Person:George Williams (40)

author of NER article cited about his father

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume X W page 416 WILLIAMS, George Huntington, geologist, was born in Utica, N.Y., Jan. 28, 1856. He was graduated from Amherst in 1878; studied in Brunswick and Gottingen, Germany, and under [p.416] Rosenbusch in Heidelberg. He was associate professor of inorganic geology at Johns Hopkins university, 1885-92 and professor, 1892-94. He made investigations of the geology of Maryland and was employed by the U.S. geological survey to examine the crystalline rooks of Maryland. He was editor-in-chief of "Maryland: Its Resources, Industries and Institutions" issued by the World's Fair commission in 1893; edited the department of mineralogy and petrography of the "Standard Dictionary" and is the author of many papers on geological subjects, including: Elements of Crystallography for Students in Chemistry, Physics and Mineralogy (1890) and Volcanic Rocks of Eastern North America (1894.) He also prepared the "Baltimore Atlas Sheet for the Geologic Atlas of the United States." He was a member of the international jury of awards, department of mines and mining, in the Chicago World's Fair of 1893; a corresponding member of the Geological society of London, a member of the French Mineralogical society, and vice-president of the Geological Society of America. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by the University of Heidelberg in 1882. In 1896 his widow presented the Johns Hopkins university with his valuable library and collection of minerals. He died in Utica, N.Y., July 12, 1894.

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. page 1013 WILLIAMS, GEORGE HUNTINGTON, educator, author, was born in 1856 in New York. He was a professor of inorganic geology at Johns Hopkins university from 1892; and the author of Elements of Crystallography. He died in 1894.

resided in Baltimore, MD