Geological map of the district between Portage Lake and Montreal River, Lake Superior, Michigan / by J.W. Foster & J.D. Whitney ; S.W. Hill & W. Schlatter, assistants.

P.S. Duval & Co.

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Michigan. Geological Survey Division

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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...

Schlatter, W. (William)

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Hill, S. W. (Samuel Worth), b. 1815.

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Whitney, J.D. (Josiah Dwight), 1819-1896

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Born in Northampton, Mass., Nov. 23, 1819, son of Josiah Dwight and Sarah (Williston) , grad. Yale 1839, read law 1841, traveled and studied in France, Germany, Italy, 1842-45, worked survey of mineral lands of Northern Peninsula of Mich., 1847-49, Ia. State Chemist Ill. State Survey, Geologist of Cal., 1860-74, opened Harvard School of Mines, 1868, elected to Geol. Soc. of London. Author of Metal Wealth of the U.S. and other books. Married Louisa Goddard Howe in June, 1854, had 1 daughter. Died...

Foster, J. W. (John Wells), 1815-1873

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Commissioner, Land Department, Illinois Central Railroad Company; geologist and author. From the description of Letter : Chicago, [Ill.], to Chauncey Higby [i.e. Higbee], Pittsfield, Ill., 1860 March 31. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30607644 ...