“I couldn’t help it. I happen to have been born to do it.

I am sure that I would have been a rotten failure doing anything else.”


~ Ends Of The Earth ~


Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Born This Day : Roy Chapman Andrews 1884 ~ 1960


January 26, 1884 ~ March 11, 1960

Born: Beloit, Wisconsin.
Education:  B. A. Beloit College 1906; 
MSc. Columbia, 1913.  
Hon.  Doctorate, Brown University 1926
Married:  First Wife, Yvette Borup, October 7, 1914: Divorced March 30, 1931
Children:  George Borup Andrews 1917 - 2007; Roy Kevin Andrews 1924 - 1989
Married: Second Wife:  Wilhelmina [Billie] Anderson Christmas  February 21, 1935. No Children.
Died March 11, 1960 Carmel, California.  Cremated.  Buried Oakwood Cemetery Beloit, Wisconsin.