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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson , Charles Thomas 1805 -1880 (search)
Jackson, Charles Thomas 1805-1880
Geologist; born in Plymouth, Mass., June 21, 1805; graduated at Harvard in 1829, and afterwards studied in Paris.
He was appointed State geologist of Maine and surveyor of public lands in 1836, and of Rhode Island in 1839; and subsequently was engaged on the geological survey of New Hampshire; explored the southern shore of Lake Superior in 1844; and was appointed to survey the mineral lands of Michigan in 1847.
He is author of a large number of reports on the geology of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, etc. He claimed to be the discoverer of etherization, and received the Montyon prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
He died in Somerville, Mass., Aug. 28, 1880.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morton , William Thomas Green 1819 -1868 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wells , Horace 1815 -1848 (search)