Mr. Beard and the Boy Scouts

While in Cincinnati, Mr. Brown Sign HAD to stop and see the boyhood home of Daniel Carter Beard, one of the original founders of the Boy Scout movement in America

Mr. Beard spent much of his youth playing in the nearby woods and along the banks of the Ohio where he developed keen interests in nature and the outdoors.

Working as a civil engineer in Cincinnati and later in New York, Beard observed the plight of  inner city boys. To help them, Beard formed "The Sons of Daniel Boone" which merged with others in 1919 to become The Boy Scouts of America.

"Uncle Dan" became one of the organization's first national commissioners and was named its only Golden Eagle.

"He'll live wherever boyhood pitches tent beside a stream and fire is made by friction and coffee needs no cream." Edgar A. Guest

1850-1941