Professor Albert Huntington Chester (November 22, 1843 – April 13, 1903) was an American geologist and mining engineer.

Personal life

Chester was the son of Albert Tracey and Elizabeth (Stanley) Chester of Connecticut. He was married to Alethea S. Rudd of New York City from 1869 until her death in 1891. He was then married to Georgiana Waldron Jenks of Buffalo, New York from 1898 until his own death. He was the father of one child, Albert Huntington Chester, Jr.

Accomplishments

Chester was a graduate of the

Columbia School of Mines The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (popularly known as SEAS or Columbia Engineering; previously known as Columbia School of Mines) is the engineering and applied science school of Columbia University. It was founded as th ...

with an M.E. (1868) and a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

(1876). Professionally, he was a mining engineer and a professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and metallurgy for

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, followi ...

and

Rutgers College Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was a ...

. He completed an exploration of the

Mesabi The Mesabi Iron Range is a mining district in northeastern Minnesota following an elongate trend containing large deposits of iron ore. It is the largest of four major iron ranges in the region collectively known as the Iron Range of Minnesota. ...

and

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Iron Ranges for the

Minnesota Iron Company Minnesota () is a U.S. state, state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 12th largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd m ...

in 1875, and his observations were published in the ''Eleventh Annual Report of the

Minnesota Geological Survey The Minnesota Geological Survey is a unit of the Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences at the University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or ...

'' in 1882.

Published

*The Iron Region of Northern Minnesota" in Annual Report of the Minnesota Geological Survey, No. 11 (1884), 154-167 *A Catalogue of Minerals Alphabetically Arranged, With Their Chemical Compositions and Synonyms (New York,1897) *A Dictionary of the Names of Minerals, (New York, 1896).

Honors

Chester Peak Jasper Peak is a peak in northeastern Minnesota near Soudan. It derives its current name from the red jasper which is the major constituent of the mountain's bedrock. A Minnesota Division of Forestry lookout tower built in 1934 is situated on t ...

, a mountain in the Sawtooth Range of northeastern

Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minne ...

, was named in his honor.Upham, Warren (2001) Minnesota Place Names, A Geographical Encyclopedia, Third Edition, p629; MHS Press;

Notes

1843 births 1903 deaths American mining engineers Columbia School of Mines alumni American geologists Rutgers University faculty Hamilton College (New York) faculty Engineers from New York (state) Scientists from New York (state) {{US-geologist-stub