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John Woodhouse Audubon

John Woodhouse Audubon (November 30, 1812-February 21, 1862) was an American painter, draftsman, author and illustrator, and the second son of John James Audubon, the noted naturalist and painter. John Woodhouse Audubon's career was largely spent in support of the work done by his father. He travelled extensively through the United States collecting specimens of birds and mammals, some of which he illustrated in his father's multi-volume publication written in collaboration with John Bachman and Victor Gifford Audubon, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845-1848; republished and enlarged as The Quadrupeds of North America between 1851 and 1854).

Marriage and family

John Woodhouse Audubon was married twice: his first wife, Maria Rebecca Bachman (1817-1840), was the daughter of John Bachman, the co-author of the Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, and bore two daughters, Lucy (1838-1909) and Harriet Bachman (1839-1933). His second wife, Caroline Hall (1811-1899), bore him seven children: two named John James (the first born in 1842 lived only one day; the second lived from 1845-1893), Maria Rebecca (1843-1925), William Bakewell (1847-1932), Jane (1849-1853), Florence (1853-1949), and Benjamin Philips (1855-1886).

Publications

The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America

The Quadrupeds of North America

Audubon's Western Journal, 1849-1850, being the ms. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California, with biographical memoir by his daughter Maria R. Audubon (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906)