Herbert Keightley Job Collection, 1879 - 1911

Herbert Keightley Job (1864-1933), minister, lecturer, author, ornithologist, and pioneer wildlife photographer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He received an A.B. from Harvard and trained as a minister at the Hartford Theological Seminary. He married Elsie Ann Curtiss in 1891 and had two children, George Curtiss and Muriel Marion. He was originally a Congregational minister, first in North Middleboro, Massachusetts, 1891-1898 and then in Kent, Connecticut, 1898-1908. Between 1908 and 1914, he served as State Ornitholgist of Connecticut and member of the faculty of the Connecticut Agricultural College (today, University of Connecticut, Storrs), 1908-1914 and between 1914-1924, he was economic ornithologist in charge of the Department of Applied Ornithology. From 1918, he served as Director of the Summer School and the Ornithological Experimental Station of the National Association of Audubon Societies, Amston, Connecticut. Between 1926 and 1930, he was Field Agent for South Carolina of the National Association of Audubon Societies and State Director of Nature Conservation Education, South Carolina. He traveled often in wilder areas of North America in connection with his scientific interests and attained wide recognition for his wildlife photography.