Dan Beard

Daniel Carter "Dan" Beard (1850-1941), was best known as the organizer of the Boy Scout movement in the US. A member of  Mariners' Lodge 67, New York City and later Cornucopia Lodge 563, Flushing, NY, Brother Beard was also a prolific author and illustrator.  Long before the founding of the Boy Scouts, he became a lifelong friend of Brother Samuel Clemens (a.k.a Mark Twain) and illustrated Twain's book, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.