Blackwelder, Eliot, 1880-

Professor of geology, Stanford University, 1922-1945.

From the description of Eliot Blackwelder papers, 1903-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870182

Eliot Blackwelder was a professor of geology at Stanford University from 1922-1945. He received his A.B. (1901) and his Ph.D. (1914) from the University of Chicago.

From the description of Eliot Blackwelder papers, 1907-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863736

Blackwelder, a geologist, taught at the Universities of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Chicago between 1905 and 1919. He worked as chief geologist for East Butte Copper Mining Company from 1919-1921 and was manager of the Teton Syndicate from 1921-1922. Blackwelder was chair of the geology department at Stanford University from 1922-1945. He did field work for the U.S. Geological Survey in the western U.S. including southeastern and western Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Alaska and the Great Basin and served as a paleontologist with the 1903-1904 Carnegie Institution Expedition to China.

Blackwelder was vice-president (1933, 1939) and president (1940) of the Geological Society of America. After his retirement, he was active in the Palo Alto, California, chapter of the Atlantic Union Committee.

From the description of Papers, 1901-1964. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 30848146

Biographical/Historical Note

Professor of geology, Stanford University, 1922-1945

From the guide to the Eliot Blackwelder papers, 1903-1968, (Hoover Institution Archives)