Minnesota Geological Survey field notebooks 1877-1990

Geological Survey of Minnesota

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The Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey (MGNHS) was established on 1 March 1872 by an act of the legislature and the University of Minnesota was placed in charge of conducting the survey. Newton H. Winchell was brought to the University in 1872 to direct the survey. Winchell resigned in 1900 causing the survey to be abandoned until 1911 when William H. Emmons was hired to be the new head of the Geology department and director of the survey, renamed the Minnesota Geological Survey (MG...

Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota

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The Minnesota Geological and Natural History Survey was created by a state legislative act approved March 1, 1872, and carrying an appropriation of $1,000 annually to carry out its work, which was to be done under the direction of the Board of Regents of the University. In July 1872, Newton H. Winchell was invited by President William W. Folwell to direct the survey, a post in which he continued for 28 years. During much of this time he also served the University’s Department of Geology, as inst...

Broderick, T. M. (Thomas Monteith), b. 1889

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Upham, Warren, 1850-1934

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Grant, U. S. (Ulysses Sherman), 1867-1932

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Assistant state geologist, Minnesota, 1873-1899; Professor of Geology, Northwestern University, 1899-1932. From the description of Ulysses Sherman Grant Papers, 1897-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122356943 Ulysses Sherman Grant was born in Moline, Illinois, on February 14, 1867, the son of Lewis Addison Grant and Mary Helen (Pierce) Grant. His father had served in the Civil War, retired as a major-general, and had been Assistant Secretary of War in the Ad...

Winchell, Alexander, 1824-1891

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The Michigan Geological Survey was created by Public Act 20 of 1837. Its purpose was to conduct a geological and mineralogical survey of the state. The state legislature appointed Douglass Houghton the first state geologist (1837). In 1921, the state legislature established the Department of Conservation, and the Michigan Geological Survey became part of that department (Public Act 17 of 1921). The Department of Conservation established the Geological Survey Division circa 1947. In 1968, the dep...

Schwartz, George M. (George Melvin), 1892-

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George Melvin Schwartz was born on September 23, 1892 in Oakfield, Wisconsin. He earned his B.A. in 1915 and M.A. in 1916 from the University of Wisconsin. He was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1923. In 1919, he joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota as an instructor of geology and mineralogy. Dr. Schwartz was promoted to assistant professor in 1928, associate professor in 1934 and professor in 1944. In 1947, Dr. Schwartz was appointed as director the Minnesota ...

Grout, Frank Fitch

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Morey, G. B.

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