Книга: Henry Gannett «A Gazetteer of West Virginia»
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas that can provide detailed information about dates, locations, settlements, county boundaries, population, and more. For the historical or genealogical researcher, they are especially useful when attempting to locate an ancestor or an event in a given location 200 years prior, but that named location is no longer shown on maps or in recent literature. This work contains an extensive list, arranged alphabetically, of West Virginia place names including villages, towns, cities, counties, post villages, rivers, creeks, tributaries, mountains, and other topographical information. Издательство: "Книга по Требованию" (2014)
ISBN: 9781596410121 |
Henry Gannett
Henry Gannett, M.E.; LL.D. ((August 24, 1846 - November 5, 1914) was an American geographer who is described as the "Father of the Quadrangle (geography)" which is the basis for topographical maps in the United States.
Life
He was born in Bath, Me., graduated with a B.S. at Harvard in 1869 and at the Hooper Mining School in 1870 also at Harvard.
In 1871 he was almost simultaneously offered positions with
On July 26, 1872 while climbing the then unnamed highest mountain in the
He married Mary E. Chase on November 24, 1874.
The Father of Government Mapmaking
In 1879 he was among those lobbying for centralizing the mapping functions into one government agency. Previously individual mapmakers and agencies had to compete for money from Congress for funds for projects.
He lobbied to call the new organization "United States Geological and Geographical Survey" although the name
His first job in the new organization under its first director
In 1883 Gannett was one of founding members of the
In 1884 he published his first "Dictionary of Altitudes" which listed all known survey altitudes in the United States as well as the source of the survey. He was to perusade various organizations doing the surveys including the railroads to begin using similar datums so the data could interconnect.
In 1885 he published "Boundaries of the United States and of the Several States and Territories, with a Historical Sketch of the Territorial Changes," which was the first attempt to standardize the history of the boundaries in the country.
He was chief geographer for the
In 1890 he and
In 1893 "A Manual of Topographic Methods" which was the basis for standardizing survey and mapping processes.
In 1896 in his last year with the USGS, he started the use of the
In 1904 he was among the founders of the
In 1906
In 1909 he was named chairman of a special committee to examine and verify the records of
He was assistant director of the census of the Philippines (1902) and of
Publications
* "A Manual of Topographic Methods" (1893)
* "Dictionary of Altitudes" (third edition, 1899)
* "The Building of a Nation" (1895)
* "Gazetteer of Cuba" (1902)
* "Gazetteer of Texas" (1902)
* "Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States" (1902)
References
* [http://www.amerisurv.com/content/view/4519/ The Father of Government Mapmaking: Henry Gannett by Jerry Penry - American Surveyor - October 27, 2007]
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