Newton Horace Winchell
Newton Horace Winchell (* 1839 in New York ; † 1914 ) was an American geologist .
Winchell went to Connecticut to school, then was a teacher in Connecticut and Michigan. At the same time he studied geology in particular at the University of Michigan with a master's degree in 1867. He undertook geological field studies in Michigan, Ohio and New Mexico and settled in Minnesota in 1872 , where he directed the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota and geology, Taught botany and zoology at the University of Minnesota. In 1874 he accompanied George Armstrong Custer's expedition to the Black Hills in South Dakota , which he geologically mapped.
He was one of the founders and 1902 president of the Geological Society of America and co-founder of the Minnesota Academy of Sciences and was active in the Minnesota Historical Society. In this context, he also examined the Kensington rune stone from 1909 to 1910 .
His son was the geologist Alexander Newton Winchell and he was the grandfather of Horace Winchell .
Fonts
- The Geology of Minnesota: Final Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota (6 volumes), 1884 Archives
- History of the upper Mississippi Valley, Minneapolis 1881
- with HV Winchell: The iron ores of Minnesota: their geology, discovery, development, qualities, and origin, and comparison with those of other iron districts, Minneapolis 1891
- Natural gas in Minnesota, St. Paul 1889
- with Alexander Newton Winchell: Elements of optical mineralogy; an introduction to microscopic petrography, with description of all minerals whose optical elements are known and tables arranged for their determination microscopically, New York, Van Nostrand 1909
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| SURNAME | Winchell, Newton Horace |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1839 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1914 |