Complex sentence: Edwin Tappan Adney (July 13,1868 in Athens, Ohio-October 10,1950) was an artist, a writer, a photographer and the man credited with saving the art of birchbark canoe construction.
Split into simpler sentences: Edwin Tappan Adney (July 13,1868 in Athens, Ohio-October 10,1950) was an artist, a writer and a photographer. He was credited with saving the art of birchbark canoe construction.