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- Named one of the past century’s most influential Western New Yorkers, Chauncey Hamlin was a politician, a conservationist and a key figure in the development of the Buffalo Museum of Science and the field of museology nationwide.
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Apr 11, 2013 · By Kathryn H. Leacock - April 11, 2013. Named one of the past century’s most influential Western New Yorkers, Chauncey Hamlin was a politician, a conservationist and a key figure in the development of the Buffalo Museum of Science and the field of museology nationwide. The full content is available in the Spring 2013 Issue, or online with the ...
Chauncey J. Hamlin, founder and first President of ICOM was born in 1881 in Buffalo (USA). In 1912, he campaigned for the presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt.
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Chauncey Jerome Hamlin (1881-1963): the son of Harry Hamlin (1855-1907), killed in one of Buffalo's earliest automobile accidents) and the grandson of Cicero J. Hamlin, Chauncey or "Chan" Hamlin lived with his wife Emily Gray Hamlin for a time in the family mansion on 1014 Delaware Avenue, but had it torn down in 1926. Chauncey Hamlin was a ...
54793630. Source citation. Chauncey Jerome Hamlin founded the Buffalo Museum of Science in Buffalo, New York. Chauncey Hamlin was also a president of the American Association of Museums and created the International Council of Museums. He is the grandfather of famous actor Harry Hamlin.
Hamlin was born October 30, 1951, in Pasadena, California, the son of Bernice (née Robinson), a socialite, and Chauncey Jerome Hamlin, Jr., an aeronautical engineer.
Chauncey Hamlin, read before the Thursday Club, March 12, 1942 In the warm confidential atmosphere of The Thursday Club perhaps I may be forgiven for presenting what might appear to outsiders as a paper stressing too heavily the autobiographical, the personal part played by myself in gathering together our Museums now
Chauncey Hamlin was a "...lawyer, civic benefactor, political leader, planner, and known the world over for his work in promoting museums." Hamlin was active in public service, including the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Niagara Frontier Planning Board, City Planning Commission, State Council of Parks, and the Legal Aid Society.
