Horace Vaughn Winchell (November 1, 1865 – July 28, 1923) was an American geologist who specialized in mining geology. Unlike his father, geologist

Newton Horace Winchell Newton Horace Winchell (17 December 1839 – 2 May 1914) was an American geologist chiefly notable for his six-volume work ''The Geology of Minnesota: Final Report of the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota'', which was prepared ...

, he worked mainly in the industry. He edited the journal ''Economic Geology'' which he also helped in establishing. Winchell was born in

Galesburg, Michigan Galesburg is a city in Kalamazoo County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,049 at the 2020 census. Galesburg is located along the north side of the Kalamazoo River. The city is situated on M-96 and is just north of I-94 (wi ...

, the first son of geologist Newton Horace and Charlotte Sophia. Educated at the Universities of Minnesota and

Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...

, he followed his father and uncle

Alexander Winchell Alexander Winchell (December 31, 1824, in North East, New York – February 19, 1891, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American geologist who contributed to this field mainly as an educator and a popular lecturer and writer. His views on evolutio ...

's line of work and worked with the Minnesota State Geological Survey (1889–1891) and then with the Minnesota Mining Company. In 1893 he began a geological consulting partnership with Frederick Fraley Sharpless but they found little work due to the depression. He then joined the

Anaconda Copper Mining Company The Anaconda Company, also known historically as the Anaconda Gold and Silver Mining Company (1881–1891), Anaconda Mining Company (1891–1895), Anaconda Copper Mining Company (1895–1899), Amalgamated Copper Company (1899–1915), and Anacon ...

in 1898 and in 1906 worked with the Northern Pacific Railroad. He then expanded his consulting work and travelled widely around the world on projects. Among his observations was that some iron-bearing strata were the result of secondary enrichment, possibly precipitated from oceanic water. These are now considered to be the result of early bacterial life. Winchell married a cousin, Ida Belle and they had one child who died in infancy.

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Biography – American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
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