Day, Henry L. (Henry Lawrence), 1902-

Henry Lawrence Vincent Day, known as Lawrence in his youth, was born in Spokane, Washington, on October 4, 1902, to Helen Dwyer and Harry Loren Day of Wallace, Idaho. At the age of one month he moved to Burke with his parents where he remained until the summer of 1905 when the family moved to Wallace. He was educated in the public and parochial schools in Wallace.

He graduated from the University of California in Mining Engineering in 1923, where he wrote his senior thesis on the Tamarack and Custer Mine. He spent several of his college summers working underground in different capacities so that he might learn mining firsthand. By his own admission he did not enjoy a year of post graduate study in economic geology at Harvard University immediately following his California degree.

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