Former Residence Raphael Pumpelly - Owego, NY
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N 42° 06.326 W 076° 15.298
18T E 396237 N 4662244
Raphael Pumpelly was born in Owego in 1837, graduated from the Owego Academy. He graduated in 1859 from the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in Germany. "After graduating, Pumpelly moved to Tioga Point, now Athens"
Waymark Code: WMQXCF
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 04/10/2016
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text: "Former Residence Raphael Pumpelly 1837-1923 eminent geologist, engineer, author 1860-1904 led exploration - Carnegie Institution Central Asia 1903 Preserve America Grant 2009"
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337 Front Street Owego, NY 13827
white clapboard home
"In 1860 Pumpelly was engaged in mining operations in Arizona. Invited by the respective governments, from 1861 to 1863 he surveyed Yesso Island of Japan. and the coalfields of northern China After this, he made the first extensive survey of the Gobi Desert, and explored Mongolia and Siberia.
From 1866 to 1875, he was Professor of Mining Science at Harvard University. Among his scientific accomplishments was a theory of secular rock disintegration. He was influenced by Louis Agassiz.
In June 1870, he was living in a rooming house in Cambridge, Mass., where former slave and abolitionist author Harriet Jacobs also resided.
From 1870 to 1871, he conducted the geological survey of the copper region of Michigan, for which he prepared “Copper-Bearing Rocks,” being part ii of volume i of the Geological Survey of Michigan (New York, 1873). He was called upon in 1871 to conduct the geological survey of Missouri, and for three years devoted his energies to that task, preparing “A Preliminary Report on the Iron Ores and Coal Fields,” with an atlas, for the report of the Geological Survey of Missouri (New York, 1873).
When the U. S. Geological Survey was established in 1879, Pumpelly organized the division of economic geology, and as a special agent of the Tenth Census he planned and directed the investigations on the mining industries, exclusive of the precious metals, and prepared volume xv of the Census Reports on “The Mining Industries of the United States” (Washington, 1886). From 1879-80, he conducted at Newport, Rhode Island, an elaborate investigation for the National Board of Health as to the ability of various soils to filter spores from liquids and from air. He became a resident of Newport in 1879, and lived there for 44 years."