Joseph A. Lintner

      Joseph Albert Lintner was born in Schoharie, NY on Feb 8, 1822 to Rev. George and Maria Wagner Lintner. He graduated in 1837 from Schoharie Academy. Mr. Lintner spent ten years in New York City in mercantile business.

    In 1853, Joseph A. Lintner started a collection of insects. On Oct 3, 1856 he married Frances Hutchinson with whom he had four children. in 1860, moved to Utica where manufactured woolen goods for seven years.

    In 1868, Joseph A. Lintner became Zoological Assistant at the State Museum of Natural History in Albany. He was was appointed state entomologist (some one who studies insects) in 1880.

    Joseph A. Lintner wrote about 1,000 scientific papers; and published annual reports on the Indurious and other insects of the state. 

    Joseph A. Lintner was president of the Entomological Club of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Association of Economic Entomologists, two years each, has been president of the department of natural science in the Albany Institute since 1879 and is a member of the American Entomological Society, the Entomological Society of Washington, D. C, the Entomological Society of Ontario, Canada, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, the Cambridge Entomological Club, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Davenport, Iowa, the Oneida Historical Society, the Kansas State Horticultural Society, the New York State Agricultural Society, the Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Beige, Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, and Societe Entomologique de France, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

    Joseph A. Lintner passed away on May 5, 1898 in Rome, Italy. He is buried in Lot 7E Plot 736 of Forest Hill Cemetery in Utica.


 

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