Lewis Lindsay Dyche

Lewis Lindsay Dyche (March 20, 1857 – January 20, 1915) was a naturalist and also the creator of the Panorama of North American Plants and Animals, which was featured in the Kansas Pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. His taxidermy work is housed at The University of Kansas' Natural History Museum in Lawrence, KS. Also at KU is the U.S. Army's lone survivor on the field of the Battle of Little Big Horn, a Horse, Comanche, which the Army asked Dyche to stuff for their display.

Dyche was born in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia (then in Virginia).

He died in Topeka, Kansas on January 20, 1915.

Dyche gave his name to the Liberty ship ''SS Lewis L. Dyche'' Provided by Wikipedia