Reuben Haines III

Reuben Haines III
Born(1786-02-08)February 8, 1786
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
DiedOctober 19, 1831(1831-10-19) (aged 45)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Resting placeGermantown Friends' Meeting House Cemetery
Known foranimal science, agricultural science, meteorology, ornithology, firefighting
Scientific career
Fieldsnaturalist, ornithologist
InstitutionsAcademy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

Reuben Haines III (February 8, 1786 – October 19, 1831) was a Quaker farmer, brewer, abolitionist, scientist, ornithologist, meteorologist, firefighter, philanthropist, and educational reformer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Haines was a founder and first president of the Philadelphia Hose Company, the first organization in the United States devoted to fighting fires by pumping water through a leather hose.[1][2] He was a founding member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society,[3] served as the corresponding secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 17 years (1814–1831), and made significant early contributions to the museum collection.[4][5] He was the first person to import Alderney cattle (a now extinct breed closely related to Guernsey cattle) into the United States.[6]

Haines was the proprietor of the historic Wyck House in Germantown, Pennsylvania.[4]

  1. ^ Halley, Matthew R. (2018). "Lost Tales of American Ornithology: Reuben Haines and the Canada Geese of Wyck (1818–1828)" (PDF). Cassinia. 76: 52–63.
  2. ^ Philadelphia Hose Company (1854). Historical Sketches of the Formation and Founders of the Philadelphia Hose Company. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Hose Company.
  3. ^ Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.; Society, Pennsylvania Horticultural (1923). Membership list -- brief history of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Philadelphia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ a b Mss.Ms.Coll.52. "Wyck Association Collection". American Philosophical Society Library.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1866). Handbook to the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Academy.
  6. ^ Haines, Reuben (1824). "On Alderney Cattle and the Extraordinary Properties of their Milk". Memoirs of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society: 20–22.