Claim: Robert Evans Snodgrass was an American entomologist who moved to Ontario, California, where he entered a Methodist preparatory school and studied Latin and Greek.
Evidence: Snodgrass) (July 5, 1875 – September 4, 1962) was an American entomologist and artist who made important contributions to the fields of arthropod morphology, anatomy, evolution, and metamorphosis. At age 15, the family again moved, this time to Ontario, California, where they settled on a 20-acre (81,000 m) ranch and grew oranges, prunes, and grapes. It was here that Snodgrass entered a Methodist preparatory school at the high school level, then known as Chaffey College. He studied Latin, Greek, French, German, physics, chemistry, and drawing, but notably no biology because the curriculum forbade involving the teaching of evolution.