{{Short description|American entomologist}} thumb|Morgan Hebard, from ''A History of the Class of 1910, Yale College'' '''Morgan Hebard''' (February 23, 1887 – December 28, 1946) was an American entomologist who specialized in orthoptera, and assembled a collection of over 250,000 specimens.<ref name="Rehn">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2559944#page/403/mode/1up|title=Morgan Hebard (1887-1946)|author=James A. G. Rehn|year=1948 |journal=Entomological News |accessdate=Nov 5, 2022|pages=56–69 |publisher=The American Entomological Society}}</ref>
==Early life and education== Morgan Hebard was born on February 23, 1887, in Cleveland, Ohio to Hannah Jeanette (née Morgan) and Charles Samuel Hebard. Due to his family's lumber businesses, they had houses in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Thomasville, Georgia and Pequaming, Michigan, and he grew up exploring the outdoors in all three locations, as well as Miami, Florida, which his family regularly visited. Hebard attended Asheville School in North Carolina, educated by a private tutor, before graduating from Yale University in 1910.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofclassof00yale#page/276/mode/2up/search/Hebard |title= A History of the Class of '82, Yale College (1878–1910) |year=1911 |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=May 12, 2017|pages=276–278}}</ref><ref name="Yale 1910">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofclassof01yale#page/178/mode/2up/search/Hebard |title= A History of the Class of 1910 |year=1910 |publisher=Yale University |accessdate=May 12, 2017|pages=178}}</ref> At Yale, Hebard won prizes as a member of the gun team.<ref name="Yale 1910" /><ref name="Bragg">{{cite journal|url=http://phasmidstudygroup.org/files/Phasmid_Studies/Phasmid_Studies_Vol17_Iss1and2.pdf|title=Biographies of Phasmatologists – 9. Morgan Hebard |author= P. E. Bragg |journal= Phasmid Studies |volume=17 |issue=2 |year=2009 |pages= 58 in 51–73}}</ref> At the time of his graduation, he intended to enter the family lumber business.<ref name="Yale 1910" />
==Career== He worked for brokers and bankers, Henry & West from 1910 to 1912 in Philadelphia. From 1910 to 1928, he was a research associate at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. For ten years after that he was the curate of entomology. Between 1938 and 1940, he was a research fellow. In 1945 and 1946, he was a benefactor of the academy. During field trips to Western Europe, Panama, Cuba, Jamaica, Columbia and the Bahamas, Hebard built a collection of 250,000 specimens, which he presented to the academy in 1945. He wrote 197 journal articles and monographs on entomological topics, either individually or jointly with his fellow entomologist, James A. G. Rehn, comprising over 5,000 pages.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2559944#page/403/mode/1up|title=Morgan Hebard (1887-1946)|author=James A. G. Rehn|year=1948 |journal=Entomological News |accessdate=May 12, 2017|page=64 |publisher=The American Entomological Society}}</ref> He described over 800 new species of orthopteroids; this included 44 new species and ten new genera of Phasmids (six new genera on his own and four as co-author with Rehn).<ref name="Bragg"/> Forty orthopteroid species and nine genera have been named after him, including: one Phasmid species, ''Ilocano hebardi'' Rehn & Rehn, 1938; three species of Mantids, and two genera: ''Hebardia'' Werner, 1921 and ''Hebardiella'' Werner, 1924; eight species of Cockroaches, and four genera: ''Hebardina'' Bei-Bienko, 1938, ''Hebardula'' Uvarov, 1939, ''Euhebardula'' Princis, 1953 (a replacement name for ''Hebardula'' Princis, 1950); and 28 species of Orthoptera, three genera: ''Hebardiniella'' Chopard, 1932, (emendation of ''Hebardinella'' Chopard, 1932), ''Hebarditettix'' Günther, 1938<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologische-Zeitung-Stettin_99_0161-0230.pdf|title=Revision der Acrydiinae (Orth.), II. Scelimenae spuriae|author=Klaus Günther|year=1938 |journal=Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung|accessdate=Aug 11, 2017}}</ref> and ''Hebardacris'' Rehn, 1952.<ref name="Bragg"/> He was a member of American Entomological Society, and for a time it's Treasurer, and was elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America.<ref name="Yale obit" /><ref name="Rehn"/> He was an honorary member of the Entomological Society of France, and also of the Columbian Natural Science Society.<ref name="Rehn"/>
==World War I== During World War I, Hebard was a Second Lieutenant for the Signal Officers Reserve Corps. He was a post supply officer and at Columbia University was acting adjutant at the Signal Corps School. He also served in Washington, D.C. at the Military Intelligence Division.<ref name="Yale obit" />
==Personal life== On October 16, 1913, he married Margaret Champlin Perry (née Claxton), a granddaughter of artist John La Farge (and who was also descended from Oliver Hazard Perry, Benjamin Franklin and Mayflower passenger William Brewster), and they had three children, naturalist Morgan Hebard, Jr., Charles Bradford Hebard (died February 27, 1930), and Margaret Champlin Perry, wife of Richard Wingate Lloyd (BA Princeton 1928)<ref name="Yale obit" /><ref>{{cite web|url= http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_HSP_CHHS1996317|title=Morgan Hebard, Jr. Collection, PACSCL Finding Aids | author1=Celia Caust-Ellenbogen|author2= Michael Gubicza|author3=Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories |date= |website=University of Pennsylvania |accessdate=April 8, 2017}}</ref> Beginning about 1936 he was affected by acute rheumatoid arthritis. He died in Philadelphia on December 28, 1946, and is buried at St Thomas' Cemetery in Whitemarsh Township, Pennsylvania.<ref name="Yale obit">{{cite book|url=http://mssa.library.yale.edu/obituary_record/1925_1952/1946-47.pdf|title=Bulletin of Yale University: Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Year 1946–1947|pages=87–88|publisher=Yale University}}</ref> Hebard was a convert to the Catholic faith.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=cns19470106-01.1.30&srpos=20&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22entomologist%22------- | title=Catholic News Service - Newsfeeds 6 January 1947 — Catholic Research Resources Alliance }}</ref>
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==Further reading== * {{cite book|author=Arnold Mallis|title=American Entomologists|date=January 1, 1971|publisher=Rutgers University Press|isbn=978-0-8135-0686-9|chapter=Morgan Hebard (1887-1946)|page=[https://archive.org/details/americanentomolo0000mall/page/200 200]|chapter-url-access=registration|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/americanentomolo0000mall/page/200}} * {{cite book|author=David Rentz|title=A Guide to the Cockroaches of Australia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uvynAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13|date=May 29, 2014|publisher=Csiro Publishing|isbn=978-1-4863-0037-2|page=13}}
==External links== * [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Morgan+Hebard&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C6&as_sdtp= Morgan Hebard], articles on Google scholar * [https://www.google.com/search?q=Morgan+Hebard&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS690US690&oq=Morgan+Hebard&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2j0j69i60.569j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#safe=active&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Morgan+Hebard%22 Books by Morgan Hebard], Google books
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