Frederick Merrill
Frederick James Hamilton Merrill (born April 30, 1861 in New York City , † November 29, 1916 in Los Angeles ) was an American geologist .
Merrill graduated from Columbia University (Columbia School of Mines) with a bachelor's degree in 1885, then worked for the New Jersey Geological Survey and received his PhD from Columbia School of Mines in 1890. In 1890 he became assistant director and in 1894 director (as successor to James Hall ) of the New York State Museum in Albany (New York) . In addition, he was from 1898 State Geologist of New York. During his time as museum director, he coordinated exhibitions from the New York side at the Chicago World's Fair in 1892, the Buffalo Expedition in 1901, and the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. In 1904, he resigned his position at the New York State Museum and became an advisory mining geologist Engineer in New York City, from 1907 in Arizona and from 1913 in California in Los Angeles .
In 1901 he published a 1: 760,321 (1 inch to 12 miles) geological map of New York State. He published several articles in the Bulletin of the New York State Museum, including Salt and Gypsum Industries in New York (1893), Mineral Resources of New York (1896), Road materials and road building in New York (1897), and Natural history museums of the United States and Canada (1903).
He was married to Winifred Edgerton Merrill , with whom he had four children. She stayed in New York when her husband went to Arizona and California.
literature
- Charles Peter Berkey: Memorial of Frederick James Hamilton Merrill [1861-1916]. Geological Society of America Bulletin, March 1, 1931, v. 42, no. 1, p. 165-171.
- Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke, Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940's Ph.D.'s, American Mathematical Society 2009, p. 247
- Biographies of the Directors of the New York State Museum
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| SURNAME | Merrill, Frederick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Merrill, Frederick James Hamilton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 1916 |
| Place of death | los Angeles |