Luminous Bodies Here And Hereafter (The Shining Ones); Being ... by Charles Hallock

Hallock’s first book, The Recluse of the Oconee, was published when he was only twenty years of age. In 1883 he made the first successful experiments in growing sunflowers for the oil product and for many years he was engaged in doing field work and in collecting specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.

In the late seventies and eighties he visited the Middle West, because of his interest in fishing in Michigan and in game preservation in Minnesota. In 1874 he organized the International Association for the Preservation of Game. Later Hallock edited two other similar magazines, Nature’s Realm (1890) and Western Field and Stream (1896-97).īesides fostering interest in outdoor life through the periodicals which he edited, Hallock was also active in movements for the scientific conservation of natural resources and for the preservation of game. His outstanding work in journalism, however, was not in daily newspaper work but lay in the founding and the editing for seven years of Forest and Stream, an illustrated magazine devoted to hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation, the first issue of which appeared on August 14, 1873. On returning to the United States, he became financial editor of Harper’s Weekly for a year.

During the Civil War he lived in Canada, where he was a broker in St John, New Brunswick, and in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and served on the staff of the St. (age 82) New York City, New York, United StatesĪfter acting as assistant editor of the New Haven (Connecticut) Register for one year, 1855-1856, Charles Hallock joined the staff of the Journal of Commerce and continued with it until his father retired in 1861.

Luminous Bodies Here And Hereafter (The Shining Ones); Being ... by Charles Hallock