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Barnum brown biography
Barnum Brown
American paleontologist (1873–1963)
Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963),[1] commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist.
He discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil hunters working from the late Victorian era into the early 20th century.
Family and early life
Barnum Brown was born in Carbondale, Kansas on February 12, 1873 to William and Clara Silver Brown.[2][3] Brown's parents moved to Kansas in 1859, traveling by covered wagon with their daughter, Melissa.
Their second daughter, Alice Elizabeth, was born in 1860 in Osage County, Kansas, where the family would build a one-room cabin on top of a coal seam.[2]
William made a living in Kansas first by raising corn, hogs, and cattle, but the political turmoil of Bleeding Kansas in the late 1850s and 1860s led to arson and theft of crops and livestock; he