Seaman Family Collection, 1882-1945.

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Seaman Family Collection, 1882-1945.

Collection, 1882-1945, of the Seaman family, the majority created by Arthur Edmund Seaman and Wyllys Arthur Seaman. Includes correspondence to and from the Seamans, publications by the Seamans, poetry by A. E. Seaman, research notes on various topics and miscellaneous ephemera.

4.0 cubic feet; 4 paige boxes.

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Michigan Technological University. A.E. Seaman Mineralogical Museum

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Seaman family

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Arthur Edmund Seaman was born in Casnovia, Michigan in 1858. As a young boy he worked in the woods near his home; however, the white pine stands in southern Michigan were beginning to show signs of exhaustion and the loggers headed to the Upper Peninsula. Seaman went with them. He started work as a timberman but developed a knowledge of rocks and minerals on his own and was taken into the Michigan Geological Survey by C.E. Wright in 1885. After Wright died, Dr. Wadsworth of the geol...

Michigan College of Mining and Technology

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Arthur V. Sittler was hired by the Michigan College of Mining and Technology in September of 1949 as an assistant professor of German. As was the practice, this appointment began with a probationary period with final confirmation resting with the Board of Control. At the time of his employment it was known that two years before the United States entered World War II he had renounced his American citizenship and became a German citizen. During the war he was active in the German war effort. Howev...

Seaman, A. E. (Arthur Edmond) 1858-1937.

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Michigan college of mines

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In 1901 Michigan Mining School (now Michigan Technological University) in Houghton, Michigan received funding for two additional buildings. The Civil and Mining Engineering Building, was built at a cost of $28,880, was a two-story hip-roofed structure with a five-story tower centered on the front. The brick building had a high sandstone basement and a number of round-arched windows, adding to the Italian Renaissance Revival feel. In 1925, an addition was added to the building. The building was r...

Seaman, W. A. (Wyllys Arthur) 1886-1972.

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