. The official guide book to . WILSON SCHOOIi-HOUSE. study of nature. Wilson, who was born at Paisley, Scotland, in1766, came to America in 1794. For a time he worked at histrade of weaving, but about 1800 he was induced to take chargeof the Union school-house, Kingsessing, as teacher. He soon be-came acquainted with his neighbor William Bartram, the emi-nent naturalist. The latter excited the sympathetic enthusiasmof Wilson, who thenceforth devoted himself to the great task oflearning the habits and peculiarities of the birds of left the school-house about 1804, and
. The official guide book to . WILSON SCHOOIi-HOUSE. study of nature. Wilson, who was born at Paisley, Scotland, in1766, came to America in 1794. For a time he worked at histrade of weaving, but about 1800 he was induced to take chargeof the Union school-house, Kingsessing, as teacher. He soon be-came acquainted with his neighbor William Bartram, the emi-nent naturalist. The latter excited the sympathetic enthusiasmof Wilson, who thenceforth devoted himself to the great task oflearning the habits and peculiarities of the birds of left the school-house about 1804, and devoted himself to thestudy of ornithology. The first volume of his splendid workwas brought out about 1808. Seven volumes had been com-pleted in 1818, when Wilson died. CHAPTER XXVIIIHISTORICAL MANSIONS. BARTEAMS HOUSE. THE earliest botanical garden established in America inwhich plants were cultivated for medicinal purposes, andexotics upon account of their variety, was set up at Bachelors. BARTKAMS HOUSE. Hall in Kensington, somewhat north of the square boundedby Frankford avenue, Laurel street and Manderson street, be-fore the year 1728. This plainly appears in a poem in praiseof Bachelors Hall, which was a club-house and building forthe use of parties and social enjoyment. George Webb was28 * 329 330 BARTRAMS—STENTON BELMONT. the author of this poem, which was printed in 1729. JohnBartram, a scientific botanist and lover of nature, purchaseda piece of ground on the west side of the Schuylkill, belowthe lower ferry, the site of which is now occupied by thePhiladelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Eailroad bridge,in 1728. He built a house there, which was finished in 1731,and laid out a botanical garden which was maintained thereby himself, his sons and their successors for one hundredyears. The old house is still standing. It is built of hewnstone, quaint in style and interesting in its a stone built in the wall is this inscription : John and Ann Baete
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