Sir Robert Baden-Powell

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This file appears in: Daniel Carter Beard, 1850-1941

Sir Robert Baden-Powell began the World Scout movement when he founded the English Boy Scouts in 1909. He said about the movement: "I am not the father of the Boy Scouts. I looked to see what you (Beard) were doing over here in America… I might be called the uncle of the Boy Scouts."

This file appears in: Daniel Carter Beard, 1850-1941

By McKenzie Martin
Historical Marker #50 in Kenton County marks the boyhood home of Daniel Carter Beard, an early leader of the Boy Scouts of America. Although Beard was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 21, 1850,…