Biographical sketches of eminent western pioneers, no. 1 : manuscript, [18--]

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Biographical sketches of eminent western pioneers, no. 1 : manuscript, [18--]

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Biography of John Cleves Symmes, who theorized that the core of the earth was hollow and habitable.

1 v. (4 leaves) ; 41 cm.

Houghton Library

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Symmes, John Cleves, 1780-1829

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John Cleves Symmes, a native of New Jersey, was the nephew of the noted jurist of the same name. He entered the army in 1802 and was commissioned a captain in the War of 1812. He left military service in 1816 to reside in St. Louis and embark on a brief career of supplying the army and trading with the Fox Indians. Symmes had earlier developed a theory of the earth's formation, following his studies of mathematics and the natural sciences. He began to promulgate his theory of "Concentric Spheres...

Smucker, Isaac, 1807-1894

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