George F. Becker Papers 1814-1928 (bulk 1870-1919)

Janin, Louis

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Becker family.

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Becker, George F. (George Ferdinand), 1847-1919

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Epithet: American geologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000543.0x0000d4 Geologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist. From the description of George F. Becker papers, 1814-1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131117 Biographical Note 1847, Jan. 5 Born, New York, N.Y. ...

Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909

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American astronomist and political economist. From the description of Typed letter : [Washington, D.C., to the editors of The Critic, Jeannette L. and Joseph B. Gilder, 1884 Aug. 19]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 645229686 American astronomer. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (3) : Washington, D.C., to Harper & Brothers, 1886 Mar. 16-1883 Apr. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270612661 Astronomer, mathematician, and economist. ...

Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914

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Charles Sanders Peirce was an American logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years, but is appreciated largely by his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and semiotics (and his founding of pragmatism). Peirce was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the United States Coast Survey between 1859 and 1891. From the description of Charles...

Lindgren, Waldemar, 1860-1939

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Dana, Edward Salisbury, 1849-1935

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Becker family.

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Emmons, Samuel Franklin, 1841-1911

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Geologist. From the description of Papers of Samuel Franklin Emmons, 1725-1914 (bulk 1861-1911). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 74986026 Biographical Note 1841, Mar. 29 Born, Boston, Mass. 1861 Graduated, Harvard College, Boston, Mass. ...

Howe, Henry Marion, 1848-1922

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Professor of Metallurgy at Columbia University, 1897-1922. From the description of Henry Marion Howe papers, 1884-1916. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 496102531 ...

Merrill, Charles Washington, 1869-1956

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Arzruni, Andreas, 1847-1898

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Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924

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Archibald Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and the University of Edinburgh. In 1855, he joined the Geological Survey of Scotland, becoming its director in 1867. Between 1871 and 1882, he was professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh, and from 1882 until his retirement in 1901, served as director general of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. Geikie did much to further the study of glacial deposits in Scotland...

Turner, H. W. (Henry Ward), 1857-

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Hague, A. (Arnold), 1840-1917

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Geological society of America

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Janin, Louis, 1837-1914

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Louis Janin (1837-1914) was a mining engineer educated at Yale and then at the Freiberg Mining Academy. He began his career in the Western United States, making his first mark on the profession on the Comstock Lode in Nevada in the early 1860s, and later obtained experience in mining fields all over the Far West. He acquired a growing list of clients including investors in Mexican properties and, in 1873, the Japanese government. His three sons, Louis, Eugene, and Charles, also became mining eng...

Bell, James Franklin, 1856-1919

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James Franklin Bell was a United States (U.S.) Army officer. He was a brigadier general of the Third (3rd) Separate Brigade, Department of North Philippines, Division of the Philippines. From the description of James Franklin Bell papers, 1901-1902. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 50336061 ...

Carnegie Institution of Washington.

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Geological survey (U.S.)

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E.W. Glafcke was in charge of a crew during the United States Geological Survey's spirit leveling activities in Wyoming and Utah from 1896 to 1912. From the guide to the United States Geologic Survey photograph collection, 1892-1912, 1898-1902, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) First organized as a branch in 1889, the Topographic Division was established in 1947. From the description of Records of the Topographic Division. (Unknown). World...

Hilgard, Eugene W. (Eugene Woldemar), 1833-1916

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Eugene Woldemar Hilgard was born in Bavaria in 1833. He was raised in America and educated in the U.S., Switzerland, and Germany. Hilgard spent his professional life in the South and later in Calif. In his work and publications, he made contributions of great significance by furthering the application of scientific knowledge to the field of agriculture. As director of the Mississippi geological survey, and in his work elsewhere, he established himself as one of the first to recognize the relatio...

Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924

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Edmund Otis Hovey was a geologist and museum curator. He joined the American Museum of Natural History in 1894 as assistant curator in the Dept. of Geology and Paleontology, becoming associate curator in 1901 and curator in 1910. He was also acting administrator of the museum for two brief periods. Hovey's main areas of interest were volcanoes, earthquakes and meteorites. He traveled all over the world, taking photographs and collecting specimens from major geological ev...

Purington, Chester Wells, 1871-....

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American mining engineer. From the description of Chester Wells Purington report, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867787 Biographical/Historical Note American mining engineer. From the guide to the Chester Wells Purington report, 1921, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

Woodward, Robert Simpson, 1849-1924

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Crozier, William, 1855-1942

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William Crozier (b. Feb. 19, 1855, Carrollton, Ohio-d. Nov. 10, 1942, Washington, D.C.), Major General in the U.S. Army, graduated from West Point in 1876 and began his military career in campaigns against Indians on the frontier. He later returned to the Military Academy to teach mathematics. Other assignments were: in the office of Chief of Ordnance where he assisted in the development of new weaponry; as Inspector General of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast defenses during the Spanish-American War...

Burton, Theodore E. (Theodore Elijah), 1851-1929

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U.S. Representative (1889-91, 1895-1909, and 1921-28) and Senator (1909-15 and 1928-29) from Cleveland, Ohio. While in Congress, Burton was involved in a number of important issues of the day, and was also a prominent figure in Republican Party politics. He maintained a lifelong involvement in the international peace movement. Burton was a candidate in the 1907 Cleveland mayoral election, losing to Democrat Tom L. Johnson. A bachelor, he was close to his niece, Grace Burton, who became a politic...

Radioactivity Congress (1910 : Brussels, Belgium)

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Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895

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American scientist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Utica, New York, to T.F. Dwight, 1865 Apr. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270530661 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New Haven, Ct., to E.W. Hilgard, 1877 Mar. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870623 ...

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927

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Art administrator and geologist; Washington, D.C. Served as the fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 until his death in 1927. Dellenbaugh was a painter whose works include many landscapes done in connection with expeditions in the U.S. and abroad. From the description of Charles D. Walcott letter from Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, 1913 April 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86118391 ...