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Edward Meyer Kern (October 26, 1822 or 1823 – November 25, 1863) was an American artist, topographer, and explorer of California, the Southwestern United States, and East Asia. [1] He is the namesake of the Kern River and Kern County, California.
Richard H. and Edward Meyer Kern, artists and western explorers, gave the American public some of its earliest authentic graphic images of the people and landscape of Arizona, New Mexico, and southern Colorado; providing views of Canyon de Chelly, Chaco Canyon, and El Morro (Inscription Rock).
Edward Meyer Kern was an American artist, topographer, and explorer of California, the Southwestern United States, and East Asia. He is the namesake of the Kern River and Kern County, California.
Biography. The surveyor John C. Frémont hired Edward Meyer Kern to accompany him as a topographical illustrator on his third expedition from St. Louis to California. Kern and his two brothers also accompanied Frémont on his fourth expedition following the Mexican War of 1846-48.
- October 26, 1823
- November 25, 1863
Jan 20, 2021 · Edward Meyer Kern (born 26 Oct 1822 or 1823 – 25 Nov 1863) was an American artist, topographer, and explorer of California, the Southwest, and East Asia. Kern was born in Philadelphia, the son of John Kern III and Mary Elizabeth Bignell.
- October 26, 1823
- November 25, 1863
Feb 6, 2019 · Adventurer artists Richard Kern and Edward Kern left Philadelphia to accompany expeditions to the Southwest in the mid 1800s. What they left behind were some of the earliest, and most important, images of New Mexico and Arizona.
The Edward Meyer Kern and Richard H. Kern Papers consist of journals, notebooks, drawings, maps, documents, and correspondence which document the activities of Edward and Richard Kern in the West and the Pacific from 1845-1860.
