior, Dean Conant Worcester.
Pages in category "People of American colonial Philippines" ... Dean Conant Worcester This page was last edited on 28 June 2016, at 11:09 (UTC). Text ...
The Taft Commission, also known as the Second Philippine Commission (Filipino: Ikalawang Komisyon ng Pilipinas, Spanish: Segunda Comisión de Filipinas), was established by United States President William McKinley on March 16, 1900, following the recommendations of the First Philippine Commission, using presidential war powers while the U.S. was engaged in the Philippine–American War.