Charles Sheldon

Charles Sheldon was a man of achievement who never advertised himself. Always quiet and modest, he was nevertheless full of vigor and action and his spirit was indomitable. A writer of real ability in the field of natural history, his particular detestation was sham of any kind and scientific or literary dishonesty. He was adamant in what he believed to be right. Between 1897 and 1901 Sheldon traveled over little-known areas of Mexico, and from 1903 to 1909 he was hunting and exploring in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. After that he explored for mountain sheep from the Grand Canyon south to the Sierra Seri, Mexico, traveled over Sonora, Mexico, and studied the Seri Indians on the Tiburon Islands. He was something more, however, than an explorer of unknown wildernesses. He was an eminently practical expert in the transportation industry, serving as assistant divisional superintendent of the Lake Shore Railway in 1893 and as manager of Mexico’s Chihuahua & Pacific Railway five years afterward.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1929 Century Association Yearbook