"John Charles Olmstead, landscape architect, long associated with Frederick Law Olmstead in his chosen profession, dies on Tuesday in Brookline, Mass, where his home was at 16 Warren street. Mr. Olmstead, who was in his sixty-ninth year, has been failing in health throughout the last year. He was born on Sept. 14, 1852, in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Dr. John Hull Olmstead of Hartford, Conn. And Mary Cleveland (Perkins) Olmsted of New York. He was educated at the Englewood Military Academy and the Knapp school in Plymouth, and later at the Yale Sheffield scientific school, where in 1875 he received his Ph. D. degree. He was a member of the American civic association, American society of Landscape Architects, of which he formerly was president; the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, American Association of Park Superintendents, Massachusetts Horticultural society, American Forestry association, Social Science association, American Free Trade league, Municipal Art society of New York, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Massachusetts Anti-Double Taxation league, Boston Museum of Fine Arts association, and he was an associate member of the Boston Society of Architects. He belonged to the Appalachian Mountain club, the Century and Reform clubs, as well as the National Arts ___, New York. On Jan. 18, 1899, Mr. Olmsted married in Brookline, Sophia Buckland White, by whom he is survived, together with two daughters, the Misses Carolyn and Margaret Olmsted."
