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On Old Cape Cod
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Ferdinand C. Lane
11 booksDr. Ferdinand Cole Lane was born in Minnesota, but he has spent most of his life on the East Coast or traveling in other countries.
When he was in his early twenties, biologist Ferdinand Cole Lane, troubled by what he described as “weak lungs” left his part-time job with the Massachusetts Commission of Fisheries and Game and headed for Alberta, Canada, where he “passed the next six months in a log cabin on the remote frontier.”
Born on a wheat farm on the western edge of Minnesota, Lane “drifted” (his word) eastward with his parents and three older siblings in the wake of his father’s successive bankruptcies, first to Minneapolis, then Canton, Ohio, and Lowell, Massachusetts, finally arriving at Truro, Massachusetts, near the tip of Cape Cod, when he was seven. Six years later the family moved to Marion, on the other side of Buzzards Bay from Cape Cod, where Lane attended high school at Tabor Academy. He then worked his way through Boston University, receiving his B.A. in 1907, and continued on to graduate study at B.U. (including courses in the law school) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology across the river in Cambridge.
In the six years from 1947 through 1952, Doubleday published five books that Lane wrote for the general reader about the sea and the world’s lakes, rivers, mountains and trees. Lane then wrote three volumes over the next four years—on the sea, insects and flowers—for the Random House “all about” series for young readers.
He died on April 20, 1984, at age 98, just two months short of his seventieth wedding anniversary. His wife Emma died ten months later.
When he was in his early twenties, biologist Ferdinand Cole Lane, troubled by what he described as “weak lungs” left his part-time job with the Massachusetts Commission of Fisheries and Game and headed for Alberta, Canada, where he “passed the next six months in a log cabin on the remote frontier.”
Born on a wheat farm on the western edge of Minnesota, Lane “drifted” (his word) eastward with his parents and three older siblings in the wake of his father’s successive bankruptcies, first to Minneapolis, then Canton, Ohio, and Lowell, Massachusetts, finally arriving at Truro, Massachusetts, near the tip of Cape Cod, when he was seven. Six years later the family moved to Marion, on the other side of Buzzards Bay from Cape Cod, where Lane attended high school at Tabor Academy. He then worked his way through Boston University, receiving his B.A. in 1907, and continued on to graduate study at B.U. (including courses in the law school) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology across the river in Cambridge.
In the six years from 1947 through 1952, Doubleday published five books that Lane wrote for the general reader about the sea and the world’s lakes, rivers, mountains and trees. Lane then wrote three volumes over the next four years—on the sea, insects and flowers—for the Random House “all about” series for young readers.
He died on April 20, 1984, at age 98, just two months short of his seventieth wedding anniversary. His wife Emma died ten months later.
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