KAEDING, Henry B.

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KAEDING, Henry Barroilhet (1877-1913) was born in San Francisco, the son of Charles V. Kaeding, one of the city's pioneer merchants, and Frances Caroline Ladd. He attended the California School of Mechanical Arts. [The seven mechanical arts were: weaving, blacksmithing, war, navigation, agriculture, hunting, medicine, and the ars theatrica.] Kaeding became interested in chemistry and mining and became a mining engineer.

Kaeding became friends with ornithologist, Chester Barlow, who led Kaeding to join the Condor Ornithological Club in 1895. In 1908 he authored the first ten-year index to The Condor.

Kaeding's younger brother was Charles Deering Kaeding (1880-1942), and he too collected in Lower California.

Kaeding died in Los Angeles on June 13, 1913. He was 36 years old. Pdficon small 2.gif

Kaeding Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa kaeding), a petrel in Lower California, is named in his honor.


Henry B. Kaeding = [1900] Mary Catherine Hubbard

  • 1. Katherine G. Kaeding (1901-1985)
  • 2. Helen Elizabeth Kaeding (1902- )
  • 3. Margaret E. Kaeding (1905-1983)


Kaeding collected on:

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In the News~

February 1897 [The Nidiologist 4(6):67]: “Mr. A. W. Anthony has sailed from San Diego on a five months collecting cruise in Mexican waters. He will visit this time a number of islands in the Gulf of California. He is accompanied on the expedition by Richard C. McGregor of Palo Alto and H. B. Kaeding of San Francisco. Some excellent work no doubt will be accomplished.”


November 29, 1900 [Santa Cruz Sentinel]: “An interesting incident connected with the wedding of Henry B. Kaeding and Mary C. Hubbard, formerly of Santa Cruz, at Nagasaki, was that the wedding ring was made of pure gold with no alloy. One-third of the gold came from Chitabalbe, one-third from Taibaworie, and one-third from Kuk-song-dong, the three gold producing mines of Korea. The gold was bought by the groom, who hammered it into ring shape. He then took it to Nagasaki where it was trued and polished. It had a handsome dead gold finish and was the size of two ordinary wedding rings.”


ISLA GUADALUPE
ISLAND COLLECTOR INSTITUTION DATE NUMBER SPECIMEN
Isla Guadalupe H. B. Kaeding WFVZ March 25, 1897 WFVZ-76049 Oceanodroma macrodactyla Eggs


ISLA NATIVIDAD
ISLAND COLLECTOR INSTITUTION DATE NUMBER SPECIMEN
Isla Natividad C. D. Kaeding CAS April 9, 1897 CAS-43408 Puffinus opisthomelas Birds


  • 1897. KAEDING, H. B. In Mexican Waters. Success of the Anthony—Kaeding—McGregor Expedition “ ...'Under date of April 10, writing from Natividad Island, he says: 'Today I collected over a hundred sets with parents of Black-vented Shearwater, the eggs heretofore unknown.' ” The Nidologist 4(9):109 May 1897


ISLAS SAN BENITO
ISLAND COLLECTOR INSTITUTION DATE NUMBER SPECIMEN
Islas San Benito C. D. Kaeding CAS July 22, 1896 CAS-43468 Oceanodroma melania Birds
Islas San Benito C. D. Kaeding CAS July 22, 1896 CAS-43469 Oceanodroma melania Birds
Islas San Benito C. D. Kaeding CAS July 24, 1896 CAS-43466 Oceanodroma leucorhoa chapmani Birds
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Islas San Benito C. D. Kaeding WFVZ May 2, 1897 WFVZ-204594 Sula sula Eggs
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Islas San Benito C. D. Kaeding CAS July 12, 1897 CAS-43444 Oceanodroma microsoma Birds


ISLA SAN GERONIMO
ISLAND COLLECTOR INSTITUTION DATE NUMBER SPECIMEN
Isla San Geronimo H. B. Kaeding CAS March 15, 1897 CAS-43077 Ptychoramphus aleuticus aleuticus Birds
Isla San Geronimo H. B. Kaeding CAS March 15, 1897 CAS-43085 Ptychoramphus aleuticus aleuticus Birds



ISLA SAN MARTIN
  • 1897. KAEDING, H. B. In Mexican Waters. Success of the Anthony—Kaeding—McGregor Expedition “ ...'Reached San Martin's yesterday morning and found about the same birds, besodes Ospreys, etc. Tooa a few sets, six of them Ospreys. There being no trees they nest on the ground every ghundred yards or so, but it is too early. There are two Pelican rookeries here, one of them one and a half miles long by a mile broad, and you can't lay down a six-foot stick anywhere without striking a nest or two.' ” The Nidologist 4(9):109 May 1897



ISLA TODOS SANTOS
  • 1897. KAEDING, H. B. In Mexican Waters. Success of the Anthony—Kaeding—McGregor Expedition “ ...Writing from San Martin's Island on March 13, he [H.B. Kaeding] says: 'Our first stop was at Todos Santos Island, but we didn't get anything very rare. The first take I made was a set of three and both parents of Bald Eagle, and then I laid in a basket full of Heerman's Gulls, Black Turnstones, Black and Frazar's Oyster-catchers. I got fifteen Black Turnstones with one shot.' ” The Nidologist 4(9):109 May 1897