MODERN AMERICAN HERMITS & SOLITARIES
1. John Smith (1823-1900), estate hermit at Erving Castle, Erving, Massachusetts.
2. Charles Lambert (d.1914), called "Hermit of Mosquito Pond," Londonderry and Manchester, New Hampshire.
3. Mason Walton (1838-1917), Gloucester, Massachusetts
4. Fred Parker, Hermit of Quidnet, Massachusetts 1850-1930
5. Unnamed hermit outside his shack, Freeport, Maine, 1936 (from Library of Congress)
6. Henry Stuart Montrose - Fairhope, Alabama, Tolstoy Park, 1920s
7. Domenico Grosso (d. 1915), Palo Alto, California, called the "Stanford hermit"
8. Hermit Peter Howard (1878—1969), Hollywood California, appeared in epic movies, 1920s-40s.
9. Hermit Herman, Hollywood, California, 1920s-1940s
10. Dr. Newman, eccentric religious founder, Hollywood, California, 1930s
11. Perley Swett (1888-1973), called "Hermit of Taylor Pond," New Hampshire
12. John Noah Rondeau (1883-1967), Adirondack Mountains, New York State
13. Robert Harrill(1893-1972), Fort Fisher hermit, North Carolina
14. Ray Phillips (1892-1975), called "Hermit of Manana," Maine
15. Willard Kitchner MacDonald (1916-2003), called "Hermit of Gully Lake," US/Canada
16. Dick Proenneke (1916-2003), Alaska
17. "Dugout Dick" Zimmerman (1916-2010), cave hermit, Idaho
18. Bernard Wheatley (1919-1991), physician, Hawaii
19. Roy Ozmer, Everglades hermit
20. Foster Atkinson, Everglades hermit
21. Martha Frock, Everglades hermit
22. Anne LaBastille (1935-2011), naturalist, Adirondack Mountains, New York State
23. from LIFE magazine 1983 issue: hermit from New Jersey
24. from LIFE magazine 1983 issue: hermit from Utah
25. from Alex Soth’s exhibition “Broken Manual”
26. Billy Barr, amatuer scientist/meterologist, Colorado
27. Christopher Knight, called "North Pond hermit," Maine (a cautionary tale)
28. River Dan Lidstone (b. 1940), New Hampshire