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1 - Elizabeh Wise Austin (Nangoo) died at age 74. Born in 1874 and died 5 April 1948.
2 - Oliver L Austin Sr died at age 86.
Born in 1872 and died 25 Nov 1957.
3- His father was Abraham (I always thought it was Abram) Austin who was born in 1848 and died in 1934
His wife was Mary Alice Odell (his first
cousin)born about 1849 and died in 1946.
4. Abraham's father was Daniel Lawrence Austin
born about 1823.
married to Jane Kirk who was born in 1827 and
died April 30 1849.
5. Abe's grandfather was John Daniel Austin born 1790 and died May 19, 1866.
He was married to Maria Lawrence.
6. Abe's great grandfather was Wiltse Austin. 1750-1827.His wife was Elizabeth Dussenberry.
7. Abe's great great grandfather was Thomas Austin (1725-1800) who was married to Abigail Wiltsie.
Found a very involved family tree of which you and I are the 8th generation and our children are the ninth generation... John Daniel Austin had 17 children...all listed.
Dad made me a photographic book of our ancestors, asked to borrow it shortly before he died, and I never got it back.
He had done a lot of research and it really upsets me that it's not available for all of our children.
Max Schling, by the way, our other grandfather, was born 1 Mar 1874 and died 12 Feb 1943. His wife, Louise Bernhardt, died Nov. 28th 1955 at age 81.
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OBITUARIES [Auk, Vol. 95] April, 1978 pg 437-438
ELIZABETH SCHLING AUSTIN (23 January 1907-23 May 1977) began her ornithological career both early and late. "Sliver" (an alliterative nickname from her childhood) would give you an argument if you tried to call her an ornithologist;s he insistedt hat she was an ornithologist'sw ife. So in one way, she began her career at the age of 7, when she first met young Oliver L. Austin, Jr. at dancing school. She and Oliver were married some years later--in 1930---while he was a graduate student at Harvard University.
For many years after that she devoted her life to her family: making ends meet during the Depression; moving from place to place with Oliver as he began his professional career; bearing two sons, Anthony and Timothy; becoming a wartime Navy wife. After the Japanese surrender, she and the boys joined Oliver in Tokyo where he was serving on General MacArthur's personal staff as a wildlife consultant. It was not until her children were raised, and particularly after she and Oliver settled in Florida in 1957, that Elizabeth became seriously interested in birds. She had shown early promise as a writer while a student at Saint Elizabeth Academy, Convent Station, New Jersey. Although she had no formal education in ornithology, informal training in the subject came from the many years with her husband. Her writings on birds were always thoroughly discussed with, and read by, Oliver before they were sent for publication, but Sliver did her own work. She was a tireless reader and a skilled library researcher--persistent until she was satisfied that she had ferreted out the last bit of information on a particular subject.
In 1960 she was appointed a Research Associate of the Florida State Museum, a post she held until 1973 when she and Oliver both retired. From 1960 to 1965 she wrote a weekly newspaper column, "Wild Adventure," for the Florida Times Union in Jacksonville. Her main contribution to scholarly ornithology, "Frank M. Chapman in Florida: His Letters and Journals," appeared in 1967. This was followed by several children's books, for which she had a special talent: "Penguins, the Birds with Flippers" (1968), "Birds that Stopped Flying" (1969), and "The Random House Book of Birds" (1970). The latter included Oliver as co-author, but Elizabeth did virtually all the writing. She also contributed the bird articles for "The Golden Book Encyclopedia of Natural Science" (1962).
Born in New York City, Elizabeth was a member of a socially prominent family and raised in an
intellectually stimulating environment. Her father was the renowned horticulturist and florist Max Schling, a good friend of botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey. She also spent much time in Europe as a child and was fluent in German. Elizabeth was strongly instilled with an appreciation for excellence and a sense of what was right. She insisted on these in herself, and expected them in others•hence the penetrating and often rapier-like quality of her many reviews in Bird-Banding and The Auk, for which she was well known among ornithologists. Less known were her anonymous and pungent contributionsto The Auklet.
Of the several awards and honors received in her lifetime, Sliver perhaps was proudest of her election
to the class of Elective Member of the AOU in 1972. This was followed in 1973 by the joint award, with
438 Obituaries [Auk, Vol. 95 Oliver, of the Arthur A. Allen Medal, which enormously pleased both members of the husband-and-wife team. Her "Birds that Stopped Flying" also won an award from the National League of American Pen Women, an organization in which Elizabeth was active for many years.
A regular attendant of AOU meetings, Sliver made many friends within ornithology. It was characteristic
of her personality that she soon rebelled at being left alone on the first night of each AOU meeting, when the Fellows had their stag dinner. She found other Fellows' wives who had been similarly abandoned, and invited them to a dinner--just for the ladies--for whom Hoyes Lloyd resurrected the old name "Appleton Club," famous in the days of McAtee, Peters, and Batchelder. It became a tradition that lasted for years. Sliver also acted as a hostessw hen the AOU met in Gainesvillei n 1963, with such thoughtful touches as planning all the University cafeteria menus to include regional specialties, rather than letting the food service use their routine fare.
Above all, Elizabeth Austin was an interesting person--energetic, exacting, intellectually stimulating, enthusiastic. At the same time she was warm and humorous, a superb hostess, and a firm and loving friend. She greatly enjoyed sharing her life with her husbandsfirst as a wife, and later as a colleague, but she never ceased to be a distinct person in her own right. Those of us who were enriched by knowing Sliver extend our sympathy to Oliver, and to Tony and Tim, in their loss.•M•R¾ H. CLENCH.
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Maximillian 'Max' Rudolf SCHLING
(1874 Horni Cerekev - 1943 New York) Horticulturist. Schling was particularly known for his success in orchid hybridization. For a time he worked in the Hapsburg Palace Gardens, then emmigrated to the United States and opened a shop in the Savoy in New York City. He cultivated the persona of friendly flower shopkeeper to the New York elite, while quietly building a large corporation, running greenhouses, seeds catalogues, and putting into place the origins of 'teleflorist.' He was one of the few Jews featured in the 1930s New York Blue Book. Schling was celebrated enough for Ogden Nash to pen a poem about his green thumb and for features in the 'New York Times' and 'New Yorker'.
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Ad for florist Max Schling, 1925
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