Keir Brooks Sterling

Keir Brooks Sterling (born 30 January 1934 in New York, NY) was the U.S. Army's Ordnance Branch historian from 1983 to 1998. He is currently the Command Historian of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command at Fort Lee, VA. He has been Professor of History, Pace University - New York City and Pleasantville, NY, a National Science Foundation grantee, and visiting Professor of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Dr. Sterling divides his time between the history of the natural sciences and military history. In the realm of natural sciences he is the author of "Last of the Naturalists: The Career of C. Hart Merriam" (rev.ed., 1977) and was the editor of two multi-volume collections of new editions of classic natural history titles, "Natural Sciences in America" (1974) and "Biologists and their World" (1978). Dr. Sterling was the general editor of "An International History of Mammalogy, Volume I: Eastern Europe and Fennoscandia" (1987) and senior editor of the "Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists" (1997).

Dr. Sterling's efforts in military history include "Serving the Line with Excellence: The Development of the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps as expressed through the Lives of its Chiefs of Ordnance, 1812-1992; With a Short Sketch of the History of U.S. Army Ordnance, 1775-1992",(rev.ed.,1992) and "Addere Flammam: Commanders of the United States Army Ordnance Center and School, 1918-1993", (1993).

Dr. Sterling married Anne Diller on April 3, 1961. They have three children: Duncan Diller Sterling, Warner Strong Sterling, and Theodore Craig Sterling. Currently, Dr. Sterling has three grandchildren: Keiran Noel Hyde Sterling; Alexandra Noelle von Mohrenschildt Sterling; and Aurelia Mae Sterling.

References:

Contemporary Authors Online, December, 2007;Who's Who in America, 2008