Geiser, Samuel Wood, 1890-1983

John Ruggles Cotting (1778-1867) was a Congregationalist minister and geologist, and was appointed first Georgia State Geologist by Governor Gilmer in 1936-1940.

"Samuel Wood Geiser, biologist and historian of science, son of Matthäus and Maria Ann Lucas (Wood) Geiser, was born at Independence, Iowa, on June 11, 1890. He attended Upper Iowa University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1914 and a master's degree in 1919, and Johns Hopkins University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in 1922. Geiser taught for four decades: at Guilford College in North Carolina (1914-16), Upper Iowa University (1917-19), Washington University in St. Louis (1922-24), and Southern Methodist University (1924-57). He pursued interests in science, classical literature, languages, and history....Geiser married Bessie Adella Teeple on December 28, 1916, and they had two children. Mrs. Geiser died in 1973, and Geiser died on August 28, 1983, at New Hartford, New York." -- "Geiser, Samuel Wood." Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online (Retrieved April 29, 2008)

William Foxwell Albright was an Orientalist, archaeologist, and linguist. After receiving his Ph.D. from John Hopkins in 1916, he took a professorship there in 1927, and then served as the W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, 1930-1958. As the Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, 1922-1929 and then 1933-1936, he accomplished important archaeological work and excavated at the, excavating, for example, at such significant sites in Palestine as Gibeah (Tell el-Fûl, 1922) and Tell Beit Mirsim (1933-1936). In addition, Albright contributed to the the interpretation of the Qumrân, or Dead Sea, scrolls.

Albright held many prestigious significant organizational positions, such as the presidency of: Palestinian Exploration Society (1921-1922, 1934-1935); American Oriental Society (1935-1936); Socierature (1938-39); and the International Organization of Old Testament Scholars (1956-1957). He also served on various committees of the American Philosophical Society, in particular the Research Committee.