Thompson-Seton
ERNEST, American author and artist; born in South Shields, England, Aug. 14, 1860; lived in the backwoods of Canada in 1866- 1870, and on the Western plains in 1882- 1887; was educated at the Toronto Collegiate Institute and Royal Academy, London: became official naturalist to the THOMPSON-SETON government of Manitoba; studied art in Paris in 1890-1896; was one of the chief illustrators of the "Century Dictionary" and author and illustrator of "Wild Animals I have Known," "The Biography of a Grizzly," "The Trail of the Sandhill Stag," "Wild Animal Play for Children," "Lives of the Hunted," etc., and became a popular lecturer on wild animal life. In December, 1901, his name was legally changed from Seton-Thompson to Thompson-Seton.