Papers of Henry Ellsworth Wood, 1854-1932.

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Papers of Henry Ellsworth Wood, 1854-1932.

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The collection consists of letters, manuscripts, documents (including one account book, 1873-78), and photographs related to the life and business activities of Henry Ellsworth Wood. Subject matter includes mining in Colorado, business affairs, and the Colorado River expedition with John Wesley Powell. There is some Wood family correspondence, and there is also a copy of "Colorado in 1868" (taken from a notebook of William Cowper Wood on the expedition with Powell).

537 pieces.3 boxes.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902

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Wallace Earle Stegner is an author. From the guide to the Papers, 1868-1879, relating to John Wesley Powell and the Colorado River, 1868-1879, (American Philosophical Society) John Wesley Powell was a geologist, ethnologist, and director of the United States Geological Survey; he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1889. From the guide to the John Wesley Powell correspondence, 1869-1879, of the Powell Survey, 1869-1879, (American Philosophical So...

Wood, William Cowper, 1821-1889.

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Henry E. Wood Ore Testing Works.

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Wood, Henry Ellsworth, 1855-1932.

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Henry Ellsworth Wood, mining engineer, was born in Illinois and at the age of thirteen went with his father, William Cowper Wood (1821-1889), to Colorado with Major John Wesley Powell in 1868 on an expedition to cover the headwaters of the Colorado River. Wood graduated from Yale University in 1876 and went immediately to Colorado to work in the mines in Boulder County. In 1878 he opened an assay office and laboratory in Leadville,and in 1889 he established the same business in Denver. In 1898 h...