Samuel Franklin Emmons

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Samuel Franklin Emmons.

Samuel Franklin Emmons (born March 29, 1841 in Boston , † March 28, 1911 in Washington, DC ) was an American geologist.

From 1857 he studied at Harvard University , where he acquired his AB in 1861 and his AM in 1862. In 1862 he went to the École des Mines in Paris and in 1864/65 he was at the Bergakademie in Freiberg . There he made friends with Arnold Hague .

In 1867 he participated as an assistant geologist in the US geological exploration of the 40th parallel under Clarence King (with Hague as a colleague). Since 1877 he ran a cattle ranch in Wyoming. In 1879 he became chief geologist for the Colorado Division of the US Geological Survey . In this role he traveled extensively in the USA. He explored Mount Rainier in 1870 (where the Emmons Glacier is named after him) and in 1872 exposed an attempted fraud with diamond mines in Arizona together with Clarence King (the director of the US Geological Survey). This made King internationally known because the fraudsters had offered their fake diamond mines to investors in San Francisco and New York (including Tiffany and Baron Rothschild).

He was a member of the Geological Society of London, as well as the American Philosophical Society since 1883 and the National Academy of Sciences since 1892 . In 1903 he was president of the Geological Society of America and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Publications

  • with Hague: Descriptive Geology , in: Reports of the Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, Volume 2, Washington DC 1877
  • with George F. Becket: Statistics and Technology of the Precious Metals , 1885
  • Abstract of a Report upon Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville , Colorado 1886

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Samuel F. Emmons. American Philosophical Society, accessed July 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Emmons, Samuel Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1911
Place of death Washington, DC