Walter W. Granger

About

Paleontologist and fossil hunter who collected specimens from around the U.S., as well as China and Mongolia. He was also the president of the prestigious Explorers Club during the 1930's.

Before Fame

Developing a childhood interest in taxidermy, he got a job with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City at age 17, and from there developed an interest in fossils.

Trivia

As the assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History, he devoted four months of every year to field trips and important research papers.

Family Life

He was born in Middletown Springs, Vermont, his father Charles H. Granger an insurance agent.

Associated With

At the same time he was taking his fossil-collection trips, Charles Beecher, another prominent paleontologist, was studying his big find at Beecher's Trilobite Bed.