Maurice Cole Tanquary slides and journals to The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College, in 2006. Maurice Cole Tanquary Maurice Cole Tanquary (November 26, 1881 - October 25, 1944) was a professor of entomology, a member of the Crocker Land Expedition and is considered to be a pioneer in modern beekeeping. Tanquary was the son of Thomas J. and Florence A. Tanquaary and was raised on a farm near Lawrenceville, Illinois, where he attended public schools. He then attended Vincennes University where he was a member of Tau Phi Delta society and was one of the authors of the society's first constitution and by-laws.
Maurice Fatio opened an office there In Palm Beach, he began designing harmonious Mediterranean-style houses and eventually branched out into everything from Georgian to contemporary. In 1929, he married Eleanor Chase, a prominent Palm Beach society girl and novelist, in New York City. His houses were so well known during his lifetime that composer-lyricist Cole Porter was inspired to write in the late 1930s: "I want to live on Maurice Fatio's patio…". Fatio had two children with Eleanor, Alexandra (1932-2015) and Maurice Pierre "Petey"(1930-1961). Maurice Fatio died young in his forties of lung cancer. His wife, Eleanor (1901–1944), died the next year.