Corbett and McCormac

Katherine Grant Corbett, daughter of Adam Grant, was an avid bird watcher according to an article by naturalist Jim McCormac, a feature writer for the Columbus Dispatch. In 1909, McCormac received a note pad that belonged to Katherine where she recorded every bird species she had witnessed. A bird guide book that was a Christmas gift helped identify them. She wrote the house sparrow was “seen everywhere on every day of the year” and pointed out that bird was also called a “street urchin.”