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See also:POWELL, See also:JOHN See also:WESLEY (1834–1902) , See also:American 'geologist and ethnologist, was See also:born at See also:Mount See also:Morris, New See also:York, on the 24th of See also:March 1834. His parents were of See also:English See also:birth, but had moved to See also:America in 183o, and- he was educated at See also:Illinois and See also:Oberlin colleges. When the See also:Civil See also:War See also:broke out he entered the See also:Union See also:Army as a private, and at the See also:battle of See also:Shiloh he lost his right See also:arm. He continued, however, on active service and served as See also:division See also:chief of See also:artillery before See also:Vicksburg, reaching the See also:rank of See also:major of See also:volunteers. In 1865 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:geology and See also:curator of the museum in the Illinois Wesleyan University at See also:Bloomington, and afterwards at the Normal University. In 1867 he commenced a See also:series of expeditions to
' (1833-1885), member of the See also:Commune of 1871.
the Rocky Mountains and the canyons of the See also:Green and See also:Colorado See also:rivers, during the course of which (1869) he made a daring See also:boat-See also:journey of three months, through the See also:Grand See also:Canyon, the See also:river channel not having previously been explored. In these travels he gathered much valuable See also:information on the geology, and he also made a See also:special study of the See also:Indians. and their See also:languages. His able See also:work led to the See also:establishment under the U.S. See also:government of the See also:geographical and See also:geological survey of the Rocky See also:Mountain region with which he was occupied in 1870-1879. This survey, with those of See also:Ferdinand See also:Hayden (1829–1887) and See also:Captain See also:George M. See also:Wheeler (b. 1842) was incorporated with the See also:United States Geological and Geographical Survey under See also:Clarence See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King (1842–1901) in 1879, when Powell became director of the See also:Bureau of See also:Ethnology, a See also:department he had assisted in See also:founding. On King's resignation in 1881, Powell was appointed director also of the Geological Survey, a See also:post which he occupied until 1894. To him the See also:present thorough organization of the U.S. Geological Survey is largely due.
His See also:principal publications were Exploration of the Colorado River of the See also:West and its Tributaries (1875), See also:Report on the Geology of the Eastern Portion of the Uinta Mountains (1876), Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States (1879), Introduction to the Study of See also:Indian Languages (188o), Canyons of the Colorado (1895), Truth and See also:Error (1898). Especially important were his observations on what is now termed the " Uinta type " of mountain structure: a broad, flattened anticline, from which the strata descend steeply into bordering See also:low grounds and quickly resume their horizontality—being sometimes faulted, and affording See also:evidence of enormous denudation. He died in Haven, See also:Maine, on the 23rd of See also:September 1902.
• See F. S. Dellenbaugh, See also:Romance of the Colorado River (New York, 1903), and Canyon Voyage: Second Powell Expedition (New York, 1908).
End of Article: POWELL, JOHN WESLEY (1834–1902)
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