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Edward B. Garvey
 Edward B. Garvey (November 13, 1914[1] in Farmington, Minnesota[2] – September 20, 1999, at Arlington Hospital in Virginia[3] of congestive heart failure)[4] thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1970 and in 1971 published a book about his adventure, Appalachian Hiker, that raised awareness of thru-hiking. Garvey was an auditor for the Soil Conservation Service and chief financial officer for the National Science Foundation and retired in 1969.[2] He lived in the Washington, D.C., area from the 1940s.[2] He helped build and maintain the Appalachian Trail and served as a president of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club as well as on the Appalachian Trail Conference board of managers and was a member of the Appalachian Long Distance Hikers Association.[2] He also worked to pass state and federal legislation including the National Trails System Act of 1968 and its 1978 amendments.[3] In 1996, the Wilderness Society and the Izaak Walton League honored him with the American Land Hero Award for his efforts to protect the Appalachian Trail.[2] On June 17, 2011, he was inducted into the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame at the Appalachian Trail Museum as a charter member.[5] The Ed Garvey Memorial Shelter on the Appalachian Trail at Weverton Cliffs at Weverton, Maryland, near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was built and named in his honor.[6] See alsoBibliography
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