Geographer; born in
Naperville, Ill., Jan. 7, 1849; was educated at the
University of Chicago, in 1876.
On the founding of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, was chosen president of its department of geography.
He is widely known as a writer and lecturer on geographical topics; has travelled extensively; and was a delegate to the International Geographical Congress, in
London,
England, in 1895, and a speaker at the African Congress, in
Atlanta, Ga., the same year.
He has made a special study of the geography of
Africa, and has collected for the Brooklyn Institute over 2,500 specimens of appliances used in the ten principal countries of the world in geographical education.