Person:Josiah Whitney (17)

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Josiah Dwight Whitney
b.23 Nov 1819 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
d.18 Aug 1896 Sunapee, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States
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  1. Josiah Dwight Whitney1819 - 1896
  2. William Dwight Whitney1827 - 1894
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Name Josiah Dwight Whitney
Gender Male
Birth[1] 23 Nov 1819 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1] 18 Aug 1896 Sunapee, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States
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Josiah Dwight Whitney (November 23, 1819 – August 18, 1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874). Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regions of the United States, Whitney became the foremost authority of his day on the economic geology of the U.S. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, and the Whitney Glacier, the first confirmed glacier in the United States, on Mount Shasta, were both named after him by members of the Survey.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Josiah Whitney, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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